The only issue I have with tagging instead of putting things in clean
categories is I use a cintiq and I am not alone. And I don't have room
on my desk for a full keyboard--so I can't type while I paint.
I would have to untuck myself, grab my keyboard, sit it on my lap then
type out the tag. Like I say; I am not alone. Even a large Intuos 3
tablet will take so much room on the desk there is no space for a
keyboard.
Not to mention brush selector as a popup is a bit more clean and
efficient and if you are holding down a key you can't let go of it. And
having categories minimizes the visual overload of seeing all those
brushes at once.
Martin Renold wrote:
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
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