First of all, i LOVE the new reference image tool, its super handy!
I have one suggestion though, and that would be the ability to drag & drop images from the browser directly into krita.
Right now it gives an error saying "Could not download [insert url]. the protocol "https" is unknown.", so you have to manually save images from the internet to your computer, and then drag them into krita. Idk how feasable it'd be to implement this feature for the reference tool, but it'd make the workflow a lot smoother when youre working with reference boards like pinterest, or trying to assemble a moodboard of sorts within krita.

Or alternatively, an extra keybpoard shortcut to paste images as reference images instead of onto the canvas.

The bottleneck is the 's' in https. In order to support https, we have to start including openssl in our builds, and building openssl on three platforms is a bit of an issue. I've started working on that (because we need it anyway), but I've been out of action for quite a few weeks -- besides having a loooong todo...

But we'll have to make it work for Krita 4.2 in any case. 4.2 is planned for release in May.

boudewijn wrote:The bottleneck is the 's' in https. In order to support https, we have to start including openssl in our builds, and building openssl on three platforms is a bit of an issue. I've started working on that (because we need it anyway), but I've been out of action for quite a few weeks -- besides having a loooong todo...

But we'll have to make it work for Krita 4.2 in any case. 4.2 is planned for release in May.

ooh thats great to know, thanks for the answer! Good luck with openssl implementation then, cant wait for may