OK, so it is only Wednesday...
And not Friday as it seems to me. Krita progress has been so swift these few days that I have the feeling a much longer time-span has passed.
Bart Coppens has done a lot of work on a Wet Dreams based and ultimately Curtis et al derived watercolor simulation color model for Krita, with very nice results. This is, in essence, what I set out to do when I started working on Krita. We need to work on the user interface, but ideas are slowly gelling in my mind about that.
Michael Thaler has ported the pixelize filter from the Gimp and is now busy with the cubism filter. What Krita needs is indeed a full quiver of artistic filters, and we're quite rapidly filling this area in: filters in Krita are easy enough to code (especially compared to the examples in the Photoshop SDK...), but you need to take care that we support any number of color models. That's an interesting challenge indeed.
Adrian Page has enabled double-clicks to be passed to the tools so I was able to make a double click crop in the crop tool. And he's added a lot of composite operations to our 16-bit/channel color strategy. And he's started on a 32 bit and 16 bit float/channel RGBA color model. And optimizations, too. And a proper colour picker tool.
Sven Langkamp has refactored some very old code to make sure we don't load the same set of brushes, gradients, patterns and palettes for every view, but just once. This was quite a hard task, even if the user notices nothing much about except there's more memory available for his images.
Casper Boemann has been busy adding scaling and shearing to the transform tool and has been bugfixing our scaling and transformation code; currently we have two versions of scaling code in Krita, all of them better than anything else I've seen in open source applications (should do a pictorial comparison).
And finally, I've ported the Gimp's bumpmap filter to Krita, committed a patch for saner keyboard shortcuts created by Alan Horkan, fixed hiding and showing of individual palette tabs, and (at the suggestion of Alan Horkan again), added hiding of all palettes in one go, by pressing F9. That should help people with big images or small screens a lot. Alan is helping a lot with usability in general.
And the various translation teams have been very busy, too. Thanks to them for their work, too -- especially when you realize that Krita in development means that I often have to throw away a complete .desktop file that had already been translated into twenty or thirty languages. And they keep going on translating and fixing typos (esp. Andrew Coles, thanks!)
And now for the second half of the week!
(Oh, and by the way: we've created a wiki page with what every developer is working on currently and with the todo -- and Cyrille Berger is working on getting us all a kolab account so we can share todo's from within Kontact.