Why I love(d) Krita to be part of Calligra (was: Re: After 2.9.7)

[Friedrich W. H. Kossebau]

Am Montag, 31. August 2015, 12:19:32 schrieb Cyrille Berger:
> On Sunday 30 August 2015 17:30:22 Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > We started out offering endless choise for the users and gave them
> > everything. But at some point it became clear that in many cases it was
> > just overkill. We spend a huge amout of time to fix things like bugs that
> > showed up in Krita when a spreadsheet was insert. That's a feature that no
> > user ever needed. So over time we dialed back the available shapes until
> > we
> > have only simple geometry, paths and text.
> > The same happend with tools which felt often out of place and Krita, so we
> > made tools that wrapped around flake tools. To this day users are confused
> > by tools that don't behave like the rest of Krita.
> 
> To be honest, it was/is a problem for office application. The KOffice2 idea
> of one UI to fit them all, was a bad idea. We saw that in sheets that had a
> weird tool for editing cells, then words started to get a completely
> different UI. And I got unhappy with braindump because the tools didn't fit
> so well.
> 
> So in this end, a split between model and view in flake would be a good idea
> for office applications and krita. and would be needed for developing
> mobile UI. And would make it possible for me to provide the correct UI for
> braindump.

Yes, split between model and view in flake is one of the things I plan. Or 
rather a split between model, view and controller, given an idea of recursive 
MVC pattern as is being developed in my Kasten framework. (That one is 
currently stuck in a redesign, and waits for ideas being grown e.g. from 
Calligra design experience ;) ). 

Cheers
Friedrich