I genuinely wonder how much that anime waifu logo is costing the project
I’d be surprised if it is not donated.
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#192I'm migrating from Krita to Photoshop lately. Don't get me wrong, I love Krita. I used it for years and I wrote ~30+ bug reports. It's a positive thing -- I won't bother reporting bugs to Adobe cause I know they don't care, unlike Krita devs. However every time I need to collaborate with someone else, they use Photoshop. They use .psd like it's an interchangeable format[1]. Out of 10+ artists I've only seen one who d…
Does that one (1) non-Photoshop artist prefer .xcf?
Clip Studio Paint. I highly doubt any of them even knows .xcf (I didn't ask tho).
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#193I want someone to build this: SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) are slowly becoming ubiquitus around the world due to regulation. I want to be able to aggregate all SBOMs within my company, have a small tool that scans my machine and creates a SBOM for all Open Source tools I use (e.g. Firefox, VLC etc.), uploads that to my corporate registry. This data is then submitted to a donation aggregator which analyzes those…
You need to audit the places it’s being donated to. Do they actually spend it on making the software you depend on better and paying the people making the software. Or is it a Processing Foundation situation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37760363
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#194The problem here to me is that Krita is simply a mess. Krita is supposedly part of the KDE project, which is committed to switching to wayland, but has 0 wayland support. In practice, that means that if you use other input devices they can have bugs that make it unusable. So it's Linux story is weak. A very bad start for a KDE app...but at least maybe on Windows it works well. Well the problem then is it does the cla…
Krita has issues with X too. Using X11/libinput touchpad: pinch-to-zoom doesn't work in Krita but does work in KDE's ms paint clone Kolourpaint.
I've also found Krita to be unsatisfactory for drawing pixel art. Select the pixel art brush and set it to be 3px wide, then draw a rectangle with the rectangle tool. This creates a rectangle with inexplicably jagged edges (http://0x0.st/HWyi.jpg). Turn off sharpness for the brush and try again, it seems to work now but selecting the background color with the similar color selection tool will reveal that the jagged edges are still present but very faint (http://0x0.st/HWyz.jpg). All of this happens with a 3px brush but not a 2px brush. It's bizarre. I suppose most digital painters don't notice/care about this, but it's a deal breaker for me.
I dislike the Krita icons as well. I would like colorful icons so my eyes can scan them quickly but some halfwit designer got it in their head that all the icons should be monochrome and there doesn't seem to be any way I can choose or create other icon themes.
I really want to like Krita, but it just doesn't work with me. All I really want is "MS Paint but with layers" but that's evidently too much to ask on Linux. I've tried more than a dozen painting programs and they're all disappointing.
Re: Krita fund has no corporate support
#195I'm migrating from Krita to Photoshop lately. Don't get me wrong, I love Krita. I used it for years and I wrote ~30+ bug reports. It's a positive thing -- I won't bother reporting bugs to Adobe cause I know they don't care, unlike Krita devs. However every time I need to collaborate with someone else, they use Photoshop. They use .psd like it's an interchangeable format[1]. Out of 10+ artists I've only seen one who d…
Not to detract from raincole's point, and this is not relevant at all to their problem, but just a general reminder that in many ways Krita is not a direct competitor to Photoshop unless you're using Photoshop as a digital painting tool -- and if you are, I would argue that Krita is arguably a better product in multiple ways. I think that Photoshop is an image manipulator first and foremost, and Krita is a tool for d…
I agree. Off the top of my head, the most important new features they introduced in recent years were:
Krita: A new brush engine. A new file format for brushes. Some animation features that I don't use. New text system.
PS: AI-based object selection. AI-based neural filter. AI-based generative fill. New Javascript API for plugins.
It's quite clear that Adobe doesn't see PS as a digital painting app, but an (AI-assisted) image manipulation app.
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#196It always feels like open source enthusiasts would never pay for something themselves, but expect that their boss will for some reason. What would your boss get by paying that he/she isn't already getting for free?
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
Economies of scale can plateau, yes. In those cases I’d argue there’s a niche for a medium-sized company. (Most law is in this category.) But if there are further economies of scale, the company that seizes the worldwide market will simply have lower costs and more R&D capital to work with.
> the company that seizes the worldwide market will simply have lower costs Not necessarily. Let's imagine a company that does budgeting and bank account centralisation, sold as a SaaS. A global company has to work on integrations with banks all around the world, data privacy regulations all around the world, translations including in right to left languages, fun stuff like UPI in India, cash payments to a machine in…
> A global company has to work on integrations with banks all around the world, data privacy regulations all around the world, translations including in right to left languages, fun stuff like UPI in India, cash payments to a machine in Japan, currency conversions etc. Meanwhile a Bulgarian startup in that space only needs to interface with the 15 local banks and use EU-mandated APIs
You're describing a system with economies of scale, up to a point, followed by negative economies of scale. That's my argument: this is a good business for a European company to dominate.
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#198It always feels like open source enthusiasts would never pay for something themselves, but expect that their boss will for some reason. What would your boss get by paying that he/she isn't already getting for free?
Because we expect the person making money from the tool to help pay for it. This applies to individuals as well if the tool is making them money
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#199Why does it say "5 developers $ 17k / month"? Is that 1 developer of $17k / month? (So a $204k annual salary?) Or, does it mean 5 developers for $17k / month (i.e. a $40k annual salary?) If it's the latter, I'm highly concerned. Even in countries like India salaries like $60k USD (INR 50 lakh) has become a bare minimum for software engineers who are even the least bit talented... For a really good software developer…
Wow that whole comment suggests you're SF/SV-based.
180k is top pay for a dev in most of America. 50-60k is entry-level pay for a dev in most of America. 350k is really uncommon outside of your bubble.
Are you really suggesting Indians make as much and even more? Then why are companies offshoring to them when they could just hire local juniors for the same price?
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#200It always feels like open source enthusiasts would never pay for something themselves, but expect that their boss will for some reason. What would your boss get by paying that he/she isn't already getting for free?
It would help if the projects had some option to purchase a license or subscription, even if the application is open source. Lots of employees have a company credit card and the authorization to use it for small productivity purchases. But it would have to be a business expense that is easy to file, not a donation.