Kirta, the famous free software that we have talked about so many times in this blog, has now launched a new campaign that seems to give clues to the news that this software will bring thanks to the slogan «Let's make Text and Vector Art Awesome«. A sponsorship campaign that is very popular for what will come in this digital drawing and painting software that has little to envy to other closed and paid projects.
Krita has surprises in store for 2016, something that has been common in this software that is one of the most respected projects within free software due to its professionalism and relevance. Step by step it has evolved from within KDE to become a great project independent of the Calligra suite and that lovers of digital design love above other alternatives such as PhotoShop, etc., thanks to its flexibility and advanced tools for its mission.
Krita this time does not claim to be faster than Adobe PhotoShop or to develop basic animation support, bug fixes and other simple implementations, it is about setting ambitious goals for 2016 which are: improve text editing and vector graphics support. For this, a new text tool will be implemented, which until now is shared as the Calligra office suite.
What the developers want is to optimize the new text tool to eliminate unnecessary elements and add new complex functionalities for create posters, comics, or card games. But it will be easy to use and will offer advanced features for controlling fonts, writing in different senses, new styles, languages, adding scripts, etc. And then there's the vector graphics enhancement part of replacing ODG with the SVG standard.
Excellent
Everyone repeats that in Linux Gimp and Inkscape have nothing to envy to Adobe or Corel, well that's a lie, let's not fool ourselves anymore. KDE in most of the comments is harshly criticized by the same Linux users and free software or open source, why? For decades KDE has been one of the most serious projects that I have seen since Linux exists, beyond the tastes of each one, that I bet on the future and that has given us great pieces of code such as Amarok, Ktorrent, Krusader, K3B, the same KDE desktop, Calligra, Kdnlive, and surely some more, but since the release of KDE 4 his work has been incredible, does anyone remember krita before KDE 4? Today is the best I have used in Linux by far, really easy to use and quick to learn and above all seriously the most professional thing I have seen in Linux, for decades I have to use two PCs, one with Linux and the other with Windows, precisely because In Linux I could not find something decent, excellent surprise with Krita, hopefully many developers take note and begin to understand that Linux is already a toy of geeks or programmers, thousands and maybe millions of users are crying out for a couple of professional applications to leave Windows permanently, don't you think it's about time? Don't make the same mistake you made when Corel started dabbling in Linux, remember? Many will deny it but Corel Linux was played by Debian when Red Hat was the good king. I'm not going to explain what happened next because they already know, but how did the little children behave with their toy? Today Corel could be a great free software company and have dragged many others with it, but immaturity, fanaticism and lack of vision for the future destroyed a great possibility for Linux, today I remind you that Microsoft is one of the great contributors of code to the Linux kernel ... you have to learn from mistakes and not pull against those who advance. Congratulations to KDE!