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Comment on How to fix Krita on Ubuntu by slangkamp

slangkamp — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 13:14:45 +0000

As far as I know it’s still open.

Comment on How to fix Krita on Ubuntu by Iván Yossi

Iván Yossi — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 05:50:11 +0000

Thanks for the guide. I just installed Krita on unity ubuntu today. Changing themes is easy as I know the application, but new users might feel the program is buggy or defective. Is the qt-api-spi package bug still valid? Im using git master version.

Comment on More Krita 2.7 features by Geist

Geist — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 02:09:49 +0000

Ahh! Thank you for explaining. I looked at your screenshots and tried to find tool settings and so on, arranged a raster layer above a vector one, thinking that would perhaps unlock some sort of `painting on guides’ kind of thing, but nothing. Didn’t occur to me to check the edit menu. Thanks.

Comment on More Krita 2.7 features by slangkamp

slangkamp — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 17:57:27 +0000

Yes, that’s exactly what the “Painting any shape with Krita brushes” is about. You click on Edit->Stroke selected shapes and it will draw the selected shapes with the current brush.

Comment on More Krita 2.7 features by Geist

Geist — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 02:56:54 +0000

Loving the new freehand path tool for painting with the raster brushes! Is there a way to make raster layer paths stay paths until a button is clicked or a keyboard shortcut used? It would be awesome to plot out some linework with the freehand path tool, be able to adjust the vertices and re-stroke them with the raster brush on demand. I am honestly curious since I’m not sure which part of that is Krita and which is Karbon, which is the vector library used, right? Anyway, again, thank you for these improvements already, getting closer to Paint Tool SAIs lineart/vector layer capabilities bit by bit.
Cheers!

Comment on Calligra Sprint 2013 by anonymity is great

anonymity is great — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:48:20 +0000

Thanks for your explanation.

Comment on Calligra Sprint 2013 by slangkamp

slangkamp — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 14:48:25 +0000

The way KParts is currently implemented in Calligra you can’t really maintain is seperately. Lots of code is interacting with KParts, so it’s not something you can add on top at the moment.

The action, ui and operation have an id. Once the action is triggered, we lookup the UI and operation factories from a hash table. The UI does it’s thing and returns the settings are an object with the settings stored as id + QVariant. This object is then passed the operation, which reads the settings.

Comment on Calligra Sprint 2013 by anonymity is great

anonymity is great — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:53:36 +0000

Please, please do not remove the kparts to be used in Konqueror. I still very much like to be able to view all my documents in all formats in the Konqueror window. You can maintain the kpart in a separate directory, separate from the rest of the code.

You say that you use setting objects instead of signals/slots to make the code more modular. Could you write a little tutorial/example on how to do that? I would like to use this approach in my own software. Could you also elaborate on “we let the application figure out which UI to show and which operation to execute”? I have no idea what to imagine here and I would like to learn the ways to achieve this.

Comment on More Krita 2.7 features by Aman

Aman — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 05:18:34 +0000

Really Impressive dude,nice to see that Krita developers are seriously interested in making a world class Sketching and Painting app which is much much much better than Commercial Softwares like Corel Painter or Sketchbook pro or PD artist Artist or ArtRage.
But I have a request.please consider this:
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=137&t=109113

My request is:
My advice would be lasso tool should be similar to that available in Sketchbook Pro or Adobe photoshop.Then it would work really well.
Sometimes,we do a really complicated selection in car designing or product designing and you do need a good selection tool.The small squares which appear along the path of selection do not work out for precision.The selection should appear as moving discontinuous and thin line curves with small spacing.
Although I have reported this as a bug,its better that I inform this issue everywhere so that more and more Krita developers would get to know about my request.

Comment on More Krita 2.7 features by jospoortvliet

jospoortvliet — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:58:15 +0000

Awesome work, dude. Krita is indeed incredibly impressive, thanks to the work you all do!