Krita for KDE 3.5 clone.

[john Culleton]

On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:09:02 +0200
Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 14 June 2012 Jun, john Culleton wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> For me, KDE4 is a great desktop environment, even though I use it as
> if it were KDE3...
> 
> But I don't care: what I love about free software is that it is free.
> Everyone is free to fork, and that's a right I will fight for even
> when I think the fork is misdirected -- what I think isn't important.
> 
> The Trinity people chose to fork and did the work to make it happen.
> Great! That's what free software is for. Then they forked Krita, and
> hey -- when I asked them to do the polite thing and rename it, they
> did. Great! 
> 
> So now you've got a choice between running a fork of Krita 1.6 on
> your trinity desktop, or use my CentOS 5.x package of Krita 2, and
> both will run, you can even install them at the same time :-).
> 
> For some reason, this makes me plenty happy :-).
> 
> 
If you use KDE4 as if it were KDE3 then the whole rationale for
all the geegaws and gadgets introduced with KDE4 falls apart. You
have a KDE3 clone that runs slower than the original.  

Today I went back to the future. One of the reasons I abandoned xfce4 is
that after a time it ended in a loop when booting. But I used it on
another user name and it worked. More importantly krita 2.3.3 also
worked. So I wiped out the directory ./config/xfce4 in my usual home
directory and solved the looping problem. Now I have a GUI that
will run a recent version of Krita and also all the other things
I need. It boots quickly and there is no slow motion load of
akonadi to test my patience.

As for KDE4 the gui I am reminded of the critique of a hotrodder
of years ago about a rival's hotrod car. He suggested, "Jack up
the horn and build a car around it. But start with a good horn."

I cannot think of a single virtue that KDE4 has that isn't
duplicated by the other GUIs I have discussed, except for the
ability to boot more than one session simultaneously. I can live
without that.  

Thanks to all who answered. Krita 2.3.3 has been added to my
arsenal. Hooray!

-- 
John Culleton
Free list of books for self-publishers:
http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
Police Procedural and Expose: "Death Wore Black"
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html