Talk:Paint.net

The program is not dead

Is this program dead? The link http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/ is broken. exe 16:57, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

The program is not dead it works perfectly. =) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zachary9 (talk • contribs) 12:59, 15 June 2006

It's currently sitting at their new website:

http://www.getpaint.net/download.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.64.149.240 (talk • contribs) 09:00, 6 October 2006

Sorry for probably messing this page up, as I've never participated in a Talk page before, but is this program vector-based? I don't see any mention of it in the article, or the contrary. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.16.154.50 (talk • contribs) 06:24, 14 October 2006

no its a raster image editor. also, someone should make notice of the fact that 3.0 is almost out - Mickiscoole 09:06, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

Mention should be made that it has excellent support for transparency (alpha channel), but no real support for paletted (8-bit etc) bitmaps. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AndrewWPhillips (talk • contribs) 12:52, 7 October 2007

September 2007 rewrite

I just completed an extensive reword and rework of this article. Please review and post ideas you have for the improvement of the article here. Cheers! =David^(talk)_(contribs) 20:01, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Title

Paint.Net or paint.net? --Stefán Örvarr Sigmundsson 22:49, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Neither. Its official title, from the program's help menu and title bar, is Paint.NET - a blending of Microsoft Paint and the .NET Framework. Capital P, lowercase aint., capital NET. The article is correctly titled. =David^(talk)_(contribs) 01:52, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

N Expalin 2600:1700:4550:6A50:F549:2756:2B11:A333 (talk) 14:50, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

Source Code Change

The author(s?) is/are considering not releasing the source code, or not releasing all of the source code, as per this blog post:

http://blog.getpaint.net/2007/12/04/freeware-authors-beware-of-%E2%80%9Cbackspaceware%E2%80%9D/ --CCFreak2K (talk) 19:09, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

It's just the installer, text, and images. The bulk of the program is still under the MIT license.I Love Pi (talk) 16:15, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Paint-Mono Screenshot.png

Image:Paint-Mono Screenshot.png is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.

BetacommandBot (talk) 07:02, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Timeline

Is the timeline really necessary. Maybe if it only contained major milestone releases, otherwise it should be remove. It is very impractical in it's current state, an extensive changelog is available here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Toehead2001 (talk • contribs) 23:14, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Completely agree, no reason for a timeline to take up the majority of the page. I Love Pi (talk) 00:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

I think NEW FEATURES are acceptable for that section, and I completely agree with the fact that its unnecessary to put too much stuff there. --Colintso (talk) 10:34, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

misappropriate use of ".pdn" file extention

When searching wikipedia for ".pdn" it redirects to this article. This file extention for years now is used by "Portable Draughts Notation" and thus has becomed international standard.

At least some link to "disambiguation" MUST exist.

Portable_Draughts_Notation

82.135.215.244 (talk) 05:29, 30 July 2008 (UTC)MJ

I've fixed it, now goes to the disambiguation page. --toehead2001 (talk) 22:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)

No longer open source

Last source release was 3.2, and now at 3.36. The source, even old source, is not available on the web site. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.17.43.205 (talk • contribs) 12:11, 7 October 2008

The web site no longer lists it as open source, and the main author, Rick Brewster, confirmed via email that the source was not available:

Sorry, the source code is not available.

Paint.NET was never a conventional "open source" application anyway, as it was not "community developed". We have never accepted unsolicited, outside contributions.

Our current plan is to release only the source code for the Data and Effects DLL's, to serve as a plugin SDK.

-Rick Brewster

Anotherbloodyusername (talk) 13:18, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

The last source release was 3.36 (I have a copy of it, as do many others who got it before it was pulled). Some parts are under licenses more restrictive than the MIT license, but the vast majority is still under MIT. I Love Pi (talk) 22:04, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

Agreed, the open source category was incorrect at this point. §FreeRangeFrog 20:15, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Using the Wikipedia definition of open source:

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Definition

this software is definitely not open source any longer. The fact that a limited number of people have the source is not really relevant. Though I would like a copy ;-) ... feel free to send me any info you have.

