small UI improvements

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 18:28, Ronan Zeegers wrote:
> One last thing  and I stop to bothered you with Krita's UI this week.
> Promised!
>
> The fisrt impression for a new user with a program is very important. I
> think that Krita can benefit from smalls improvements. The first en
> certainly easiest thing to do is:
>
> -the default texture, gradient an brush.
> The current one are not very visual appealing and give a cheap look to
> Krita. I have put a simple black to white gradient and an almost good
> looking texture instead.
> I have also correct the position of the maps on the buttons, put a
> simple middle-grey line around those textures and put a white BG behind
> the brush shape (really important for readability of the shape).
> http://www.ronanzeegers.com/krita-ui/newDefaultGradientTexture.png
>
> -the second is about the "the ugly bevels in the color palette" like
> Sashmit Bhaduri <http://www.blogger.com/profile/3314675> said on
> Cyrille's blog. A simple middle-grey line would be more elegant.
> An anti-aliased border around the color circle could give a nicer look
> to Krita to. But I'm no sure if it's possible with Qt3...
> http://www.ronanzeegers.com/krita-ui/KritaColorCircle.png
>
> Here is the result with the smalls corrections:
> http://www.ronanzeegers.com/krita-ui/kritaScreenshot1.6beta1-smallChanges.p

Added these to the GUT -- I'm not sure how easy this is going to be, probably
not easy at all in 1.6, and I had kind of forgotten about them.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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