What's a GOOD paint program on Linux other than kolourpaint?

cantab · 07-29-2010, 04:21 PM

Is there any good paint program on Linux, besides kolourpaint which is KDE and thus brings an awful lot of baggage into non-KDE systems?

(This is mainly with my lubuntu-on-USB in mind. The 300MB for kolourpaint and all its dependencies is not acceptable when there's only 4GB for the whole OS)

I can't stand mtPaint, it behaves very unlike most applications and I'm unable to figure how to do even simple tasks like colour picking or resizing a selection. GIMP is good but it's complex and overkill for simple tasks. Anything else?

pljvaldez · 07-29-2010, 04:27 PM

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/7059/1/

There's also gnome-paint.

rokytnji · 07-29-2010, 05:11 PM

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cantab · 07-29-2010, 05:38 PM

I had a poke in the repos, and found several lightweight paint programs. tkpaint failed to read png files, xpaint is a bit clunky and I had trouble with colour selection. GNU paint seemed decent as did rgbpaint. Not fully happy with either, mainly due to problems with handling transparency.

Will give Pinta and gnome-paint a go later.

hoodooman · 07-29-2010, 07:58 PM

mtpaint http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

eveningsky339 · 07-29-2010, 09:14 PM

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Originally Posted by hoodooman

mtpaint http://mtpaint.sourceforge.net/

The OP said he couldn't stand mtpaint:

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I can't stand mtPaint, it behaves very unlike most applications and I'm unable to figure how to do even simple tasks like colour picking or resizing a selection

As for me, I find myself using GIMP for even the simplest tasks. Gnu paint isn't too bad, but it's obviously incomplete.