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Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 15:32
by Rava
Would it need any missing QT dependencies when running it on XFCe Porteus? If no, I would give it a try... especially since you want it as x86-64 version.

If it needs QT dependencies I would still try to compile it for you, but then it might take longer. Sorry but RL is having a high time toll on me. </digress>

Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 01 Sep 2015, 21:47
by Rava
I looked at https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/ and they mention KDE a lot, so, most probably Krita will need some KDE dependencies, with makes it... less interesting for a non KDE GUI Linux... :(

Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 10 Sep 2015, 16:20
by beny
hi krita need the kde environment to work..

Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 21 Sep 2015, 23:13
by Rava
beny wrote:hi krita need the kde environment to work..
Obviously...

Now, I never approached that before, but how difficult is it to change from the source code, a program like that, remove its KDE dependencies to make it better / more slim for users of XFCe / LX?? ?

Me presumes that's at least 30% of code-re-writing, or such aka not possible for me. :%)

Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 22 Sep 2015, 02:16
by ncmprhnsbl
de-kde ing krita would be nigh impossible i suspect
Krita is a part of the Calligra (office suite)package in slackware,
some other distros split Calligra into parts.. which require calligra libs, kdebase-runtime etc
krita is by far the biggest part of calligra btw (freakin huge}
bear in mind all this is going to transition to qt5 and frameworks etc in the future
which 'may' make it simpler,,

Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 22 Sep 2015, 04:52
by Rava
ncmprhnsbl wrote:bear in mind all this is going to transition to qt5 and frameworks etc in the future
which 'may' make it simpler,,
Maybe then I have some .... fun trying my de-KDE-ing it with a rc or alpha version of qt5 based Krita....

darn.... and it looked so neat. Me thinks I need to look for other GIMP / painting program alternatives. I love my GIMP, but it is huge.

And mtPaint is often sucky, like, I not even know how to fill the background and make the transition border to the painted parts so that it gets smoothly filled, cause I have no idea where mtPaint does have the settings for that. I know how to make it with Gimp...

Still, easy manips and such, are often quicker done with mtPaint since it has a more slim surface and is also quicker to load. :) </digress>

Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 23 Sep 2015, 22:03
by ncmprhnsbl
the main advantage the krita has at the moment is cmyk? colour support for printing... not essential for the average user..
as for light weight , check out AZpainter..
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=3553

Re: Krita (Qt centric Gimp alternative)

Posted: 23 Sep 2015, 22:08
by Rava
ncmprhnsbl wrote:the main advantage the krita has at the moment is cmyk? colour support for printing... not essential for the average user..
There is no way using cmyk with GIMP? O___o
ncmprhnsbl wrote:as for light weight , check out AZpainter..
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=3553
Will do, thanks for the tip. <B