@boud, I've managed to create an account for this forum... not an easy task! Here are a few suggestions & things I noticed:

1. global patterns panel should have a button to turn on global pattern use instead of per-brush setting in the F5 menu (as I understand you need to change the Source in F5 menu to make a brush use a global pattern). Applying & switching between patterns on brushes is such a useful thing it should be easier than going through the F5 menu and since there is this global patterns panel I think this is a better approach
2. the reference images panel is useless as it is now, check out [pureref](http://www.pureref.com/) for how this should work, that would be best case. Also I think it would be extremely useful to be able to switch B&W in this reference panel for selected images (if you'd go the pureref route). This is something that even pureref lacks.
3. have the ability to change the triangle color picker from right click menu to something else, just like in the advanced color picker panel or at least have it be the rectangle one by default which is a lot more easier to work with than the triangle. If you only want to saturate the color for example in the rectangle one is very smiple, just move towards the right, but in triangle you have to do saturation & brightness at the same time. Square is just a better fit
4. I'm using HEAD from git (v3.1.88) and in this one there are some modifications to the right click menu, one of them is that it has the mirror canvas button but this is exactly the same pictogram as the horizontal mirror tool button, this should be changed
5. have the ability to move the selection AFTER you made it, without moving pixels, so just the selection
6. transform tool needs an option to scale from center, as it is now you can do this only through the tool options panel
7. width/height etc. from tool options panel don't work with for selections, makes them useless mostly (except for transmitting information). So if you want more precise control over selections (say rectangular selection) you can't have it
8. save as/export menus are redundant - export menu is the same as save as... what's the difference?

razvanr wrote:@boud, I've managed to create an account for this forum... not an easy task! Here are a few suggestions & things I noticed:
5. have the ability to move the selection AFTER you made it, without moving pixels, so just the selection
6. transform tool needs an option to scale from center, as it is now you can do this only through the tool options panel

I totally agree on these items. Moving selection it's useful.
Transforming with CTRL or ALT or SHIFT modifiers make some cool things but not scaling from the center, sometimes I try this a lot until I realize it's not possible.

razvanr wrote:@boud, I've managed to create an account for this forum... not an easy task! Here are a few suggestions & things I noticed:
8. save as/export menus are redundant - export menu is the same as save as... what's the difference?

The only diference that I've noticed is that if you save the file as another format and save again as .kra you lose the time count. But I didn't verify if that's true, other than that seems really redundant.

razvanr wrote:@boud, I've managed to create an account for this forum... not an easy task! Here are a few suggestions & things I noticed...

1. I agree it would be nice with some way to quickly access the texture setting of a brush preset, but it isn't something that needs priority by the devs. The "Fill Pattern" button that's up on the top left has a different purpose, I assume.
2. Devs are very aware that the reference docker is lacking (though not "useless" by any means). There are talks about improving it but, once again, it's low priority for the time being.
3. Settings -> Configure Krita -> Color Selector Settings. I personally prefer the triangle over the square as it makes more sense to me to have one corner for each HSV-Setting. Krita devs can't tailor their defaults to everyone's personal preferences, and in this case it seems us triangular folks lucked out
4. I'm not of any help here. Sounds like you're saying you didn't download the official stable release, and have ended up with some feature that's still in development?
5. Yes please!
6. I'm able to scale from the pivot point (that's centered by default) by pressing and holding down the Alt-button while transforming a selection. I suppose a better way of communicating this short-key would be nice?
7. Ties in with point 5. I personally find by-value editing to be quite useful when making designs that require specific layouts, like web elements and corporate designs.
8. No idea about this either!

3. You can invoke the Advanced Color Selector as a popup. Default shortcut is "Shift + i". Not the same thing, but you can use it in the Canvas Only mode.

5. Better to file a wish bug. It will be easier noticed by developers. Don't ask me how to do that.
If you really do that a lot you can keep an empty layer to use as a workaround while this feature is not present.
Select the empty layer, pres "T", move the selection, select the painted layer again. Not easy at all, but its the only way at the moment.

