I've just discovered Krita after a few years of faffing with Gimp's three windows. Although it looks like it's going to be great, some effects seem to cause an immediate crash when applied. I will not often need them as I'm generally a crop & gaussian blur person, but is the crashing known about or is there something I can do?

Did I read that Krita uses some Gimp plugins, and then in which case might it be this that's behind the crashing, and can the troublesome plugins be removed? And if so, how? I'd been using Gnome so I'd appreciate it if you don't assume any knowledge, as some files and folders seem to be in different places in KDE.

Thanks.

Hi!

No, Krita doesn't use gimp plugins. That was the original plan, way back in 1998, but that never worked out. If Krita crashes, it's our own fault and we'd deeply appreciate a bug report. You need to make an account at http://bugs.kde.org. Then, when you experience a crash, Krita should popup a bug report dialog that makes it really easy for you to submit a report.

That said, you are probably using version 2.3 -- check in help/about -- and we're currently busy preparing the 2.4 release. Many bugs are fixed in 2.4, though others remain. You can install 2.4 through project neon's ppa (after removing all traces of krita and koffice through the package manager):

Paste the following in a terminal window and you'll find Calligra installed in /opt:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:neon/ppa \
&& sudo apt-get update\
&& sudo apt-get install project-neon-base \
project-neon-calligra \
project-neon-calligra-dbg

You can run these packages by adding /opt/project-neon/bin to your PATH.

Check out our release announcment for 2.4 beta3: http://krita.org/component/content/arti ... a-released

Using Gnome is not a problem, most Krita users actually use Gnome. For the best results, it is worth checking out Deevad's instructions: http://www.davidrevoy.com/index.php?art ... tall-notes -- it's for Linux Mint, but since that's based on Ubuntu.

Have fun, and please don't hesitate to report any crashes you get -- we need those reports to make Krita better!