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[Guillaume]

I've used Acorn in the past, but 49$ is a lot- especially considering the fact that Pixelmator, which I find superior, is only 10$ more.

[philnelson]

Pixelmator is totally an option as well. I prefer Acorn because it feels a bit more solid and precise to me, but there's nothing really wrong with Pixelmator.

[krasimir]

1 word, photoshop.

Ditto 

[jotapeh]

Pixen is open source. What it needs is somebody to take over development.

If someone knows Cocoa, this would make me happier than most other things.

it's always weird when you build a project from svn trunk and you get a prompt saying a update is available   

Yeah, wth? I got the same thing when I compiled from trunk this AM. Poked at the source a bit and got it to compile on Snow Leopard (with 112 warnings... sloppy code much??) but it crashed shortly after. 

The Pixen source is just enormous too, I think if anyone wanted to fix it they'd have to talk to the original creators to at least get a sense of where the heck to START. At least I would. Not to mention there is no mention of any type of license anywhere, so even if you spent hours/days/months fixing it who knows what the legality of it all would be..

[slembcke]

I seem to remember looking at the code once and being surprised that there was so much too.

[vorpaldinger]

I've been using acorn a lot lately.
http://www.flyingmeat.com/acorn/

Much better tablet response than ps.

I tried to use pixen for a while, but it crashed constantly and I could never really settle into it. Acorn is a good halfway point between pixen and photoshop.

[jotapeh]

For giggles I'm going to take a swing at coding something up in Cocoa. It won't have the feature spread that Pixen did, but it WILL be stable.

I'll happily open-source it if there's interest.

[Guillaume]

I'll happily open-source it if there's interest.

That's the wrong way to go; usually open sourcing it will garner interest.