bundled workspaces need to showcase more variety

[Timothée Giet]

Hi Ghevan,

Thanks for sharing your workspaces ideas.
I'm always looking for new task-specific sets of dockers to improve 
default set of workspaces.

I can see some good ideas:
-Painting L and R grouping the tools with other dockers can improve 
workflow, cool.
-Reference L and R are nice to have enough space for the reference.
-Shape modify has snap settings docker that's missing from the default 
VectorHD and SD, I take note ;)

However there are a few issues in my opinion:
-I think really too different dockers organisations (like the 
Compact_left for example) are not very good idea as it makes it a lot 
less consistent, and may confuse the user (at least I personnally find 
it confusing).
-Also something I noticed with "weird" dockers placement, is although 
they  can work, they can introduce annoying issues when resizing the 
window, making it suddenly bigger than the screen.

So soon I'll update the default set with improved painting and Vector 
workspaces, and add reference ones.


For anyone who wants to propose some changes or add some workspaces to 
default set, here are some notes about the current set:

-The default one is the same old one..

-PaintingHD has only dockers related to paintings, and is meant for big 
screens.
-PaintingSD has same set of dockers but more condensed to fit in smaller 
screens. (meaning: tools docker with two columns mandatory, and not more 
than two dockers area vertically)
-Same rule for VectorHD and SD, but with dockers related to vector shape 
work

-PaintingHD_2panels is the same usecase  as PaintingHD but only to show 
one can use left panel for dockers too.
(It may not be needed to keep it after we add the reference ones which 
show this too but have a more specific usecase.)

Timothée

Le 26/03/2014 03:32, Ghevan a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I know most of us tweak krita's interface to adapt to our workflows. 
> And the good thing about the workspaces is that it can be adapted to 
> many "tasks". This is great, but it can take a while to new users to 
> start moving dockers freely as it gives the impression you will end up 
> hiding something important.
>
> Some of the problems with current bundled workspaces is that they fail 
> to show the user how great and diverse the workspaces can be set up to 
> work in Krita.
>
> I attach a tar with some of the workspaces I've setup for my use. I''m 
> not sure how they will work in other screen sizes and/or if they 
> include common workflow needs (For example I normally hide presets 
> docker as I use the popup from the top). But they are bit more diverse 
> and could help get some ideas to setup new ones.
>
> They include a Painting workspace (left and right), a composite, a 
> shape editor, a compact (sort of compact) and one revolving the idea 
> of the reference docker.
>
> Share some of yours. The idea is to find better default workspaces 
> with a few task oriented ones that help new users get the idea of 
> using workspaces to fasten the production of their work.
>
> You could of course use the ones attached, but I'm not sure they will 
> work on every screen.
>
>
> -IvanYossi-
>
>
>
>
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