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Subject: UI Improvement to the brush dialog
From: Cyrille Berger Skott <cberger () cberger ! net>
Date: 2010-10-24 6:44:21
Message-ID: 201010240844.21612.cberger () cberger ! net
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Hi,
I had like to discuss several possible improvement for the brush dialog.
1) Add a multiplier combobox to some of the KisSliderSpinBox. It would be seen
as a combobox (with choice like x0.1 x1 x2 x10...). The idea is that sometime
I work with small brush diameters, and it is difficult to select with
precision the diameter, so I would restrict the diameter range to 0->10, and
add a 1x, 10x and 100x multiplier. Similary for the scale of predefined brush,
for now, we have the range 0->2, David wants to increase the maximum value,
personnally I have the oposite problem, I have big brushes (~1000x1000) and I
sometime want to scale them more than 0.01 (or with greater precision), so
there I would change the range to 0->1 and have x0.1 x1 and x10 as multiplier.
We could also use the multiplier idea for spacing.
2) who knows what the value on the curves correspond too ? So we need axis
legend. And rather than just values, I think we can be a little bit smarter.
For instance, for "size", I would indeed use values, but for "rotation" I
would use icons showing the actual direction, either using arrows or a line on
a circle, for the colors option I would take the current colors and show a
gradient. Opacity would be a gradient too.
Not sure about mirror, I don't know what the curve does. And for softness (why
don't we use the same word for softness and fade ?) we could have a circle
brush that represent both extremeties.
Same ideas for sensors legend, "pressure" would say "low pressure" / "high
pressure" the angles would use the arrow icons mentioned above. For tilt we
could show a pen and a paper with different angles. Not sure about time,
distance, fade and fuzzy, maybe just use the values for them.
If you have other ideas, feel free to express them :) (or if you don't like my
ideas)
--
Cyrille Berger Skott
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text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">I had like to discuss several possible \
improvement for the brush dialog.</p> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p> <p style=" \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">1) Add a multiplier combobox \
to some of the KisSliderSpinBox. It would be seen as a combobox (with choice like \
x0.1 x1 x2 x10...). The idea is that sometime I work with small brush diameters, and \
it is difficult to select with precision the diameter, so I would restrict the \
diameter range to 0->10, and add a 1x, 10x and 100x multiplier. Similary for the \
scale of predefined brush, for now, we have the range 0->2, David wants to \
increase the maximum value, personnally I have the oposite problem, I have big \
brushes (~1000x1000) and I sometime want to scale them more than 0.01 (or with \
greater precision), so there I would change the range to 0->1 and have x0.1 x1 and \
x10 as multiplier.</p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">We could \
also use the multiplier idea for spacing.</p> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p> <p style=" \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">2) who knows what the value \
on the curves correspond too ? So we need axis legend. And rather than just values, I \
think we can be a little bit smarter.</p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; \
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; \
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">For instance, for "size", I would \
indeed use values, but for "rotation" I would use icons showing the actual \
direction, either using arrows or a line on a circle, for the colors option I would \
take the current colors and show a gradient. Opacity would be a gradient too.</p> <p \
style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Not sure about mirror, I \
don't know what the curve does. And for softness (why don't we use the same word for \
softness and fade ?) we could have a circle brush that represent both \
extremeties.</p> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; \
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; \
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p> <p style=" margin-top:0px; \
margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; \
text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Same ideas for sensors legend, \
"pressure" would say "low pressure" / "high pressure" \
the angles would use the arrow icons mentioned above. For tilt we could show a pen \
and a paper with different angles. Not sure about time, distance, fade and fuzzy, \
maybe just use the values for them.</p> <p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p> <p \
style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p> <p \
style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">If you have other ideas, feel \
free to express them :) (or if you don't like my ideas)</p> <p \
style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; \
margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"></p> <p \
style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">-- </p> <p style=" \
margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; \
-qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Cyrille Berger \
Skott</p></body></html>
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