Hi all

I don't want to comment on Krita's overall interface as it would be mean to just come here and boast about how Krita sucks because it doesn't do things the way i would like it to do. However, i do think that Krita needs some usability improvements.

Case in point. Me. I am a long time KDE user. I've installed Krita to use it as a quick and easy graphics editor a-la MS Paint. I don't care much about its painting abilities and i never extensively used any graphics editor (except for maybe Paint.NET on Windows), i just want to draw an occasional arrow here and a square there, or put some text onto an image - in other words, extremely basic usage.

So i've got this photo, and i want to put some text on it. How do i do it? OK, i see a text tool. Take this text tool, draw a square area of where i want text to be. Brilliant, there's some text already there. How do i edit it? Select all the text, try to edit it. Doesn't work. Press backspace to delete it. Nope. Press "delete". Nope, missed again. OK, take two. Select text tool, look at the toolbars, maybe i've missed some setting. Select "multiline" text. Create a square with text. There's some small-ass text (because the image is huge), but nope, still can't edit it, can't set a bigger font, can't do anything. Right click? Nope, brings out the color picker. In other words, no amount of brute forcing led me to the right way to do it.

Worst part of it is, i have used Krita about a year ago, and i tried to do the same thing. I have looked up the way to do it, and i did it. However, it's so unintuitive and non-obvious that i don't remember how to do this simple thing and i have to look it up again.

Krita looks like a promising app, but if even so simple and primitive things are so convoluted and non-obvious, something is terribly wrong. I might just install Kolourpaint instead.

There is a bug in Krita 2.5 that broke text editing. Upgrade to 2.5.1 and text editing will work as expected.

slangkamp wrote:There is a bug in Krita 2.5 that broke text editing. Upgrade to 2.5.1 and text editing will work as expected.

i'll have to wait for Chakra to update it

Well, 2.5.1 broke painting. Or rather, I did. 2.5 is not krita's lucky release!

You're using the wrong tool. D: Krita is specialized in painting stuff. If you want boxes and text and arrows, I suggest you use Inkscape. For general image editing, use Gimp.

@valerievk: Perharps Krita is not meant to create flow charts and stuff, but the text tool, however, is useful, specially if you're going to draw comic pages, where text editing is needed. P.D. Great tutorial!

@boudewijn: Thanks for the other answer : D . Would you advice to revert to 2.4 meanwhile? I also noticed the smudge brush is not in the brush engine drop list in 2.5, only the color smudge one.