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The origin of Krita can be traced to Matthias Ettrich's at the 1998 Linux Kongress. Matthias wanted to show the ease with which it was possible to hack a Qt GUI around an existing application, and the application he chose to demo it with was GIMP. His patch was never published, but did cause problems with the GIMP community at the time.
Not being in a position to work together, people within the KDE project decided to start their own image editor application Development focused on an application that was part of the KOffice suite, called KImage, by Michael Koch. Renamed to KImageShop, this was the start of Krita.
At the 31st of May, 1999, the KImageShop project officially kicked off with a mail by Matthias Elter. The basic idea back then was to make KImageShop a GUI shell around ImageMagick. It was going to be a corba-based application with out-of-process filter plugins, compatible with GIMP plugins, which are also out-of-process, though of course not corba-based.
The name KImageShop fell foul of trademark law in Germany, and KImageShop was renamed to Krayon, which also appeared to infringe on an existing trademark, so Krayon was finally renamed to Krita in 2002.
הפיתוח הראשוני היה איטי אבל הואץ משמעותית החל מ־2003, מה שגרם להופעת המהדורה הציבורי הראשונה יחד עם KOffice 1.4 ב־2004. ב־2005, נוספה ל־Krita תמיכה בדגמי הצבע CMYK, Lab, YCbCr, XYZ וערוצים בעומק סיביות גבוה, לרבות תמיכה ב־OpenGL.
From 2004 to 2009, Krita was strongly focusing on being a generic image manipulation/painting application in the style of Photoshop or GIMP. Since 2009, the focus is squarely on painting: the Krita community aims to make Krita the best painting application for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists.
From 2009 onwards, the Krita project started funding community members to work on Krita by way of student jobs, in addition to development funded through Google Summer of Code. This experiment has resulted in a huge jump in stability and performance.
ב־2012, קהילת Krita [הקימה את קרן Krita](en/posts/2012/announcing-the-krita-foundation/ „הכרזה על קרן Krita”), כדי לספק תמיכה נוספת לפיתוח.
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