Tux Paint 0.9.17

Tux Paint is a free drawing program designed for young children (kids ages 3 and up).
It has a simple, easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who helps guide children as they use the program.
Tux Paint provides a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help your child be creative. Additional artwork ("stamps") can be downloaded and installed, providing a sticker-book functionality.
Tux Paint has been translated into over 45 languages, and a graphical configuration tool for parents and teachers is available which allows Tux Paint to be reconfigured to suit the special needs of children or the classroom environment.
Main features:
- A small number of useful tools are available. (See below.)
- The drawing canvas is a fixed size, so the user doesn’t need to worry about “pixels” or “inches” when making a new picture.
- The entire program fits in 640Å~480, and can be displayed full-screen, to hide the computer’s underlying “desktop” interface. (It can also be run in 800Å~600 mode, as well.)
- Loading and saving of images is done using thumbnails, so no knowledge of the underlying operating system’s filesystem structure is needed. Even filenames are unnecessary.
- Fun sound effects are played when tools are selected and used.
- A cartoon version of Tux, the Linux penguin, appears at the bottom to give tips, hints and information.
- Run Tux Paint in full-screen mode, or have it “grab” the mouse pointer, to prevent children from accidentally accessing other programs or files on the desktop.
- Sound effects can be disabled.
- The Print and Quit options can be disabled.
- Alternatively, the Print option can be limited to allow only one print every n minutes.
- Tux Paint cannot be launched more than once every 30 seconds, to prevent multiple copies from being run accidentally, due to over-eager mouse clicking.
- The directory/folder where Tux Paint saves files may be changed. This can be used to save pictures in a student’s home directory on a network drive or shared drive, rather than locally on one particular workstation.
- Stamps and brushes are stored using standard formats (PNG, WAV, text), allowing parents and teachers to create their own content for use at home or in classes.
- The “Tux Paint Config.” program allows parents, teachers, and school technicians to alter Tux Paint’s behaviour using a simple, easy-to-use graphical interface. (It’s separate from Tux Paint to prevent children from changing things.).
Enhancements:
- New magic tools: Smudge, Tint, Darken, Cartoon, Bricks, Grass.
- Text tool UI improvements.
- Color palette updates.
- Stamp tool updates: different tinting modes, scaling improvements, better scaling UI.
- Better startup time and memory usage.
- Many bugfixes & packaging/porting updates.
- New translations: Albanian, Estonian, Gaelic, Galician, Gronings, Kinyarwanda, Mex. Spanish, Swahili, Thai and Urkanian.