[Design-devel] Bug#766843: Bug#766843: design-desktop-graphics: please also include krita

[Martin Steigerwald]

Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2014, 13:05:00 schrieb Jonas Smedegaard:
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Quoting Martin Steigerwald (2014-10-26 10:57:43)
[…]
> > I think Krita would be a really nice addition to that.
> > 
> > https://krita.org/
> > 
> > The recent version (2.8.5) of it is packaged in Debian currently.
> > 
> > Or maybe do "gimp | krita" so people can choose? Or add Krita as
> > recommends.
> > 
> > I think its a good idea to make people aware that Krita can be used as
> > an alternative. For the little work I do I mostly use Krita meanwhile
> > as I find it easier to work with.
> > 
> > I bet you do not want to overload the meta package with dependencies,
> > but…
> > Krita is really a huge one to omit and you have mypaint in there as
> > well.
> 
> Yes, Krita is sure relevant to include.  Thanks for reporting that!
> 
> Its strong ties with KDE is a problem for some, however, both for its
> size (it pulls in 3-400MB on an otherwise non-KDE system) and getting a
> consistent user experience across applications gets more challenging.
> 
> Conversely some may want to mix design tools with the KDE desktop, and
> currently they will get the XFCE desktop as unneeded "baggage".
> 
> At its current stage the Debian design blends are only targeted use with
> Xfce.  I will postpone inclusion of Krita until we have redesigned (pun
> intended) the packaging structure to better handle integration with
> multiple desktop environments.

Yup. I thought about that as well.

But splitting blend package in KDE/qt and GNOME/XFCE/gtk variants… hmmm.

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