Thanks for your great efforts in developing krita as painting app for free
and for all.

Just I have a suggestion I think it could help all. That's krita developing team could add new docker like "reference docker"
in screen shot below that for current open file which will open duplicate
from the opening file immediately in this docker like 'new view'.

I think it will help for moving this docker anywhere in screen out of UI. also will
be upper the original one all the time.

https://mega.nz/#!J89VCCqS!_90yVAbt5FzRcgEZ9lFZm3ygxk3aUfwaGEV5gd9UdZc

There is an Overview docker that you can open: Settings -> Dockers -> Overview.

It surely can be improved though; you don't have any control over zoom (or position) of the image in the docker except for resizing the docker itself. It kinda makes sense with the general view zoom slider on the bottom of the docker, but I consider it less than optimal since I don't use the slider anyway.

tymond wrote:There is an Overview docker that you can open: Settings -> Dockers -> Overview.

@Tymond: if you look at the screenshot sent by graphic2017designer; they already use Overview.

I understand the need of @graphic2017designer; having the same feature than what offer a "New View" but with the consistency in the GUI dockers have. Setting up a "new View" and resize it each time one open a new document is long and full of mouse-click. I ended just using Overview to substitute to a "new view"; a bit sad, because I can't paint over the Overview docker and the decoration in red of the current view-port boundaries is a bit obtrusive for this task (but good for a 'navigator' , the feature was at origin an "overview" only docker that get transformed with what we have nowaday: more padding on bottom for buttons, red boundaries for viewport, etc...).

Maybe something that could improve the fluidity of this workflow is a special "Windows > Overview of current document" that would auto generate a small overview already resized "always on top" in a corner of the current document...

@deevad -- For your idea. I wonder if the reference image tool features could be expanded. Instead of opening an external image, maybe it could have an option to create a small preview of the image you have open. You could move it around, resize it, and it already always stays on top.

Maybe another option would be to "pin" the reference image so it always stays in the same spot...regardless of your panning and zooming in the document.

I sometimes finding myself having to pan or zoom to see my reference image if it is out of my canvas.

@scottpetrovic , oh I like the possibility to pin a reference to an absolute position on the canvas. Good idea.
The idea to insert the current view as a reference is also very good! The two idea together (a pinned current view as reference) sounds super cool as it would be saved in the *.kra.

scottpetrovic wrote:...Maybe another option would be to "pin" the reference image so it always stays in the same spot...regardless of your panning and zooming in the document.

I sometimes finding myself having to pan or zoom to see my reference image if it is out of my canvas.

On the first release of the new reference image tool we got couple of comments going on on the Phabricator, I was just waiting for things to settle (zero bug campaign, other mayor priority items) to keep "nagging" about it, there are similar comments here and there, on the forum and on the socials regarding the same zooming/pinning issue.

https://phabricator.kde.org/T5805

A reference docker tool or ability to use the reference tool, and move it to the side to pop up a docker for it would be ridiculously useful.

We won't be adding back a reference images docker to Krita, but you can always use the plugin someone else wrote: https://docs.krita.org/en/resources_pag ... on-plugins

boudewijn wrote:We won't be adding back a reference images docker to Krita, but you can always use the plugin someone else wrote: https://docs.krita.org/en/resources_pag ... on-plugins

Sad to hear that. because that Antoine-Roux plugin does not work for me on krita 4.1.5 (Appimage on LinuxMint) I'll try 4.1.7... or try another version that still having it. Anyway I feel very grateful to the krita-team, this program over Photoshop was my principal reason from leaving windows.

Hi, I noticed also that the Antoine reference plug-in isn't working on the latest nightlie appimage (Manjaro KDE stable). It doesn't show up in docker options, as the Python Plugin Manager section isn't in Settings. I was reading about other things that needed to be adapted, so is it just temporary in the lead-up to the 4.2 release?

Python is completely broken in the appimage builds at the moment, and I haven't figured out how to get it building again.