New development version of Gwenview-author Aurélien Gâteau   |

A few days ago I was looking at Gwenview NEWS file. That's when I noticed how much time has passed since I last released a new version. Seems like becoming a father has a bad effect on my "free time productivity" (still I enjoy it, don't worry!).

Anyway, I decided to get a new development version out, version 1.3.91. This version contains quite a lot of changes:

-Gwenview can now play videos and display SVG files.
-It's now possible to create symbolic links from the main menu and from the image contextual menu. (Patch by Steffen Schoenwiese)
-Zoom has been improved: you can now zoom to to width or height, and a zoom combobox has been added to the application and KPart toolbars.
-Read support for X cursors has been added.
-The slideshow now starts directly. Slideshow options like timing or fullscreen can be set from the configuration dialog. (Patch by Martin Filser)
-The slideshow now waits for the next image to be fully prefetched before advancing.
-The main toolbar is much lighter now that the image specific buttons have been moved to an image view toolbar.
-The file view from the folder KPart now features the same toolbar as in the application.
-The file view toolbar can now show a filter bar to filter images by name and/or date.
-The folder view has been reworked (this may not be definitive).
Grab your copy from the download page, but don't forget it's a development release...

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submitted by theobroma on June 24, 2006
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Ghosts of the past  |

It is not uncommon that when a program like Scribus grows so quickly and gets so many features added in such a short amount of time that some cleaning is necessary now and then. Throughout the 1.3.x series we have cleaned a lot of code up, fixed a lot of bugs uncovered by the cleaning, [...]
submitted by land0 on June 24, 2006
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OpenRaster-author Boudewijn Rempt   |

I’ve been quietly working on a discussion draft for an OpenRaster file format specification. The goal is to create an file format that fits right in with OpenDocument for layered raster images with extras (think adjustment layers). Dave Neary discussed this issue yesterday, which was just the kick in the pants I needed to continue work.


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submitted by theobroma on June 20, 2006
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Krita plugins tutorial-author Boudewijn Rempt   |

Krita is quite extensible. You can add new filters, of course, and chunks of user interface like scaling dialogs, and new tools — like weird and wonderful selection tools or a path tool like the one that is right now being worked on for Google’s Summer Of Code. But also new ways for existing tools to paint. I’m working on a Chinese brush simulation based on Clara Chan’s interpretation of Strassman’s Hairy Brushes for Krita 1.6. And finally, you can add complete new colorspaces. We’ve already got various rgb, cmyk and grayscale colorspaces, and also xyz, lab, yuv and lms — but there is no end to the possibilities.

However, the best API is useless without a good tutorial, and I’ve just completed the first draft of Developing Krita Plugins. Apart from extending Krita with C++ plugins (and, if you manage to get automake and gcj to play ball, java), you can use Krita’s document scripting interface to create scripts in python and ruby. And there’s dcop, too, of course, but that’s not as well documented.

So, if you’ve always thought Krita was nothing more than a glorified icon editor, you can now change that. Go ye therefore, and code all kinds of plugins, extending Krita in weird and wonderful ways, in C++ and Java and Python and Ruby.

ps. What I also wanted to say… Krita’s got a pretty good manual, too, in case you just wanted to use this icon editor.


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Annoucement of krita-plugins 1.5-2  |

Here is the secound release of krita-plugins, it includes bug fix for the blur and unsharp mask filters. And I have also remove the red-eye tool considering the many problems some of you had with it.

You can download it from the kde ftp servers or access to the kde-apps page.
submitted by land0 on June 15, 2006
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The Kross scripting bridge  |

While we have been trying to advertise kross, we have been from being successfull so far. But I think we are making some progress lately, so I will speak once again about kross.

What is it ?The Kross scripting bridge to embed scripting functionality into an application.
abstract API to access the scripting functionality. Here are some of it's key feature:

  • kross is independent of the interpreter, it currently supports python and ruby, but kjs/kjsembedded is planned and maybe java too
  • Qt/KDE based, so use the extended techs both spends. It's a very important poin, kross is not dependent on libkoffice, from discution I had on irc, it seems that among the few people aware of it, they believe that it can only be used in a koffice application.
submitted by land0 on June 12, 2006
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Do you enjoy parsing XML?  |

Well, that might depend on how you do it. Using DOM is quite easy, although it might be a bit tedious if you have to traverse the whole DOM tree to create your application specific data structure (and of course it’s slow). Using SAX is faster, but programming all those handlers can be just as [...]
submitted by land0 on June 6, 2006
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File Loader (2)  |

Finally, loading of 0.x, 1.x, 1.2.x and 1.3.x=>1.3.3 file formats is now coded with the FileLoader plugin. Work can begin fairly quickly on the file format code for 1.3.4, OR at least which was my main urge to get this code done: massive format changes for Andreas and Riku to support inherited text styles, Unicode [...]
submitted by land0 on June 4, 2006
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Color management in Koffice-author Casper Boemann   | |
Krita has always been able to do color management of it's images. I've now begun bringing that technology to the rest of KOffice. This will be another important step in bringing KOffice 2.0 up in the big league.

Color management is a very important feature in a professional setting like printing and web design. To understand what it is all about think of a webdesigner. She sits at her own computer and creates a page with colors that look stunning on her monitor. Unfortunately no two monitors show colors in the same way, so without colormangement it might look quite different when someone else views it on another monitor.

The way color management ensures that colors look the same on both (and indeed every) monitor is through the use of profiles. It's possible to measure the profile of a monitor. So the color management software just have to tweek the rgb triplets so the visual effect is the same.
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submitted by theobroma on June 4, 2006
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Why no CMYK in GIMP is a good thing… now  |

One thing about GIMP which generates lots of virtual ink, but not much enlightenment is the lack of CMYK support in GIMP. Post a subject on slashdot with OSS + graphics and watch the flames begin… About 50% of the Scribus 1.0 story was GIMP vs PS flaming… Sad.Many many people have moaned, complained and [...]
submitted by land0 on June 2, 2006
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