Pinta upgrade to v3.x

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Hi,
Fedora main repo is still on the v1.7.1 which has a lot of bugs
and is not maintained anymore

thanks

2

yeah about that.. they still have not resolved this build issue since 2021

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honestly the bug system with all those automated comments is not clear at all

I see that an user posted a link to a build of the v 3.0.3

this is the link he have posted:

i don’t know what is the source problem of the build but at the moment

consider to retire the Pinta package from the main repo because
is broken and is based on gtk 2

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Or @grumpey might like to take over the maintainence?

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I’ve tried to understand the main problem,
and it seems related to the “NuGet” (?) system that download
from internet the required dependencies and this is
not permitted by Fedora policies

if this is correct I think that it will never (never say never) be resolved … :wink:

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honestly im a dotnet dev myself but i dont really know the core issue?? from my understanding it requires internet access to pull Nuget packages when building the project. Like the thread says the solution is just include the nuget packages from the get go rather than pulling from nuget though this might violate fedora policies. Also the maintainer on fedora seems like do not care about it anymore

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you could install pinta from flatpak or copr if you like

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it seems that even downloading everything and include inside the package is not permitted by Fedora main repo … probably it should be permitted by RPMFusion … ?

in the meantime i’ve compiled and installed the latest version
on Fedora 43 without any problem:

sudo dnf -y install dotnet-sdk-10.0 webp-pixbuf-loader cmake gtk4-devel libadwaita-devel intltool desktop-file-utils libgdiplus-devel
wget https://github.com/PintaProject/Pinta/releases/download/3.1.2/pinta-3.1.2.tar.gz
tar -xzvf pinta-3.1.2.tar.gz
cd pinta-3.1.2
./configure
make
sudo make install
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Network access during the build violates :fedora: packaging guidelines. I believe RPM fusion follows these as well.

So I build on COPR when I have free time.

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10

Pinta v3 is awful. The Adjustments/Filters are unusable (thanks to libadwaita!), and they are literally doing nothing about it.

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so v1 is broken, v3 is awful … we can’t create a package … basically we have to use Gimp :smiley:

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yeah gimp ftw (and krita too from the kde fam)

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I know but I like the mission of Pinta … for rapid editing is faster to open and the ui is faster to use because gimp has tons of things …

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Exactly for the same reason, I wanted it to replace KolourPaint. But I find KolourPaint + Gwenview faster and ahmm… usable. I can actually see how the colours are affected when I change the HSL sliders.
For advanced edits, like Curves, I just use GIMP.
Unfortunately, for Pinta, as I said, these features are not usable despite them existing and working correctly! How ridiculous is that?

Edit: We may get a fix with Pinta v3.2

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