About the Brush Outline

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Tuesday 19 July 2011 Jul, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:06 AM, JL VT <pentalis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > We have a bug in our database
> > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273904
> >
> > And it has been there since the sprint.
> >
> > I've read and heard complaints about the behavior of the brush outline, but
> > in order to put this bug to rest, we need to reach an agreement on how the
> > brush outline should behave.
> >
> > So I encourage all artists who think the brush outline could be improved,
> > to let us know in this thread. And if you have a proposal to improve the
> > brush outline to behave or look differently to make it better, please let us
> > know too!.
> >
> 
> Would a circle be too simple? I think most brushes could work fine with a
> circle and it would also be faster too. For the other cases we could add an
> option to to paintop.

I think a circle would be too simple -- like when you have a square brush or an ellipse. In the case of complicated spongelike brushes with a low density, then the current outline tries to follow all along the inside. An outline that never goes inside the brush would be better.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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