option panes vs presets

[Boudewijn Rempt]

As you can see, I've started making the tools work with any and all paintop. 
Some paintops won't work that way, e.g., duplicate, because they need some 
special interface, but others could make a separate tool obsolete, like 
convolve or filter.

Of course, the filter paintop  or the airbrush paintop should be configurable 
-- the rate of the airbrush and perhaps some other technical things that 
airbrush users know about -- or the actual filter called. Or, in the case 
eraser, erase to background or erase to transparent.

There are two ways of going about providing this configurability:

* Allow paintops to add an option pane to the control docker (or even to the 
tool option pane directly)

* Create a number of credible presets and present them as different paintops 
in the interface. This should be accompanied by an gui that allows creating 
different configurations of paintops. This is more or less what the other 
paint apps like Corel Painter do.

I tend to towards the second option because that way an artist can keep 
certain presents and have them easily available, but the first option allows 
for more immediate flexibility.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
http://www.valdyas.org/fading/index.cgi
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