Re: KOffice status survey

On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Inge Wallin wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> We were discussing the tagging of the next alpha
together with KDE 4.0RC2
> on IRC today, and the topic of the current status of
KOffice came up.  It
> turns out that nobody really knows the full status, so
we decided to do a
> little survey.
>
> Would the maintainers of each component please reply to
this mail in the
> mailing list and state here:
>  * which features that are still not implemented, but
which you want for
> 2.0?

There are no items in 
http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=KOffice2/Goa
ls#Krita or 
http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=KOffice2/
Releases#Krita that still 
need to be started. The painterly infrastructure is
currently undergoing a 
complete rewrite (the fifth or sixth, I think), so that may
well not be in 
2.0, or only in a wayback-machined form. The thread-save,
garbage-collecting, 
compressing tile backend is again being worked on, but may
be too late for 
2.0. But all planned features and then some have had their
implementation 
started.

Some things, like pigment, general filter infrastructure,
painting 
infrastructure are in pretty good shape already. Many of the
improvements in 
Krita trunk are really good and impressive, even though
Krita trunk as a 
whole still isn't quite usable.

> * which features that exist, but are still far from
usable? 

Important things left are:

* layer/masks/nodes: the library side works, but the gui
side needs a lot of 
work still. The menu side is practically implemented, I need
to do the 
properties and the layerbox. (Note to self: why is the
thumbnail inverted 
nowadays?) 

* flake layers: it used to work, but is broken right now,
partly because of 
the above, partly needs investigation.

* loading/saving: .kra files don't work atm, not sure about
openraster.

* krita shape: depending on the above, plus some thought
about which tools 
would be most useful.

* filters: the on-screen preview stopped working, for the
rest, thanks to 
Cyrille's fix yesterday, filters should work, though the
dialog still needs 
gui work. When that's done, it's going to be easy to add
filters to the krita 
image shape.

* the image size/resolution dialog needs polish

* the krita part of the toolbox needs organizing again

* need to make the chinese brush draw anti-aliased lines
& fix up the paintop 
gui.

There will be some regressions in 2.0 vis-a-vis 1.6: 

* probably no RAW filter
* no brush-shaped outline cursor
* no tablet configuration

All in all, I think we're in a pretty good shape: I'm
confident that if we 
keep working like we've been working in the past month or
so, we'll have a 
very impressive release.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.va
ldyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> * loading/saving: .kra files don't work atm, not sure
about openraster.
OpenRaster seems to work, but as the spec isn't finished
(nor defines any file 
format yet), I am not even sure that we shouldn't disable it
in 2.0.

> * filters: the on-screen preview stopped working, for
the rest, thanks to
> Cyrille's fix yesterday, filters should work, though
the dialog still needs
> gui work. When that's done, it's going to be easy to
add filters to the
> krita image shape.
>
> * the image size/resolution dialog needs polish
>
> * the krita part of the toolbox needs organizing again
>
> * need to make the chinese brush draw anti-aliased
lines & fix up the
> paintop gui.

To the list I add :
* tone mapping add live preview and finish the dialog
* dynamic paint op : finish the basic coloring program and
use of KisBrush
* serialization : configuration of paint op, ressources
* metadata : XMP support (requires exiv2 0.16 which is
expected for this 
month)

> There will be some regressions in 2.0 vis-a-vis 1.6:
>
> * probably no RAW filter
> * no brush-shaped outline cursor
> * no tablet configuration
Is there a need for that ^^ ? Wasn't it remove because now
it just "work".

* no perspective grid (and so no perspective clone) and no
perspective 
transform tools
* no  some filters (like cimg and some other, that didn't
follow 1.6 filter 
philosophie, and now that it is law they can't build, and
can't be easily 
modified)

-- 
Cyrille Berger
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