Comments on: Pinta - Paint.NET clone for linux

By: coast

coast — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:06:07 +0000

Nice program works well just what I was looking for

By: Jerry Kreps

Jerry Kreps — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:18:25 +0000

What’s wrong with Mono?

IF Mono (Microsoft’s .NET clone) becomes the default on the Linux desktop then what is the point of Linux?

By: Quijotesca

Quijotesca — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 23:39:10 +0000

“Launchpad broken, non-functional nonsense” Sounds kind of deep, but I don’t think it was supposed to do that.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:13:58 +0000

I followed the steps to install in Lucid and was shown that dkms{u} fakeroot{u} linux-headers-2.6.32-21{u} patch{u} would be removed freeing 75mb of space. That didn’t sound good so I aborted. I then installed Pinta through synaptic and it did not say the header would be removed. Was it supposed to do that?

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:19:05 +0000

To Arkadi: Java is owned by Oracle, so we shouldn’t use it?? Nonsense!
C#/.NET based on ECMA standard. Good blog post from Miguel (GNOME/GTK/MONO founder):
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2010/Mar-25.html

By: Arkadi

Arkadi — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 06:44:37 +0000

I’m sure it could be ported to Vala really easily, but I think it should be done now while the project code is still small.

By: chuck

chuck — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 23:18:30 +0000

I wonder if this program uses some mono-only stuff. Since it’s done in gtk (apparently) couldn’t it be implemented in Vala?

By: Ahmad Amr

Ahmad Amr — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:21:29 +0000

The command “sudo add-apt-repository ppa:moonlight-team/pinta” can’t complete and gives the following error message:

“gpg: requesting key B98E84D3 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpg: keyserver timed out
gpg: keyserver receive failed: keyserver error”

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:20:20 +0000

Thanks for the replies guys! Now I understand better

Good weekend!

By: Arkadi

Arkadi — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:15:13 +0000

MONO based on the ‘.net’ technology which belongs to Mirosoft’s. Any user who uses software based on MONO is encouraging the usage of Microsoft’s patents, and because of those users more software like that is written. One day Microsoft will become inpatient and will sued your favorite distribution makers because they include mono software or close the development of your favorite software because those legal issues.
What would you do then? Because of that I’m trying not to use MONO based software.

Sorry for my bad English.

By: EzyRyder

EzyRyder — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:59:38 +0000

Hi Miguel!

From Mono development homepage:
“An open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET” Mono is used in for example Banshee, Beagle, F-Spot, Moonlight and Tomboy.

By: Miguel

Miguel — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:31:38 +0000

Hi! A question from the ignorance: What’s the problem if the program uses MOMO? As final user if this program is light that GIMP for simple things I think that I’ll use it. I don’t care if uses MOMO or not unless if the fact of use MOMO causes damage to someone.

Regards

By: Vladicon

Vladicon — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:16:19 +0000

Starts fast and that’s enough for me, thanks. I’m not a progger, so MONO or NOT MONO doesn’t mean nothing for the user.

By: Arkadi

Arkadi — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:34:26 +0000

It is a nice program, but it uses MONO and that’s why I will not use it.