Inserting flake shapes in Krita

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Thursday 19 November 2009, Cyrille Berger wrote:
> On Thursday 19 November 2009, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > Yes, we did. Though since then most of the problems with this have be
> >  fixed, so I'm not sure if that decision is still valid. Also the code
> >  creating the layer wasn't removed either. If we still want to change
> > this I'm fine with it, but then we have to stick to it.
> 
> If I remember correctly, the main reason to remove that behaviour was
> usability wise. It is also not very consistant with how krita behaves
> otherwise, i.e. painting with a paint tool on krita do not create a new
>  paint layer.

Well, it should create a new freehand vector shape that uses a Krita brush, 
the krita shape tools now partly implement that.

> I suppose the idea of the layer creation was to have better
>  discoverability. An idea for a replacement, if we really think that
>  discoverability is an issue, would be to show a popup menu with {"create
>  shape layer", "cancel"} when someone want to insert a shape on a non-shape
>  layer.

I think that would give the same problems. Otoh, it seems that the bug got 
fixed through a suggestion from Thomas, which is great :-)


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