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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. Re:Huh? by telstar · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Developers aim at making Krita a user-friendly image manipulation program where users with no computer experience or slim experience...

    Are these people running Linux?"
    • Which came first ... the chicken or the egg?

  2. The Ugly Duality by GroundBounce · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From the web page regarding "Why another paint program":

    "This program will integrate with KDE better than GIMP does."

    Great. Half of my applications integrate with KDE, and half integrate GNOME. (Actually, a few integrate with nothing).

    I've had to explain this to my Windows-using friends who I am trying to convince to use Linux, and not surprisingly they answer "Well, why not just use Windows, where everything integrates with everything else?". They don't buy the idealistic "more choice" argument when more choice means less functionality.