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New comment by hallarempt in "GIMP 3.0"

hallarempt — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:10:12 +0000

And why would, I, as a developer, spend time on supporting "screenshot-based automation" in a painting application?

New comment by hallarempt in "GIMP 3.0"

hallarempt — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:05:27 +0000

That was first tried in 1998, at the Linux Kongress, in the KImp presentation. All links to that seem to have died in the 27 years since then.

New comment by hallarempt in "25 Years of Krita"

hallarempt — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:17:00 +0000

Yeah. We need to do lots of low-level stuff, and things related to GPU have changed a lot from Qt to Qt.

New comment by hallarempt in "25 Years of Krita"

hallarempt — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:15:30 +0000

To be honest, I still reference my paper copy of the Windows 1995 Interface Guidelines from time to time, when people propose new features for Krita. They are not always useful, but at least they don't change all the time.

New comment by hallarempt in "25 Years of Krita"

hallarempt — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:12:38 +0000

Oh, noes... A post that has this in the second paragraph:

"I'll hope you, dear reader, will forgive me for making this a really personal post; a very large part of my life has been tied up with Krita, and it's going to show."

ended up in something "jmix" thought was "self-indulgent".

New comment by hallarempt in "25 Years of Krita"

hallarempt — Fri, 31 May 2024 21:09:30 +0000

Well, as Halla, the Krita maintainer, I kind agree. Image manipulation is not a goal. But for animation, we have a very specific goal. What we want to see is someone doing a looney Tunes like hand-drawn animation in Krita. And I've seen some, so mission accomplished!

New comment by hallarempt in "Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)"

hallarempt — Wed, 15 May 2024 19:14:56 +0000

I, as the Krita maintainer, hereby give everyone the right to verb the trademarked name "krita". Whether it's I "krittered that concept" or "I kritaed that sketch" -- it's fine!

The only thing you cannot do with the trademarked name krita is publish rip-off, spyware-laden versions in places like eBay.

New comment by hallarempt in "How Wikipedia became the last good place on the internet"

hallarempt — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 17:44:24 +0000

I think my blog is also a pretty good place, albeit probably uninteresting to most if not all people. But it's my place, and nobody else influences me.

New comment by hallarempt in "Stop Using Plastic Cutting Boards"

hallarempt — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 21:38:33 +0000

How could I stop using them? I never started using plastic cutting boards.

That said, my wooden cutting board is getting to be quite hollow...

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita 5.2"

hallarempt — Sat, 14 Oct 2023 10:16:09 +0000

Westernized? The creator of the mascot and the artist of the splash screens is actually Chinese...

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita fund has no corporate support"

hallarempt — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 14:47:08 +0000

No, it's still actual, but they don't have a listing the fund.krita.org database because they sponsored us directly.

New comment by hallarempt in "Let maintainers be maintainers"

hallarempt — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 18:04:50 +0000

"managers" -- if there are managers on top of the maintainers, then, yes, it won't work.

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 19:15:23 +0000

We didn't do an update on that, because that post got us into big trouble with inland revenue (Dutch) in 2017...

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:59:39 +0000

You can still sideload it, but a phone-suitable UX is going to take a year, or two, three.

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 18:24:14 +0000

Heh. If any of the official Kiki images has a Kiki with melon-sized boobs, _I_ would have melon-sized boobs, and I've only been on HRT for a year and a half, and am an A-cup. (Aspiring to a B-cup, though!)

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:40:41 +0000

Yeah... The thing is, the current UI isn't really good for small screens, so when we teamed up with Google to bring Krita to Android and ChromeOS, we only targeted large-screen devices.

We are trying to add a UX suitable for small-screen devices, but... Google changes Android so often and so weirdly that the guy working on Krita on Android pretty much spends all his time chasing those changes instead of designing a small-screen friendly UI.

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:21:05 +0000

Clip Studio's text tools are really primitive, yes... And we're aware of the challenges. At least three people in the core team do make comics, too :-) And we want to support vertical text, RTL, ruby and all of that. But in this thread there's a link to a blog post that shows what already has been done, and there's been lots of work done since.

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:16:10 +0000

MDI subwindows work fine with canvas acceleration, though...

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 17:06:40 +0000

The artist is Chinese...

New comment by hallarempt in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

hallarempt — Mon, 01 May 2023 15:31:59 +0000

https://scripting.krita.org/lessons/introduction might help.