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= 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

== paintop popup ==

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

== template chooser ==

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

== filter dialog ==

* hide/remove the gallery.
* make it a tool-type window
* docker: not possible

== screen size ==

* 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.

== sliders ==

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:

* show state as a fill 
* move the state to the position the user clicks inside the slider
* change state by tilt
* allow manual input of numbers
* no drop-down

== misc ==

* remove COPY composite mode from the user's view
* brush size slider: change diameter/scale for current brush for preset