Trying to understand the scope of kdenlive

[Zeke Williams]

I'm thinking if I ever struck rich (wishful thinking) I would heavily
fund KDE. If I was in a hypothetical scenario able to provide more
funding to kdenlive and KDE in general, would the possibility of
making natron an official KDE program be up for consideration? Because
natron really needs more devs, it's starting to fall behind a bit.

On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 5:28 AM Paul Brown <paul.brown at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Saturday, 9 April 2022 09:05:44 CEST Narcis Garcia wrote:
> > I think it's not necessary TO BE if it can TO USE.
> > Kdenlive projects could dialog with other projects to compatibilize
> > formats, exports and APIs; and this to allow software be called each other.
> >
> > Not always is needed to reinvent the wheel but to improve each
> > specialized wheel to run vehicle as a team.
>
> Although not a developer, I am an avid user and talk often to the devs in my
> role of "Walking-Talking Advertising Agency" of KDE projects.
>
> We once discussed incorporating Natron as a KDE project to assist with its
> development:
>
> https://phabricator.kde.org/T12801
>
> Natron is already made with Qt, and suffers from an acute lack of resources and
> development is slow. We also discussed the possibility that Kdenlive took over
> the maintenance of Natron. Not integrating it, but developing a tighter
> compatibility  between both applications, like you see in Adobe products.
>
> This was part of a larger vision of developing a "Kreative Suite", which would
> broach Krita and Kdenlive (both already part of KDE), along with Enve
> (animation software), Scribus and Natron, all of which would have to be
> incorporated.
>
> Devs at the time pointed out they were already stretched to the limit with
> Kdenlive, which was a good reason not to do that. And, of course, they were
> right.
>
> But if Kdenlive were to add more devs and acquire more resources from KDE
> (which is something that seems to be on the cards), the circumstances would be
> different.
>
> How about we bring this project back to life?
>
> (Don't hate me Farid!)
>
> Cheers
>
> Paul
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