Usability discussions during the February Krita meeting

popup palette

move colors inside circle, move brush presets outside
make left-clickable area with preview of selected color around the triangle: clicking will close the palette
show presets using a single, tapering stroke
kidney/fan-shape instead of circle?
if we remove the context menu, we can put the palette under right click and pan under middle-click

Design for the brush settings toolbar:

[feature slider|flow slider|eraser toggle|engine combo|settings button]

The settings button should show:

* icon | preset name or "Custom" | v

have a scratchpad area that is pannable, shows either the current layer, a gradient or white area (selectable) to try the brush on. Optionally, record the user's last stroke and rerender whenever the settings change.
put the scratchpad to the right
use super-cool 10-100-1000 slider instead of current cornucopia of sliders
make popup tear-offable into a modeless, tool-type dialog
first, per paintop presents, search bar on top of preset list with a checkbox to enable searching in all presets
unique presets (operator==)
use scratchpad for preset preview
edit preset: save changes, remove old preset
start working from no presets
paintop combo, popup with two tabs
spec tagging carefully, see gimp tagging spec (gsoc)
it must be possible to start from a blank slate --
no date in preset list, maybe tooltip. Also: menu option to clean out duplicate presets
use toggle buttons, not tabs for the brush tips

it is not good, especially not on _big_ screens, but we don't have much choice right now

boudewijn insists on 1024x768 -- but peter has good arguments for making it 1280x1024. Do we aim for widescreen? We need with every choice determine whether dual-screen would make it even better.

We currently have a input box with drop down slider, as well as lots of unmarked sliders. We need to spec a new slider with the following properties: