Krita 3.0 Pre-Alpha 3 Released, Krita 3 Official Due Next Month

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Krita 3.0 Pre-Alpha 3 Released, Krita 3 Official Due Next Month

The crew behind the incredible Krita KDE drawing program has today announced they've gone into a feature freeze for Krita 3.0 and have decided to release 3.0 Pre-Alpha 3...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Krita-3.0-Pre-Alpha-3

[rabcor]

Niice! Any performance improvements? All the issues I've had with Krita ever were performance related, from lag while drawing to program stability.

[boudewijnrempt]

Niice! Any performance improvements? All the issues I've had with Krita ever were performance related, from lag while drawing to program stability.

Yes -- that's what Instant Preview is for, for instance.

[rabcor]

Yes -- that's what Instant Preview is for, for instance.

Oh you finally fixed that drawing lag then? Sounds pretty nice, I look forward to using it; now I'm arguing with myself whether to wait for official release or download the pre alpha, to sneak a peek, hmm. I'm even a little hyped now.

[ElectricPrism]

Rules and Guides! Fantastic. Also looks like it's distributed as a .AppImage so I guess I don't need to install it to try it out? Thats neat.

[Rezza]

Well, it looks great. I'm glad I contributed a few bucks and everyone likes the t-shirt. Just for appimage - ./krita3-prealpha3-de0d43d-x86_64.appimage: symbol lookup error: /lib64/libxcb-dri3.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_send_fd. What about Xdg-app?

[uid313]

Can I use the touch screen on my Android phone or tablet to draw on Krita?

[boudewijnrempt]

The dri3 problem seems fedora specific: we were building with dri2... I'll have to ask Probono what to do about it. Someone did report a bug:https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360552

There is currently no support, as far as I know, to use an Android phone or tablet as input device, so I doubt that'll work, unless the drivers on the PC emulate Wintab (for WIndows) or xinput (for Linux). If that's the case, then it should just work.

[CrystalGamma]

Hmm, that new blending mode looks useful …