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by Boudewijn Rempt on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @12:56

It's excellent of course! The proverbial bee's knees, the cat's nip, the ewe's lamb, when bought in the shop it would cost you a fortune, but we can offer you a download for the incredible price, and it's cuttin' me own throat, guv', the incredible price of, listen carefully and don't faint, zero gold dubloons. Get yer fresh software here, get yer fresh software here! Fresh and free! Free and fresh!

Er... Sorry, got a little carried away there. Won't happen again! Promise.

Krita is a young application (it may have been started six or so years ago, but that doesn't mean it's been in continuous development for all that time) and you will certainly find it lacking in features compared to Photoshop. But I think we've got KPaint licked, here, and there are compelling reasons to use it over and above XPaint. And since svn was branched, we've started adding new stuff again, so it can only get better.

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by Gerd on Tuesday 21/Jun/2005, @13:04

Kolourpaint was the first usuable program. Krita now is usable too and I expect it now to grow very fast.

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by A.C. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @07:56

Hello Boudewijn,

Great work on Krita! Looks like you guys did an AMAZING job with it. At this rate, we will at last have a professional-grade painting program on Linux in but a few releases!

I had a small question though -- couldn't find anything about it on the site: Does Krita support Kipi plugins? Will it? SHOULD it?

Thanks again for you excellent work!

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by Boudewijn on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @09:21

No, we don't support Kipi, at the moment at least. Kipi didn't seem terribily relevant as the plugins are mostly concerned with organizing images and take 8-bit rgb QImages as their choice of image format. I'd be very much interesting in integration with Digikam -- e.g., using Digikam as the organizer and Krita as the image editor with full sharing of plugins. But since Gilles and Renchi are developing their own image editor (working on 16bits, too, I have heard) that seems unlikely. And while I have started working on a Krita plugin that loads all digikam plugins, I'm afraid that that would be a dead end -- again, because Krita supports a potentially infinite variety of image formats, and the digikam plugins presuppose 8-bit rgba.

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by A.C. on Wednesday 22/Jun/2005, @10:26

Okay, I suspected something like this. Anyway, thank you for the clear answer, and thank you again for all the good work!

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