Action plan 2

[enki]

On 17/05/2010 19:10, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Sunday 16 May 2010, enki wrote:
>
>    
>> "Week 28 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135899 a.k.a session
>> management. Save the state of the brush engines into kra. Some
>> elaboration on related settings will be done (e.g. tools should be saved
>> too, e.g. opacity and composition mode of freehand tool) "
>>
>> I'd prefer having the setting saved per user, instead of in the .kra
>> file. While it can be an advantage sometimes, saving in the .kra can be
>> a problem when exchanging files with someone else (ex: set the opacity
>> to 0, and send the .kra to your friends :p).
>>      
> :-). I'm not sure where the saving-in-.kra idea came from, but I seem to
> remember that this was discussed before. There are pluses and minuses to both
> issues: I know that I was getting confused all the time when starting a new
> painting and then found that gimp or photoshop wasn't in the default mode
> again. Maybe an in-between idea would be project folders, and have the
> settings per project?
>
>    
I prefer per .kra file than per-project :p. Creating a project is 
something you do when you have an aim.. but in a creative process, you 
don't necessary have an aim at the start. For the default, I was 
thinking the user could save explicitly new default settings when he 
found one he likes. I guess that really depend on what type of things 
you do, if you work on very different tasks/projects, yeah saving 
per-kra is an advantage. Maybe a mix of the two ? saved default setting 
for new files, and per-file after the first save.
>
>> III.selection :
>>       1.allow selection tools to move the selection.
>>      
> This could either be very simple, or quite a big thing. A simple selection
> move tool used to be present in 1.6; but I'd like to be able to use the
> transform tool to transform the selection as well, so maybe add an option to
> the move and transform tools "Move selection" vs "Move selected pixels"?
>    

I'd like something where it's not necessary to switch an option if 
possible : When I use selection, I don't try to make it pixel perfect 
from the start (for the same reason you don't start a drawing by the 
details, it make you loose the global feeling). Instead I create a rough 
selection, and move it little by little to the good position, removing 
or add some pieces of selections, then adjust the position again, etc... 
until it looks good. So the moving and cutting is really sequential, 
that's why I don't like much having to switch the tool or option too often.
I'll try to make a video when I have some time, it'll explain better I 
think.