I'd suggest amending the article to the effect that:

3.3.6 was initially released as partial open source, but later pulled, and the developer no longer makes the source freely available for download.

Anotherbloodyusername Feb 20 2009

Forum section

Is this relevant to the article which is about the software? To me it sounds like someone trying to increase the userbase for the forum. -- RND  T  C  22:04, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

On the contrary, the forum is not only official, but one of the "selling points" of the program. Part of its distinctive is the community. =David^(talk)_(contribs) 14:16, 21 September 2009 (UTC)

Exactly! And that means this section is NOT ALLOWED in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a soapbox or means of promotion. Besides, this section fails to comply with Wikipedia notability guideline, meaning that no reliable secondary source has ever made a point that this forum is by any mean more important than other customer support forums.

I'm re-adding importance template and I'm going to delete this section within 7 days, unless its issues are resolved.

Fleet Command (talk) 06:40, 8 December 2009 (UTC)

I've added references which clearly detail the forum (Active Online Community) as a main feature of Paint.NET and slightly reworded the section. As it is a feature of the program I do not see why it needs be labelled unimportant, after all, the GIMP page details a list of it's features.

123.100.109.98, 00:16, 8 December 2009 (UTC). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.100.109.98 (talk)

Insufficient: You have provided a link to author's advertising. This is neither secondary source nor reliable source. Every product can assert to have an active community, especially Microsoft products. This doesn't make it notable. Why don't you study Wikipedia general notability guideline? Fleet Command (talk) 05:28, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

Well, 190.218.50.57 took care of it. Fleet Command (talk) 11:08, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

Freeware License?

The sidebar lists "Freeware" as the license type, however the link target is to the Wikipedia article on Freeware. Freeware is not a license type. Freeware can, of course, be offered under a wide variety of licenses.

The Wikipedia article on Comparison of raster graphics editors designates the licensing as "Proprietary with MIT components". I propose changing the sidebar to more accurately reflect the current licensing of Paint.NET.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.124.49.214 (talk) 14:38, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

Freeware IS a license type: It specifies that the software is available free of charge.

Adding more accurate information is welcome in Wikipedia. But you don't need to be picky about small points.

As for the information given in Comparison of raster graphics editors, it now says "Free" and "Proprietary". There is no mention of MIT anymore. Fleet Command (talk) 11:20, 12 December 2009 (UTC)

License blah blah

Don't you think that all this license-related blahblah in the "Overview" section is a bit too exhaustive? I mean, "normal" Wikipedia readers probably don't care all that much about that (including me...)

82.139.196.68 (talk) 13:56, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

Incomplete color space

Is there any mention as to why the main color space does not allow to quickly pick luminosity lower than half the way down? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shiftadot (talk • contribs) 05:53, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

adding download links to the source code?

A while ago, I added some links to sites that mirror the source code, including one to what appears to be an old official website that is no longer maintained. However, 24.19.188.205 (talk · contribs) removed them, saying that Wikipedia is not a "place for collecting download links." I agree that we are not a link farm, but I don't see any problem with including a link to the source code. The source code is no longer available on the developer's website, but just because a developer is no longer offering an official download does not mean we shouldn't link to third-party sites that mirror it.

For the record, I think at least one of the following links (especially the first one) should be included:

• Paint.NET 3.36 download - contains source code for version 3.01
  • This site seems to be official, although it appears to have been abandoned in favor of the current one.
    • It isn't official nor is it allowed to be redistributing proprietary plugins. --Simon Brown - Talk Contribs 22:37, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
• version 3.36 source code
  • That's a mono fork which is approved by Paint.NET's creator, although not official. The official website is www.getpaint.net and PDN is no longer open source. --Simon Brown - Talk Contribs 22:37, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
    • first links still works, second link is dead. thanks. -- 109.76.246.103 (talk) 16:31, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

What does everyone think? --Ixfd64 (talk) 00:41, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedians who use Paint.NET

For Wikipedians who use Paint.NET, see Category:Wikipedians who use Paint.NET. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 08:31, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Beware misleading download links

On the product's website which is referred by this article are multiple confusing 'download' buttons which are actually advertisment and download / install 'junk' software on your computer. Should wikipedia still link to the website under such circumstances? David Burg (talk) 00:32, 31 July 2012 (UTC)

I can find five instances of the word "download" on getpaint.net's main page.

