Simple Paint like program

[Philip_Edwards]

Hi, Any advice?
I need a simple Paint program. I've tried Drawing and GNU Paint. With both of them I haven't found a way to select an area and crop unless I'm missing something really obvious.

My needs are simple.

Phil

[ajgreeny]

Have a look at mtpaint; it's a bit like the simple Microsoft paint application as far as I can remember, though I've not used either for a very long time.

If you really want a gnome application try gthumb as well.

Both are in the normal repos so easy to install.

[GhX6GZMB]

Kolourpaint. It's an almost 1:1 to MS Paint. It's already in the repo.

[Philip_Edwards]

Thanks. Found and installed.
Phil

[mörgæs]

Thanks. Found and installed.
Phil

Good, if this solves the problem please mark the thread so.
It will help other users.

[Dennis N]

Thanks. Found and installed.
Phil

Based on posting sequence, I assume this refers to kolourpaint? Be aware it's a KDE application and depends on a different group of libraries than an application designed for Gnome, and that all those extra libraries have to be installed. Now, we have snap or flatpak applications that keep the supporting libraries (or runtimes, as they are called) segregated from the rest of the system rather than intermixed - a fact that makes it easy to clean them out if you change your mind. Kolourpaint has both a snap version and a flatpak version. I would use either one of those instead of the apt version. But if you installed from the Ubuntu repository, it's too late to take advantage of this.

Note: using apt to install kolourpaint on my Ubuntu system requires 97 new packages! See what's needed with apt install -s kolourpaint

[GhX6GZMB]

Based on posting sequence, I assume this refers to kolourpaint? Be aware it's a KDE application and depends on a different group of libraries than an application designed for Gnome, and that all those extra libraries have to be installed. Now, we have snap or flatpak applications that keep the supporting libraries (or runtimes, as they are called) segregated from the rest of the system rather than intermixed - a fact that makes it easy to clean them out if you change your mind. Kolourpaint has both a snap version and a flatpak version. I would use either one of those instead of the apt version. But if you installed from the Ubuntu repository, it's too late to take advantage of this.

Note: using apt to install kolourpaint on my Ubuntu system requires 97 new packages! See what's needed with apt install -s kolourpaint

Your comment is bit over the top. Kolourpaint has 22 dependencies, all of them to libkf5* or libqt5*. I run Lubuntu, so I don't know if these are present on a Gnome system (probably not). The rest of the required files/packages are screen icons for Kolourpaint.

I find Kolourpaint fast and to the point = emulating MSPaint.

[Dennis N]

Your comment is bit over the top. Kolourpaint has 22 dependencies

Not really - It depends on what you already have installed. I did say "on my Ubuntu system". Lubuntu releases after 18.04 use LXQt and some KDE packages by default, so some of what is needed is already there. That explains the difference. For Lubuntu, it makes more sense.

[cmcanulty]

pinta is in the repositories and quite easy to use

Pinta.jpg

[0x0840]

Try Dibuja: https://launchpad.net/dibuja
Light weight and minimal dependancies