This is a basic drawing application, similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.
PNG, JPEG and BMP files are supported.
Besides GNOME, the app is well integrated in traditional-looking desktops, as well as elementaryOS.
It should also be compatible with the Pinephone and Librem 5 smartphones.
Recommended
You can install it from flathub.org using the instructions on this page.
- Ubuntu 18.04, 20.10 and 21.04: PPA
- Gentoo package from an external overlay
- "Snap" package
See here to install and test the app from source code.
If your language is not here, or is incompletely translated, you can contribute to the translations.
code | name | complete*? | main translators |
---|---|---|---|
cs | Czech | 98% | @pervoj |
ca | Catalan | 100% | @jordimas |
da | Danish | 81% | @scootergrisen |
de | German | 100% | @Etamuk |
English | 100% | help welcome ** | |
es | Castillan | 100% | @fitojb, @xoan, @oscfdezdz |
eu | Basque | 83% | @alexgabi |
fi | Finnish | 66% | @mahtiankka |
fr | French | 100% | |
he | Hebrew | 35% | @moriel5 and @shaqash |
hr | Croatian | 68% | @milotype |
hu | Hungarian | 55% | @kami911 |
id | Indonesian | 67% | @ekickx |
it | Italian | 100% | @amivaleo and @albanobattistella |
ja | Japanese | 99% | @rlbxku1r |
kr | Korean | 93% | @chaeya |
nl | Dutch | 95% | @Vistaus |
pl | Polish | 100% | @pkomur |
pt_BR | Br. portuguese | 71% | @haurenburu and @ArthurBacci64 |
ru | Russian | 99% | @tim77 and @Ser82-png |
sv | Swedish | 98% | @eson57 |
tr | Turkish | 98% | @TeknoMobil and @serkan-maker |
zh_CN | Chinese, simpl. | 70% | @OverflowCat |
zh_TW | Chinese, tradi. | 71% | @pan93412, @OverflowCat and @cges30901 |
*Completion percentages correspond to the next major version, still in development.
**Concerning the "original version" in english: all the labels are here, but i'm not a native english speaker, so there might be mistakes. If you find incorrect english labels, please report an issue about it.
(last update: version 0.8.3)
Tools in italic can be disabled.
General options for these tools: colors, use antialiasing, size, …
- Pencil (options: dashes, line shape, outline, …)
- Brushes (pressure sensitive):
- Simple round brush
- Hairy brush
- Airbrush
- Calligraphic nibs
- Eraser (options: blur, mosaic, transparency, solid color, …)
- Highlighter (options: highlight on dark background)
- Line (options: arrow, dashes, gradient, …)
- Curve (options: arrow, dashes, …)
- Insert text (options: font, shadow/outline, font size, …)
- Insert points (options: shape of the points, include a number, …) to help captioning
- Shape (options: filling style, outline style, gradient, …):
- rectangle
- rounded rectangle
- circle
- oval
- polygon
- free shape
- Color picker
- Paint (options: remove a color, …)
These tools allow you to define an area (rectangle or free), which you can move, cut, copy, paste, edit with any transformation tool, export, open as a new image, etc.
- Rectangle selection
- Free shape selection
- Adjacent color selection
These tools can edit the whole image, or edit a selected part of it.
- Crop
- Scale (options: keep proportions or not)
- Rotate (rotate or flip)
- Filters:
- Saturation (increase or decrease)
- Transparency
- Increase contrast
- Blur (various types)
- Pixelization
- Invert colors
The settings are managed by the Gio.Settings
abstraction, which will probably
corresponds to the dconf
database once the app is installed as a native
package.
With flatpak however, the settings are stored in a key-value file, which can be
found (and edited) at ~/.var/app/com.github.maoschanz.drawing/config/glib-2.0/settings/keyfile
.
the code is under GPL3, some tools icons are from here or from the Adwaita icon theme.