• The one in the menu on top, beside the Donate and Roadmap buttons, which doesn't seem to lead to junk
• A link at the top part of the right column, which seems to lead to the correct one
• An ad that clearly claims to be for a download manager, which is clearly not relevant
• An ad that clearly claims to be for a RAR to ZIP converter, which is clearly not relevant
• An ad for some poorly described piece of software at the bottom. "flv" in the URL means it's some kind of video converter; Paint.NET doesn't even try to handle video files. I doubt anyone would scroll to the bottom without finding the real download links anyways.
• Possibly some more behind the annoying double underlines. Flashblock stops me from checking, but I don't consider it likely to contain any download links for anything.

Therefore, I vote for keeping that link. It is a bit excessive with the ads, but it's the official website, and all other project pages on Wikipedia link to their official websites. I see no reason to be different around here. --81.231.245.214 (talk) 11:10, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

XP SP2

What version work at XP SP2?--Kaiyr (talk) 11:59, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

Brewster later stated that he hopes to release portions of the source code back into the public.

When did he said that? Still no source is available.

Notability tag

I noticed that a "Notability" tag has been on this page for several months, but no discussion was opened on the topic. All sections of the article are sourced and Paint.net appears to be both popular and referenced in a good number of third-party articles, therefore I have removed the tag. 173.76.119.195 (talk) 04:26, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Hi.

...but no discussion was opened on the topic. Merger needs a discussion, not notability, unless there is a dispute.

All sections of the article are sourced... That's verifiability, not notability. Please be careful not to confuse these two. This topic clearly fails to supply evidence of significant coverage in reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject. All information in the article comes from primary sources.

...referenced in a good number of third-party articles... Are you sure you look at Paint.NET article? Because there is only one citation from secondary source in it. That's citation number 10 from Mook, Nate. The rest are all from getpaint.net domain, except three ancillary footnotes that are not even citations.

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 09:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Ridiculous. I'm not a fan of Paint.NET because I test downloaded it once years ago, uninstalled it, and yet I just discovered a folder in my registry today. The thing is hard to kill on a computer. Here are third party Google news sources: https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22paint.net%22+editor&tbm=nws to possibly use. The article just needs a new flag at top requesting more non-primary source citations, in my opinion. 5Q5 (talk) 19:07, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

Notability: there are multiple well-known publishers offering books around the software:

• http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Paint-NET-Andros-Sturgeon/dp/1783551437/
• http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596515096.do has a chapter on it
• It's also cited by a few C#/.NET coding books as good, exemplary software utilizing the language.

It's certainly notable. --20:55, 12 February 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.142.214.19 (talk)

Hi. The first two are good, ... if you could cite them in the article. The third, no; notability demands significant coverage, not mentions.

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 01:54, 13 February 2015 (UTC)

Hi, ya'll – not sure how much if any bearing this may have on the matter, but there are several metadata links from image files that rely on this article and its version history. An example of a metadata redirect is Paint.NET v2.6. Joys! – Paine Ellsworth^CLIMAX! 10:15, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

The website lied to me about the copyright status of the logo.

The website's bottom message said that the entire website was licensed under Creative Commons, so the logo on the website (as its element) must also be licensed—right? What? It is not free? I feel lied to. Also, what is the difference between a "fake" SVG and a "real" SVG. Lastly, I can not believe that I have been deceived by that lie. Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 00:48, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Look. I am sorry for raising my tone like that. When things go wrong, I often try not to overreact, but this is just one of those examples that could have made me be blocked even though it was not really my fault, and my response is making accusations of lying (such as this discussion). Perhaps, the reason to call the picture fake is because of the apparent licensing problems. Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 01:09, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Hello, Gff365

The problem is far simpler than what you think.

