Monthly Archives: March 2010

Institut de la Francophonie numérique sponsoring offer to travel to Libre Graphics Meeting

L’Institut de la Francophonie numérique is sponsoring travel and lodging to the Libre Graphics Meeting in Bruxelles on 27-30 May, for people from one of the country of francophonie, that are not France: Albanie, Arménie, Bénin, Bulgarie, Burkina Faso, Burundi, … Continue reading

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Braindump 0.8.0

A bit overdue, the first release of Braindump is available. It has been a while since I announced the project of making a tool that gather allow to dump your thoughts into an electronic form. For those who have forget … Continue reading

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Krita, a painting application, not really new news

The time when Krita was borne as KImageShop, as a Gimp-for-KDE is long gone. Not sure when this idea was killed, but it is clear that it has never really be the intention of the current team. The ambiguity of … Continue reading

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DesertScape

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Krita’s Hackfest, meeting with the Blender guys

During this week, Boudewijn is hosting Sven, Lukas and me for a Krita hackfest, dedicated to bug fixing, performance, UI improvement. Among the major improvements brought by that week are improvement in the memory consumption, thanks to a collaboration between … Continue reading

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The difficult choice of removing features

Adding a new feature is usually considered easy in the open source world, and then it is taken for granted. Removing a feature, on the other hand, it is a different story. It is not about making Krita less useful, … Continue reading

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Krita Meeting 2010 – Day 2

Yesterday was the second day of the krita meeting 2010. It was oriented toward technical discussions, and UI design discussions. In the technical area, I and Dmitry had a long talk on how to improve the filter API, to make … Continue reading

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