
17-11-2000: John Califf becomes the maintainer of Krayon. 11-07-2000: KImageShop is renamed to Krayon The name KImageShop was too close to Photoshop - not a big surprise, though it wasn’t actually Adobe who complained, but an independent German lawyer, G¨nther Freiherr von Gravenreuth. It will be an image processing application for KOffice 08-07-1999: the first commit is pushed:.
31-04-1999: the KImageShop project is started by Matthias Elter. 24-04-1999: Matthias Ettrich proposes to start a new application, next to the KImage application already in KOffice.
Matthias Ettrich presents his paper on “Multi Toolkit Programming: Interoperatibility of different GUI toolkits for the X Window System”, meant to show how easy it would be to refactor existing applications using xforms or gtk or motif or… to Qt.
The project, starting out as a patch to Gimp, continued as KImageShop, never released as Krayon, ending up as Krita, Krita’s history goes back to 1998.