I noticed that the reference docker isn't all that great , all you can do is select color from it and zoom.
you can't rotate the image , or mirror it. And you dont get to have your own choice where the reference docker loads your images,
everytime you start krita you must re-navigate to wherever your reference images are stored ,it chooses it for you.
you cant bookmark a location where you keep your reference images.
i really want to know how i can add these features myself in krita to it to make it as good as the Reference docker in FireAlpaca.

It's definitely true that the reference images docker needs love. The user interface is confusing and doesn't really follow the way the rest of Krita works, it's poor on features -- it would be good to be able to group references and save those groups, for instance. There are some bugs and wishes in bugzilla, too: https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?bug_st ... ordssubstr

It was a 2016 stretch goal (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kr ... escription) that never was chosen:

6. Reference Images Docker

A lovely idea, but we never had time to explore the real potential of the reference image docker. It needs to zoom, pan and rotate just like the real canvas. The color picker needs to be improved, scroll wheel, grid view, drag & drop, tagging, saving the home folder for the image docker in your current project file. As a surprise: in 3.0, we already added support for PSD, KRA, ORA and EXR images!

So it would be lovely to see someone step up who wants to code on it! This is how it works:

* Check https://phabricator.kde.org/T3541 for the development flow we're trying to follow
* Get a KDE identity account
* Start a task on phabricator.kde.org in the krita-next-features where you can document your plans and discuss the user interface design with other people
* Start coding

The code for the reference images docker is in plugins/dockers/imagedocker. It's fairly simple code because it's all Qt, it doesn't touch any of Krita's internals. All images are loaded as a QImage and painted as a QImage.

Hello Gingle,

Gingle wrote:
> I really want to know how i can add these features myself in krita to it to make it as good as the Reference docker in FireAlpaca.

This would be very cool (from your side)

I was not aware about FireAlpaca (therefore, many thanks indeed for your message...)