<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:boud@valdyas.org">boud@valdyas.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wednesday 29 June 2011 Jun, silvio grosso wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
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> In the future, on the Krita's web-page, it might be interesting to have a poll about the most preferred Linux Graphical Deskop for running Krita.<br>
> Naturally, with NO intention to start a flame among users :-)<br>
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> I am thinking about something like that:<br>
> - What Linux distribution do you use for running Krita?<br>
> - Which Graphical Desktop have you picked (Gnome, Kde, Unity, Xfce etc)?<br>
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</div>It could be a really interesting survey indeed. I'm not sure we've got software for that on the website, but I think I saw some "poll module" -- bugsbane will now, of course. My gut feeling is that many users indeed use Krita on Gnome.<br>
<div class="im"></div></blockquote><div><br>You can safely assume that most users use Gnome because Ubuntu uses Gnome. If there was a windows version though, most users would be using that.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">
> Maybe many users prefer to use Gnome instead of Kde because they come from Windows.<br>
> On Windows, very likely, they have tried at least Gimp.<br>
> When they try Linux for the first time often these new users start with Ubuntu (or something "similar" e.g. Mint).<br>
> Since Ubuntu, in the past, was based primarily on Gnome this might explain their "choice".<br>
> As of now, with Unity on Ubuntu Natty everything has changed...<br>
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> BTW, It looks like most of the principal graphical applications for handling pictures have been written using Gtk.<br>
> For instance: Gimp, Hugin, RawTherapee, CinePaint and so forth.<br>
> Hence the outcome for both artists and users to "enjoy" more the Gnome desktop.<br>
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> Perhaps, *but* this is a wild guess, it might be they feel more at home on Gnome :-)<br>
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</div>I think it's mostly historical reasons... Cinepaint is of course a Gimp fork, and Gimp is where GTK came from.<font color="#888888"><br>
</font></blockquote></div><br>There was some time where Cinepaint wanted to switch to FLTK, but that was before it disappeared.<br><br>Most of the open source graphical applications are written in GTK, but not if you also look at the commercial ones.<br>
<br>There are some of the most high-end applications in the movie industry based on Qt like Maya or Nuke. Most of the movie studios will be using Qt in some way like Dreamworks and Disney.<br>