Talk:Paint.net

The program is not dead

Is this program dead? The link http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ is broken. exe 16:57, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

The program is not dead it works perfectly. =)

It's currently sitting at their new website:

http://www.getpaint.net/download.html

Sorry for probably messing this page up, as I've never participated in a Talk page before, but is this program vector-based? I don't see any mention of it in the article, or the contrary.

no its a raster image editor. also, someone should make notice of the fact that 3.0 is almost out - Mickiscoole 09:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Mention should be made that it has excellent support for transparency (alpha channel), but no real support for paletted (8-bit etc) bitmaps.

September 2007 rewrite

I just completed an extensive reword and rework of this article. Please review and post ideas you have for the improvement of the article here. Cheers! =David^(talk)_(contribs) 20:01, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Title

Paint.Net or paint.net? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 22:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Neither. Its official title, from the program's help menu and title bar, is Paint.NET - a blending of Microsoft Paint and the .NET Framework. Capital P, lowercase aint., capital NET. The article is correctly titled. =David^(talk)_(contribs) 01:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

Source Code Change

The author(s?) is/are considering not releasing the source code, or not releasing all of the source code, as per this blog post:

http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware-of-%E2%80%9Cbackspaceware%E2%80%9D/ --CCFreak2K (talk) 19:09, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

It's just the installer, text, and images. The bulk of the program is still under the MIT license.I Love Pi (talk) 16:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Paint-Mono Screenshot.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 07:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Timeline

Is the timeline really necessary. Maybe if it only contained major milestone releases, otherwise it should be remove. It is very impractical in it's current state, an extensive changelog is available here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toehead2001 (talk • contribs) 23:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Completely agree, no reason for a timeline to take up the majority of the page. I Love Pi (talk) 00:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I think NEW FEATURES are acceptable for that section, and I completely agree with the fact that its unnecessary to put too much stuff there. --Colintso (talk) 10:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

misappropriate use of ".pdn" file extention

When searching wikipedia for ".pdn" it redirects to this article. This file extention for years now is used by "Portable Draughts Notation" and thus has becomed international standard.

At least some link to "disambiguation" MUST exist.

Portable_Draughts_Notation

82.135.215.244 (talk) 05:29, 30 July 2008 (UTC)MJ

I've fixed it, now goes to the disambiguation page. --toehead2001 (talk) 22:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

No longer open source

Last source release was 3.2, and now at 3.36. The source, even old source, is not available on the web site.

The web site no longer lists it as open source, and the main author, Rick Brewster, confirmed via email that the source was not available:

Sorry, the source code is not available.

Paint.NET was never a conventional "open source" application anyway, as it was not "community developed". We have never accepted unsolicited, outside contributions.

Our current plan is to release only the source code for the Data and Effects DLL's, to serve as a plugin SDK.

-Rick Brewster

Anotherbloodyusername (talk) 13:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

The last source release was 3.36 (I have a copy of it, as do many others who got it before it was pulled). Some parts are under licenses more restrictive than the MIT license, but the vast majority is still under MIT. I Love Pi (talk) 22:04, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, the open source category was incorrect at this point. §FreeRangeFrog 20:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Anotherbloodyusername Feb 20 2009

Using the Wikipedia definition of open source:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition

this software is definitely not open source any longer. The fact that a limited number of people have the source is not really relevant. Though I would like a copy ;-) ... feel free to send me any info you have.

I'd suggest amending the article to the effect that:

3.3.6 was initially released as partial open source, but later pulled, and the developer no longer makes the source freely available for download.

Forum section

Is this relevant to the article which is about the software? To me it sounds like someone trying to increase the userbase for the forum. -- RND  T  C  22:04, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

• On the contrary, the forum is not only official, but one of the "selling points" of the program. Part of its distinctive is the community. =David^(talk)_(contribs) 14:16, 21 September 2009 (UTC)