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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: Kontour, Karbon14 & Krita
From:       Lenny <kudling () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-12-14 18:40:54
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> > - Karbon14 is Kontour's (emergency) replacement but is still in
> > progress
>
> I'm puzzled by this. Why is one relatively mature vector drawing
> program being abandoned only to be "replaced" by another? Both
> are free programs. How much code reusing is involved (aside from
> the usual common KDE libraries)? I liked Kontour and was looking

Exactly 0 lines.

> forward to it becoming truly an Illustrator killer. (I suspect
> that was why some of the Adobe people hated its former name,
> KIllustrator ;-)

Since you know Adobe Illustrator, you know as well that KIllustrator/Kontour 
had about 0.5% of Adobe Illustrators features. And do you know why that is? 
Because the KIllustrator/Kontour code was in a horrible shape and _no_fun_ to 
work on. A rewrite from scratch was _badly_ needed, believe me. But the 
KIllustrator/Kontour maintainers disagreed and thus Karbon14 was written in 
parallel. Nobody forced the Kontour development to stop. It's just that even 
the last single person lost the fun, while Karbon14 is still actively 
developed.

True, the version of Karbon14 in KOffice 1.2.x is in a medieval shape. Either 
wait some months for the koffice 1.3 release or try the latest cvs version. 
There's so much difference.

Your feedback would be very welcome.

Bye
Lenny
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