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Flabbergasting. Krita's development started almost 20 years ago... and it is the first time I ever hear about it.

My impression is that the American software community sometimes doesn't pay much attention to what's coming out of Europe. Have a look at other KDE-based programs if you haven't already - IME KVirc, Kile, KTorrent, and indeed Konqueror and KMail are best-in-class.

I accidentally installed the group of KDE applications on my laptop and am consistently amazed by how many cool/useful tools there are. It's better than MacOS utilities or similar windows tools by a wide margin.

Cantor is the latest one I found. It's basically a Jupiter notebook that runs natively instead of in a web browser.

It's actually where WebKit came from... KHTML.

> KMail are best-in-class.

As someone who uses KMail every day, no, it really isn't. KMail is in need of some polish.

Is there a mail client where that isn't true? Best in class might just not be as high a bar as we'd like in this area.

Outlook is pretty close. What I really want, though, is GMail style conversation view that works with traditional inline replies.

A lot of the KDEPIM devs are working on Kube, which might be what you are after in... a long time. Whenever its ready. Though its been in development for two years and its soon to release 0.6, so it probably won't hit 1.0 for another two.

I think a large portion of the problem discovering things here is that they often have very counterintuitive names. Krita is very logical for me as swedish but outside Sweden not so much I guess.

Apache is a webserver? Really? Konqueror is probably a game, right? :-)

Well... The project was originally named KImageShop. Not entirely unexpectedly, that ended in lawyerly trouble. Not initiated by Adobe, though!

Kritas first name was KImageShop, which got legal threat from a German lawyer for being too similar to Photoshop. They renamed it Krayon, which the same lawyer threatened over it being too similar to Crayon. So they then went with Krita, because it wasn't a name already associated to a popular brand having anything to do with art in Germany.

I mean, Internet Explorer and Safari are pretty much named the same as Konqueror.

Only Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Opera and Vivaldi manage to be even farther away from any sort of association with the internet.

Here's a list of every release we ever made: https://krita.org/en/krita-releases-overview/

Thanks a lot. This is great — always nice to try new tools.

It’s often mentioned on HN. That’s how i discovered it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=krita&sort=byPopularity&prefix...

Is there a way to get weekly summary of HN for the top stories? There are probably lots of stories I miss.

I use Materialistic[0] which besides the usual features has a "catch up" function which can be set to past 24 hrs, week, month, year. I don't use it much, but it just crashed when I did, so ymmv

0- https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialistic/

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