From kde-kimageshop Tue Sep 11 18:41:07 2007 From: Torsten Rahn Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:41:07 +0000 To: kde-kimageshop Subject: Re: Thoughts on Krita website presentation Message-Id: <200709112041.08043.torsten.rahn () credativ ! de> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=118953610721755 On Tuesday 11 September 2007 20:11:45 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > On Tuesday 11 September 2007 16:36, Torsten Rahn wrote: > Karbon (which has made fantastic progress thanks to Jan Hambrechts) and > Krita could become a good contender. Yes, indeed. > From a labour-investment point of view, the balance isn't that easy to > compute: we would need to invest time in a website, in forums, mailing > lists and things like that. I'm sure that there are some (non-developer) people on this list who could do a lot better than this already: http://www.koffice.org/krita/ While the frontpage screenshot looks great the "icon" should really be replaced already. Is there no Oxygen icon for Krita yet? > At the same time, if Krita were Qt-only, we would gain even more > acceptance, also from the Gnome world (which curiously enough welcomes > Scribus almost as if it were a native GTK application). Well, they still have the Gimp and it will still take some time until the "grass-root-Gimp-autopromotion-reflex" will get out of some people's head. > We would also need > many more developers to replace all the functionality we'd have to add > ourselves. I don't think that Krita should technically be seperated from KOffice. Technically it's a very good choice (I mostly look forward to flake shape capabilities). We are just talking about "the packaging" and determing the "product category" it gets offered in. > From a social point of view, I'm not sure whether it is worth going it > alone, at this point. I'm pretty confident that once Krita 2.0 gets released (which needs to be very stable) "getting on its own feet" will happen while the community will increase. > just adding value to their own application, but to the whole; I wouldn't > want to disturb that. Definetely. Again I didn't ask for splitting off Krita technically from KOffice. That would neither be necessary nor a good choice. > more separately, after 2.0. We might want a better name for KOffice, which > always reminds me of a terminal chain smoker, ;-) > not doing badly at all. News and info articles about free graphics software > more and more mentions Krita as a separate and worth-while application. Indeed. > about Karbon and Krita -- possibly with a catchy name like Kreative > Komputing, God forbid. > But splitting away from the koffice subversion repository would be a Bad > Idea: we gain so much from the cooperation in our developer community, > technically and socially, that it would be a net loss for Krita to distance > itself from that. Right. --  Torsten Rahn v Tel.: 0 21 61 - 46 43 - 192 credativ GmbH, HRB Mönchengladbach 12080 Hohenzollernstr. 133, 41061 Mönchengladbach Geschäftsführung: Dr. Michael Meskes, Jörg Folz _______________________________________________ kimageshop mailing list kimageshop@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop