Tool(box) organization

[Sven Langkamp]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Sven Langkamp wrote:
>
> > -put those tools at the bottom of the toolbox as proposed on
> calligra-devel
> >
> > -cut some of the flake tools and put the functionality into the Krita
> tools
> > There are some tools that have very little value for Krita like the
> > connection tool or filter effect tool (we can't save filters created by
> > that).
>
> Hm.... why not, actually?
>

Shape layers are saved as ODF which doesn't support filter effects. In
Karbon it's the same, filter effects are only saved to SVG and not to ODF.


> > The path tool basically has the same stuff the Krita path tool has.
> > That would leave five tools (Default, freehand, pattern, gradient,
> > calligraphy).
>
> What I would prefer is have the tools with actual krita functionality
> replace the flake tools but be in the same position. So the krita path tool
> goes in the place of the flake path tool etc. That way, there's consistency
> with the rest of the suite. Or that the flake tools get a kind of plugin
> mechanism, which would mean our krita-specific functionality gets added to
> the tool, and we don't need the krita tools anymore.<https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kimageshop>
>

Default tool stays the same as it's used on both layer types. To be
consistent to Krita the path and caligraphy tool would have to be paintops.
Flake path tool is already obsolete, we just need the code to blacklist it.
Flake pattern and gradient tool don't really match to any Krita tool.
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