"Then it seems to work for me."
Great

"The minimum height is still way too tall for a netbook. Sad I think it's just they way the arranged the widgets. "

Not too bad on an 10" Aspire One

"The view, image, and color menus are empty for me. Did the work for you?"

There should be no dropdown menus for those.
Those are features that are not supported yet.
Only File, Edit, & Help should have dropdowns.

I opened the .ui file in glade3, then deleted the menu bar
and added a vbox in its place. The menubar/menus are created on startup in the vbox. Fixed a couple of other things too.

edit: For new version 0.3

@jemimah I have a patch for using gnome-paint with gtk2 >= 2.14 (2.14.7 I tested on). Can you test it? diff -uNr gnome-paint-0.3/data/ui/gnome_paint.ui gnome-paint-0.3p/data/ui/gnome_paint.ui --- gnome-paint-0.3/data/ui/gnome_paint.ui 2010-05-30 11:42:06.000000000 -0500 +++ gnome-paint-0.3p/data/ui/...

"I didn't mess with it further because the window was not resizable, making it useless for netbooks." Was there no resizing grip or statusbar? "It might be worth a second look though if someone wants to fix it." According to http://www.mail-archive.com/gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.or...

@jemimah

What version of Gtk2 does puppy use?
Maybe gnome-paint can be modified.