# KPaint - Help Contents

KPaint is a simple bitmap paint program. KPaint is currently alpha quality software (ie. I make no promises that it won't crash and therby ruin your life, or at least your image). There is of course no warranty as this is free software. For details of the license see the file LICENSE in the distribution. KPaint is part of the KDE Desktop Environment look on www.kde.org for more information.

KPaint requires version 1.2 of the Qt library from Troll Tech and libkde available from ftp.kde.org.

If you have any suggestions or bug reports my mail address is moorer@cs.man.ac.uk, please mention kpaint in the subject line of your message. More general dicussions about KDE should take place on the KDE mailing lists (link). If you are reporting bugs then please provide as much information as possible (including a stack trace if possible).

Currently there is no documentation but I'm starting to work on that, I've included an outline of how the help should look.

Differences from kpaint version 0.1

### What's changed?

I've made a lot of internal changes in this release to make kpaint more of a kde application. The code is also now much cleaner and the basic framework is now all present. The visible changes are:

- toolbar to select the current tool
- a palette editor
- kpaint now uses KKeyconf to handle key bindings
- Gif write support and transparency support
- No more hard coded paths
- Multiple instance support
- A spraycan

### What works?

This is the second release of kpaint and things are getting better, see my todo list for information about what is still to be implemented. The currently implemented features are:

- Load and Save standard Qt formats (xpm, bmp etc.)
- Load and Save gif images (with transparency support)
- Load only jpeg
- Circles, Ellipses, Freehand Pen, Rectangles, Lines, Spray Can
- Zoom in and out
- Tool properties
- Palette Editor
- Key configuration (under construction)

Longer term plans are in the file PLANS in the source distribution

### Planned features

This is my todo list roughly in order of priority:

- Picture in picture mode for icons
- Some more tools.
- Area selections and cut and paste.
- Image map generation.
- User interface improvements.
- Network file access.
- File write support to more formats.
- Better help.

| Last Updated 20 April 1997