On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Rock <Rocksockdoc at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 16:37:42 +0100, Nux! wrote: > >> Well, Shutter is more than enough for my needs, but if you _must_ use >> Pinta, have you tried running it in Wine? > > I abhor Wine, and feel that, over time, I should strive to find the best > native Linux programs to do the job. > > At the moment, nothing on Linux (or Windows) compares to Paint.NET; so > that's the only reason I'm interested in Pinta (which is apparently based > on Paint.NET). Have you looked for or tried anything in java like http://www.heliospaint.com/. I haven't tried it myself, but I always look for cross platform tools as a first choice rather than being locked into any single OS and there are a lot of things available in java. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com