Comments on: Interview with Krita developers

By: Flynn

Flynn — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:22:58 +0000

Interesting. I must try this out (and see how it measures up to ArtRage… I am *definitely* one of those waxing lyrical and adoring about a beloved program!)

By: Boudewijn Rempt

Boudewijn Rempt — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:18:33 +0000

Miso, Krita doesn’t open a new program instance for every file, just a new window. It’s actually something I’d wanted to change for 2.0: opening every file in its own process. It wouldn’t take much more memory than loading every file in the same process, as happens now, thanks to the joys of shared memory.

By: David Gowers

David Gowers — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:38:56 +0000

“Cyrille: But, on a side note, what is in GEGL is local collaborative editing: the main usage is to allow multiple processes to edit an image, then it’s possible to share the file used by the different processes on different computer, but that would require a fast connection between different computers, since you will be transferring buffers.”

Actually, transferring buffers is the worst case. Say we are transferring a node which fills a rectangular region (say 1024×1024) with a flat color (gegl:color op). The only reason we would need to transfer the buffer generated by this node (est. 16mb without compression) rather than transferring the new node information (est. 50 bytes without compression to encode the node type and the fill color), is if the destination computer did not have that particular op available. However, if the destination computer did not have that op available, your collaboration will not make sense anyway. Thus, buffer transfers are only needed when sourcing from an external file or when the source application does its own image-processing rather than using GEGL for a particular change.

By: Miso Hlavac

Miso Hlavac — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:06:28 +0000

Hello,

I don’t understand why krita needs to open new program instance for every file? Krita looks great but it’s greedy for free memory

By: Boudewijn Rempt

Boudewijn Rempt — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:32:35 +0000

JRT, I’m not even remotely _interested_ in what a drawing program should do. I don’t have any use for it. But I’m fine with that: I don’t need to have a use for all the software in the world. I’m also fine with you not having a use for Krita, though I’m slightly less fine with you bothering me about your ideal drawing program for — let’s see — the last five years now. You’ll need to find someone else to implement a KDE-based Xfig-type application, I’m afraid.

By: JRT

JRT — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:38:49 +0000

I just don’t get it. What is the point of media simulation? A computer is a medium and it is best used to produce computer art.

IAC, I don’t have any current use for it. What I need is a good modern drawing program. I don’t really know if Boudewijn Rempt knows what a drawing program should do. Have you ever used WP draw or Xfig? Some people need such programs but something modern with a GUI other than Motif with support for SVG and pixel images.

By: Jakob Petsovits

Jakob Petsovits — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:34:20 +0000

Great interview, apart from that KAtelier is a terrible name

By: Sergey

Sergey — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:08:27 +0000

Thanks for such a great interview! I’m looking forward to Krita 2.

By: dipesh

dipesh — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:33:25 +0000

Great one with lot of good details. Krita 2.0, rock your pixels

By: Alexandre

Alexandre — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:18:47 +0000

@DeeJay1

Yep, this one and two more. All fixed now, thanks