[Bug 290027] Re: krita cannot open photoshop files

[Harald Sitter]

Bug importances are not set because some developer (or bug triager) considers it important or unimportant for himself but for the larger part of the target audience (users).
It is wishlist because it is not urgent to the existence of Kubuntu or Ubuntu or Linux or even Krita, even it was it probably would still not get beyond importance Low because it is a feature request, no more and no less than that. PSD is a non-standardized proprietary format for which support could break with the next release of PS because Adobe decides to change the format around. Also PSD is specifically concepted for PS, while krt is concepted for Krita and xcf is for Gimp. They are specific storage formats for specific applications, being able to open them is not primary objective of any pixel editor. If Krita could not open PNG it would be importance High or Critical, JPEG or GIF would be Critical (especially if it was working before), if import of certain files causes a crash it would probably be Medium and if there were some random rendering issue in, say, SVG rendering it would be low (since Krita aint is no vector graphics application). Wishlist is a request for features that are not yet available and might not be made available.

So here is why you don't need points 2to5 for this particular bug. The Ubuntu archive is split into 2 main parts called main and universe. Former receives (security) updates and is supported by Canonical (the main company behind Ubuntu), while the latter is mostly community driven. Core KDE is in main while random KDE apps that are not of interest for the Kubuntu default system reside mostly in universe. So, since one part is supported and the other only as far as the community wants to go, packages in main can not depend on such in universe (otherwise the whole splitting by support level would not make any sense and all 20k packages would need to receive updates of any kind).
Meaning, we are talking politics here. Koffice at this point cannnot be built with PSD support because the package required for that would need to be in main, but it is not. What needs to be done is either get graphicsMagick to main (which is very unlikely to happen due to its massiveness et all). Other options would include talking to the Krita developers whether they would consider splitting the plugin into a separate source tarball which can reside in main (so PSD support can be available in Ubuntu after installing an additional package), or split the plugin out ourselfs, or not support PSD, or find some other fancy solution.
In either case the actual (technical) implementation would take no more than a couple of minutes, what takes time is finding the best approach to this which fits the requirements of users, Ubuntu developers and Krita developers.

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krita cannot open photoshop files
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