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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Krita features
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () calcifer ! valdyas ! org>
Date:       2004-01-14 13:37:15
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.53.0401141426200.23261 () calcifer ! valdyas ! org
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 dirk.schoenberger@sz-online.de wrote:
>
> More interesting is the basic design of Krita.
> If a "simple" design of one QImage or multiple layered QImages will be
> used, you can achieve quick results, because the infrastructure is there.
> This design should be enough for basic office editing tasks (basically
> insert an image to use as clipart in a word processor document).
> For an idea about what would be doable with this approach look at
> kolourpaint in
> kdenonbeta. The application is less than a month (I believe) old, but
> already rather useable.

Wasn't it based on Paintworks? Anyway, I've seen it, but, well... It's not
the application that makes me dump XPaint.

> However, Krita wants to be a full blown image editing application, with a
> internal data model similar to the GIMP (layers and tiled images)
> There exists no infratsructure for doing such things yet (notwithstanding
> GIMP core internally), so most of the current work is base research.
> This may lead to better results in the future, at the expense of much more
> work now and in the near future.

I don't know what _Krita_ wants to be :-) -- I know what _I_ want it to be, and
for that you need a solid core. As soon as you want to work with alpha channels,
life becomes much easier if you don't use QImage, but something home grown. Anyway,
the tile manager, the colour model core, image import and export, it's all
there. The KisPainter should be expanded with some more primitives, but what's
there is solid. I expect some architectural changes to the way tools are loaded
(now hard-coded, in the future kparts), and I want to have more intelligent
brushes, but the core is done, basically. You don't need to hack the tile
manager anymore (until one wants to have pixels defined by more than five integers,
that is).

My current plan is:

tonight, first read up on the seventh Ecumenical Council, and then work on
more intelligent brushes, move the brush mask retrieval from KisToolBrush to
KisPainter, and make a start on the better in-betweening...

After that, it's what grabs me next. There's enough on my TODO.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt | http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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