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Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by dahart »

jeroenhd wrote: post #12
uberdoogle wrote: post #2

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If your workplace has a rule against cutesy mascots, you can use --no-splash to disable the splash screen on all platforms. I'm not sure what place of work would consider this mascot to be NSFW (maybe a theocratic country where women are forced to hide their bodies for religious reasons?) but the switch doesn't prevent mascot from popping up elsewhere, so if you are in such a place you should probably avoid this prog…

There doesn’t have to be a rule against cutesy mascots for the Krita splash to be just a little bit weird. I don’t have pictures of any women not in my family, especially young girls, on my desk, and people around me would consider it weird if I did, and I would consider it a little weird if they did. True, the switch doesn’t prevent female anime mascots from popping up elsewhere, yet somehow that’s not a problem I’ve ever had, is it common for you?

* edit I don’t know or understand why this is being downvoted, but to make the point slightly more clearly, Krita’s splash screens are only slightly unprofessional, and they are are slightly unprofessional for exactly the same reason that using the Lena image in computer vision is now considered slightly unprofessional. People are free to disagree, but it’s a fact that some people don’t love it, and that’s all that’s needed to make it “semi” inappropriate for work. It’s nothing obscene, nothing in your face, it’s just slightly suggestive in a way that not everyone wants at work.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by jonnycomputer »

jrootabega wrote: post #39
macintux wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Yeah, this guy getting suppressed is a clear abuse of the HN voting system.

The post's author made a factual statement relevant to many people who might consider using the software in an office environment. It should not have been downvoted, or flagged. It would have been useful to include information on how to suppress the splash screen though.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by dontlaugh »

RobotToaster wrote: post #32
acapybara wrote: post #17

As a long-time user and supporter of Krita, I'm thrilled to see it mentioned here. However, I must express my concern about the choice of emphasizing "FREE" in all caps in this headline. While I understand that the cost-free nature of open-source software is certainly appealing, I feel that this particular framing could cheapen the overall value proposition of Krita. Krita has much more to offer than just being free.…

"“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. Thus, “free software” is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of “free” as in “free speech,” not as in “free beer.” We sometimes call it “libre software,” borrowing the French or Spanish wo…

Almost no one uses the term that way, though. Certainly not the vast majority of possible users.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by dahart »

jrootabega wrote: post #39
macintux wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Yeah, this guy getting suppressed is a clear abuse of the HN voting system.

I tried to vouch as well and it didn’t work. Does a second flag lock the comment dead?

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by pdntspa »

acapybara wrote: post #17

As a long-time user and supporter of Krita, I'm thrilled to see it mentioned here. However, I must express my concern about the choice of emphasizing "FREE" in all caps in this headline. While I understand that the cost-free nature of open-source software is certainly appealing, I feel that this particular framing could cheapen the overall value proposition of Krita. Krita has much more to offer than just being free.…

FREE is super important.

There's lots of people in the world who can barely afford their computers, let alone the software to run on it.

Personally I launched my career from a self-education that made heavy use of pirated and open-source software. I would never have been able to buy software without that start.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by jeroenhd »

PrimeMcFly wrote: post #35
jeroenhd wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a shame Paint.NET doesn't work in Wine. Gimp can do way too much, Krita is mostly for artists, and the various lightweight MS Paint alternatives lack things like layers. Paint.NET has fulfilled my requirements for quick image editing quite nicely during my Windows days. However, I wouldn't call it a competitor to Krita. Krita is very much oriented at artists making digital art whereas Paint.NET is much more pict…

If not Krita, then what might be a better alternative to Paint.NET?

Pinta served me well, but on modern distributions it's become unstable. I've resorted to GIMP and Photopea these days.

I'm jealous of the image editor built into SerenityOS (PixelPaint). It's getting awfully close to everything I want out of an image editor, but I'm not brave enough to try to port a Serenity application to Linux.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by dahart »

nojonestownpls wrote: post #47
raincole wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How... how is that semi-NSFW...?

"It's not from my culture and I find unfamiliar things scary, so I'm gonna call it NSFW"

That’s 100% straw man. The issue isn’t the anime cultural reference, the issue is that the splash screens are a slightly suggestive picture of a female child/teenager who’s not in my family, which is creepy for adult males to have on display at work regardless of which country you live in.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by anyfactor »

acapybara wrote: post #17

As a long-time user and supporter of Krita, I'm thrilled to see it mentioned here. However, I must express my concern about the choice of emphasizing "FREE" in all caps in this headline. While I understand that the cost-free nature of open-source software is certainly appealing, I feel that this particular framing could cheapen the overall value proposition of Krita. Krita has much more to offer than just being free.…

We have the same situation at work. We have a couple of fantastic "free" data products that should have a price tag of hundreds of dollars.

I personally mention "Open access enterprise ready data" but it doesn't have the same "oomph" as saying it is free. The product is shared under CC-BY-SA and we geniunely treat it as an enterprise level product with no compromise. But yeah the keyword "free" does dilute the percieved quality of the product.

Re: Krita: A professional free and open source painting program

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Post by prophesi »

I was actually looking into Krita the other day to see if it's possible for an iOS/iPad build to come out once side-loading is possible on those platforms. From what I can gather[0], it seems like there's already a working iPad build which is exciting. I'm hoping an alternative app store comes out as well to properly pay for it.

[0] https://krita-artists.org/t/in-theory-could-krita-be-ported-...

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