I always find it fascinating that they can redesign the whole OS with almost every release but thinks like cmd, notepad, Wordpad or paint stay unchanged for decades (?) despite having huge feature gaps. They surely should be able to find one or two devs that can put some ongoing effort into these.
Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
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Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#242All the comments that "you can just use X to do Y" is missing the point that Paint just works, for almost every value of Y. No argument, Paint.net is great, snipping tool solves the grab and crop, but for most anything else you need to do in a hurry, you need a quick paint program. It's like removing Notepad: we all know hundreds of editors we would replace it with, from Notepad++ to vim/emacs... but isn't nice that…
> And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. Agree. I bought an iPhone 7 and now I never listen to music or podcasts with it, a very unexpected side effect of not having a headphone jack.
Why would you buy a phone without an earphone jack? Knock on wood that's something I'd never agree to do :-)
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#243Earlier quoted context omitted.
On Windows 10 try: WIN+SHIFT+S to get instant screen clipping and paste it to e.g. Twitter or whatever.
This is the OneNote screen clipping tool. If you don't have Office, Win+Shift+S doesn't do anything. This is a super useful tool, but most often I paste into mspaint and mark up from there.
This works without Office, I just tried it.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#244Let's get rid of the handful of useful features left in Windows. Next time around we'll take care of that pesky calculator, and then we're coming for notepad.
>and then we're coming for notepad.
If they ever do that, Metapad will still be there to help. Though I'm mainly a vi/vim/gvim user, I use metapad sometimes for quick edits. It's very lightweight, but still supports some more features than notepad. It has some neat features. The developer has stopped working on it, but I think a) he released the source code (C or C++ using the Win32 API) and b) the download is still there on his site.
Search for metapad or metapad download.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#245Let's get rid of the handful of useful features left in Windows. Next time around we'll take care of that pesky calculator, and then we're coming for notepad.
>and then we're coming for notepad. If they ever do that, Metapad will still be there to help. Though I'm mainly a vi/vim/gvim user, I use metapad sometimes for quick edits. It's very lightweight, but still supports some more features than notepad. It has some neat features. The developer has stopped working on it, but I think a) he released the source code (C or C++ using the Win32 API) and b) the download is still…
Note: if using Metapad, might want to tweak the default options a bit before using it for anything important. E.g. I seem to remember that ESC exits the file you are editing, maybe without warning. Other than a minor thing or two like that, it's a neat tiny text editor, though - IMO.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#246So their big shift of making Windows an OS more focused on creation than consumption starts by... nixing Paint.
Why? It's a dickish enough move on it's own, but I can't understand the reason behind it. This will surely generate a huge PR backlash wgen actually implemented, with even more people trying to block the update... for what exactly? The article doesn't even talk about a planned replacement.
What is their plan?
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#247Off topic, but what caught my eye in the article was this: > Now Microsoft has announced that, alongside Outlook Express, Reader app and Reading list, Microsoft Paint For those who don't know Reader was introduced in Windows 8 as a PDF reader with annotation support (worked with Stylus in just black colour). I always hoped it would get more features and could become comparable to Preview on Mac. But sadly it was neve…
Got to get people to use Edge somehow. Also try banning installers from adding pinned icons so users don't use Chrome, banning installers from setting defaults so users don't use Chrome, When you do open Chrome adding adverts for Edge to the screen (it's totally faster guys, come on). Banning browsers from the Windows Store, and thus Windows 10S.
I'd be more sympathetic to poor google's plight if they didn't plaster banners telling me to switch to chrome all over the place.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#248Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get it. On windows each app has a completely different look and feel and guidelines and people are fine with it. But on Linux we have 2 and people are complaining. Btw, GTK+ apps look very close to Qt apps on KDE as KDE's Breeze engine has a GTK+ version. Additionally, an open source windows paint (that parent comment asked for) will not look consistent go GTK+ apps as well.
well people do complain, but i think the point is that windows has one UI framework (win32/user32) and (most) everyone uses that. It provides all of the primitives and norms that people expect
Do you actually use windows? That's not my experience at all. The difference between even just the stuff windows ships with is staggering. Just compare control panel to settings app, they look like they belong to different OS's, and you have to use both to access all configuration.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#249MS hasn't said they're going to remove it: [“Deprecated” Apps] ...are not in active development and might be removed in future releases [1] Its clearly not being actively developed, but there's no indication its going anywhere just yet. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4034825/features-th...
Perhaps similar to Notepad, which has been more or less feature-complete since Windows 2000 or so. I guess it is also internally "deprecated", but will continue to be shipped for quite a while. Microsoft doesn't tend to break such things. In Paint's case, I'd guess the most that will happen is that it will vanish from the Start menu, but the executable will still be there.
Notepad needs support for unix style line endings to be able to function as a basic text editor. As it stands I always install notepad++.
Re: Microsoft Paint to be killed off after 32 years
#250Earlier quoted context omitted.
> And yes, I still miss my 1/8" jack on my iphone. Every single day. Agree. I bought an iPhone 7 and now I never listen to music or podcasts with it, a very unexpected side effect of not having a headphone jack.
I'm curious about this - why do you no longer listen to music or podcasts? The phone comes with headphones that plug directly into the lightning port, and an 1/8" adapter so you can still use your old headphones. Personally I just keep the adapter permanently attached to my 1/8" headphones. Only downside for me is the inability to charge at the same time, but then the iPhone 7's battery life is pretty great, so that'…
Do you remember to carry your dongle with you everywhere you go?
Do you carry a spare dongle in your pocket?