Judging by what you yourself wrote in the image description page, you correctly identified the image as licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0. Only what you don't know is that this license, unlike most other Creative Commons licenses, is non-free. (If only you had thought for a second: How can one license be free when it forbids commercial use? You also didn't pay enough attention to the fact that Commons does not have a PD-BY-NC license tag.)

As for a fake SVG, it is an SVG file that contains only and only a raster image. SVGs are supposed to be mostly vector images.

Best regards,

Codename Lisa (talk) 15:03, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

As soon as I have looked at "Noncommercial", I suddenly realized that I have made a mistake—a mistake that could have made me be blocked even though the copyright violation was innocent. Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 15:54, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

No one blocks you for one mistake. —Codename Lisa (talk) 10:30, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

I also was not told any of this on Commons Wikimedia when I should have; instead, I just received an ambiguous license notice. Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 15:56, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Actually, there are ample warnings and tutorials. That's how I learned. Even the upload tool provides some illustrated graphics. —Codename Lisa (talk) 10:30, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

And is it possible to convert raster images into vector images? Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 15:59, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

It is. But it is difficult. It is called image tracing. —Codename Lisa (talk) 10:30, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

I used to think that all SVG files used vector images. Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 16:07, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Almost all of those uploaded to Commons do. SVG is created for vector graphics after all. —Codename Lisa (talk) 10:30, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

Lastly, where does it say that SVG files must use vector graphics? Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 16:12, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

It is so obvious that no one ever thought of writing it down. Why would anyone use SVG if it is not for its scalability anyway? —Codename Lisa (talk) 10:30, 13 July 2016 (UTC)

There should be a bot that reads files for "Creative Commons" and "Noncommercial" or "Non-commercial" and warns users that their files are poorly licensed. I am requesting that now. Gamingforfun³⁶⁵ (talk) 18:58, 12 July 2016 (UTC)

Title capitalization has gone too far!

Hello, everyone

It appears Joshua Issac, Born2bgratis and Lonaowna are in a dispute as to how to spell the name of the subject of the article. The forth and back changes have been extremely careless and indiscriminate, changing the spelling in quotations and source titles as well. Furthermore, the articles cited in defense of the action done do not fully endorse them.

I think enough is enough. We need to talk before we proceed any further.

For the sake of completeness, I am including my own assessments:

1. The lastest (and as of this writing, current) official spelling is "paint.net". What does this mean for us? It means after studying our policies and guidelines on how to spell, we apply our findings to "paint.net", not to anything else. As a result, what we write must be either (1) "paint.net" itself or (2) an alteration of "paint.net". It cannot be an alteration of "Paint.NET".
2. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Trademarks states:

• Capitalize trademarks, being proper names. For details, follow the same style as for titles of published works (See Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters § Composition titles.)
  • avoid: nintendo
  • instead, use: Nintendo
• With the exception that immediately follows, trademarks promoted without any capitals are capitalized like any other:
  • avoid: I found a thirtysomething DVD and a pair of adidas shoes while browsing craigslist.
  • instead, use: I found a Thirtysomething DVD and a pair of Adidas shoes while browsing Craigslist.
• The exception is trademarks that begin with a one-letter lowercase prefix pronounced as a separate letter. These are often not capitalized if the second letter is capitalized, but should otherwise follow normal capitalization rules:
  • avoid: He said that EBay is where he bought his IPod.
  • instead, use: He said that eBay is where he bought his iPod.

I hope all three of you can make a valid decision based of these.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 12:43, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I should have been clearer with my latest edit, but what I meant to refer to is to the first point in the list. Capitalize trademarks, being proper names.. So I think that it should be either "Paint.NET" or "Paint.net". I do not have a preference for either one, as long as it starts with a capital letter.

