i saw some youtube posts and screenshots of Krita with cool brushes but i only get the circle and the square plus the usual pixel brush, pencil brush, airbrush, smudge, etc. nothing like the ones in corel peainter which i also saw in some krita screenshots.

what's wrong with my installation? im running Krita on ubuntu 9.10, using a genius m712 clone pen tab (which works quite well). 1.6.3

can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks!

Hi,

Krita 1.6.3 does not include cool brushes because I was not active those days and I started to code cool brush engines since 2.x series.

So you need to either install Krita 2.x or compile trunk yourself (up-to-date status of the cool brushes in the source code repositary - trunk).

Here you can find nice tutorial how to do it
http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Build_KOffice

If you need some more help, just ask

thought that might be it, although the version on the repos is stuck at 1.6.3 i'm going to work on this further and come back if i'm unable to make it work.

Thanks LucasT. you and Krita rock

hazelp There actually *is* a much more up to date version of Krita on Ubuntu 9.10, but from memory I think you might need to install the package named "krita-kde4" rather than just "krita".

If this lets you see Lukas' funky new brushes, it would be nice if you marked this thread "solved"

http://www.kubuntu.org/news/koffice-2.1.0

Also, in Kubuntu 10.04 it will be replacing the old KOffice.

Krita 2.1 isn't really something we want to show off, though -- 2.2 is already much better and has many more fun brush engines. We're in the beta period for 2.2.

Hello Hazelp,
For compiling in Ubuntu it was a bit hard for me with the previous link. I did a thread with the solution on how I get it to work clean : viewtopic.php?f=139&t=86990

Speaking of Ubuntu, is the tablet problem fixed yet in the newest builds? I know in previous versions of the 2.x series in Karmic, there was a known problem where tablets weren't working properly.

Thanks

ghosthand wrote:Speaking of Ubuntu, is the tablet problem fixed yet in the newest builds? I know in previous versions of the 2.x series in Karmic, there was a known problem where tablets weren't working properly.
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I tested here with various tablet and it's ok on my system, pressure, tilt, etc... ( with the default wacomlinux driver packed with karmic. )

ghosthand wrote:Speaking of Ubuntu, is the tablet problem fixed yet in the newest builds? I know in previous versions of the 2.x series in Karmic, there was a known problem where tablets weren't working properly.

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It seems that tablets made by companies other than Wacom are still problematic (ie my Aipteak and N-Trig tablets). Wacom brand tablets seem to do better with QT 4.6, which was only included into Ubuntu for Lucid, if I remember correctly.