Filters "dialog" in 2.0

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Schleimer, Ben wrote:
> Hi,
>   I think the modeless is a decent idea, you need to consider the
> performance of always running the filter on the full image. It might be
> worth considering allowing the user to select a portion of the image to
> preview the filter just so it's quick to change filter parameters and see
> the update.

Given the current implementation -- the preview is created by adding a 
temporary effect mask to the layer, it's easy to do that: select a part of 
the image try the filter, and only the selected part will be filtered.	

> Another thing to consider is to have preview/no preview button in the
> dialog as currently appears and a method for the user to see the filtered
> image next to the unfiltered image.

Yes, that's easy. Just show/hide the preview effect mask.

> > So I vote for keeping the Krita UI spirit here: vertical dialog.
> > Krita could change the current vertical dialog (option, layer) to a
> > filter dialog. Then go back to the default UI after the operation.
>
> Are you talking about ribbons^C^C^C changable toolbars here?



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Boudewijn Rempt 
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