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My gripes about Krita ;)

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Artmessiah
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My gripes about Krita ;)

Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:20 am
Perhaps consider the escape key to return to normal canvas mode in addition to the ctrl H shortcut. If you don't know the shortcut or forgot it, there is no way to get the screen back to normal. I had to go to my windows pc and look at the Krita installed on there to see what the shortcut was to get the gui back to normal. EXTREMELY ANNOYING.

The ability to save tool presets as one whole set is needed. Sorta like Photoshop's Tool presets or how Mypaint allows user sets. These sets imo will prevent endless scrolling. A group of your favorite brushes can be saved, exported and imported whenever you need. For example, only inking brushes for a time and then you could import only painting brushes (that you saved as a group) for another time, or you could follow Mypaint's lead and allow names of sets to be accessed one at a time or more than one. Also deleting the default presets/brushes is done too easily, there needs to be a way to bring back all the default brushes and settings if a user accidentally deletes presets. The tag idea is a great idea, but something like the suggestions I made in conjunction with Tags would help a lot.

Screen Refresh an issue after use of show edge filter.

Undo not working under certain brushes or screen not refreshing to show the undo.

System crash after trying to speed up shape on experimental brush. BTW pressure bug on experimental shape still there.

Lastly, where are the custom brushes and custom templates saved on the windows version of Krita? I see the Calllgra folder in program files and the app data, etc, but I don't see my newly created brushes or templates. I was going to share both my pencil brushes created and templates, but I can't find them. Also there is a bug on windows with templates. If you save a new template and want Krita to open it as the default document, Krita won't be able to find it (error message upon opening Krita). Not good for windows.

On a minor note, I can't seem to be able to change the ICON for krita on the windows version. Tried changing it to the slicker Krita Icon, but windows doesn't allow me to change it (grayed out). Other than a few quibbles though - Krita is actually an awesome program to use it just needs a bit of tweaking. ;D


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Re: My gripes about Krita ;)

Thu Jan 26, 2012 6:15 am
Perhaps consider the escape key to return to normal canvas mode in addition to the ctrl H shortcut. If you don't know the shortcut or forgot it, there is no way to get the screen back to normal.

Agreed.

The ability to save tool presets as one whole set is needed.

Can't say I've ever wanted it before, but it does sound like a good idea.

On a minor note, I can't seem to be able to change the ICON for krita on the windows version.

Yeah, when I installed Krita on Windows (on Linux through Wine >.< ) I noticed that the icon appeared to be a dithered 8 bit icon that looked considerably worse than the default Linux icon. I assumed there were reasons for this, but if we could change it for the standard one we use on Linux, it would look a lot better.
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Re: My gripes about Krita ;)

Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:51 am
Hi,

System crash after trying to speed up shape on experimental brush.


Have you got backtrace?

BTW pressure bug on experimental shape still there.


What is this bug? Steps to reproduce? Is it reported in http://bugs.kde.org?


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Re: My gripes about Krita ;)

Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:52 am
How *do* you get a backtrace for Krita on Windows, anyway?
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Re: My gripes about Krita ;)

Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:57 am
Kubuntiac wrote:How *do* you get a backtrace for Krita on Windows, anyway?


You don't :)
If reproducible, you can get it on "OS: Kubuntu".


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Re: My gripes about Krita ;)

Sun Jan 29, 2012 9:27 am
I believe it is possible to get backtraces on Windows - but it requires the installation of a compiler among many other things. Dr Konqi does support using Windows debuggers to generate backtraces however I believe.


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