hi David Apologies for the late response :-) About your mails from March and April:
On Wed, Mar 09, 2011 at 09:34:53PM +0100, David REVOY wrote: > But if I try to see the more difficult way ( and of course the > interresting way , niark, niark ) : I think future Mypaint should > have at first start a strong default group only ( not limited by a > number , even long as in the 0.6 time , and simple without 'header > title of group' when alone at install , clean ) . This default > brushset will surely look better with visual icons ( as Tanda > brushset or a version of my brushset ). I can work on it doing > something standard for Mypaint. > This will make mypaint smaller to download ( ok, it's not a problem > actually , I know ) , and I can understand an user could be unhappy > to see displayed my pseudo when he open his software :) That's just > not the right place imo, even if it's cool for me in a way. I agree that calling brushsets by the author's name is very lazy and bad style for a default brush collection. For me it's a maintainence problem, I don't feel up to the task to pick good defaults and also maintain them as a nice collection. If you want to make a real "default" group, please do so! >From my point of view, a "big" default group (as in the good old days :-) could work well, if complemented by other groups. Ideally, the other groups would be hidden by default (if we had the GUI) except maybe for the "Favourites" group. Other oppinions? > And I love this new page , here poeple can download the personnal > kit after installation of Mypaint ; Deevad / Ramon / Tanda / Ico-d'Y > / Experimental have a better place here I think than bundled by > default. I'm not so sure about shipping only a single brush group. Downloading brushsets is still too much hassle. And I also want it to be possible to discover most brush engine features easily (eg. the experimental category). > If you agree with a default 'brushkit' , I do. But I think I disagree about removing all the diverse brushes we get from the Ramon / Tanda / Ico set at this point, without replacement. It would be okay with me to hide them by default (but we don't have the GUI for that right now). > I would like on the top menu 'Brush' of Mypaint ; with 'import brush' > (under or up ) a link to open internet browser direclty to the good wiki > page (http://wiki.mypaint.info/Brush_Packages ) with various brush kit ( > in this wikipage a how-to on the top install ). That is a good idea, either way. > Of course, I have similar ideas for 'papers /backgrounds' Yes. Code to manage them is missing, of course. I think I would prefer something that can directly download from within MyPaint, without temporary saving a file via browser. Many average PC users just don't figure this out, and even expert users will often not bother with that. On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:21:45PM +0200, David REVOY wrote: > I was experimenting on my side to try to create a "default brush > kit" to Mypaint and use group to paint, here is a screenshot of one > of my experimental test : > http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/7729/screenshotnet.jpg > But it's finally harder to find a brush, and pressing 'shift' to > display multi groups is still something for advanced users. It would have to be done in a single group, I think. If you want subgroups, you can have a all-in-one group too so users don't have to press shift, however having the same brush in multiple groups tends to confuse users. > So, keeping artist group is something easier ( as in 8.0, 9.0 and > actual Git ; 'Deevad' 'Ramón' , 'Tanda' ). > And surely a good choice for 1.0. I agree, this is the easy way :-) but maybe not the best. -- Martin Renold _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
