This is gpaint (GNU Paint) version 0.3.3, a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop. Gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP. Think of GIMP is like Photoshop as gpaint is like Windows Paint. Gpaint is still work in progress and many features are still being developed. However, gpaint is usable already for simple image editing.. Changes in this version: * Switch to using libglade; now libglade is a requirement for gpaint * some UI adjustment in dialogs to fit the GNOME convention; using the Gtk+ standard about box * Using GtkPrint to do printing when gtk+ version is >= 2.10; only basic support is in place for now Currently gpaint has the following features: * Drawing tools--ovals, freehand, polygon, text, with fill or shallow for polygons and closed freehand, and brushes. * Cut and paste by selecting regions or polygons. * Print support using gnome-print (basic functionality is there) * Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes * Editing multiple image at the same time without running multiple instance of the image editor * All image processing features present in xpaint This version of gpaint requires the GNOME 2.0 environment. This version uses the gdk-pixbuf library to handle image loading and saving. So currently gpaint's image saving is limited to the formats supported by gdk-pixbuf. Gpaint now uses Pango to do text drawing. Currently English multi-line texts work; non-English languages are not tested and input methods like SCIM are not yet properly supported; this is to be addressed. A large part of gpaint is derived from xpaint 2.4.9, authored by David Koblas and later Torsten Martinsen. The gpaint project is hosted on the GNU Savannah project site. http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gpaint/ gpaint development utilizes the GNU Arch Revision Control System; The development source is hosted at Archive name: atai@gnu.org--gpaint URL: http://arch.gnu.org/archives/gpaint/atai@gnu.org--gpaint/ branch: atai@gnu.org--gpaint/gpaint--main--1.0 For bugs report at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=gpaint Future development plans: I plan to incorporate the recent printing features of gtk+ and to move away from gnomeprint. Ehnancing international text support using Pango is the immediate next steps. Dialogs to set the parameters for the xpaint-derived image processing functions are planned. Also planned is the incorporation of a small extension language in the code base to support high level app logic. For general comments please send mail to Andy Tai <atai@gnu.org>