From kde-kimageshop Mon Nov 19 03:24:46 2007 From: Valerie VK Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 03:24:46 +0000 To: kde-kimageshop Subject: Some GUI proposals Message-Id: <20852.46174.qm () web39613 ! mail ! mud ! yahoo ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-kimageshop&m=119544273717469 I've been looking around the Krita interface! Here are a few suggestions: 1. Make toolbar (the left one) configurable This wouldn't be confusing when combined with 3. Also, add option to have a number of brush presets appear as brush icons on the left toolbar as well. This way users can access quick Watercolor, Oil or whatever else custom brush settings easily. 2. Make color adjustment filters into tools that can appear in the toolbar Color adjustment tools (brightness/contrast and co.) are used quite often, so it'd be handy to enable them to be right at the top in the left toolbar. Even better with 1. so you can specify which ones exactly you want (I use curves quite often, for example). 3. Make Shortcuts and Toolbar options more organized please! I had finally discovered, much to my delight, the location where you can configure that Toolbar option. Or rather, only now did I understand just how it's supposed to work. A few suggestions: - instead of having cryptic names such as "Navigation," "Krita" and "Brushes and stuff" (made more confusing once you realize that the possible items you can put into each are the same), have something more intuitive. Like "Top toolbar." Optionally, give the user the ability to create more of them, while specifying the location (top, right, etc) - instead of arranging them alphabetically with confusing numerical values as starters (what the heck is 40x40?!?), arrange them like in the current menu, by category, and with separators. - drag and drop is optional, but would be nice as well. See mock-up: http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/88/guivd2.png 4. More icons please! For color adjustment tools, for some common filters such as sharpening filters, and for brush variables. For each, the name can pop-up when you hover over it. Optional: 5. Place as many tool options into the upper bar as possible With the current tools, it should be possible to place all of their options there. That's one less dialog needed. 6. Group filters according to similar functions Most people won't ever use "Unsharp Mask" and will instead head straight for "Sharpen" because it's what's English to them. Instead, there could be one Sharpen "filter," and a drop-down list of possible algorithms with the best algorithm as default. Another advantage of this is quick comparison between filters of similar functions, by selecting different algorithms and observing each result(without accessing the filter gallery I mean, for simple operations such as sharpening, Filter gallery is overkill). 7. Bottom information bar Well... this should be done eventually, if it hasn't been implemented in 2.0 already. When you have a tool active, this gives you information about the tool and its shortcuts. Like in Inkscape. Basically I'm working on a mock-up proposal for a unified and configurable Krita Workspace system. I know it's low-priority right now, and it's actually not urgent as long as the Krita brush system hasn't become too complicated. But it'd be nice to have it up in case future potential developers walk by and decide to implement it. ;) It'd handle both presets and quick access to resources used for each setting. Workspaces include Normal workspace, Paint workspaces (ex: Watercolor, Oil, Ink, Sketch), Image editing workspace and such. Well... it'll be easier to explain once I'm done with the mock-ups. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ _______________________________________________ kimageshop mailing list kimageshop@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop