Thoughts on Krita website presentation

Cyrille Berger cberger at cberger.net
Tue Sep 11 22:07:34 CEST 2007


On Tuesday 11 September 2007, Valerie VK wrote:
> On separating Krita from Krita or not, the big pity is that KOffice has
> the "Office" in it. If it were called anything else, just listing Krita
> under the "K[whatever] project" would be just fine.
>
> But I do think Krita would benefit immensely from being separated from
> anything called "Office," if not in community, then at least in
> appearance. There's nothing wrong with adding "Krita makes use of the
> libraries of KOffice, and works closely with the KOffice community to
> bring you features such as embedded KOffice document layers, but it can
> also be installed as a stand-alone program."
>
> Also, despite the "K" at the beginning, it'd be nice to not make it sound
> so Kde dependent. Hell, I don't even use Kde. This is shrinking the
> userbase (and potential developer-base).

First, if the only argument for someone to not use Krita is because it's a KDE 
application, I happy to not having him as a user. I am proud of Krita being a 
KDE application.

That said KDE is wrongly associated to KDE Desktop, which is something the 
marketing team of KDE is trying to address, and present KDE as a software 
provider (like Adobe, Corel or Mircrosoft), that would make Krita a KDE 
product, at the same level as the 'KDE Workspace' (aka the minimal stuff for 
a desktop), I think 'KDE Desktop' is meant to be the full set of KDE 
applications. That would mean that Krita could be presented as "Krita is a 
KDE application dedicated to painting and image editing application. Krita is 
multiplatform and can run on the 'KDE Desktop', on GNOME, on XFCE, on Windows 
and on MacOSX". That would make things clear.

> On spinning off Karbon and Krita, my personal long-term hopes would be for
> an entire open source Creative Suite ("OpenCreative"?), that would include
> the following:
> - The Gimp: high-end photo-manipulation
> - Krita: painter program
> - Karbon and Inkscape: vector illustrator programs
> - Scribus
> - and anything else you can think of (there Can be several programs doing
> the same purpose, the user would be free to chose, as long as he can
> easily access the choices from just one webpage).
- blender

That might be an idea for the create.freedesktop.org which is currently a 
planet, but could be more as entry point for accessing informations about 
creatives applications.

> Community-wise, the developers of the various programs don't have to work
> too closely together.
Too late :D We allready spend some time on writting specifications to share 
data ;)

> Krita, as such, would also end up as "just one of the programs" listed,
> but this is a perfect case of expanding the market, especially if the
> website is done right. Potential contributors would also have a better
> idea of what's available and which program they might want to contribute
> to. The biggest problem would be to get all these projects to agree on
> something like that... So in short, I'm getting ahead of myself.
Most projects would agree to something like that. I mean we are able to 
organize a conference and bring all those people together 
(http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/) And there is even a page which does 
what you describe http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2007/projects.html.

-- 
Cyrille Berger


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