[Dextrose] Dextrose TO DO wiki page- Feedback from Uruguay

[Walter Bender]

On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gonzalo Odiard <gonzalo at laptop.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, 2010-10-29 at 18:07 +0100, Gary Martin wrote:
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>> > I've been so impressed with the recent work on Paint that I didn't
>> > want to distract folks with new toolbar discussions.
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>> Me too. I think it's time to start targeting our main competitor:
>> TuxPaint. For some reason, teachers in Paraguay and Uruguay seem to
>> prefer it, so it may make sense to look at matching its features.
>>
>> But please, let's not add annoying and pointless sounds to each tool :)
>>
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> I don't know if copying TuxPaint is a great idea.
> I want maintain Paint like a simple activity, but adding a few capabilities
> to make it more expressive.
>
> Now, the priorities are two non trivial features:
> * Better text tool.
> * Sharing
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> About the interface my plans are:
> * Single properties to all the tools, shapes: now every tool / shape have a
> selection of the fill, line size and pen shape tool.
> * Better line size and shape selectors.
>
> The Paint code is a mess too. There are many code copy / pasted.
>
> Gonzalo
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One or two more things that would be useful: setting the size of the
output image; SVG imports.

-walter

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Walter Bender
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