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Krita has come a long way since it was started -- as KImageShop, the KDE Linux Desktop answer to Photoshop, or GIMP, depending on who you ask. Until 2010, Krita's development roadmap was basically, "do whatever Photoshop does, do whatever Gimp does, don't neglect what Cinepaint offers." Well, that's an exaggeration, of course. In 2010, the Krita community sat down together and defined its vision: Krita was going to be the application for people who wanted to create images from scratch. Photo bashing was banished to the side-lines, only important when it comes to matte painting.

Fair enough! Two years later, Krita was becoming a really good painting application. Since 2012, we've gone from strength to strength, focusing on the features, workflow, performance and compatibility that's needed to make it possible to use Krita in a professional setting, while never forgetting the people who want to just paint and sketch for fun.

We always knew what we wanted to achieve, and we have, in a very real way, always engaged with our community to make sure we knew what our users wanted us to achieve. What we never did was write down a high-level overview of where we would like to get with Krita this year, next year, the year after.

Of course, real life has often interfered: KO GmbH went broke for lack of customers, and KO GmbH maintained Krita on Steam. The Krita maintainer had to take second day jobs to finance work on Krita, and broke down. Shit happens, and sometimes it seems that the shit always drops in the same place. But that never really interfered with our focus, or our plans. We just never wrote those down. Until now...

So, here comes: where we want Krita to go, now, and next year and the year after.

2016

I know, 2016 has gone and has been buried. But for 2016, we planned to do the last Krita 2.9 releases and the first Krita 3.x releases. We intended to publish the first release with animation support, and we did, with Krita 3.0. Which was also the port to a new version of our development platform, and that sort of thing is huge. Let's hope Qt6 is still far away!

We also wanted to go back to the monthly releases we had with Krita 2.9, but failed at that, because of personal circumstances: the lesson from this should be that it shouldn't be the Krita maintainer who makes all binary releases and all binary builds for all platforms.

We also released most of the features for the three kickstarters we've run.

We also released the 2016 Krita Art Book, which however sold very badly, leaving the Krita Foundation with quite a big loss. It was a big success from the point of getting interested artists to contribute, though!

2017

This is the 19th year that Krita has been in development. 2017 was another year with some serious setbacks. We lost a lot of time and energy on a tax audit that also had serious repercussions for our financial situation. That's to say, it cost us a third of our yearly income. Our plans for this year were, and are:

Of course, the "planned" work only is part of what is being done in any given year. In 2017, we also got some awesome unplanned work done by people who just want to work on Krita and make it better: Jospin, Eugene, Allan -- making it possible to do calculations in numerical entry fields, improved histograms and a smart patch tool, and a much improved airbrush engine. And the topics of the Google Summer of Code projects fall outside the roadmap, too.

The roadmap is just a general thing, what do we feel is the most important thing to move forward, in a given year.

Well, from 2014 onward, also because of the kickstarter campaigns, we really have driven Krita towards acquiring important features that were missing, that people couldn't work with. There are still features we feel Krita needs -- better G'Mic integration, for instance, improved warnings when saving to any lossy file file format, saving without blocking the UI. All of those are worked on or are done in the current 4.0 pre-alpha development version.

Our goal for 2017 is: finish up all currently planned features and release Krita 4.0

2018

בנוגע ל־2018, אנחנו באמת מרגישים -- האמת שאנחנו חלוקים. עמלנו רבות על שיפור הביצועים, וב־2017, אנחנו נשקיע עוד כמה חודשים בשיפור השימוש במספר ליבות ב־Krita, בכנות, אם יש לך „עיכובים”, כרגע, זה או בגלל הגדרות מקומיות לקויות/בעיית מערכת כיוון שבחרת במכחולים עם ריווח צר מדי על מכונה שלא מתאימה לזה. לכל השימושים הרגילים הביצועים בסדר גמור.

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מה שבאמת נחוץ ב־2018 נמצא בראש מעיינינו

We have spent three years now adding cool new features to Krita. We also fixed thousands of bugs, but still. After we release Krita 4.0 with SVG vector support and a new and improved text tool, and scripting, it's going to be time to go deep, and use all available tools to find deep-down bugs, on all platforms. We will also want to polish the existing features: both the workflow as well as the inevitable bugs..

We worry that this might be a tough sell: we will need a serious amount of money to fund at least two full-time developers (at the princely wages of 16 euros an hour) to work on this. There won't be new features -- well, we don't plan really big features. But this consolidation is important!

Our goal for 2018 is: as close to 0 bugs as possible.

2019

הגיע הזמן לעשות עוד קצת כיף עם מנועי המכחולים. זה נכון, בשנה שעברה, דמיטרי פיתח, בזמנו הפנוי, את המכחול המהיר. כך אפשר למלא אזור ממש במהירות. אבל הגיע הזמן לצאת מחוץ לקופסה, לעשות דברים כיפיים שעדיין לא עשינו מאז שלוקאש השקיע שנה בפיתוח מנועי מכחולים. יש עוד הרבה כיף לפנינו!

2022

ב־2022 החלטו שאנחנו רוצים לשפר את כלי הטקסט, את עמוד הפתיחה, כלים חדשים למילוי צורות, משאבים ונכסים נקודתיים למיזם.

רשומת הבלוג על Krita ב־2021 וב־2022

2024

מ־2024 ואילך, אנחנו רוצים לקחת את עצם הטקסט החדש וליצור לו כלי מתאים. יתרה מכך, אנחנו הולכים לבחון לעומק דרך ליצור לוחות קומיקס בקלות ולשפר את מהירות מסכות ההתמרה, לשנות את מימוש המעגנים ועוד. כמו כן, יש את ההסבה ל־Qt 6.

רשומת הבלוג על מפת הדרכים ל־2024

2026

ל־2026 ואילך, אנחנו נתעמק בשיפור ממשק המשתמש במחשבי לוח ולוחות ציור, נשפר את הטיפול בקבצים, HDR (טווח דינמי רחב) ומהירות שכבת קובץ.

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