Tux Paint

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Tux Paint on the OLPC XO
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Tux Paint

Tux Paint is a drawing app for tiny kids. Most 3-year-old kids and many 2-year-old kids are able to use it, yet 10-year-old kids (and kid-like adults) enjoy it too. Tux Paint features Tux the penguin, like Clippy but not so annoying. Tux Paint uses stereo sound according to where the mouse pointer is. Tux Paint is translated into about 70 different languages, including big-alphabet and right-to-left ones.

Port situation

This effort is basically dead because Sugar requires the use of undocumented non-standard interfaces. The author would appreciate being informed if the situation ever changes.

Security needs

Tux Paint wants to print, scan /usr/share/fonts, and cooperate with a separate clip-art package.