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Krita/KOffice Preview Version and Video Available

Posted by michael on from the smiley-face dept.

xiando writes "Developers aim at making Krita a user-friendly image manipulation program where users with no computer experience or slim experience with other light-duty image programs like Paint Shop Pro should feel right at home. LinuxReviews has a 5.5 MB preview video by developer Bart Coppens available, showing how the app looks and feels. Check it out or download the source preview packages by Daniel Molkentin to try it yourself. Developers hope to make Krita a part of the KDE office suite KOffice 1.4, scheduled spring 2005."

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  1. Krita Fun Facts by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Krita" means 'chalk' or 'crayon' in Swedish. "rita" means 'to draw'.

    IKN.

    1. Re:Krita Fun Facts by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Informative
      Why wouldn't it? Other fun facts: konsole means "console" in German. Many of the "k" words are either German spelling or stand for KDE - kate is "KDE Advanced Text Editor".

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    2. Re:Krita Fun Facts by falonaj · · Score: 2, Informative
      K stands for Kool as in Kool Desktop Env.
      You are both right - or both wrong. The "K" in KDE used to stand for "Kool", but now it only means "K".
  2. Screenshots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    here.

  3. Coral link by g-to-the-o-to-the-g · · Score: 4, Informative

    I managed to coralize the first video just before the server went bye-bye: here

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  4. Re:Looks Interesting by Illissius · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try the GTK-Qt Theme Engine; with it, widgets in the GIMP (and GTK apps in general) look exactly the same as widgets in any other Qt app ;).

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  5. Kai's Photo Soap by nuxx · · Score: 5, Informative

    If they want to make it easy, they are going to need to do something like what was done in Kai's PhotoSoap. This is the *only* image editing app (besides iPhoto) that I've seen computer novices be able to figure out. The tools were simple, made sense, and the UI was great. And it worked well, too.

  6. Re:Much needed IMHO: GIMP for digital photographer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    Luckily, Digikam performs all of these functions except for the last one. Try it! You might like it:

    http://digikam.sf.net

  7. Re:Much needed IMHO: GIMP for digital photographer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    ...in CVS. 0.7.0 isn't out yet. Those who follow your links are bound to be disappointed if they don't know this.

  8. Re:I always liked... by tyrione · · Score: 2, Informative

    The day Apple uses Qt for an Office setup will be the day OS X is dead.

    Either people are dense or just too damn lazy to learn Cocoa/Objective-C or they just don't understand the direction Apple intends for its Operating System and Applications--100% Cocoa.

    It's taken too damn long and like myself many former NeXT/Apple employees got tired of waiting for this transition but it is beginning to be exactly what Steve assured us during the merger between NeXT and Apple.

    Apple didn't develop Xcode so folks could have a really cool C++ IDE. They developed it so that people could easily use several existing languages available in Cocoa but discover that the most useful language is ObjC.

  9. Re:Much needed IMHO: GIMP for digital photographer by printman · · Score: 2, Informative

    My flPhoto application does all but the last (it does support local printing, of course), available at:

    http://www.easysw.com/~mike/flPhoto/
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  10. Re:Looks Interesting by Illissius · · Score: 2, Informative

    I doubt it. All this does is make GTK widgets look like Qt widgets; as I understand it, it draws GTK things by first getting Qt to draw the same thing offscreen, and then copying it to where the GTK thing is. Works damn well, though.

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  11. Re:Techn-Babelfish Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well... This particular announcement didn't come from me, Krita's maintainer. I was rather surprised to read that this is what I want to do. I thought I was working on a rock-solid paint app that provides enough flexibility to extend with natural media tools, a bit like Corel Painter (not photopainter, the art app), but done right.

    Boudewijn Rempt

  12. Re:Good grief by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I must fess up that our CMYK module is so buggy as to be unusable in this release. But the will is there, and there's nothing in Krita's core that's 8-bit rgba dependent.

    Boudewijn Rempt, Krita maintainer

  13. Re:also... vector based? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Sure, there's Krita's sister application, Karbon. Not as actively developed, though, so could use some attention & patches.

    Boudewijn, Krita maintainer

  14. Re:also... vector based? by tyrione · · Score: 2, Informative

    Inkscape. It's farther along than Sodipodi.

    http://www.inkscape.org