De aanhouder wint
September 28th, 2003 -- four days earlier I had bought my wacom tablet as a birthday present. The 28th I decided that the Gimp wasn't good enough for painting, so I started coding a paint app. I knew the looks of the interface I wanted, something that would evoke the idea of painting, so I took a couple of snapshots of my old brushes to use in the gui.
Of course, my first attempt was done in PyQt, and it was too slow. I futzed about with other approaches until I remembered Kimageshop^WKrayon^WKrita, and decided to see how easy it would be to get into that codebase and start adding what I needed to reach my goal. That was October 1st, and the first tablet support was added at the 4th.
And today I checked in the first bit of code that made use of the old imagery:
All the other painting tools need to have a nice image, too, and I naturally want photo's of real brushes for the real media tools, and slick artwork of pixelized brushes for the Shoup-model tools -- but it's a milestone!