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dedosk | 9 years ago

You can try Krita (www.krita.org) with PSD.

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annnnd|9 years ago

On a side note, it is interesting how many incredible projects started from KDE (and how few survived or at least gained major traction): KMail, KDevelop, KOffice, not to mention Konqueror - KHTML / Webkit lives on, but Konqueror users are very rare. Does anyone know why this is happening?

lmm|9 years ago

There is still FUD about the licensing, decades on. And a lot of Linux vendors make Gnome the default - perhaps partly because it's less configurable and so easier to support, but partly it does seem to be this weird prejudice. I wonder whether it's a US/EU thing - most of KDE seems to be developed in the EU and the major European distros (which is only really SuSE these days now that Mandriva doesn't exist any more) seem to have it as default, whereas the American distros seem to prefer Gnome.

Zardoz84|9 years ago

Don't forget Reconq web broswer. It was pretty faster compared against Firefox and Chrome, and was using WebKit. Sadly, died...

mpercy|9 years ago

I think it's because Qt has traditionally had a pretty weird dual- or tri-licensing model: https://www.qt.io/faq/#_Toc453700684 which resulted in less adoption by developers because of the viral nature of the GPL.

IIRC, it used to be that even the core Qt libs were GPL (unless you paid for a commercial license), while now most (but still not all) libs are also available under the LGPL.

GTK has always been plain LGPL 2. Nothing scary.

djsumdog|9 years ago

It's slowly coming back. Wireshark used QT in its latest release. Some people are switching back due to GTK3, which is...eh...just eh.

allendoerfer|9 years ago

Don't want to diminish KDE, but how is that incredible considering that for each of these there is a much more popular GTK or even Gnome project software?

blub|9 years ago

Gimp and Inkscape are the only free or open source graphics tools that have something resembling a secure download process.

Krita serves their website over https and the download over http from some mirror. Can't find any trace of a hash on their site either.

p4bl0|9 years ago

Why don't you use your distribution's packages manager to install it?

expression|9 years ago

FWIW, files.kde.org does support HTTPS as well.

minitech|9 years ago

files.kde.org is also accessible over HTTPS (but use a package manager if possible).

kiba|9 years ago

I would say you're overly paranoid, but I do fear one day clicking on the wrong site.

That being said, we have to trust something.