hi Popolon, On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:25:47PM +0200, Popolon wrote: > [...] the ability for the user to create categories or better tags for > brush and to be able to sort them that way.
The longer I think about it, the more I like the tagging concept. One reason is the low-tech GUI requirements of the first implementation: a simple text entry is enough to add space separated tags to a brush. But I think I would not create tags like "pencil" (though they wouldn't hurt anyone, neither). Instead, the MyPaint package could include brush collections from individual users. By default only brushes tagged with "mypaint" would be shown, but users could enter (or click on) a tag to show a different collection, or enter several tags to combine collections. There are some open questions, though: - how would you create your own brush collection from existing brushes, without clicking on each brush and entering your tag? - would you still be able to drag the brushes around to reorder them? And would each tag have their own brush order? - how would you make selecting one or several tags easy, especially to encourage new users to quickly check them all out? - should there be textual detail information about each tag, like, the author of the brushset, and what's special about them? - what would happen when you create a new brush? It might not have any of the tags you're currently filtering for, so technically the brush should disappear right after creation, and the user will never know where it went Another (minor) drawback is that many collections would contain duplicates of the most common brushes. Those could soon get somewhat dusty when the original gets updated and finetuned. Btw. I think there were some discussions about tagging ressources in GIMP. bye, Martin _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
