Hi, not sure if this is the right place for suggestions, let me know if there is a better place.
I have a lot of usability and gui suggestions to spam you with, but I'll start with something basic, the layer icons:


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Right now, current icons are way too hard to read first glance specially in dark themes, so I think it needs to change towards something like the right side.
I would be willing to create an icon set for light and dark themes if you are willing to change them.

Also, very important, those options should have shortcuts! (didn't find any, let me know if there are!)


Regards.

This is a good idea. Totally agree with the layer icons needing to be more glance friendly. Your icons look nice and would definitely be an improvement from the current.

Some ideas for the popup palette:


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These are all brilliant ideas! Personally I think Krita would benefit from a general UI touch up. Not only because certain bits may need it but because it would be good to somehow differentiate it more from other illustration software.

although the tricky bit is, as I can see it:
1) that icon sets kinda have to work with the entire KDE suite and its iconsets.
2) that it have to follow "the know path" of illustration software - it can't differentiate too much because then the bridge between krita and other software may be too big and too tricky to cross.

The icons have to work with light and dark themes. There are different themes which are somewhere between the light and dark and the application doesn't know if a particular theme is light/dark. If they are better than the current icons we will replace them.

I love the popup suggestions. Now we just need to find someone to code it up . I also like the icon suggestions, but I suspect that we need more contrast to make them work for most people.

Two small suggestions I have: http://a.pomf.se/3Vf4.png

It's not possible to move the dockers on the right up as that a technical limitation of the underlying systems. Many people have a much smaller screen than you have where the entire space is needed for the toolbar.

I don't know if this pushes any weight but I sketched up some icons for visible/non-visible, locked/unlocked, unlocked/locked alpha based Zafios but with more contrast and allot less details. (like the lock isn't "unlocked" just faded)

I think it would be good to turn those into actual icons and test them -- the size needs to be 21x21, iirc.

The pop-up suggestion is nice, especially resizing the color picker will be very helpful as its small size is stressful on eyes. If the interactive re-size is not possible, at-least reduce the size of brushes in the pop-up and increase the color selector's size instead.

Thanks for the great suggestions people.

Some more from my side:
- In programs like photoshop or painter shortcuts are numeric (1 for 10% opacity, 2 for 20%, etc). So the the user knows how opaque or transparent their brush stroke will be even with all ui elements hidden.
In Krita we have "i" to decrease and "o" to increase, which is a nice method but I need always to check how much opacity my brush has. And in full screen mode there is not way to tell, so it is pretty much guessing.
A very helpful addition will be to get some kind of feedback in canvas when changing the opacity. I.e. a small percentage indication next to the brush pointer.

- I think that the brush presets docker could also use some refinement. See the attached image for details please.

Just thought I'd share my locked and unlocked icons that I made for personal use, I know they are not completely polished.
Anyone wishes to use them in anyway feel free to.

Hi. There's this UI issue that keeps me wondering.

Basically, the new image dialog has two icons to switch between "portrait" and "landscape", which is useful when working with print in mind, but the icons themselves are what bother me.
Currently, Krita shows them like here in the top half:

Shouldn't it show icons like in the bottom half (my edit)?
Since the point of changing orientation is that rotating the page will actually show a different result (the bottom example) instead of the same result (the top example).

It's such a minor nuisance that is embarrassing to point out, but I can't help my OCD.



Finally, I have a UI suggestion to make: in the toolbar, add keyboard shortcuts next to the tool description on hover. That's all

I can get how that can get your OCD-jitters up

But the reason, if I may hazard a guess, is that the landscape and portrait icons are already kinda small and similar to each other - making them even more similar might cause all kinds of problems.

Although ... we could make new greyscale ones maybe? One with the siluette of a human (which is easy to spot, no matter how small) and then one with the simple "landscape image" of two mountains?

EDIT:
Did the quickest sketch I could (its bedtime here at casa Jens) something along these lines.