small UI improvements

[Sander Koning]

Ronan Zeegers wrote on 2006-09-20 18:28 +0200 regarding small UI improvements:
> 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.png
> 
> 
> Ronan

You should come to aKademy! ;)
I'm almost losing my place as a UI details grinder... 

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