Also, this is incorrect, as https://www.getpaint.net/ has the "Paint.NET" stylization everywhere in the text. img

Lonaowna (talk) 13:16, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

Oh and I'm very curious what source you have for "The lastest (and as of this writing, current) official spelling is "paint.net"." Lonaowna (talk) 13:35, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

@Lonaowna: The app itself. Even software developers sometimes write the wrong name in the websites. (Remember the "Autumn Creators Update" fiasco?) You'd think fiascos like this mustn't happen, because ... "horse's own mouth"! But they do. Software last much longer than web pages. —Codename Lisa (talk) 13:47, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

I wouldn't call the app itself a good verifiable source. For instance I can't check it right now as I don't have access to a Windows computer. But even if the app uses that capitalization, it doesn't invalidate the "stylized as Paint.NET" claim. It is sometimes stylized as the one, and sometimes as the other. For instance in this blog post of a few days ago, they use the one in the title and the other in the text. Saying Definitely not stylized as "Paint.NET" is just not true. Lonaowna (talk) 14:24, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

"I wouldn't call the app itself a good verifiable source."

I suspect you just said that to provoke me to grossly insult you for your intelligence. I am not going to do that. However, I have little regard for he who writes an article and disregard the subject's one and most visible feature of identification. If you don't want to include, in good faith, the one feature with which the subject of the article is identified, then you clearly are not here to write an encyclopedia.

Be that as it may, your dispute is with Joshua Issac and Born2bgratis, not me. Feel free to establish a consensus and write whatever you want! All I demanded was that you three stop your ruinous blind blanket find & replace operations. (Wow! Disregard for the accurate identification of subject and disruptive editing aren't really a good mix.)

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 11:11, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

That is not what I meant. It is exactly what I said: I can't verify that.

But I already clearly gave my opinions. It seems that both of you prefer "paint.net" and even though I don't agree with that and think that it decreases the readabilty of the article, I don't think it is an important enough issue to keep arguing about.

So go ahead and "blanket find & replace" it to that. (please note for the record that I have carefully kept all references intact in my original edit) I won't be editing this page any more. Lonaowna (talk) 11:49, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

There doesn’t need to be, IMNSHO, a debate over how to spell this. The developer himself has decided the correct capitalization. This is not up for us to decide as editors. Is there in Wikipedia a dispute over how to capitalize “macOS” after Apple has made that call? I don’t get why is this controversial. ―Born2bgratis (talk) 18:17, 5 October 2017 (UTC)

We don't have to blindly follow the developer (in this case the developer isn't even consistent), but try to follow the Manual of Style. The "paint.net" capitalisation makes the text hard to read, especially when it is used at the start of a sentence. I agree that macOS also doesn't follow the guideline, and I would mind changing it to "MacOS", but I consider it less problematic as the developer consistently uses that capitalisation and it is a short name without things such as Paint.net's period, which decreases readability even more.

So in short: it "paint.net" decreases readability and it isn't clearly the developer's preferred capitalisation.

If you can point me to an authoritative source (e.g. the developer) which states that they prefer the lower-case capitalisation I'll give up, as I don't want to argue this endlessly. (please don't point to the official website as that uses everything interchangeably) Lonaowna (talk) 00:45, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Lonaowna is spot on in that we do not blindly follow whatever the developer uses. We have an official policy for this:

Article titles follow standard English text formatting in the case of trademarks, unless the trademarked spelling is demonstrably the most common usage in sources independent of the owner of the trademark. (Wikipedia:Article titles#Standard English and trademarks; emphasis mine)

Regardless of how the developer spells it (a mix of "paint.net" and "Paint.NET"), all the other sources in the article use the Paint.NET spelling (the link text currently in the article for these sources use the 'paint.net' formatting, but this is misleading because actually clicking the link will reveal that the spelling used in indeed Paint.NET). This is the most common usage in sources independent of the subject. --Joshua Issac (talk) 11:42, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

@Joshua Issac: Hi. You might want to see WP:NAMECHANGES too. Specifically:

