Krita 2.4 beta 5 on Ubuntu 11.10 (project-neon ppa): most crashes gone

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 06 January 2012 Jan, silvio grosso wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Today I have upgraded my Ubuntu 11.10 system.
> As usual, through the ppa "project-neon" package.
> Now I run Krita beta 5 (Unity Shell).
> 
> Luckilly, most crashes concerning this specific Ubuntu package are gone.
> Today, I really had en epiphany in discovering this :-)
> 
> For instance, I can rotate, downscale - upscale any image easily (no crashes whatsoever now).
> 
> There are still some threading crashes, though.
> 
> For instance:
> 1. Fire up no matter what image;
> 2. Upscale this image and, *while* Krita is doing so, try to use some other tools (e.g. the line tool).
> Krita crashes because it is unable to cope with both operations.
> 
> This beins said, I am aware, thanks to the Calligra tracker  [1],  that Dmitry is working really *hard* on these threading issues :-)

:-). I think we'll be able to fix tem before the release!

> It only takes a little more time and patience :-)
> 
> THANKS a lot indeed to all developers for your hard work ;-)
> Krita 2.4 is going to be a great release!

Yes! I'm so looking forward to it. I saw that Lukas already has a nice little feature for 2.5 ready...

> 
> Silvio
> 
> [1] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=calligra.git&a=summary
> 


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