whither krita -- summary

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 24 September 2009, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thursday 24. September 2009 11.53.59 Cyrille Berger wrote:
> > > integrated in koffice        <---------> attractive to artists
> >
> > I keep expressing doubts about that one. If you could find someone who
> > has such a problem and make it discuss with us, and see if it's just
> > troll, ignorence, "the weird idea that artists aren't just like any
> > office worker" or if there is a real issue. I also think that the
> > katelier concept has not been pushed to its full potential, because it
> > requires someone to do it.
> 
> I'm also a bit surprised this one showed up.
> In the "Whither Krita?" thread you mentioned this too and Cyrille, Enki and
>  me gave some well verbalized counter opinions.
> As you stopped commenting on the issue I assumed you were convinced, so
>  thats why I'm a bit confused it shows up again.

Never assume that when someone stops commenting in a thread that they are 
convinced. 

We have seen some very good arguments with which we might try to convince 
artists to put aside prejudices or maybe even practical problems, but we need 
to get them to listen first. And even then, they might not be convinced, which 
means the contradiction still exists.

And, yes, the arguments are good, but they are arguments that justify a 
"weird" situation -- if the situation weren't anonomalous, no arguments would 
be needed. "Why is Krita part of KOffice instead of standalone" is a question 
of a different kind than "Why is Krita not written in my favourite toolkit", 
where the second question is trollish, the first one isn't.

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