On 02/24/2013 09:44 AM, Len Ovens wrote:
My opinion is that integration is over rated :)  Adding krita is 38Mb on
the ISO or so. I am downloading it now to try. I find mypaint hard to use,
but that is mostly because there is not an artist using the mouse :P
I agree with you about integration, mostly. One major thing to be said about the 'kde' integration is the ease of setting up custom keybindings for wacom tablets (what digital artist uses a mouse anymore?! ;) ).

I know that XFCE has some basic setup for tablets, and the pressure sensitivity is still used in Mypaint etc while under xfce, but being able to specifically configure the tablet for KDE apps in general is the real plus of KDE+Krita.

I would say that I tend to use Mypaint for quick sketches in xfce, but if I'm going to do some real intensive painting sessions, I boot up a Kubuntu session with my specific tablet settings. The main drawback for me is that I always feel like there is A LOT of overhead using KDE just to get this functionality, but I don't have the time, or really the technical know-how to implement this type of thing in xfce.

Krita is a great piece of software, and in some regards is really pushing new boundaries with digital painting in free-software :

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/krita-2.6-released

This alone is reason enough to add it to US, but perhaps some effort upstream to make XFCE's tablet configuration more robust would be the real winner for every piece of digital painting software in US!

Just my 2 cents,

- Benjamin

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