
This is gpaint, a small-scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop. 
Gpaint does not attempt to compete with GIMP.  Think of GIMP is like Photoshop as
gpaint is like Windows Paint.

Gpaint is still work in progress and many features are still being developed. 
However, gpaint is useable already for small image markups.

Gpaint requires the GNOME environment (gtk+ 1.2.8 or above, gnome-libs 1.2.4 or
above, gdkimlib and gdk-pixbuf 0.9 or above).  It requires both gdkimlib and
gdk-pixbuf at this point because gpaint uses gdk-pixbuf internally but
gdk-pixbuf does not provide image saving functions at this point.  Hopefully as
gdk-pixbuf acquires image saving funcitonalites, the dependency on gdkimlib can
be removed.

A large part of gpaint is derived from xpaint 2.4.9, authored by David Koblas
and later Torsten Martinsen.  Gpaint also uses the gtkscrolframe widget (taking
from eog 0.5) by Federco Mena-Quintero.

Future plans include the implementation of missing features, printing support,
and turning gpaint into a Bonobo component for simple image editing tasks.

For bugs or general comments please send mail to Andy Tai, atai@atai.org

Andy Tai
