Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Valerie VK wrote:
>>> Since Krita has line tool, it doesn't need to
take up the Shift
>>> key for straight lines like with Gimp. So how
about assigning it
>>> to this? It is "smoother" in terms of
resizing than pressing a
>>> key several times.
>> Line drawing (and more frequently, H/V constraint)
with 'shift' is one
>> PS feature I find very useful, that Krita doesn't
have :-(.
>
> Why is that more useful or usable than drawing a line
with the line tool?
Short answer:
It's disruptive to workflow (at least, to people coming from
PS and/or
GIMP). It also loses the ability to repeatedly overstroke
parts of an
H/V path. Also, at least in Krita 1.6.1 there is no
real-time update as
in PS or GIMP.
Long answer:
The PS/GIMP model cleanly segregates drawing into two
aspects: tool
function, and stroke placement model. All brush-like tools
support the
'shift' stroke placement modifier for drawing lines,
polylines, and
constraining to an H/V path.
Krita does not make this clean separation. We have a number
of
brush-like Tools (brush, eraser, blur, etc) that support
exactly one
stroke placement method. In addition, we have two
"tools" that impose a
different stroke placement method but only support a small
subset of
Tools. Instead of a consistent and complete hierarchy, we
have two
independent "tool trees", one that starts with
function and only
supports one method of stroke placement, and one that starts
with stroke
placement and provides only a subset of functionality.
Hopefully this is better in 2.0 (which I haven't had a
change to play
with, yet) with flake, but the line/polyline/bezier tools in
1.6.1 feel
like a poor imitation of PS's paths, which is what they
should have been
in the first place. Non-real-time paths to me only make
sense if they
are persistent and editable, which these tools fail at
(beziers at least
are editable but not persistent, and also cannot be
filled).
Use case:
In PS, I use polyline stroke placement often when masking
images; this
tends to give me better results than pure freehand drawing.
In Krita,
this is impossible because the polyline tool does not paint
until I am
done, so that a: I am constantly guessing what I am actually
drawing,
and b: in order to see what I have drawn, I have to
"forget" my last
point. Plus now I am constantly changing tools.
--
Matthew
Me: wtf?? "#warning This is temporary since Dec
2000". Seven-year
"temporary" code?
Mathieu Chouinard: Sounds like the correct definition of
temporary 
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