Whither Krita?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:

> On Tuesday 15 September 2009, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > * stability: we have serious stability issues. Going out on a limb, I'd say
> > that most are related to integration issues with KOffice libraries, instead
> > of problems in our own core code.

> What kind of stability ? It would be nice if they are recorded in 
> bugs.kde.org, currently of the crashes, there is only the shiva filter bug that 
> I can reproduce.

And I cannot reproduce that one because I cannot get it installed on opensuse
and cannot get it recognized on Kubuntu :-). But seriously, we have 12 crash
reports in bugzilla, so that's a place where we miss stability. And it's not just
crashes that fall  under "stability", things like bug 205644 cause data loss,
so that's a stability issue too. All the split view things, losing shortcuts
you've set after a restart (if that is still an issue, but I think it is).

> > * being part of a suite: not a problem for me, but I keep running into
> > people who tell me that they won't use Krita because it is part of KOffice.
> > Silly of them, but it means we are losing out on users and potential
> > constributors who are way more part of the graphics/art scene than most
> > people in the KOffice community.
> I am not convinced those people would start use krita even if it was stand 
> alone, they are just using it as an argument. On all major distribution you 
> can install krita seperately from koffice. I think they are just looking for 
> excuses.
> If krita was stand alone they would tell you I want a port to "Gtk" (I ofteen 
> see a lot of those coming to Scribus irc channel with such a request). They 
> will always find a reason.

I'm not convinced: sure there will be people telling us "port to Gtk" (funny
how nobody tells Maxy to do that with MyPaint), but I think we will have a wider
appeal.


> > * fit and finish: we have lots of really cool features, but they all feel a
> > bit unfinished (masks), or very unfinished (brush presets, color mixer).
> > Which means not many people can really make use of them. When we move to
> > git, I would like to have a main tree and a staging tree where all the new
> > features land first only to be moved to main when they are really good
> > enough.

> that's probably how we are going to work with koffice as a whole. Especially if 
> we move to a feature release every three monthes cycle ;)

Yes, that would be a really excellent development. I really cannot wait for the
move to git so we can work this way, and so I can follow Dmitry's work, and Lukas
can see my progress on the mypaint paintop.

Boudewijn