From kde-announce  Sun Sep 26 20:30:01 2004
From: Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 20:30:01 +0000
To: kde-announce
Subject: [kde-announce] First preview release of Krita
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Krita, formerly known as Krayon, formerly known as KImageshop, never known =
as=20
nor intended to be the Kimp, is now for the first time since development=20
started in 1999 complete enough to package as: the First Krita Preview=20
Release. Building on the great foundation laid by the original team, the=20
enthusiastic work by John Califf and the thorough architecture designed by=
=20
Patrick Julien, the Krita developers have been working real hard during the=
=20
last year to bring you: painting (with Gimp brushes or image filters),=20
gradients, patterns, excellent tablet support, world-class image scaling=20
(though not zooming) and more features than I can remember (being focused o=
n=20
the TODO list rather than the ALREADY_DONE list).

This is not an alpha release, though. Stuff is broken, not implemented at a=
ll=20
or even not even intended to be implemented. We've really been making reall=
y=20
great progress, but there's plenty left to do -- a challenge to someone=20
wanting to get their hands dirty with a paint app that's still small enough=
=20
to understand.

Installing Krita might interfere with your existing KOffice installation,=20
depending as it does on the KOffice CVS. But if you're curious or anxious t=
o=20
know how far we've come in the past year (or five), download the packages=20
Daniel Molkentin has prepared and made available at:

http://ktown.kde.org/~danimo/krita/preview1.

Nightly packages of CVS (and Krita is very actively developed, with daily=20
commits) are are at: ktown.kde.org/~danimo/krita/nightly.

(Source only for now, until some kind soul steps up to the plate to produce=
=20
binary packages.)

If you don't feel up to compiling, but still want to gaze at the look & fee=
l=20
(described by as "very clean, very easy to find your way around" by an expe=
rt=20
Photoshop user) you can go to the screenshots and sate your curiosity:=20
http://koffice.kde.org/krita/screenshots.php

I really want to thank all the people who have worked on Krita:

The guys who started it all:
=20
* Michael Koch, Matthias Elter, Andrew Richards, Carsten Pfeiffer, Toshitak=
a=20
=46ujioka.

The man who for the first time made Krita into something that did almost wo=
rk:
=20
* John Califf

The architect of Krita's current design:

* Patrick Julien

And finally, the current crew:

* Boudewijn Rempt (maintainer, stuff that doesn't work)
* Sven Langkamp (GUI, especially the dockers & the colour wheel)
* Cyrille Berger (Filters, tools, core stuff)
* Adrian Page (Painting, tablet support, gradients, core stuff, fixes all o=
ver=20
the place)
* Clarence Dang (zoom, shape tools)
* Dirk Schoenberger (code cleanups, tool shortcuts)
* Bart Coppens (Fills, previews, text tool)
* Michael Thaler (Scaling, rotating)
* Casper Boemann (core stuff)
* Daniel Molkentin (Packaging this release)
=20
We really hope to keep up the pace, and make Krita part of KOffice 1.4, to =
be=20
released near the end of the first quarter of 2005.

=2D-=20
Boudewijn Rempt | "Geef mij maar zuurtjes."
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi

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