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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Martin Steigerwald (2014-10-26 13:46:12)
> Am Sonntag, 26. Oktober 2014, 20:06:36 schrieb Paul Wise:
>> gimp and krita serve different purposes, it should be "krita | 
>> mypaint" (or the reverse) instead.
>
> My priority would be krita | mypaint… but well I don´t know mypaint 
> very well.
> I just know Krita has gotten a lot of love of developers, also by 
> usability testing with artists, to make it really awesome for digital 
> painting.

That's a good point in its own right: That has priority for users who 
care less about consistency across applications or size, and more about 
quality of each individual application.  We sure want to support those 
users too (but not only those - and it is far easier to start with the 
more constrained composition and optionally loosen the constraints.


> Sometimes it would be nice to have it like this:
>
> apt-get install design-desktop-graphics
>
> and then get a checkbox menu on which of the ones to install.
>
> But then how to keep track which packages the meta package should keep 
> installed?

Indeed that would be nice.  Current infrastructure in Debian do not 
support "chained" package installs (install blend package containing 
question → install other packages based on answer to the question).

What we will likely do for Debian Design in the foreseeable future is 
allow you to do these (less elegant but doable within current Debian):

  a) apt-get install design-desktop-graphics-kde
  b) apt-get install kde-workspace design-graphics-kde
  c) apt-get install plasma-desktop design-graphics-kde
  d) apt-get install task-kde-desktop design-graphics-kde

Where a) would provide you the blend composed by the Debian Design team 
including a composition of KDE, and b)-d) would provide you a "blend of 
blends" mixing the Debian Design team's composition of packages suitable 
for graphics designers with other teams' composition of KDE.

All of above would then pull in krita but also (through recommending 
design-graphics) other non-heavy (i.e. non-KDE and non-GNOME) packages 
suitable for graphics designers.


> I also wonder about the visibility to meta packages like this. I am 
> not aware of a complete list of them. I am away of debian junior, 
> debian med, recently saw parl for parliamentary work… but how does the 
> user discover these? Well thats to a different forum to discuss 
> probably, just wondered about it.

[Paul answered that by replying via relevant debian-blends list]

(...and thanks for noticing DebianParl!)


 - Jonas

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