drawing VS kImageAnnotator

recently i went looking for a (slightly more featureful) mspaint.exe replacement for linux and found https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/ to be serviceable.

There is also Drawing, but I think it has no options to set compression parameters for e.g. jpeg.

Drawing fits that description, but it isn't really comparable to Krita — the authors describe it as like MS Paint but for Gnome.

Pinta seems similar, but more Xfce-ish.

=> https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/

=> https://www.pinta-project.com/

I use Drawing, which is great for the job.

I like Drawing for basic stuff resizing, cropping, rotating etc... Krita for more complex stuff.

Mint Mate has Drawing as default. Simple image editor for Linux https://maoschanz.github.io/drawing/

Similar to Pinta, there is drawing.

It's available as a library (https://github.com/ksnip/kImageAnnotator), additionally you can use the --edit-existing flag with Spectacle to edit arbitrary existing images.

Now that kImageAnnotator 0.6.0 has finally been released Spectacle can now support cropping in its annotation mode, provided it is rebuilt with the new library, which is the case for version 22.04.1-2 on Arch at least.

So, kImageAnnotator was just updated to 0.6.0, which only changes include using a newer version of kColorPicker; 0.1.6 to 0.2.0.

That's just the last change that made it to 0.6.0, the actual difference is more like this.

I actually just learned about Ksnip, because I first wanted to recommend you KDE Spectacle, but I noticed it didn't show a crop tool. I discovered Spectacle uses Ksnip's kImageAnnotator for editing and thus discovered Ksnip. Somehow Ksnip does show a crop button and other features that are not enabled in Spectacle. I think I like Spectacle more for quickly taking a screenshot, while Ksnip seems nice to have for a quick edit.