Wow I have missed cool KDE Developments especially Krita
Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:14 am
Currently, I'm running Fedora 7 on my main workstation at work. Gnome looks beautiful in Fedora 7 and also runs very very well, however little things like menu lags and other things made it "feel" a little slow on my 1.1GHz with 512megs of RAM. So per Troel's suggestion I installed KDE. KDE has been nice and does feel more snappy on this machine.
While running KDE I have been sticking to mostly Open Office and Gnome apps like gFTP and others. I was having trouble with getting my website to validate under XHTML 1.1 Strick, mostly because I still was trying to put in code from my HTML 3.2 days, and I'm no web designer. So I installed Quanta+ to help me sort out all of the issues.
I'm not a graphic artist either, however, when I installed Quanta+ Fedora installed all of the KOffice suite. Krita came with the bunch. I opened it curious to see what it was like. Immediately, I figured out simply image editing tasks when I opened some graphic files that I had laying around on the computer. In fact, it was so easy I decided to do something I never would have thought of doing, making some new userbars. I always liked the look of Troel's posts with the userbars, and most of of the long time forum members have avatars so I thought I would get one of those made too. In a few hours with Krita I had it all done. In my signature you see the results. It is nothing fancy, but I like the end result.
I cropped and resized a picture for my avatar in seconds. I noticed that some of the distros I use all of the time don't have userbars like FreeNAS and DSL (Damn Small Linux). I created the DSL one first, by doing a gradient fill with the gradient tool, then cropped the DSL penguin and resized then pasted, and added text. Then I did the FreeNAS one by doing a simple edit of a FreeBSD one that changed the BSD to NAS. Finally, I found a NetBSD one that used the new logo, but everything was goldish instead of the logo colors which are primarily an orange flag and gray background. So I edited that up, with fill tools and color pickers.
I know that when at LUG meetings someone asks about an image editor the usual response is GIMP, however, most people don't need all of the power of GIMP or Photoshop. They just want to do a few things with photos or graphics. I know that GIMP just confuses me when I want to do simple things with images.
Anyway, I thought I would just encourage all to take a look at KOffice suite and maybe you will find some other cool things in there too. I'm planning to look into Kwrite, but honestly most of my writing has been switched over to vim on the CLI for what I do, so I don't even use OpenOffice much unless I'm looking at Word Documents.
While running KDE I have been sticking to mostly Open Office and Gnome apps like gFTP and others. I was having trouble with getting my website to validate under XHTML 1.1 Strick, mostly because I still was trying to put in code from my HTML 3.2 days, and I'm no web designer. So I installed Quanta+ to help me sort out all of the issues.
I'm not a graphic artist either, however, when I installed Quanta+ Fedora installed all of the KOffice suite. Krita came with the bunch. I opened it curious to see what it was like. Immediately, I figured out simply image editing tasks when I opened some graphic files that I had laying around on the computer. In fact, it was so easy I decided to do something I never would have thought of doing, making some new userbars. I always liked the look of Troel's posts with the userbars, and most of of the long time forum members have avatars so I thought I would get one of those made too. In a few hours with Krita I had it all done. In my signature you see the results. It is nothing fancy, but I like the end result.
I cropped and resized a picture for my avatar in seconds. I noticed that some of the distros I use all of the time don't have userbars like FreeNAS and DSL (Damn Small Linux). I created the DSL one first, by doing a gradient fill with the gradient tool, then cropped the DSL penguin and resized then pasted, and added text. Then I did the FreeNAS one by doing a simple edit of a FreeBSD one that changed the BSD to NAS. Finally, I found a NetBSD one that used the new logo, but everything was goldish instead of the logo colors which are primarily an orange flag and gray background. So I edited that up, with fill tools and color pickers.
I know that when at LUG meetings someone asks about an image editor the usual response is GIMP, however, most people don't need all of the power of GIMP or Photoshop. They just want to do a few things with photos or graphics. I know that GIMP just confuses me when I want to do simple things with images.
Anyway, I thought I would just encourage all to take a look at KOffice suite and maybe you will find some other cool things in there too. I'm planning to look into Kwrite, but honestly most of my writing has been switched over to vim on the CLI for what I do, so I don't even use OpenOffice much unless I'm looking at Word Documents.