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Oh well, thanks for the suggestion. LazPaint is quite close to what I want, it's boot time is very good (which can make or break a app, in my opinion).
I don't quite follow on what you've said about Notepad++. Do you mean it literally? Does it's author being a fag (which, I don't know about) put my soul at a risk of eternal damnation? I don't suffer physically or mentally from using it, but spiritually I couldn't know. Care to elaborate?
Regards

I have found another option to consider. PhotoFiltre appears to be a simple drawing program not too far detached from mspaint. Boot time - almost instantaneous. I've found it in ReactOS app manager, I don't know why it didn't occur to me sooner that this might be a good place to look in.
Unfortunately it's proprietary, and the free version is somewhat limited. Also, I don't know if it's just me but I can't find some important options such as line thickness for shapes (to set it you have to use the setting in the line tool), and the selection tools are lacking even compared to mspaint (or again, I just couldn't find them).
If anything, it's a good source of ideas for when I'll get on working on my own program (because you know I will)
www.photofiltre-studio.com/pf7-en.htm

Emotionally-driven drivel, feel-good garbage. You're simply incapable of understanding what I said because you lack intelligence and higher senses, and are only able to reflexively spurt out key-words, slogans, shibboleths from ideologies you've been conditioned with. To make you not feel bad about your blubbering, you've added a comment on The Topic of Conversation™. Unsurprisingly, you feel bad about God, objective evil and souls. Were that not the case, this case of flight from The Topic of Conversation™ would not bother you in the least. Not surprising for someone who puts pronouns in (their ) profiles elsewhere. The state of your own soul is reflected on the grotesque dissonant noise you produce and consume.





Good software is efficient; does what it is supposed to do, not more; has no unnecessary bloat; is owned and controlled by the user, not the other way around.

Visual Studio® is undoubtedly an efficient program, that has existed for over 20 years. I've used it since the 2008 version. I've seen improvements and degradations: for example, improvemements in code-completion tools and syntatical analysis; degradations in visual appearance since 2012 (just like Windows® 8 -- following the spirit of that time onwards).

In newer versions, it often gets in the way and tells the user how they should do things, which can get annoying at times. For example, a few months ago I mentioned how a program of yours could've been made using an older .NET Framework version, had it been but for two simple recent language features; these features might be suggested by M$'s standards, of using The Latest Version™, and by the IDE. So this could lead to inefficiency, in the end -- clueless developers who are dependent on tools, The Latest Versions™, and who add unecessary bloat to software. We see this everywhere nowadays, don't we?


Windows® 8 and 10 are not only visually detestable, but bloated, and can be genuinely called "invasive" -- telemetry, advertising, forced updates. There are indeed a few technical improvements over Windows® 7. But they've dumbed it down as much as possible, so as to make it usable by the lowest dregs. This is necessary, considering the purpose of modern technology.


I've not used them, but seen productions; again, undeniable their capabilities are. It does make it worse -- again, not the program's funcionalities, but the program. Consider it not being licensed on a subscription-basis, but, as it was in the past. That would make it better for users, wouldn't it?


Compared to previous Windows® versions I meant.
"Everything else is better" because you're making unsuitable comparisons. On the one hand, a simple image editing application; on the other hand, complex image editing applications. Compare Notepad with some other editor that supports syntax highlighting for various programming languages, word-completion, spell-checking and so on. Windows® 7's MSPaint is what it is, and is good at being what it is meant to be.

No need to reply with more insults in return, thank you.

Moreover, you imply that friend/pal says nothing but nonsense on the forum. However on several technical subjects, in particular in this page (not on the political subject, I reassure you), I agree with him. So by saying that, you are unwittingly targeting me (and I take it as such).
I feel myself being treated like a child in a way.

More generally, I do not at all want this forum to degenerate into pages of insults and personal conflicts.

buddy The problem is absolutely not to define what is political (or societal) from what is not. The problem is that from the beginning, you disrespect certain people by making inappropriate allusions.
Do not be surprised to make enemies in this situation. You talk about degeneration: personally, I don't find pitting people against each other to be virtuous, sorry. And yet I am the first to perceive a link between a deleterious societal situation and the evolution of software. In particular, I associate DRM and the lack of customization possibilities in recent software with the control society that Gille Deleuze was talking about.

I understand that it can be upsetting for you to be taken back for old messages, and indeed, I had seen these messages myself in the past, I said nothing. However, I still found it strange, I didn't understand the mix with subjects that had nothing to do with the starting subject. I didn't feel targeted by anything, but I quickly found it disrespectful to many people.
Moreover, nobody is obliged on this forum to be careful not to hurt this or that minority. Personally, I have never felt compelled to pay attention to this, in addition to 500 messages. Paying attention to respect for anyone is enough. For example, why say "that grotesque imitation of a woman"? It's disrespectful, it has nothing to do with humour, and it brings nothing to your point, it's even the opposite, it serves you well.

In fact, I didn't understand the joke, I don't quite know how to hang it. I understood that it was a joke, but I did not understand the meaning.


I pretty much agree socially. I see myself that very often it is in the most privileged circles that details like this interest people the most. It's even often the circles most detached from minority issues that are the most tolerant overall, it's just that some intolerant people can slip through the cracks. Which also refers to the problem that 21st century society has with risk, there is a desire to eliminate all forms of risk

You mentioned the question of the values ​​of such and such a developer. Personally, I agree with a lot of political opinion of the developer of Notepad++, and the disagreements are not enough to cause me a moral problem.
However, I encountered this problem during the boycott of Richard Stallman by several organizations supporting Open-Source/Free Software. However, I quickly understood that Richard Stallman had done nothing wrong and was the victim of a campaign of denigration and hatred without the slightest foundation (it was said that he supported Epstein, it was false, that he was transphobic, that was wrong).
Since then, there are indeed many foundations (started with Mozilla) that I no longer support (on the other hand, I started to support the FSF even more). From there not to use certain software, I am not there, I consider that it is important to dissociate the software from its developers (it is like for art).

I know a little Jacques Ellul, I appreciate many things.

In general, a troll is more virulent, rather the type to launch non-argued sentences.

But I agree, the subject has deviated enough as it is.
And I completely agree concerning the well-being of the community, this kind of situation has never happened until now (at least, since I am active on the forum). And it risks degenerating into deeper and multiple conflicts, which would be extremely damaging for the future of the forum. I stop answering myself.