Zoom7000 Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Just a bit of fun for a Saturday morning, but I was just wondering what prompted the name design from the mixture of upper and lower case, to the all lower case. Perhaps Rick can shed some light. Put a poll in for fun. Personally, I prefer Paint.NET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixey Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Hello @Zoom - FYI .... have you read the rules? See them here and especially rule #21 Having said that ....... I too like Paint.NET as well Quote How I made Jennifer & Halle in Paint.net My Gallery | My Deviant Art "Rescuing one animal may not change the world, but for that animal their world is changed forever!" anon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAND33P Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 Im leaning more towards it all being one case, so lowercase, its just a nice bit of consistency Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ego Eram Reputo Posted May 10, 2014 Share Posted May 10, 2014 I was going to remove this poll, but decided to let it run. Capitalization can be a problem in different situations. Consider starting a sentence with 'paint.net'. It just looks wrong. So you whack on a capital p. Now you have 'Paint.net'. That looks better. Except that its not now all lower case. Does paint.net = Paint.net or not? I personally think 'Paint.NET' covers all situations nicely. It's what I tend to use. 1 Quote ebook: Mastering Paint.NET | resources: Plugin Index | Stereogram Tut | proud supporter of Codelab plugins: EER's Plugin Pack | Planetoid | StickMan | WhichSymbol+ | Dr Scott's Markup Renderer | CSV Filetype | dwarf horde plugins: Plugin Browser | ShapeMaker Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goonfella Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 Paint.Net for me. Looks much nicer. Quote Please feel free to visit my Gallery on PDNFans And my Alternatives to PDN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc4FuzzyHuggles Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 At one point, I read a thread here on these forums where someone (I think Rick himself) said the official name is Paint.NET because the program is developed on the .NET Framework. For your curiosity, you might find the Wikipedia page about paint.net interesting : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paint.NET 1 Quote *~ Cc4FuzzyHuggles Gallery ~* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoom7000 Posted May 13, 2014 Author Share Posted May 13, 2014 Hello @Zoom - FYI .... have you read the rules? See them here and especially rule #21 Having said that ....... I too like Paint.NET as well I was going to remove this poll, but decided to let it run. Capitalization can be a problem in different situations. Consider starting a sentence with 'paint.net'. It just looks wrong. So you whack on a capital p. Now you have 'Paint.net'. That looks better. Except that its not now all lower case. Does paint.net = Paint.net or not? I personally think 'Paint.NET' covers all situations nicely. It's what I tend to use. Apologies for the rule break, but I guess the poll has turned out to be quite useful as it is clear the preference (so far) is for Paint.NET - Hopefully Rick will take note and consider keeping version 4 and upwards as Paint.NET Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cc4FuzzyHuggles Posted May 13, 2014 Share Posted May 13, 2014 Seeing how the caps of Paint.NET actually have a point and meaning behind them (.NET Framework), I'm sure it will stay as is. Not to mention, where I heard about the official name it was on a topic exactly about a naming question for new versions of the software to have .net vs keeping .NET, and that's when someone answered stating the official name and why it's name is what it is. Sorry I can't find and quote it, I read it when I was surfing through paint.net's forums/blog a while ago. Quote *~ Cc4FuzzyHuggles Gallery ~* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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