Flake tools at the bottom of the toolbox

[Sven Langkamp]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Tuesday 18 January 2011, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have created a new branch (krita-toolbox-langkamp) to propose a change
> to
> > the toolbox. Currently the flake tools are on top of the other ones in
> all
> > applications. In Krita those tools are only secondary to the painting
> tools,
> > so it can be confusing to the users that the shape tools are on top. The
> > patch changes that. Looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/yP2V3.png
> >
> > What do you think?
>
>
> Well... I'm of the same opinion I was with the template chooser. Sure -- we
> do have a problem, but creating inconsistency isn't the solution. What I'd
> prefer is a way to put the krite specific tools in a second toolbox.
>

A second toolbox wouldn't reduce inconsistency. I would have to be at the
top where the problem would still be the same, or at the bottom where it
would be like my solution.


> There's also the discussion we had a couple of times about whether the
> tools common to koffice shouldn't be better off in a toolbar, leaving Krita
> with the only "real" toolbox. That's worth considering as well.
>

We should think about the possibility to remove some of the flake tools. At
the moment we have two tools for gradient, path and freehand.
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