Not Quite Weekly Status Update for Krita

[Boudewijn Rempt]

Right... There is progress. Not as much as I would like, but much more than 
we've been having since the basic port to Qt4 was completed.

* Canvas and redisplay. The QPainter canvas is nearly done. Almost all of 
Adrian Page's optimizatins are back. Two issues remain: 
  - the display jumps a bit when you're drawing. Casper Boemann is on the 
case.
  - selections are still not displayed. Fixing this should be postponed until 
the selection redesign is done and we can switch between mask and marching 
ant view.

* The OpenGL canvas compiles again but doesn't show anything. I'm afraid I'll 
have to ask Adrian to come back and look at what's going on here because I'm 
baffled.

* Dynamic brush. Lots of work by Cyrille, but I would like to see a bit of a 
design document on the wiki. Would that be possible?

* The Chinese Brush works, in principle. There's some ugliness because the 
KisPaintEngine/KisPainter combo isn't really done yet.

* Selections, masks etc. We've had a constructive and productive meeting and 
come up with a design outline that we only need to implement: 
http://wiki.koffice.org/index.php?title=Krita/SelectionsMasks

* Sven has been porting lots of our tools. Yay! Note that we still need to 
bring order in the toolbox. Besides, the layout can get really messed up. 
Maybe we should convene a KOffice-wide UI polish hackathon this summer?

* Casper has ported the zoom tool to KOffice libs, pan tool will follow.

* Emanuele has been working on KisPaintEngine and reports progress. He also 
expressed interest in doing a SoC project on making all of KOffice use 
pigment-based gradients + relevant ui.

* Thomas and Emanuele have been working on shapes and Krita. Krita was already 
a shape, and now Krita can embed shapes too. Selecting shapes is a bit 
difficult, but that's also related to the stuff we need to do for selections, 
masks etc. for the layerbox (because shapes will show up in the layerbox, as 
will selections, masks etc.)

* I've bother Bart Coppens again about getting rid of the thread-unsafe 
QRegion and replacing it by marking tiles dirty from within the layers. He 
thinks he needs to do this together with pyramids, but doubts whether he's 
going to find time to get onto this.

* Ben is working on fixing 1.6 for bumpmap and other things and uncovering 
both really old and really weird code. We should, frex, refactor our layer 
grouping implementation in trunk, it seems :-).

My personal ToDo for the coming time:

* Design for KisPainter/KisPaintEngine. I will do a first design and post it 
on the wiki.

* Painterly stuff. We're experimenting and that's fine, but as Casper says, we 
need a design. I'll post an initial design with my thoughts on the wiki.

* Fixing the opengl canvas. Not sure whether I actually can do this...

* Finish the experimental opengl filter. Depends on the opengl canvas because 
I suspect I need to re-use the same opengl context.

* Start on the selection/mask etc. class hierarchy and integration in the 
layerbox. Once the classes and the ui to manipulate exist can we start 
looking into the necessary implementation stuff to make them useful.


-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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