Intense
That's what hacking on Krita has been for some time now. My wrists are feeling the strain a little, what with also writing an fifteen-day introductory Java course in three weeks, I do declare. I took the evening off, more or less, to watch the Princess' Bride again. Four fencers in the house -- no wonder this particular dvd gets a spin regularly...
Anyway, you'd be surprised how much time there can be between the "aha! let's do that" moment and the finished, polished implemenation, ready for release. So we started brainstorming about must-haves and nice-to-haves for the next Krita release, 1.5, probably sometime early 2006.
I even got a codename and a splashscreen for it: Kandinsky, in honor of the best name ever proposed for KImageShop^WKrayon^WKrita -- only, Kandisnky hasn't been dead long enough, so we cannot use his paintings for splash screens. Oh well -- here's the design I had cobbled up all on my lonesome, in nothing but svn Krita, with a broken brush tool:
Not that KOffice apps have splash screens, but it I feel that a nice splash screen sets the tone for the appllication in no uncertain way.