Whither Krita?

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 23 September 2009, Warren Baird wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
> > So -- what is the story about Krita? What can make Krita compelling to
> > the artist? I think it makes sense to individually identify why we are
> > personally
> > working on Krita and what we want to get out of it in the first place,
> > and to
> > use that to develop a vision for Krita that we can work towards.
> 
> This was an interesting thread - although I admit I only skimmed it.
> 
> I didn't see a lot of direct answers to this question though --- what is
> Krita's reason for being?   What will differentiate it from things like
>  Gimp or MyPaint
 
Yes, that's right. We didn't get to that answer yet. I'm preparing a kind of 
follow up so we can focus more on that question, my first question was "why 
are we personally working on Krita".

> From my position on the outside, it really looks to me like the Gimp is
> gonna fill 'em itself before Krita 2 is stable enough to be used...  The
> Gimp already has relatively decent colour space support, and it sounds like
> higher bit depth support is coming down the pipes.
> 
> Maybe it won't have quite as flexible a brush model as Krita --- but is
> that a sufficient differentiator?
> 
> I'd be curious as to what people think the 'mission statement' for Krita
> ought to be.
> 
> Or maybe that was already established and I missed it in my skim of the
> thread...

I would like to arrive at a mission statement, too :-)


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