MyPaint 2.0 Released With New Features For Open-Source Drawing/Painting

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MyPaint 2.0 Released With New Features For Open-Source Drawing/Painting

If the likes of GIMP and Krita aren't satisfying your digital drawing/painting needs, MyPaint 2.0 has finally been released as a big update to this simplicity-minded, cross-platform and open-source program...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MyPaint-2.0-Released

[skeevy420]

The Debian version seem stale. Are they planning to be Flatpak only?

Did you even read the release notes?

After a bit of a lull in development, MyPaint 2.0 has arrived at last! Many have already tried out the new features in the new automated continuous appimage releases, but for those who prefer to use stable releases, this is the time to pester your distro's package maintainers (or better yet, package and take a maintainer role yourself).

Those are the literal first and second sentences. You didn't even have to get that far in to find the answer to that.

[George99]

Debian is aware of the new version: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/mypaint

[pkese]

I find it quite funny that a paint & graphics app wouldn't have even one single screenshot of the app on its official landing page: http://mypaint.org/

Edit:
TBH, Gimp doesn't either, but at least their page reflects what it is about: https://www.gimp.org/

[Awesomeness]

The Debian version seem stale.

Like the rest of Debian. All good.

[c2p_]

I find it quite funny that a paint & graphics app wouldn't have even one single screenshot of the app on its official landing page: http://mypaint.org/

Edit:
TBH, Gimp doesn't either, but at least their page reflects what it is about: https://www.gimp.org/

Yes, it's strange. But at least there are some screenshots in release notes https://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.10.html

[angrypie]

What happened to Pinta? Language controversies aside, it was a pretty good painting program.

I also miss Banshee. Seems like C# is a death sentence for projects not affiliated to Microsoft.

[SpyroRyder]

What happened to Pinta? Language controversies aside, it was a pretty good painting program.

I also miss Banshee. Seems like C# is a death sentence for projects not affiliated to Microsoft.

Mono was always its own little thing that was C# but not the C# you were using in your job or in your training program. Coupled with gtk#3 stalling in development, the gnome project taking some tools under its own banner and Xamarin retooling mono for its focus on mobile, the Linux scene mostly died. I kinda wish it was still a viable option for a large project cause it'd be awesome to put my C# knowledge to use

[tildearrow]

Awesomeness Not correct.

The default desktop has a large team of active developers. Some hired by Canonical.
https://salsa.debian.org/groups/gnome-team/-/activity

The default troll has a large pool of propaganda.

[DanL]

I ask what is the plan on Debian.

The plan is to package 2.0: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=951093
It should be in unstable soon (and testing shortly thereafter) if all goes well.

The Debian version seem stale.

Recently, the 1.2.x mypaint package was removed from testing because of changes with python2 packages https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugr...cgi?bug=937099
Rather than trying to slap band-aids on the 1.2.x package, the maintainer has chosen to wait for the release of mypaint 2.0 and libmypaint2.

Debian stable has 1.2.0 (plus important fixes from 1.2.1)

I'm not sure how you could call that stale unless you either don't understand how Debian works or are being extremely impatient with the packaging of 2.0