Revision as of 05:36, 10 June 2023

Improving the Bundle Creator in Krita

Summary

The primary format to share resources in Krita is a Resource Bundle, which is a compressed file containing all the resources together. It also contains some other information like metadata and a manifest so Krita can check there’s no errors in the file.

Krita’s Bundle Creator allows one to create their own bundle from the resources of their choice. The project aims to improve the user interface of the current Bundle Creator, and allow the ability to edit bundles (which is currently not supported in Krita).

Project Proposal

Improving the Bundle Creator in Krita

Blog Posts

The list of all the blog posts for GSoC'23 has been listed here.

Merge Request

The merge request for this project can be viewed here.

Timeline

Week 1

I have created the Bundle Creator wizard with a side widget that displays the names of the four main sections (wizard pages) that will be present in the Bundle Creator. The pages can be navigated using the Next and Back buttons. The DlgCreateBundle class inherits from QWizard, which is responsible for creating the wizard. For each of the wizard pages, four classes have been created, each subclassing QWizardPage. Each of these classes handles the specific code related to the corresponding section. The 4 sections are:

Choose Resources
Choose Tags
Enter Bundle Details
Enter Save Location

The side widget has been implemented as a QWidget that contains four labels arranged in a vertical layout. Apart from that, I also created the header file for the WdgResourcePreview class which would deal with the common UI for the Bundle Creator and the Resource Manager.

Week 2

During this week, I focused on the development and integration of the KisResourcePreview class with the bundle creator and resource manager. I made several UI adjustments to cater specifically to the bundle creator, disabling certain features as needed. Additionally, I sourced icons from different locations and seamlessly integrated them into both dialogs. To achieve the desired visual aesthetics for the icons in the dialogs, I made necessary modifications to the KisResourceItemDelegate class. To enhance usability, I introduced a tool button that allows users to effortlessly switch between list view and grid view for better resource visualization.

Note how both of them share the same view (left section).

Week 3

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Week 5

Week 6

Contacts

IRC: Srirupa Datta (@sriru:libera.chat)

KDE identity: srirupa

Email: [email protected]

Krita Artists: Srirupa_Datta

GitHub: Github

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 ===== Week 2 =====
+During this week, I focused on the development and integration of the <b>KisResourcePreview</b> class with the bundle creator and resource manager. I made several UI adjustments to cater specifically to the bundle creator, disabling certain features as needed. Additionally, I sourced icons from different locations and seamlessly integrated them into both dialogs. To achieve the desired visual aesthetics for the icons in the dialogs, I made necessary modifications to the <b>KisResourceItemDelegate</b> class. To enhance usability, I introduced a tool button that allows users to effortlessly switch between list view and grid view for better resource visualization.
+Note how both of them share the same view (left section).
+https://i.postimg.cc/02FfmgdQ/SR2.png
 ===== Week 3 =====
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