Klik! Krita.
Together with Kurt Pfeifle, I've been preparing a klik package of a reasonably recent version of Krita. It's yesterday morning's version, and we've already added stuff, fixed bugs and done cleanups -- but this is a version of Krita that includes CMYK support, 16-bit channel support for grayscale, rgb and cmyk, openEXR, zooming histograms (in case you want to have more than 256 bars in your histogram of a 16 bit/channel image), curves widget with histograms, separations and many, many other things that are not in the 1.4.1 release.
If you've installed the basic klik support as per Kurt's instructions, then you can simply download a precomposed klik image of Krita and double-click on the file from Konqueror to run it.
Note: this won't work on all distributions, notably not on Slackware or Fedora. The package was created on Kubuntu Breezy. It may crash on SuSE 10. Or not. If you download this, please, please, please tell me whether it works for you, and if not, give me the output of running it as follows in a shell:
./.zAppRun krita.cmg
(Or was that .zApprun -- no matter, tab-completion will help you here.). I need success stories and I need failure stories. Mail me at: boud@valdyas.org
Now, if Krita does work for you, please be a little careful: this is a development snapshot. Only work on copies of your original images (which is wise anyway, no matter which app you use). If there's something that doesn't work smoothly, doesn't fit your workflow, impedes your progress or misses so badly it makes it impossible to do your work: tell me. Mail me, catch me on #koffice, file a wish. I'm not a photographer, I'm not a designer, and I'm not much of an artist. I need you to tell me how you want to use a pixel image app.
Update:
Thirty-five downloads and three reports later, I can confirm that the klik package works on SuSE 10 RC1 X86_64 and on Gentoo, if you install libIlmImf yourself. Klik doesn't work on SuSE 9.1 at all. (I also saw that people are still downloading the old binary snapshots: I have removed them.)
Updated update:
The package works fine on Debian sid, too. Niko Sams reports that the paint with filters tool is broken at the moment; something that we might not have discovered for quite some time without this way of having people test packages. Also: the performance test plugin can crash Krita, too. That's known :-).
Mandriva,too.
Stefano Pagnotelli reports that the package works fine on Mandriva Linux release 2006.0!
Success on SuSE 9.3
Bruno Windels reports succes on SuSE 9.3. This Klik thing is like magic!
DNS problems with klik
Note that aketon.klik.de has problems. If you want to try this, try to do the following:
wget 134.169.172.48/client/install -O -|sh
To install the klik client that will make it possible to doubleclik on the krita image file. Or you could add 134.169.172.48 klik.atekon.de to your hosts file: that way it'll work as advertised.
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