boudewijnrempt

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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Um... In my household we've gone through seven ereaders, used by four persons. Nobody has ever been able to bust the screen -- the reason people replaced their ereader was because the battery stopped being able to hold charge or the us
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
"I have never had a break-in, but if I did I'm sure I could hide a few kilos well enough that a regular burglar would never find it." Not on their own, but once they've found you, they've found the gold.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
"I wonder if such a legal mechanism exists which automatically triggers FOSS licensing upon acquisition or bankruptcy" The KDE-FreeQt foundation is such a mechanism: https://kde.org/community/whatiskde/kd
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Microsoft actually helped me put Krita in the Windows Store. The revenue from that meant that I not only didn't have to find another day job, but that I could hire two other people to work on Krita. Of course, we're cheapskates, a
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Thanks for the explanation!
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
How did you manage to break the page-up/page-down/home/end keys on that page?
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Digia hasn't been involved with Qt for years now. The Qt Company is an independent company.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Meh, having used Qt since 2000, I've never found that a problem in practice. After all, there've always been conversion functions.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Thanks! Now I've got a place to start at least!
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
That sounds interesting. I've cloned score and libossia, but I haven't found that code yet. Could you point me at it?
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
I see no reason to support OSX 10.11 anymore, just like I don't see any reason to support Windows 7 anymore. We have stay on Qt 5.12 because we haven't got the time/are too lazy to fix the bugs in later versions of Qt that br
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
I'll check it out... Does it use QML and the scenegraph, or does it have a custom C++ canvas widget implementation?
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
OpenGL works badly on MacOS and even worse on Windows unless translated through Angle. On Windows, using OpenGL directly will give performance problems and crashes _all the time_. And weird bugs, like red and blue swap on some combinations
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Krita started in 1999, but back then, there was no discussion at all; Krita was a KDE project so it would use Qt. The project was actually created because of a bit of ruckus over a patch that integrated Qt with GIMP. These days our team is
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
When I started working on Krita 2003, it was already using Qt, of course, so I didn't have much of a choice -- if I wanted to work on Krita. But then, in a nice piece of circular reasoning, I choose to work on Krita because it was usin
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
That wasn't so crazy back in the time; it had many time-honoured precedents, ranging from the Boer war internment camps to the SWA internment camps, to the ones in WWI in occupied France and Belgium, and, of course, the make-belief int
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
"there was certainly something going on that pushed the judge's buttons" Well, duh. She is black. That pushed the judge's buttons.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Of course, other people complain their boss cannot handle the name "gimp" because it's unprofessional. In any case, I've given you a solution. And, of course, it's not something you have to do on all the devices, yo
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Check out the works of Trish: https://twitter.com/geosi40 ! It's so awesome -- she made even me, who is a coder, explore abstract expression.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
I started working on Krita end of 2003; long after the application was added to KOffice and had gone through the KImageShop and KRayon names. It could do nothing but load images... In 2004, people had joined me to hack on it. We had the fir
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Well, if that is SO important, you can, on windows, create your own .lnk file adding the --no-splash startup option, on Linux add it to the .desktop file and on MacOS do whatever people do on MacOS. But honestly... I cannot imagine any envi
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Currently, we're making about 16k a month, and that's funding six people. The donations fund the seventh person.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
We make four to six times as much through the Windows Store than we get through donations on the krita.org website; with about 80,000 downloads through the website, and about 2000 downloads through the Store...
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
When Microsoft helped me get Krita in the Windows Store I hadn't much expectations. Now the Windows Store and Steam (fifty/fifty) bring in enough to pay me and six other people to work on Krita almost full-time. It has saved me fr
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Why not just download the appimage?
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Well, these days 22 years have passed since the original file format was designed -- and not by me, though I probably would have done the same thing, 22 years ago. Also, it's zip + xml files + binary files, not all xml.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
Well, we're not storing pixels in xml, but now we've got two xml files, one with author data, one descibing the image and a folder tree containing various kinds of binary data, all in a zip file. And yes, updating in place is a bo
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
It's really hard to update in place, we basically have to rewrite the whole file after a change, and, of course, we've got to do a lot of things ourselves, like inventing an xml format for describing the image.
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
I was surprised, but also intrigued when I discovered that Manga Studio (Clip Studio these days) used sqlite for the native file format, including the pixel planes. I wish my predecessor at Krita had made that choice, instead of choosing to
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by boudewijnrempt 6y ago
What I always admired about the ZX-Spectrum's Basic was that it skipped the entire idea of a lexer, because, well, the keyboard let you input tokens directly.

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