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Krita 1.6 — State of the Art

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the headed-in-the-right-direction-anyway dept.

brendan0powers writes to tell us Linux.com is reporting that while Krita 1.6 may have been released with the rest of the KOffice suite this week it is anything but a run-of-the-mill piece of productivity software. Krita is a 'fully-loaded raster graphics workhorse' definitely capable of standing up to most anything else available. Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by OSTG.

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  1. Re:How the heck do I load a jpg? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well at work, I am force to use fedora, and I also wanted to use krita, and I also couldn't find how to save or load png/tiff/jpeg (and I am a krita developers !), the simple answers is that they have hidden the filters in koffice-filters (an optional dependency, how can you consider jpeg/png/tiff to be optional ?), but sadly koffice-filters depends on other koffice application, so if you wanted krita only, you are screwed :)

    And as a longtime KDE user and contributor, I strongly suggest you to avoid Fedora if you want a good experience with KDE.
    -- Cyrille Berger

  2. Re:Why is being KDE important? by pherthyl · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Does it achieve a goal that couldn't have been achieved within the GIMP codebase with less effort?

    Perhaps, perhaps not. In any case, Krita is surpassing the Gimp in some areas that people have been complaining about for years in Gimp, and nothing was done. As a developer, what would you rather do, argue on the Gimp mailing list until your face turns blue about wanting to change the interface, or just start your own project? Sometimes you have to make a clean break to get new ideas implemented.