25 Years of Krita
A quarter century. That's how long we've been working on Krita. Well, what would become Krita. It started out as KImageShop, but that name was nuked by a now long-dead German lawyer. Then it was renamed to Krayon, and that name was also nuked. Then it was renamed to Krita, and that name stuck.
Posted Jun 2, 2024 19:03 UTC (Sun)
by swilmet (subscriber, #98424)
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To not desperate:
> It took several false starts [...]
Some lessons learned to port to new major toolkit versions:
> And then disaster struck. Qt3 reached end-of-life, and Qt4 was released. The porting effort was huge and took ages, also because we, foolishly, decided to rewrite a lot of the 1.x code to make it possible to share components between KOffice applications.
And finally:
> a very large part of my life has been tied up with Krita
When we know that most software projects last 10 years or so, some free software projects feel different and are kind of special to certain of us.
Posted Jun 3, 2024 1:21 UTC (Mon)
by halla (subscriber, #14185)
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25 Years of Krita
> And then development stopped, because, well, doing a proper image manipulation application isn't easy or quick work. And then it started again, and stopped again, and started again.
> [...]
> We also started porting Krita, again, this time to Qt5. [...] In 2016, we released Krita 3.0 -- it wasn't as good as Krita 2.9, but thankfully we still remembered the pain we had when doing a rewrite combined with a port, so we simply did the port first, and didn't combine it with a huge rewrite.
25 Years of Krita