The KOffice Freeze is Near
The next ice age in KOffice hacking will commence January 12th. That's awfully soon, so we're working like mad trying to get the features in so we can debug them at our leisure during the beta period. Er, no, scratch that. We're ready for it! Freeze, here we come!
In any case, Adrian Page committed a very nice refinement for Krita: the image is no longer show in the top-left corner, but in the center of your window. Together with this, the scaling steps and controls have been sanitized. In the same screenshot, you can see Gábor Lehel's new layerbox. This one is much more robust than the previous one. The old layerbox often became a little deranged when there were more layers in an image than it could show in one go. Of course, the new layerbox support drag & drop and the grouping of layers in folders. That was the cue for me to start implementing adjustment layers. It'll be a race against the clock to get them in before the feature freeze, but I made the first commit today.
In the meantime, Bart Coppens has extended the colourpicker so it can pick the average colour in an area of pixels around the cursor, instead of just the pixel where you clicked, Cyrille Berger has created a png, tiff and jpeg import/export filter, and extended the scripting in Python and Ruby module. Casper Boemann has been working on the palette mechanics and has done most of the work to make the implementation of nested layers possible.
Back to KDevelop now!