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org.tuxpaint.tuxpaint's Issues

Support printing

The print button doesn't work, which is sad. The TuxPaint FAQ suggests that you can specify a print command to override its default use of lpr but even then, we'd need a wrapper to the portal.

Add extra stamps

Tux Paint has a number of optional 'stamps' available for use. It'd be great if we could get these into an extension (or ship in the main download) as they're a lot of the joy of the application for younger users.

Update to 0.9.25

We recently released Tux Paint 0.9.25. The changes were mostly minor, but it now supports exporting drawings to one's ~/Pictures folder (technically, it's wherever $XDG_PICTURES_DIR points, with $HOME/Pictures as a fallback), as well as exporting slideshows as animated GIFs (which adds a dependency on the "libimagequant" library, which is part of "pngquant2").

Press release: http://www.tuxpaint.org/latest/tuxpaint-0.9.25-press-release-en.php

Thanks for your consideration & happy new year!

Split stamps to extension

Currently tuxpaint-stamps is part of the main application. They are 217 MB of the 250 MB app.

In space-constrained situations it might be nice to be able to uninstall them. If they were distributed as an extension this would be possible. By using a subdirectories extension it would then be possible for additional stamps to be installed.

Switch to SDL 2

This build currently uses mainline releases of TuxPaint, which use SDL 1.2. There is an actively-maintained sdl2 branch upstream https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/tuxpaint/ci/sdl2.0/tree/ which I believe is used to build the Android version of the app. One nice thing that SDL 2 would bring is (at some point) Wayland support.

Broken on ARM

Testing reveals that running Tuxpaint on ARM shows an almost completely black window.

Split help translations to .Locale extension

This will allow them to be subsetted to only the applicable locales.

Not fullscreen when launched from GNOME Software

If I launch Tuxpaint from its desktop icon, it opens full-screen at my laptop's native resolution. (I find it unusable at that resolution because it's not hidpi aware so all the buttons are incredibly small, but apparently the target user isn't too bothered.)

By contrast, if I launch it from GNOME Software, it opens in an 800×600 window, which actually is unusable on a 3200×1800 display.

This is due to two factors:

• The upstream default is to launch windowed at 800×600, but the Flatpak patches the .desktop file to pass --fullscreen yes --native
• GNOME Software runs the app with flatpak_installation_launch(), which does not use the Exec line in the .desktop file but invokes the app directly

I think the correct fix would be to use a configuration file to set these options. According to the documentation the path is /etc/tuxpaint/tuxpaint.conf but perhaps this can be made conditional on the installation prefix.