How clickbaity, Qt could never go proprietary thanks to KDE Free Qt Foundation

Not clickbait at all. The article explicitly discusses how Qt might go defacto proprietary _despite_ Qt Company's arrangement with KDE.

"The 12 month restriction would, in principle, not make Qt proprietary software, but it might as well be proprietary from a practical point of view."

The KDE project already lacks manpower, I'm not sure they will be able to maintain a free Qt fork for long.

Maybe we can have a separate foundation to maintain Qt fork. It's akin to MariaDB.

References? Have you ever heard of KDAB and other companies supporting Qt on a professional level?

It’s a perennial problem with all major FOSS projects and KDE is massive, it’s basically a given. At the time I followed it a bit more closely, there was clearly a churn of developers very similar to what JWZ described, with constant rewrites of entire applications because nobody had the time and inclination to maintain old ones (maintaining other people’s code is hard). Yes, the associated entities do a lot of good work, but it’s never enough - and realistically, nowhere near enough to be responsible for the entire Qt library.

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Yes only for tablets and chromebooks for now.

It uses Qtwidgets and mauikit qml so it would be a heck of a job to port that to qml

Why not publish it for phones too? Something to do with UI polishing (widget arrangement, responsiveness)?

I have a phablet (6+ inches, high resolution and DPI) with pressure-sensitive stylus and I'd love to see Krita running on it, even if the UI is not optimized yet.

If your device supports OpenGL ES and is Android 6+ You can get signed APK for your phablet from here: https://krita-artists.org/t/making-and-testing-the-android-b...

Yes, the UI isn't exactly the best thing even for tablets, so we refrained from releasing it for phones. Though you could always side load it once we have it in fdroid.

Exactly, it is on our plans, would take a bit of time.

You can ask people here, https://krita-artists.org/

Open up a thread here https://krita-artists.org/

Problem is known for many years.

Please open a thread on https://krita-artists.org/ so that we can help

Android Tablets and Chromebooks, the ui isn't much usable for smartphones

It's a pity it doesn't work on Samsung Galaxy Note devices. With the "built in" pen it would be a spot on despite the smaller screen size.

<3, do check this out, https://krita-artists.org/c/artwork/5/l/top

Thanks for the link, looks great!

The UI in the current form is not suitable for phones, but efforts are being made, :)