The office suite of KDE SC, Calligra, has reached its version 2.8 and although it does not have really relevant changes in the word processor or the spreadsheet processor, its editing and image creation tool has received a lot of pampering.
I mean Chalk, a tool that little by little is gaining maturity and is becoming an excellent alternative to homologous applications that are proprietary.
In fact, Krita 2.8 stands out for being the first Stable version available for Microsoft Windows, although its developers recognize that it does not behave in the same way as its version for GNU / LinuxWhere Chalk it really shines.
Important have been the improvements added to improve compatibility with Tablets and devices Wacom. The developers of Chalk They have improved the API for tablets and the drawing is now much smoother, being able to process much more information, as they tell us on their official website.
To this are added corrections to problems that were previously presented with OpenGL. By Boudewijn Rempt (developer), that's because by default, scaling OpenGL it uses some fast but imprecise algorithms and the latest version of Krita has fixed that problem. As a result, even on small scales, the high-quality scaling option gives beautiful and fast results.
It will work Chalk en cheap tablets, especially those BQ tablets that are now so fashionable in my country? Without a doubt, if I could run KDE or its applications in one of them, I would consider buying one. But I confess that I don't find this kind of technological gadget useful.
Although we already saw interesting changes in the interface of Chalk, I still do not adapt to their way of working, their Shortcodes or tools and I always end up working with GIMP e Inkscape. But if you doubt I'll have to give it a try.
I also believe, as I said in a comment not long ago, that it is valid that the interface of Krita 2.8 is so similar to Adobe applications, since it would make life easier for designers and they could find in this tool one more option to carry out their work.
hopefully continue to improve ...
Eduardo Medina jumping for joy in 3, 2, 1 ...
The truth is that it is a good non-vector-dependent illustration software, so it is quite useful for those people who like to use their hand to illustrate.
Still, I have gotten used to working more with Photoshop and Illustrator more because of the way the tools are handled (GIMP and Inkscape are good, but the modus operandi of their tools hinders my work rate to be honest, although I will give you a bit of my time to give them a little taste from time to time).
Well, on my Nexus 7 I can install Plasma Active 3 and use Krita ... Or so it would be, if it wasn't so bugged (relative to the device).