Tool(box) organization

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Wednesday 19 January 2011, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> 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.
> 

Sounds like we either need to save as svg -- or work with Jan to add filters as a kind of private extension to ODG.

> 
> > > 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.

Well, use paintops, I think.

> 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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