small UI improvements

Ronan Zeegers krita at ronanzeegers.com
Wed Dec 6 17:50:28 CET 2006


Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> 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.
>   
I'll put them on my website for Krita 2.0
What is GUT?


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