On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Harald Sitter <apachelog...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan > <ovidiu....@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 04.03.2014 16:32, Phil Wyett wrote: >> >> If you cannot have a good image app then have none. kolourpaint is not up to >> being a well used default app, it just does not have the features. I would >> add krita as a featured app in discover. Regards Phil >> >> I dissagree. People need to have at least the basic image editing >> functionality. Similarly to how Windows comes with MS Paint. I believe that >> Kcolourpaint would fit this role. > > What for though? I absolutely fail to come up with an actual use case > where you would want an application as "simple" as kolourpaint at all. > On Windows it has sort of a use case for screenshots, since you need > to paste them somewhere, so that usually ends up being Paint or Word. > On Kubuntu that use case does not present because we have a nifty tool > to manage screenshooting. > For photo management/resizing/cropping you'll want to use Gwenview or Digikam. > And as was mentioned, for actual drawing or pixel edition (a la > photoshop) kolourpaint is not smart enough (i.e. lacks features and > all that). > > Only thing that is left is "not actual" drawing (e.g. a child drawing > random stuff to pass time, and no paper and pen were available...), > hardly a use case TBH. > > So, again the question: what for does a Kubuntu user need a very dumb > pixmap drawing application?
Oh, FWIW, we do have libreoffice-draw (which is an equally "simple" drawing application) on the ISO (due to deps from Impress), so kolourpaint technically would duplicate that. HS -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel