{"id":50557,"date":"2026-02-06T11:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=50557"},"modified":"2026-02-06T11:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T11:34:27","slug":"krita-6-0-beta-qt6-wayland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2026\/02\/krita-6-0-beta-qt6-wayland\/","title":{"rendered":"Krita Released 6.0 Beta with Qt6 Port & Native Wayland Support"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Krita, KDE’s digital painting software, released the first Beta of the next major 6.0 and 5.3 versions yesterday.<\/p>\n

The 2 versions were released in parallel. Krita 6 and 5.3 share all the same features, except, that 5.3 is built on top of Qt5, while 6.0 features Qt6<\/b> port and native Linux Wayland support<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Wayland support, in particular Wayland Color Management protocol, the 6.0 Beta brings HDR support<\/b> for Linux as well as fractional scaling and 10 bit display support.<\/p>\n

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Besides the Qt framework change and Wayland support, the new version also completely overhauled the Text tool<\/b>. Instead of opening the edit text dialog, it finally supports on-canvas edit<\/b> just like other image editors do.<\/p>\n

It as well supports wrapped text, text in shape, text on path, and text Properties<\/b> docker, allowing to configure text font family, style, font size, align, as well as few dozens other properties.<\/p>\n

In addition to Text Properties docker, the Text tool also features glyph palette<\/i> to select alternate glyphs that may be present in the currently used font, and new Type Setting Mode<\/i> that provides controls to edit Font Size, Baseline Shift, Line Height and Dominant Baseline directly on canvas.<\/p>\n

The new version as well introduced a new knife tool<\/b> (Comic Panel Editing tool) for vector objects, allowing to cut through a shape with a gap width. <\/p>\n

So far there are 3 gap widths to choose from, and it supports removing a gap (merge shapes). And, it will probably support custom gap width, snap, move the gutter etc functionalities in future releases.<\/p>\n

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Knife Tool<\/p><\/div>\n

The Beta of Krita 5.3 and 6.0 added loading and saving support for Radiance RGB, the old but fairly widely used HDR image format. <\/p>\n

It also added support multi-layered and multi-pages and animated JXL files, new Bundle Creator, as well as loading and saving shapes, vector masks and guides fro PSD.<\/p>\n

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Other changes include:<\/p>\n