2011/10/21 Martin Renold <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
hi David
Apologies for the late response :-)
About your mails from March and April:
:) hey no problem
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!
Authors name is unuseless nowadays, we have lot of brushes and it is
better for the user to have simply "brushes". But we have a problem.
the Duplicates. It is really difficult to decide wich preset is
better. For example "pencils" we have A LOT of pencils presets and
decide who is the right for users is very "subjetive" or "relative" .
Also experienced users are used to certain presets, so i don´t know
which is the best solution :S .
Since this last spring I got plenty of time to meet other Mypaint users
( conference/ Floss meeting / Mypaint screenshot submission ). I could
took time to imagine a way to handle brushkit.
My proposition is to keep author brush kit ; more in detail I propose a
derived solution of Jorge Verdugo on brainstorming (
http://wiki.mypaint.info/Brainstorming/UI/BrushSelector ) ,
more in detail :
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/6894/20111022mypaintbrushgro.jpg
Why :
- Because our Mypaint user are attached to brushkit, the skill they got
are attached to precise brush preset.
- Because kit doesn't work the same and have their own harmony of
pressure / curve / feeling / way to approach digital painting
- Because having a single brush kit will lead problem in maintaining,
especially for icon art.
- I also don't want to see name written, or number 1 2 3 etc... that's
why I propose colors for default brushkits.
( or if you want write brushkit name , also write Andrew on
Toolbar, Martin on canvas, and Ilya on color selector etc...etc... )
- Adding a 'special group' All who display all at first start seams to
be a good solution for first exploration of beginners.
- Brushkit maintenance will be easier and more adapted to users.
What do you think about ?
(To bad this solution must involve code effort... I know.)
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