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Pinta 3.0 Beta Released with New GTK4/Libadwaita UI

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 29, 2025,
updated Jan 29, 2025

Quoting: Pinta 3.0 Beta Released with New GTK4/Libadwaita UI - OMG! Ubuntu —

The most impactful change in Pinta 3.0 is the most obvious one: it’s revamped UI.

Newly ported to GTK4 and libadwaita, Pinta 3.0 swaps a traditional window frame and text-based menu bar for a button-based header bar.

Long-time users may might themselves taking a bit of time to adjust to the new layout, but it’s logically ordered and, from a poke around, doesn’t appear to have lost any options in the switch – though some new ones have been added (more in a mo’).

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