Originally it was designed to create Lottie animations.

Edit: Which, and to answer the original question, have nothing to do with what Krita does at all.

Misread “Krita” for “Kdenlive”, but to add to @Eldritch@piefed.world comment, Krita and Glaxnimate are VERY different beasts. And Krita’s animation features concentrate on complex cell animation, where each fram is a painting. Glaxnimate, on the other hand is more for logos, line drawings and so on.

Because somebody had already made the app and we have just integrated it into KDE. Also, it can work as a standalone animation app and is used to animate stuff that have nothing to do with Kdenlive. Why would we want to cut it down to a plugin-like thing of Kdenlive?

That’s why we are working Plasma Mobile. But it is far from ready for primetime unfortunately.