Hey, guys. I've encountered a lot of comments saying that Krita is hard to learn and therefore they use something else or cry from frustration because the had to use it anyway. And I myself also find a lot of UX here lacking. I tried to make a list. So here it goes.
(Yeah, I'm looking for feedback)

A. Brush managing https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=288&t=141065
B. Other tools
C. Small fixes in UI (like names or sth)
D. Tutorials/educational materials

A.* Link here: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=288&t=141065

B.1.* Minor, but important fixes for usability

B.1.1 [not true, so discarded]
Line painting assistant: perfectly horizontal
Is there any option to do that? If not, there should be.
Usecase: 1 or 2 point perspective.

B.1.2 V + Shift (hold before/after click)
I know it's not a deal breaker, but I constantly mix them up: try to draw a line with holding V a little after starting drawing a line (result: more sketchy than I expected) and try to draw horizontal with holding Shift (result: nonexistent).
It would be nice to have it consistent - I would just add the possibility to hold Shift before drawing and still have a line (of course if it is possible. I didn't look around in the code too much yet).

B.1.3. Move Tool + Shift
like B.1.2 but inversely: when you are movingsomething and start to hold Shift afterwards, it doesn't work at all. Not very expected behaviour.


other B.* - saved for later I had more ideas but I checked everything and some things are in development now (like Text Tool, which UX is nonexistent) or everything works as expected and I'm only simply stupid (V + shift ) or the change would be too little to care.

C.1. Change from "G'MIC" to "advanced (G'MIC)" in Filters menu
It would better describe the content to people which doesn't know what is G'MIC (like myself a few months ago).

C.2. Default view
Default workspace should have Favourite Presets chosen, and there should be a set of standard brushes: airbrush, one textured brush, move tool, smudge tool, something like that (a lot of brushes confuses newcomers).


D.1. Tutorial for new instalations
Ok I know that there are links to Krita tutorials on the website, but:
1) that one "Getting Started" could be more visible, maybe highlighted or something? Because now everyone looks at this and thinks: "alright alright, close, I want to paint"
2) it would be awesome to have a little "Quick jump into painting" tutorial, with the most important things:
- where the brush presets are (one picture)
- where the brush settings are (one picture)
- where the tools options are (one picture; it is not trivial )
- preset tags to organize everything (people get confused) (desciption + picture?)
- that you can change color palette (one picture)
- where are tools and that all section means (one picture with a little description: vector tools/painting tools/)
- Eraser Mode (E) (description)
- ? Move Brush, Smudge Brush (picture with description)

So it sums up to 8 pictures (screenshots with marks) with a little of text on it.
It should be like this one: https://userbase.kde.org/Krita/Manual/Interface , especially the "A" section, but not everything in one picture, and as a whle it should contain less text.

It would be nice if it will be embedded in Krita itself, I mean something like "do you want to quickly jump into? Click here" or even without asking but with "Skip" button (you can find similar in some programs or websites).

Ok, but why?
This would be like a good first appearance, just saves the time to adjust for Krita. New users would be like "Oh, look at those brushes!" instead of "Meh, I was looking for [something] for at least a half an hour, what a sh*t" .

For a newbies in digital art it would help separate important things and things they don't have to worry about yet, for others it would tell where to look for something and how Krita is organized.

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What do you think?

D. https://docs.krita.org/Starting_Krita

B1.1: https://docs.krita.org/Painting_With_Assistants

The rest is, "sure?" the big problem is that our shortcut system cannot handle it. Outside of the tags stuff, that's stuff in the resources system.

Tutorials: Yeah, I know, I mentioned it here. I just... feel it could be improved.

Shortcuts: ok, thanks for info. I didn't know that. It breaks my workflow a little, but, alright, I think I should just get used to it.

Assistant: I tried it out again and yes, it can be changed to horizontal line, but it cannot be created as a horizontal. It's a little strange. It is still because of the flaws of the shortcut system?

BTW I don't think I mentioned that, but I intend to code as much as I can myself if nobody will do it first and if I will have enough time for it. So I wrote to get the feedback to not do something unnecessary or mess everything up

Best regards.

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tymond wrote:Tutorials: Yeah, I know, I mentioned it here. I just... feel it could be improved.

Well, if you wanna make changes to the existing page, then propose them, or make them? We have a phabricator project for the manual here: https://phabricator.kde.org/project/view/135/ , feel free to log in with your forum account and make a task there with the changes? Cause I am not sure how what you are talking about isn't mentioned on that existing page? Might be I am just too tired right now to understand...

Shortcuts: ok, thanks for info. I didn't know that. It breaks my workflow a little, but, alright, I think I should just get used to it.

Assistant: I tried it out again and yes, it can be changed to horizontal line, but it cannot be created as a horizontal. It's a little strange. It is still because of the flaws of the shortcut system?

Yes, sorta. I couldn't get it to work that way, at the least.

BTW I don't think I mentioned that, but I intend to code as much as I can myself if nobody will do it first and if I will have enough time for it. So I wrote to get the feedback to not do something unnecessary or mess everything up

Best regards.

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I know, you did mention it in IRC.