albanobattistella/drawing

A drawing application for the GNOME desktop.

Drawing

A simple drawing application for Linux.

This application is a basic image editor, similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop.

PNG, JPEG and BMP files are supported.

Besides GNOME, some more traditional design layouts are available too, as well as an elementaryOS layout. It should also be compatible with Purism's Librem 5 phone.

Available tools

(and a few of their options)

Drawing tools:

Tool	Options
Pencil	Dashes, eraser, …
Line	Arrow, dashes, gradient …
Arc	Arrow, dashes, …
Insert text	Font, shadow, font size
Rectangle	Filling
Circle	Regular circle or oval; Filling
Polygon	Filling
Free shape	Filling
Color picker
Paint	Remove a color

The selection tool allows you to define an area (rectangle or free), which you can move, cut, copy, paste, edit with canvas tools, export, open as a new image, etc.

Canvas/selection edition tools:

Tool	Options
Crop*
Flip	Horizontally or vertically
Scale	Keep proportions or not
Rotate
Saturate

*Remark: The previewed picture isn't at the actual scale.

Available languages

• Castillan (thanks to Adolfo Jayme-Barrientos and Xoan Sampaiño)
• Dutch (thanks to Heimen Stoffels)
• English
• French
• German (thanks to Onno Giesmann)
• Hebrew (thanks to moriel5 and Shaked Ashkenazi)
• Italian (thanks to Jimmy Scionti)
• Russian (thanks to Artem Polishchuk)
• Turkish (thanks to Serdar Sağlam)

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Screenshots

Default user interface (for GNOME/Budgie)

More screenshots:

• Color chooser
• Open/Import menu, with several tabs opened
• The selection tool and its menu
• Drawing things a blank picture with tools, with the preview opened
• Inserting text
• Adjusting the saturation, with the main menu opened

Alternative user interfaces

• elementaryOS UI
• Cinnamon UI
• MATE UI
• The default "GNOME" UI can be resized to be compatible with the Purism Librem 5 phone. Youtube screencast

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Installation

Stable version

Recommended

You can install it from flathub.org using the instructions on this page.

Native packages

• Ubuntu 19.04: PPA
• Fedora (official repo) (29, 30 and Rawhide): sudo dnf install drawing
• Arch and Manjaro (AUR)

Unstable/nightly version

See here