anyway-- if all that, i've figured anything of accurate knowledge-- i wonder if there is a Q-lib / widget / something which might take the place of the "Paint" plugin we've known for many XnView versions, past few years? I suppose it would only make sense that the answer must be "yes"-- unless the language is rather universal when it comes to such challenges-- allowing, for example, the use of the current solution, the "Paint" plugin.
XnView "Paint" (1.9x) vs other options:
reason i ask-- and this is just between you and I, okay-- so don't go blabbering gossip around the water-cooler-- hehe
but-- i sometimes use another, similar, albeit-- definitely less-well-rounded (less-valuabe app overall, if i had to choose), for the task of annotating screen-captures, for the results of the latter, i'm afriad, are quite beautiful and rather more robust in that department overall, while the former, to be fair and honest, i must re-evaluate my satisfaction with the 'Paint' plugin from “Wow! this is much better than the previous XnView, "insert text" option!”, when i first discovered "Paint" in newer versions of XnView-- to be now, somewhat shadowed by this other, as to consider "Paint" plugin less "wow!", and more useful, effective utility-- [which i still use on occasion, btw!] which-- i regret, but to be only honest-- can not produce the quality of shapes and text, with the flexibility of the latter, which allows for the illusion depth (ie. quality drop shadows applied to shapes, text w/ or w/out b/g, plus-- some sort of layered blending [so-called "highlighter" shape] -- probably simply "Overlay"-mode color blending), plus tweaks of those tweaks, and yet however minor these may appear on paper, seem as major improvements to such imaging tasks-- all without opening a hard-core editor, 3-min-load-'obe, etc. commentary...
I beg your pardon, because i know-- perhaps that's the goal. it isn't supposed to be some grand editing component, but effective for some text, arrows, shapes, and lines-- a general, quick notation utility for sketching ideas onto a screen capture (for example), and for that-- it does very well, and i appreciate utilitarian features (for I've developed many a web-app which has zero in the way of so-called web 2-point-oh UI niceties). In fact, for many months near its first availability-- i used the "Paint" plugin quite a lot-- until i fell into finding this other thing.
more commentary...
Not unlike xnview, it too is publicly available (not open-source) for a no-cost/ no-commercial (good faith) policy, where the app is fully functional. Also likewise [assuming this is still true of XnView], they too offer other imaging products as shareware (typical 30-day trial period, whereafter the user must become licensed, for a nominal fee). One assumes that-- to offer some shareware, or "Pro" versions-- such gracious developers / software companies can get away with so much benevolence in offering a "free" product (like we appreciate, know, and love from XnView) -- where, i suppose we blame kindness, for those offering the absolutely great software in exchange for mere praise, user-affinity and a lifetime of loyalty, (as well as, probably, the challenge to develop a great app!).
Waaayy-off-track here [oops!]
I can't say I have a sense of belonging to "a community family" (the sort we have here at newsgroup.xnview.com), when I think of using, and supporting this newer mention, yet-- I do feel a sense of good will; was fast to consider offering my loyalty to that stone.
It is most easy to be in good conscience as I extend my loyalty here at XnView. As I alluded above-- even though I don't participate often-- i do visit, and keep abreast of news, such that I sense the family existing amongst the users-- even the admins here too are a part of it. From my first participating, or simply reading what others have to say in the XnView community, it was easy to "get-on-board" with everyone. This brings me to speak of a third lightweight, multi-purpose image app, which also offers a variation of a "Paint" plugin.
Regarding “Old Bob”
Ugh! that Other-- the 3rd-mention. So, it is 'similarly-priced', and the loyalists of that camp probably tout it as well-known, or the senior contender of freeware imaging soft: (never mind its horribly goofy, 8bit, 30 page app-icon [complete with whacky, unrelated icon-pages, including what might be a busty woman's torso (or a Freudian slip!) . it's decent, it may be 'slim', maybe a bit faster to launch on the ol' IBM 386, and maybe I even have it installed here-- but, there is one more important difference: i feel very little-- rather-- really no encouragement whatsoever, to extend any loyalty there [not to mention, the camp seems lacking in social skill; the dev't, fair-play attitude could benefit from improving-- that is, to coin an old cliche: "if [he] can't say something good about SomexOneview... then he should say nothing at all!"]).
Oh-- I'm way--off-track! THe third-- also employs a paint plugin, but thankfully, we have XnView instead, because that sailor has missed the boat, i believe. Thing is-- it may even boast more options than XnView's current paint plugin (ie. 1.9x, as i haven't seen anything in MP-- yet ::nudge:: ::nudge::), but in the time i've taken to render anything worthy of saving, using their Paint plugin, my time would have in fact been better served, had i launched a full-blown editor for the job-- which is a very precise MISunderstanding, i think, of the purpose for such features being available in a multi-format browser, like XnView and company.
SUMMARY
In summary-- off track, and back, sorry-- what i mean to say, to wish-list if you will: I'm hoping to see the Paint component in XnView MP-- that is, i'm excited to see what XnView MP will offer us in the way of a lightweight annotation plugin, to provide capabilities of inserting text, shapes, etc. For me, if XnView MP must choose between a very slim "paint" option, vs something more robust-- at the sake of a few kilobytes-- please consider offering something that's just a little bit more capable than XnV 1.9x "Paint"-- primarily, if the text capabilities of such an editor can improve-- such that we can create the CR / LF / CRLF pair (platform depending) required for line breaks in annotations-- i'll be just as happy as a rooster in the hen house!
thanks! sorry so much text. best wishes.
(ps. i apologize if the reader finds anything offensive in my commentary. i meant only to do my best at clarifying the context [ i.e. to "get where i'm coming from"])
Pierre
Hello !
If you don't improve the current one which comes with the Win version, 
KR