Krita 1.6

[Michael Thaler]

Hi,

I wonder what happens to Krita after KOffice1.5 is released. I personally 
would really like to see another (quick release) based on Qt3/kdelibs3.

I understand that many developers want to port KOffice to Qt4/kdelibs4 after 
KOffice1.5 is released and I think for apps like KWord it really makes a lot 
of sense. But for Krita I am not that sure. There are many features which 
could be implemented with Qt3/kdelibs3 quite quickly, e.g. all the selection 
functions from gimp or maybe even the siox selection tool (although this will 
probably be much more work). I see two main problems if we switch to 
Qt4/kdelibs4 right after the release of KOffice1.5. First, kdelibs will be 
far from stable which makes development much more complicated because we 
probably will have to recompile kdelibs very often. Second, Krita really 
became a major app, but some things are still missing badly and if there will 
be no new version of Krita for more then a year, we will probably lose some 
of the users.

Personally I think it would be a good idea if most of the developers start 
working on KOffice2.0. But maybe some people can also work on KOffice1.6.
Maybe koffice libs can stay frozen and it should be only allowed to make 
changes to the applications. So one could even release Krita without the rest 
of KOffice. Feature freeze could be something like june/july and release date 
early september. It will not be possible to add a lot of new features, but 
around September kdelibs4 should be stable enough to really develop for it 
without recompiling it all the time.

What do you think?

Greetings,
Michael