It’s about keeping it simple: black and white only, which of course are RGB(0,0,0) and RGB(255,255,255). If you want to use colours, you need a colour selector which is unnecessary fluff at this point. Obviously it’ll be a critical element fairly soon, but right at the start of the project it’s (arguably of course) less important than the application structure and just getting an MVP together. If you want to do colours before you do File-Open and File-Save that’s a valid choice.
There are a few basic things you need to sort out first. Keep it as simple as possible so start monochrome, and just add functionality to draw dots on a canvas. You’ll need file handling capability almost immediately so figure out a way to (de-)serialise the information to recreate the artwork to read and write it to a file.
That’ll keep you going for a few weeks, unless you’re vibing it in which case months by which point you might have had other ideas of features to add, assuming you already know how to write GUI applications.
What kind of drawing? Art or technical?
Not for me (4GB Pi5). I watch a lot of full screen video and Firefox just can’t handle it at all even if it’s the only application running and with only one tab. I tried all the “fixes”. In the end I gave up, tried a few, and settled on Brave, which still gets a bit confused coming out of full screen which “F11 F11 restart” fixes.
I’m still looking forward to the day when I no longer have to execute a child every time I want to do literally anything on Linux.
I usually drink coffee so the water goes in before the teabag, although to be fair the teabag never goes in.
What a shame. Used to be such a great place. And to be fair some of the wider StackExchange communities still are (the PowerShell crowd stick out in my memory as being a friendly bunch).
But people need a place to be able to answer their dumb questions and have someone be kind to them. SO’s insistence on being the primary repository of useful knowledge and having that principle take priority over user experience is what killed it. I tried suggesting they implemented a 2-tier question/answer system, where “quality” questions got promoted to the repository and the rest didn’t get indexed, but it got marked as a duplicate of something it wasn’t a duplicate of, so that was the end of that.
What StackOverflow also fails to understand is that as technology moves on, the “right” answer changes. So an answer that got 20 billion upvotes in 2003 could well be completely useless by now (heck, you don’t even have to go back that far).