bugs found when painting

[Sven Langkamp]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Silvio Heinrich <plassy at web.de> wrote:

> **
> On 07/13/2011 07:59 PM, Sven Langkamp wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:30 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:
>
>> I tried to paint today, and it was still quite painful, and not just
>> because my digital painting skills suck, it's because we've got quite a few
>> bugs left. Here's a few that I found, and that Ramon Miranda noticed on irc
>> today...
>>
>> brush editor/paintop popup
>>
>> * when changing paintop in the popup the name of the preset should be
>> cleared
>>
> Fixed that locally. Will commit soon.
>
>
> Uff... sorry I reverted your commit. It makes everything worse instead of
> better.
> I think you haven't tested it with a tablet because every time I switch to
> the mouse or the eraser of the pen the preset name and the scratchpad is
> cleared.
> I see no point in clearing the name and the scratchpad automatically, the
> user can clear it by himself if he want.
> And the current behavior has two really bad drawbacks, thats why I reverted
> it.
>

Sorry, mouse only here.


> 1. The original intention to have the name of the last loaded preset in the
> edit field was to get a fast work flow with the presets. It's maybe not
> obvious anymore because the most people here already have the presets they
> normally work with but any newcomer who wants to create his own presets will
> likely work like this:
> load a preset -> paint a bit -> adjust the preset settings a bit -> save
> preset -> paint a bit -> adjust the preset settings a bit -> save preset ->
> paint a bit -> and so on -> and so on.
> When the name is cleared every time while painting it is likely to slow
> down the workflow and annoy the user because he has to retype the name again
> all the time (especially annoying with long names).
>
> 2. Kind of the same problem for the scratch pad plus one addition. It is a
> lot harder to make icons for the presets now. For example if you want to
> make a preset for an other paintop as the pixel brush and want to write
> something something in the box it was possible to switch to the pixel brush
> write in the box and go back to the paintop you wanted to save and save it.
> This don't work anymore because the scratchpad is cleared.
>
> This is why I think that the scratchpad and the preset name should only be
> cleared explicitly by the user with the only exception when you load a saved
> preset.
> Than it should overwrite the name in the edit field and the icon box in the
> scratch pad.
>
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