7.If you click the lock icon next to Width/Height/Ratio your next selection will have that specific Width/Height/Ratio. So it works, but the purpose is not really useful.

> 1. global patterns panel should have a button to turn on global pattern use instead of per-brush setting in the F5 menu (as I understand you need to change the Source in F5 menu to make a brush use a global pattern). Applying & switching between patterns on brushes is such a useful thing it should be easier than going through the F5 menu and since there is this global patterns panel I think this is a better approach

That's something we've wanted for some time, but never have time for. Someone should step up and do it...

> 2. the reference images panel is useless as it is now, check out [pureref](http://www.pureref.com/) for how this should work, that would be best case. Also I thinkhttps://phabricator.kde.org/T5805 it would be extremely useful to be able to switch B&W in this reference panel for selected images (if you'd go the pureref route). This is something that even pureref lacks.

That's something that we've had funding for, but no time... I actually want to replace it with a tool that can place reference images around the canvas, a bit like assistants, and then save the references with the .kra file. Making image graysale would be easy to add in that case. See and annotate https://phabricator.kde.org/T5805

> 3. have the ability to change the triangle color picker from right click menu to something else, just like in the advanced color picker panel or at least have it be the rectangle one by default which is a lot more easier to work with than the triangle. If you only want to saturate the color for example in the rectangle one is very smiple, just move towards the right, but in triangle you have to do saturation & brightness at the same time. Square is just a better fit

If you use the secret incantation to replace the color selector in the popup with the new one, then it'll follow the setting for the advanced color selector docker. Unfortunately, we haven't yet managed to fix the performance issues in the new color selector yet.

> 4. I'm using HEAD from git (v3.1.88) and in this one there are some modifications to the right click menu, one of them is that it has the mirror canvas button but this is exactly the same pictogram as the horizontal mirror tool button, this should be changed

No idea about that... Git is 4.0 pre-alpha now, btw.

> 5. have the ability to move the selection AFTER you made it, without moving pixels, so just the selection

Enable showing the global selection and edit and move that; and yes, that should be made simpler, but... That depends on someone showing up and writing the code, since the current team just is really and incredibly overstretched. I'm amazed I'm managing to make actual releases at this point...

> 6. transform tool needs an option to scale from center, as it is now you can do this only through the tool options panel

Um, the tool option panel is where the options for a tool are?

> 7. width/height etc. from tool options panel don't work with for selections, makes them useless mostly (except for transmitting information). So if you want more precise control over selections (say rectangular selection) you can't have it

Not sure what you mean with this.

> 8. save as/export menus are redundant - export menu is the same as save as... what's the difference?

Save As changes the name and file type for the currently open image, export saves as a different name or image type without changing the name or image type of the currently open image, so they are different.

Oh, hey, I completely forgot about this post... I have no idea how to get notified in this forum, anyway . Yeah I know you're overstretched with developing, I'm not saying that these things should take priority they're just some suggestions and things I found a bit off which could be improved.

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6. I meant is that if you use the mouse to scale there isn't a way to scale by having the pivot stay in place... or so I thought until @slowjane mentioned the ALT + drag. I had no idea!! So thanks, I guess this one is solved , just lacks some visibility in the app (for example there's no info in the status bar that you can do that). Would be nice to have info in the status bar like inkscape depending on what tool you have selected so you know what the shortcuts and modifiers for that tool are.

7. let me see if I can be more clear. See the attached picture, I hope that clarifies it...

boudewijn wrote:> 5. have the ability to move the selection AFTER you made it, without moving pixels, so just the selection

Enable showing the global selection and edit and move that; and yes, that should be made simpler, but... That depends on someone showing up and writing the code, since the current team just is really and incredibly overstretched. I'm amazed I'm managing to make actual releases at this point...

+1
I add my vote this should be worked on, when core devs get done with the current set of fundraising features.