<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Ramón Miranda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mirandagraphic@gmail.com">mirandagraphic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Interesting Question Silvio. i am not going to detailt my thoughts too much. I honestly think Krita is not ready for Windows for now at least on unstable release . It has a lot of bugs (like others apps ) and windows users tends to be not to much pattient with software. I know by my experience with Gimp on the company that i was working. if Krita crash in my house (nothing happens, well i scream thats all) but if Krita Goes windows, for sure will crash too and a windows user accept 1 or 2 crashes. Then "this app is a shit" thats it, so rude. maybe they don ´t really care the effort we put in Krita, or if they are using the STABLE or UNSTABLE release.. Linux users are less but more pattience and they usually report bugs. it is another philosophy. so i agree with Cyrille "social problem" the way people learn computers things. <br>
But i have to be honest, and that makes me think too, I learn Open source by windows apps. i began with Gimp., then Mypaint, and finally enter to Krita when i installed Ubuntu. so the chain would be broken if there is no WIndows Gimp release or mypaint. So how many users ,would be lost with no Windows release ? i dont know. <br>
<br>My simple answer is NO, we are not ready. for this year. but the next year things could be absolutly different because nowadays Krita has the biggest potential in important fields like Brushes, color selection, bit depth and amount of Devs</blockquote>
</div><br>If we wait for the "ready" state, we would never release a windows version. At some point a Windows testing release will have to be done and that will have crashes. Of course there could be some kind of closed beta, which would be a bit strange for an open source project. We could keep the application in alpha or beta state for a long time (probably better alpha as Google already overused beta). <br>
<br>The "this app is a shit" comments will be made anyway. They will be comparing Krita with Photoshop or Gimp and bring up features that we don't have. The alpha/beta sign should be warning enough. <br>