Life is a little hectic
Well, we got KOffice 1.5 beta 1 out of the door. With an embarrassing problem, of course, just like with 1.4.2... It turns out that if you compile KOffice with an option called --enable-final the debug display for bidirectional text gets activated. Blue and red lines across, over and between the text in KWord and KPresenter. That got fixed very fast, and updated Debian and Kubuntu packages are being prepared right now. (This is an update: I earlier thought they were ready already, but I was mistaken.)
And, as if getting a release out wasn't strenuous enough, I'm in a kind of very uncertain situation job-wise. Not that I'm going to be out of a job tomorrow or next week or so, but the times are getting rather too interesting at my company. Which is not a restful and relaxed situation at all.
In the meantime, Sander Koning is taking his duty as the Krita documentation czar very seriously. KOffice 1.5 doc freeze is Sunday, but Krita's manual is getting to look very nice.
And I've only got to fix one more filter and then all filters can save and restore their settings. Which means adjustment layers can be saved and loaded, too.
Cyrille Berger has set up a separate Krita plugins project: Krita 1.5 will be released with a development package so you can create plugins outside the Krita development tree. And you can do a lot with plugins in Krita. Scripting is implemented as a plugin, as is color separations. Filters are plugins. Tools are plugins. Paint operations are plugins. File format filters are plugins. Even colormodels are plugins. I'm hoping lots of people will start coding weird and experimental plugins after 1.5 is released.