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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.
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Linux needs to get its act together
/tmp or the installer will dump core. After the installer is done, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and add a section called "GL" and put "driver nv" in it. Make sure you have the latest version of X and Linux kernel 2.6 or else X will segfault when you start. OK, run the Quake 3 installer and make sure you set the proper group and setuid permissions on quake3.bin. If you want sound, look here [link to another obscure web site], which is a short HOWTO on how to get sound in Quake 3. That's all there is to it!"
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with less than 1% marketshare.
Take installation. Linux zealots are now saying "oh installing is so easy, just do apt-get install package or emerge package": Yes, because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".
Linux zealots are far too forgiving when judging the difficultly of Linux configuration issues and far too harsh when judging the difficulty of Windows configuration issues. Example comments:
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Linux?"
Zealot: "Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin, then do chmod +x on the file. Then you have to su to root, make sure you type export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 but ONLY if you have that latest libc6 installed. If you don't, don't set that environment variable or the installer will dump core. Before you run the installer, make sure you have the GL drivers for X installed. Get them at [some obscure web address], chmod +x the binary, then run it, but make sure you have at least 10MB free in
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Windows?"
Zealot: "Oh God, I had to install Quake 3 in Windoze for some lamer friend of mine! God, what a fucking mess! I put in the CD and it took about 3 minutes to copy everything, and then I had to reboot the fucking computer! Jesus Christ! What a retarded operating system!"
So, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that what seems easy and natural to Linux geeks is definitely not what regular people consider easy and natural. Hence, the preference towards Windows.
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?