This is gpaint (GNU Paint) version 0.3.4, a small-scale painting program for
GNOME and 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 usable already for simple image editing..


Changes in this version:
    * adding guix.scm, development under GNU Guix support

    Debian patches from Goedson Teixeira Paixao <goedson> incorporatd into main release
    includng patches for
    * fixing missing heds libs by <goedson>
    * Fix toolbar behaviour so that gpaint follows the style set in
      the user preferences by <goedson>
    * Fix foreground/background color selection by <goedson>
    * Fix crash when saving in unsupported format by <goedson>
    * Add accelerator keys to common functions by Matt Wheeler <m@funkyhat.org>
    * Ignore non-printable characters on text input by Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) <grandpaul@gmail.com>
    * fix crash on fill button click by <goedson>
    * Fix line width combo box by Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>
    * Fixes rotation operations: Implement the rotation in multiples of 90 degrees using the
      gdk_pixbuf_rotate_simple function by <goedson>
    * Avoids crash on font selection by <goedson>
    * Fixes the gpaint.desktop file by <goedson>
    * Removes reference to non-existent menu.h file by <goedson>
    * Fixes compiling with recent versions of libgtk by <goedson>

Currently gpaint has the following features:
   * Drawing tools--ovals, freehand, polygon, text, with fill or shallow for
     polygons and closed freehand, and brushes.
   * Cut and paste by selecting regions or polygons.
   * Print support using gnome-print (basic functionality is there)
   * Modern, ease-to-use user interface with tool and color palettes
   * Editing multiple image at the same time without running multiple instance
     of the image editor
   * All image processing features present in xpaint

This version of gpaint requires the GNOME 2.0 environment but also works on top
of GNOME 3 and later releases. This version uses the gdk-pixbuf library to
handle image loading and saving. So currently gpaint's image saving is limited
to the formats supported by gdk-pixbuf.

Gpaint now uses Pango to do text drawing.  Currently English multi-line texts
work; non-English languages are not tested and input methods like SCIM are not
yet properly supported; this is to be addressed.

A large part of gpaint is derived from xpaint 2.4.9, authored by David Koblas
and later Torsten Martinsen.

The gpaint project is hosted on the GNU Savannah project site.

   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gpaint/

gpaint development utilizes git; The
development source is hosted at

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/gpaint.git
branch: main

For bugs report at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=additem&group=gpaint

Future development plans:

I plan to incorporate the recent printing features of gtk+ and to move away from
gnomeprint.  Ehnancing international text support using Pango is the immediate
next steps.  Dialogs to set the parameters for the xpaint-derived image
processing functions are planned. Also planned is the incorporation of a small
extension language in the code base, likely GNU guile, to support high level app logic.
Port to gtk+ 3 and then gtk 4

For general comments please send mail to Andy Tai <atai@gnu.org>