Sometimes, the subject of an article will undergo a change of name. When this occurs, we give extra weight to sources written after the name change is announced.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 11:57, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Which independent sources are there that call it paint.net'? Searching on Google, all the independent reliable sources, old and new, use the Paint.NET style. --Joshua Issac (talk) 08:36, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

It is a style matter, not a verifiability matter. Also a sidenote: Wikipedia policy forbids reliance on independent sources. Per our WP:NPOV, all significant point of views on a subject matter must be covered, not just independent onces.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 12:05, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

The policy I cited above explicitly requires reliance on independent sources. This is why we have iPod Touch rather than iPod touch, for example. Even the self-published source, the getpaint.net website, uses Paint.NET five times and paint.net just twice (the logo and the download link) on its home page. And except for a handful of references, even the official website uses Paint.NET far more often than paint.net. According to Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Due and undue_weight, the prominence of a view represented should reflect its proportion in reliable sources. So the prominence given to paint.net should reflect its representation across reliable sources, and the the sources (including the official website) happen to use Paint.NET far more often than the lowercase style. --Joshua Issac (talk) 21:04, 12 October 2017 (UTC)

There is a rule of thumb in Wikipedia: A discussion breaks down the moment your disputing party feels you are using deceit or are deliberately ignoring him/her —Codename Lisa (talk) 15:21, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

Which parts of my responses are you saying are deceitful and ignorant? --Joshua Issac (talk) 13:46, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Pinging RHaworth (talk · contribs), who originally moved the page from Paint.NET to paint.net. --Joshua Issac (talk) 11:49, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Yes, of course .net should be in lower case. How is it in the logo we use in the article? Which is copied from this page on their website. But if you want to play at moving it back and forth, I shall take no further action. — RHaworth (talk · contribs) 12:42, 6 October 2017 (UTC)

Almost every other instance on their website uses Paint.NET, and as far as I could see, all independent reliable sources uses the same spelling without exception. So according to our policy on article titles, that is the spelling we should use. --Joshua Issac (talk) 08:36, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Direction from Rick Brewster is: Use Paint.NET when referring to version 3.5.11 or before. Starting with version 4.0, use paint.net (all lower case) unless it starts a sentence in which case capitalize the P. BoltBait (talk) 19:47, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

In an email from Rick Brewster: I've settled on using "Paint.NET", except for stylistic purposes -- mostly in the UI, like for the logo and title bars and such. I eventually decided that it just doesn't make sense to start a sentence with a lowercase, for instance. I may need to go through the UI again at some point to make sure things are capitalized properly. "Paint.NET" is registered ® BoltBait (talk) 19:03, 23 February 2018 (UTC)

• Hello.

Let's assume I believe what you said without questioning the truth of it. Still, we don't work for Rick Brewster. We have our own manual of style.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 20:28, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

• Hello again.

In Wikipedia, it is considered very bad form to completely alter your previously posted message that have received a reply. In this case, your edit changes your message's meaning to that of its opposite, making me look like a fool or bad person. Civility is one of the top-tier policies of Wikipedia and honesty is part of it. Attempts such as this are easily regarded as dishonest. Please study Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines § Editing own comments and abide by it.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk)

Sorry, I meant no disrespect. After I posted my original message, I thought the information was pretty old, so I sent him a new PM asking about his updated policy. When he responded to me I edited my message to reflect his current desires. Since your response still fit, I didn't think it would be a problem. BoltBait (talk) 04:29, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Thanks for the clarification. And no, my response does not fit anymore. (Sure, in a brutish way, my response is still technically correct, but "technically correct" and "rudeness" are not mutually exclusive.) Your update has opened another avenue for investigation according to MOS. Unfortunately, I myself have a bigger fish to fry right now.

Best regards,
Codename Lisa (talk) 11:15, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Size information

Hello,

I was wondering if the size in the infobox relates to the installation size, or the size of the installer? Wagnerp16 (talk) 09:53, 11 January 2023 (UTC)