Hm, sounds like there's another version of Qt somewhere in your patch. I need to check where we actually package Qt, if it's in the lib dir, we need to move that to bin. But I thought it was in bin already.

Yeah, that's it -- we need to put way more .dll files next to the app, out of the lib directory.

Hi everyone! I tried Krita a couple of months ago in Windows (I use ubuntu at home, but only a little laptop, for documents, emailing and so on, not for work or painting). I'd really love to see Krita to be more stable in Windows. Last week I attempted to do a complete painting on it, and found problems, freezings, or not working things; So instead of just waiting, I decided to come here and ask if there's some way in which I can help the Windows version of Krita to come faster Bug reports are always a help, I can imagine, but I was thinking more on monetary help for you developer guys

What about creating a crowdfunding campaign to earn some money so you can give more time to get the windows version to an stable status, or even hire someone else who's able to do it? Just asking, I don't know how you're organized, or probably you don't want to do it for other reasons, but I'd really like to help, even organizing the crowdfunding campaign, and trying to get it to the bigger ammount of people possible! I can launch or promote it in my website (http://www.blendtuts.com - a web about blender/open source software tutorials).

The main reason behind all this is that I want to create a tutorial for creating a complete 3d character with Blender, and would like to make the textures with Open Source Software as well. I could do it with Gimp or MyPaint, but I'd really prefer to use Krita, it looks more promissing and full-featured for that purpose (This is just a specific project and example... but I'd also use it in my day to day job and projects hehe).

Let me know what you think! Oh! And thanks for your great job so far!!! Lovin' it!

Hi!

Bug reports are always welcome of course! I need those just to figure out what's wrong specifically on Windows. Currently I'm aware of just two or three bad windows specific bugs. I know Pentalis would love be sponsored to work on those. As a community, we're definitely okay with fund raising for tasks that are necessary but not fun, as long as people don't work for just the money.

For the rest, I _am _working on a way to get funding for Windows work -- as Sven and I said before, working on Windows isn't something you easily find volunteers for (http://slangkamp.wordpress.com/2012/04/ ... g-windows/, http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi ... uture.html). I'm not sure whether that will succeed or in what form; I'd like to hold of on starting a fund raiser until we know more, but your offer of help is very welcome.

My goal is to have a good, stable Windows release before the end of the year.

Nice to know that you're already on it I think a Kickstarter Campaign would be great! So if you need help with that, let me know. If finally it's done, I'll share it in my web, and I'll try to promote it so the campaign can reach more audience. Publishing on Blender.org would be nice, too, and knowing that David Revoy uses Krita for his work in the Blender Open Movies... I'm sure a lot of people there is waiting for a stable windows version!

Other than that, I would donate for sure, no matter which funding method you pick finally, and I'll try to help reporting bugs

hey,

can you please give the installer a unique name like "krita-unstable-09052012" so we easily new that you upload a new one?

krita-unstable is not precise enough ...

Okay, no problem -- I'll do that from the next version

Okay, fresh installer created. Please when installing, uninstall your old krita installation and take good care that the krita install directory is completely empty. This time the installer has a version number . I would really love it if some more people on various versions of windows could do me a favour and the bugs that have been entered for Krita and that I have not been able to confirm or which might be fixed:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298690
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298461
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298865
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=298144
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300145

The installer is in the official website link for Windows, right? I'll test it right ahead! Thanks!

Yes, http://www.kogmbh.com/download.html.

Bug 298690 - Program can't start because of missing .dll file - not happening, no problem.
Bug 298461 - 'Ctrl+0' reset zoom in move canvas to top-left - not happening, no problem.
Bug 298865 - crash when filling a layer - not happening, no problem.
Bug 298144 - Wacom Cintiq 12wx has big offset on the canvas between the pen and the cursor. - don't have cintiq
Bug 300145 - Krita has a fatal freezing when saving - not happening, no problem.

There's a new installer again . Up to date with git master as of today. Two big changes: the gradient tool should be much faster and there is now support for 32 bits floating point colorspaces on Windows as well. It's an ongoing effort, though.

Hi, just wanted to post an issue I'm having with Krita 2.5 for Windows. There is extreme lag betweendrawing on my tablet's screen and the time the line actually shows up. Basically, the line is not drawn at all until I am done drawing, so if I draw a simple line it shows up about a second or so after I lift the pen from the tablet. If I make a complex squiggle, drawing for a few seconds, nothing shows up on the screen until a couple of seconds after I am done drawing. At that time, the entire line shows up at once, there is no real time feedback while drawing.

I am using an Asus EP121 tablet PC with the included Wacom digitizer pen. The EP121 has a 1.33Ghz i5 processor, 4GB RAM, and Intel HD graphics. I also use MyPaint, Artrage, Manga Studio EX4, and Corel PhotoPaint on the same tablet and everything else works real-time, so I doubt the issue is with the tablet's hardware.

Yes, I know that it's an Alpha build, but just wanna be sure it's something the devs are aware of.

Hm... Sounds like you're hitting an issue similar to the one in bug 300337 - Very&very slowly works canvas from input pen-tablet "genius g-pen 450". Not possible for painting (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300337).

ThornyJohn wrote:Hi, just wanted to post an issue I'm having with Krita 2.5 for Windows. There is extreme lag betweendrawing on my tablet's screen and the time the line actually shows up. Basically, the line is not drawn at all until I am done drawing, so if I draw a simple line it shows up about a second or so after I lift the pen from the tablet. If I make a complex squiggle, drawing for a few seconds, nothing shows up on the screen until a couple of seconds after I am done drawing. At that time, the entire line shows up at once, there is no real time feedback while drawing.

I am using an Asus EP121 tablet PC with the included Wacom digitizer pen. The EP121 has a 1.33Ghz i5 processor, 4GB RAM, and Intel HD graphics. I also use MyPaint, Artrage, Manga Studio EX4, and Corel PhotoPaint on the same tablet and everything else works real-time, so I doubt the issue is with the tablet's hardware.

Yes, I know that it's an Alpha build, but just wanna be sure it's something the devs are aware of.

Same with Samsung series 7 slate (XE700T). Intel® Core™ i5-2467M Processor 1.6 GHz up to 2.3 GHz with turbo frequenzy. Same graphics and 4 GB memory.
Wacom digitizer.