Roadmap discussion for 2.9 and 3.0

[Paul Geraskin]

For 2.9 i would like to add:
- LayerGroups for PSD files (save/load). This is the most important 
thing. This will be better integration between PS/Painter/SAI and Krita.
- Possibility to draw on FileLayer and save it. This will be integration 
between Blender and Krita. In this way we can exchange layers between 
the apps.

These are the most important features.
And ofcourse "Line quality" as already Boud mentioned. We need the same 
lines quality as PS/Gimp have. To get our brushes scalable.

Thanks.



21.02.2014 21:02, Sven Langkamp ?????:
> On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 11:04 AM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org 
> <mailto:boud at valdyas.org>> wrote:
>
>     Krita Roadmap
>     -------------
>
>     2.8 will be awesome, but after 2.8 comes 2.9...
>
>     During the 2.8 beta phase, we've been lucky to have had a lot of
>     input on areas where Krita should be better. The main areas are:
>
>     * MDI interface (more than one document loaded in one window)
>
>
> I would give this the top priority, because it's the single feature 
> that has be merged before we go to 3.0 and will likely also need a lot 
> of work.
>
>     * Mask handling: creating and converting masks is not as easy as
>     it should be.
>
>     * Selection handling: modifying selections is really inconvenient
>     at the moment
>
>     * Line quality: we should try and figure out how better anti-alias
>     especially thin lines. This wasn't a problem before because our
>     display quality wasn't very good, but since that's excellent now,
>     it is a problem
>
>     * Performance of the color correction system: the final conversion
>     step for display is now holding us back. We might be able to move
>     that to the GPU as well, for the OpenGL canvas
>
>
> Have you measured the impact of that? I have seen many comments about 
> bad performance recently. Users expect fast painting with the biggest 
> brush on a 10k x 10k image.
>
>     * Text and vector tools. We share these with Calligra. The current
>     system is a hybrid of ODT, ODG and SVG. Creating and manipulating
>     text is difficult, the difference between the two text tools is
>     hard to explain, and finally, the results aren't good and we
>     cannot save all features the gui offers.
>
>
> That's a very tricky problem. I know that the current system has a lot 
> of shortcoming, but there is currently no good alternative for it. We 
> have to keep backwards compatibility, so we can't throw it out. The 
> problem with the text are more related to bugs in the text tools 
> rather than the fileformat (the shadow problem is too). Even if we 
> throw it out, it would take months to replace the text tools alone and 
> years if you want to reach the capabilities of other applications.
>
> In any case the text shapes and text tools would have to be replace, 
> if you want to store as SVG we would likely need massive changes in 
> Flake too. We have seriously question is that is really a justified 
> change, considering how much effort would have to be dumped into it.
>
>     * The dirty brush proposal and related preset handling issues
>
>     This is obviously already more than we can handle in one release
>     period, so we need to prioritize. Also, I might have forgotten a
>     topic that is more important than any of these!
>
>     Then there is the roadmap towards 3.0. 3.0 should be our Qt5
>     release, which means no refactoring, just porting. For that to be
>     as smooth as possible, at least the MDI refactoring should have
>     landed, and any other big refactorings that influence which
>     dependencies we have.
>
>
> I would add:
>
> *Unified shortcut confguration: Currently many users are confused that 
> the shortcuts for the actions and the input manager shortcuts are 
> split over two locations. These should be combined into a single UI. 
> The same unification should be done for the done for saving shortcuts 
> so everything is saved to shortcut profiles (which should be a resource).
>
>
>
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