[Semi-OT] Tux Paint 0.9.18 source released!

Tux Paint is an open source drawing program for young children available
for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X and more. I’ve just released the source for
version 0.9.18 (with Fedora RPM packages and Windows and OS X builds to
follow soon), which adds some cool new features:

  • Pick from over 50,000 colors using a new color chooser pop-up
  • “Magic” tools (blur, grass, rainbow, etc.) are now plug-in based,
    and loaded at runtime
  • You can write your own new “Magic” tools, and test them quickly and easily!
  • A dozen new “Magic” tools have been added, including a calligraphy pen,
    water drops, foaming bubbles…
  • The Pango library is now used to render the UI text, improving support
    for complex languages like Arabic
  • Some new translations, a new Input Method, new brushes and stamps, bugfixes
    and plenty more…

A press release is available here:
http://www.lugod.org/documents/objectives/

And the source can be downloaded from SourceForge.net, via this page:
http://www.lugod.org/documents/objectives/

Enjoy, and tell me what you think!–
-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/

Sigh… Sadly running Windows right now…

A press release is available here:
http://www.tuxpaint.org/latest/

And the source can be downloaded from SourceForge.net, via this page:
http://www.tuxpaint.org/download/source/

-bill!On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:48:35PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:

Hello !

Sigh… Sadly running Windows right now…

Windows is not so bad, sometimes :-)> On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:48:35PM -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:

A press release is available here:
http://www.tuxpaint.org/latest/

You have added a lot of stuff to Tuxpaint.

Is there any line where you would say stop,
this is more as kids can use ?

CU

The one nice thing about Tux Paint is that many things can be disabled,
for younger kids. Older kids probably want much more than it has already.
(It needs a Selection tool.)

It also needs much work to improve its integration in OSes
(easier to get to saved files, drop photos into it… cut/paste…
digital camera?.. etc.)

The Magic API is pretty fun, and I encourage folks to give it a whirl.
If you come up with something good, send it to me and I’ll include it in
the next release. (Ugh… I’ll probably want to add some sort of
’Plugin’ database where people can download new stuff, in between releases,
like Gimp has :^) )On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 02:59:17AM +0100, Torsten Giebl wrote:

You have added a lot of stuff to Tuxpaint.

Is there any line where you would say stop,
this is more as kids can use ?


-bill!
bill at newbreedsoftware.com
http://www.newbreedsoftware.com/

Windows is not so bad, sometimes :slight_smile:

Yes it is. But that’s just MHO.

Is there any line where you would say stop,
this is more as kids can use ?

No program is ever finished. They may become obsolete, but never finished :wink:
(Donald Knuth may claim TeX is finished, but if that’s so, why are there so
many add-ons?)

JeffOn Wed November 21 2007 17:59, Torsten Giebl wrote: