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Krita 1.6 — State of the Art
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.
Hi, I'm just a GIMP fan; Krita has cool features, so I have some random questions on how Krita is progressing. (Obligatory disclaimer: Not intended as a troll or anything. I'm just clueless.)
1) Has the UI been fixed? The use of MDI made it difficult as hell to use - X11 has application window groups and virtual desktops for a reason, you know. Can the palettes etc. be docked in separate windows? In 1.5 the stuff can be undocked from the windows, but they're all separate, and their locations aren't particularly well remembered, which makes that feature pretty much useless (Eh, toolbox, 5 tool strips and 3 tool windows open, as opposed to my usual 3-window setup in GIMP, and those locations are remembered - plus they're all duplicated for each window, which is pretty odd)...
2) How's the tablet support? The pressure support in 1.5 appears to be pretty... strange, to say the least. Is there any equivalent of GIMP's ink tool? I couldn't find any from 1.5 based on a cursory examination, and the brush tool didn't work at all like I expected it to work (ticking on the brush transparency made transparency effect work pretty weakly, as happened with the size - I suppose this can be adjusted to have more dramatic effect, but I couldn't find it).
3) Is there anyone who's using both GIMP and Krita; how well does image interchange work between the two apps? I haven't investigated how well I could move .xcfs, for example, between the two apps. I know Krita can use some GIMP bits, like fill patterns and brushes and like; does the opposite work too?