xonen's Journal: Why Paint.net sux

What started as a nice project a few years ago, has now become a pain.inthewherethesundontshine. The sheer arrogance of the developers combined with the fact that it is closed source, proves once again why open source is so important and here to stay.
    I'm ready to believe the developer had, and has, best intends. I'm also ready to accept his time is limited and that he can not comply to every wish by every user.
    Why the hassle you'll ask. Well, after - finally - being the proud owner of a pen tablet, you know, not those i/pat thingies, but the tablets you can use to draw, as digital pencil, i was happily playing with it using the various software i already posses. The Gimp, of course. Does excellent job but my second monitor broke down, so screen layout is a bit messy and intrusive. Paint.net then, the 'friendly light-weight but flexible editor'. Guess what, my pen wasn't working as intended. It was simulating a mouse, no more, no less and no sign of pressure sensivity. A quick google made me think i missed an option somewhere, as paint.net is actually recommended for tablet use. A consequent google learned the answer: pressure sensivity was removed (!) in 3.5. Without any reason in particular, it was just removed.
    Before barking at the forum, i figured to see what others already have barked against that tree, and indeed, i'm not alone. One wants to create a petition to get tablet support back in, the other asks for an older version please (any 3.5 has support for tablets, and are about as feature rich). The developer simply states it 'disappeared, won't come back, except maybe in the form of a plugin'.
So, summorizing facts:
* The support was removed in a mature version. 3 major version points have supported it, 3.5 and up no longer (will) support it.
* There are (intentionally) no older versions available (via the official channel)
* People that complain about this issue are accused of ranting, and told to (summarized) stfu
* There is currently no plugin for it
* Forum threads regarding the issue are closed.
* The installer will remove any existing installation of paint.net so there is no option to run or install 2 distinct versions simultaniously.

My conclusion is: 1. The development team is: A. Retarded. B. Arrogant C. shortsighted D. not interested in supporting other input devices E. not seriously interested into graphics at all. F. ignoring a large % of their user base. G. Giving Freeware a bad reputation.

This post is dedicated to the poor fellows before me already accused of ranting because of this very issue. I'm happy to waste a few more bytes to add another rant.

Keep up the good work. Vive La Gimp. Vive open source. Vive Liberte.