Paint: The kids want the magic tools from TuxPaint

[godiard]

The teachers in Uruguay say the kids like the maqic tools from TuxPaint.

TuxPaint is more used than Paint (Ceibal people presented statistics).

[walter]

Not sure what action is being called for with this ticket.

We are addressing this issue from three different directions:

(1) Manuel Quiñones has a patch for Paint that adds some magic to the Sugarized paint program (I am not sure where the patch is, but it is described here  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/User:Manuq)

(2) The patch that tch and I have been working on to allow for more ready access to $HOME/Documents from the Journal will make it easier to use the current TuxPaint (See  http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/sugar-devel/2011-May/031111.html)

(3) Improved Sugarization will a topic at the recent Sugar Camp in Montevideo (See  http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Dextrose/3/Todo/EduJAM).

I'd recommend we put our efforts into these directions as opposed to making any further intervention in TuxPaint at this time.

[manuq]

As discussed with Gonzalo, the stamping functionality should be extended to allow stamp presets, and saving/loading custom stamps to the file system. We can have crayon, bush, etc, like TuxPaint.

Other thing we can add: an option to rotate the stamp based on the direction of the stroke being painted. We can cache the stamp with different rotations for this.