I started working on Krita end of 2003; long after the application was added to KOffice and had gone through the KImageShop and KRayon names. It could do nothing but load images... In 2004, people had joined me to hack on it. We had the first release in 2005, and honestly, if it hadn't been for Krita... KOffice 1.5 would not have been released. After 1.6 we realized we needed a new direction, though... And I never was the first maintainer of KImageShop/Krayon/Krita, of course.