Krita for KDE 3.5 clone.

[Sven Langkamp]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:06 PM, john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com>wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 16:53:44 +0200 (CEST)
> Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 4:38 PM, john Culleton
> > > <John at wexfordpress.com>wrote:
> > >
> > >> On my Slackware 13.37 system I run the Trinity desktop which is a
> > >> clone of KDE 3.5. Among other advantages it allows me to run
> > >> Quanta Plus and frees me from the Akonadi and plasma nonsense
> > >> features of KDE4. However I must open a KDE4 session to run Krita.
> >
> > Really? I would suspect that it would be possible to run krita under
> > kde 3.5 if the right libs and so are present -- at least on OpenSUSE
> > it's possible to run KDE 3 apps in KDE 4, so the reverse should be
> > possible as well.
> >
> > >>
> > >> What is the most recent version of Krita that will run under KDE
> > >> 3.5? (It would be nice of course if Krita was independent of KDE
> > >> versions but apparently that train left the station long ago.)
> > >
> > >
> > > Last KDE 3 version is Krita 1.6.3, but that's lightyears behind the
> > > current version so I wouldn't recommend to use that.
> > >
> >
> > Trinity maintains a fork of Krita 1.6, but they renamed it when I
> > asked them to, since I don't want that version of Krita associated
> > with the name "Krita". I don't know what they renamed Krita to, when
> > they told me they had done it, I was satisfied and lost interest.
> >
> > Boudewijn
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> I read some of the back and forth on the Trinity site. One point
> of clarification: when the other person called KDE4 developers
> "braindead" I assume he was referring to the developers
> responsible for the KDE interface, akonadi, neopemuk etc. and not
> application developers such as the good folks who put together
> Krita. I agree with him that in general KDE4 is a disaster, slow, hard to
> use, and loaded with features that simply get in the way. That
> has nothing to do with the quality of Krita.
>

I suggest to take that with a grain of salt. There is a lot of FUD going
on. Nobody has to use Akonadi or Nepomuk.

Technologically Trinity is a dead end, already five years behind.


> If you visit the Internet Newsgroup comp.windows.x.kde you will
> find many complaints about the features of KDE4, and few if any
> words of praise.
>
> The closest thing I have to a decent yet modern GUI is Trinity.
> It will run the latest versions of Scribus, Gimp, Inkscape and so
> on. But not a recent version of Krita.
>

I don't think it worth the effort to support a desktop that is dying anyway.


> I have just scratched the surface of Krita and want to learn
> more. At the moment I have two GUI sessions operating: on F7 I
> have KDE4 and on F8 I have Trinity. Perhaps the one part of KDE4
> I would praise is the ability to run another GUI in parallel. I
> still have to go through all the KDE boot nonsense first, then
> set up my Trinity session. But at least I can access the latest
> version of all the programs mentioned and still get to Krita 2.x
> at the press of an F key. And that makes me if not estatic
> at least happier.
>
> Thanks to all who responded.
>
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