MyPaint 1.2.0 is available [LWN.net]

Version 1.2 of the MyPaint natural-media-painting application has been released. Changes include new tools for smooth-stroke inking and flood filling, automatic file backup and recovery, the ability to group layers, and GTK+3 support. Ubuntu packages are already available through the project's official testing PPA; builds will follow shortly for other distributions and platforms. In the meantime, source bundles are provided at the project's GitHub page.

MyPaint 1.2.0 is available

Posted Jan 18, 2016 17:26 UTC (Mon) by linusw (subscriber, #40300) [Link] (2 responses)

For people like me using a Wacom board off and on this is THE application to use for sketching a few silly sketches on an odd day. The more artistically inclined will have all the more fun. Given Linux' impressive Wacom support this is a bliss to just plug and use.

MyPaint 1.2.0 is available

Posted Jan 20, 2016 3:08 UTC (Wed) by liam (guest, #84133) [Link] (1 responses)

It's funny you say that Linux has good wacom support because, until a few months ago, I didn't realise how solid. Mac, of all computers, you'd expect to work perfectly with all wacoms, but that's just not the case. My gf had to install Fedora in order to use her wacom. Apparently, Mac is known for having random issues with wacom....again, it's very strange.

MyPaint 1.2.0 is available

Posted Jan 20, 2016 7:38 UTC (Wed) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I can add to that that Linux has good support for drawing tablets, not just wacoms. It's also better than Windows: with Windows, you can have only one wintab driver installed at a time, which means I need to uninstall and reinstall everytime I need to test with a Huion, Yiynova, Wacom or Monoprix tablet. And often uninstalling wintab drivers leaves cruft behind that still breaks the next wintab driver I install.

Pretty much everything is plug and play with Linux these days.

What's missing is a full-featured tablet configuration gui. Gnome's works best at the moment, but it's still pretty weak. At least it works for my cintiq, which is more than I can say for OSX...