<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> <div><br></div>Why the people like more TuxPaint than Paint??<div><br></div><div>The colors of the interface.. maybe.... but..</div><div><br></div><div>the thing that all the teachers says in Tux is: the STAMPS!!</div><div><br></div><div>If paint have it.. there are more near to Tux.. </div><div><br></div><div>Alan</div><div><div><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:47:01 -0300<br>From: gonzalo@laptop.org<br>To: alsroot@activitycentral.org<br>CC: alanjas@hotmail.com; sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org<br>Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] Tux Paint - Save and new<br><br><br><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Aleksey Lim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alsroot@activitycentral.org">alsroot@activitycentral.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="ecxim">On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 05:36:06PM -0300, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:<br> > What you need in Paint activity not available today?<br> <br> </div>Well, it depends on a purpose... ;)<br> <br> If purpose is exactly to paint something, then for sure, Paint is just<br> works. But imagine for a bit that you are not a developer but a person<br> [maybe young person] who is just opening this feature. From this<br> perspective, what we will get after opening two these applications:<br> <br> * Paint, all-grey screen with standard set of painting primitives<br> * Tuxpaint, colorful screen when even standard painting primitives<br> contain something special, but there are bunch of another places to<br> explore and get excited<br></blockquote><div><br>Hmm, then we need re-think sugar ui at all! :)<br>I am trying to improve Paint, but without loosing a simple<br>and integrated experience. <br>Manuel is planning add different pencils (most of the backend work is alreday done to support stamps)<br> and add to the pencils the possibility to follow the movement direction.<br>About adding clip art, I think would be better if we can found a solution to share resources,<br>and add media useful to many activities. <br><br> Personally I don't like the user interface of Paint, but may be you are right, is because I am a developer :)<br><br>Anyway is good to have choices.<br> <br>Gonzalo<br><br></div><blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="padding-left:1ex"> <br> I guess, the winner is obvious. I don't mean, "do nothing, use what<br> already exists" but that the difference should be clear between these<br> two examples. And, if someone is willing to test his strength and create<br> another painting application (ie, sugar idea is exactly about learning<br> by doing) because his favorite PL is not C, why not using best the<br> example (Tuxpaint) and create something better.<br> <div><div></div><div class="h5"><br> --<br> Aleksey<br> _______________________________________________<br> Sugar-devel mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a><br> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a><br> </div></div></blockquote></div><br> <br>_______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</div></div></div> </div></body> </html>