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<div>I have already submited the application, but I didn't think of posting it for review before. As it is possible to change it even after submission, I'm asking now for your thoughts. Well, have a look.</div>
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<div>Title: Workspaces capabilities for Krita</div>
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<div>Abstract:</div>
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<div>Krita is a painting and image editing application with a broad audience and multiple capabilities. This make Krita usable in many different ways and for different purposes, each of these requiring a specialized interface and a different set of tools and resources.</div>
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<div>This project aims to provide Krita with workspaces capabilities. A workspace is a loadable package of settings and plugins that finetune Krita for a particular purpose. Example workspaces could be batch-editing of images, editing of animation sequences, painting or sketching. Additional plugins would be provided for areas lacking them, like batch-editing of images.</div>
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<div>Detailed description:</div>
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<div>My name is Daniel Gómez Ferro and I am a 20 year old student from northern Spain. I am currently at my third year at University of Coruña studying Computer Science/Engineering. I have been using Linux for 5 years and KDE for almost 3 years. I have been following KDE and KOffice development for some time and always wanted to join the project, but never found my way into it until some weeks ago, when I started playing with KOffice sources and even submitted a little patch. I think I was frightened by the size of the project, being used to the little applications we had to do for my studies.</div>
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<div>I think this is a great opportunity for starting collaborating with the FOSS community and I will gain an invaluable academic and work experience. This semester I am coursing an User Interface Design subject at university, so I think my proposal will benefit from what I have learnt and I will consolidate my knowledge in the matter with this real world project.</div>
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<div>My proposal is to provide Krita with workspaces capabilities, that is, make the user capable of easily choose and change a package of settings, tools, resources and plugins that would focus the interface of Krita on a specific purpose, making it easier for the user to work with just what he needs and avoiding unnecessary clutter.</div>
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<div>Firstly, I will have to study whether it is possible to implement the workspaces extending Krita templates, as Boudewijn Rempt proposed. Boudewijn's idea is to allow templates to modify the interface and choose the plugins that will be loaded. This would be done modifying KisView2 and constructing the interface based on the selected template. If there is an use case for changing the workspace once you have already started working, the templates should be complemented with some menu to allow this.</div>
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<div>If finally somebody is chosen for the Sketch-pad idea, I will try to communicate with him to be able to provide everything he would need to implement his work as a workspace.</div>
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<div>Once the framework is laid I will need the input from artists and users, like Valerie and other developers, as I am not a skilled artist. This would define which use cases should be covered by a workspace, for example sketching and batch-editing of images. I would also need to know whether it makes sense to let the user define it's own workspaces or not.</div>
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<div>If time permits, I could port some parts of the UI to plugins, like the layer box, which would not make sense in a sketching workspace. Before doing this I would have to make sure if the work is worth it and if it is possible at all.</div>
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<div>Finally, I will have to implement plugins for the workspaces lacking them, like a frames viewer for animations. I think I will have time to finish the implementation of the framework, create the needed workspaces and implement some plugins. I will try to implement the plugins needed to make every workspace at least usable, and if time permits I will improve these or code supplementary plugins.</div>
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<div>I have never worked with this mentor/student style before, but I think I will not have any problem at all. I do not mind if my mentor is several timezones away or not, I am comfortable using IRC, emails, ICQ or whatever other channel of communication. I cannot be sure of how many hours I will be able to work per week on the project, but I think it will be between 15 and 30.</div>
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<div>As I said, I am not a graphics artist, but I am interested in Krita because I am a KDE user, I am studying User Interfaces Design and I am very interested in low level graphic programming. I hope I am chosen, but even if I am not I will try to collaborate with Krita, KOffice and KDE in the future.</div>
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<div>Thank you for your time.<br></div>
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