Bug 134588

Hi,

Is it possible to have more than one custom widget (or at least one other 
entry). I doubt I make myself understandable :)
I am trying to solve http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134588. It seems to 
me that the correct solution would be to have at startup below "Custom 
document" an option called "image from pasteboard" (only available if the 
pastboard contains an image) but from I understand of the current API of the 
startup dialog, it's not possible. But maybe I am wrong ?

Cyrille, I think it should go in private mail to somebody.

Btw. since I've read it it would be much better just to add "edit" menu with all items disabled except one, or with just one item -- "paste...". Reason: keep the functions in a consistent way, don't put function in dialog A here, and in B there. The principle of the least surprise.

Its not possible to add another widget in the startup dialog, and I don't think this feature request is a good reason to add one.

Maciej: I don't understand your solution, you want krita to start with everything disable except "paste..." when there is an image in the pasteboard ? (btw, if there is image data in the pasteboard, the "custom document" is automatically adjust to the image size and you just have to paste your image into the current image, still some extra steps)

Thomas: I know you have spend quiet sometime and did an usuability survey about it. But the way I see it, it wasn't design with krita in mind but rather kword and kpresenter, templates are more or less useless (at least in my limited experience) in krita. Here is a list of what you might want to do when starting krita : open a picture, create a new one, editing the content of the pasteboard, take a screenshot, create a panorama. The first two are easily possible with the current start-up dialog, the last three (note that the panorama code only exists as an unfinished things on my hard drive) need allways extra steps, including removing a layer that was created at start-up by krita.

Cyrille, no ;-))

Run Krita. Take a look at the startup window. There are many widgets but there is also menu with 
File
Settings
Help

I would like to see
File
Edit
Settings
Help

Always! I described the two possible contents of the edit menu at the startup. If the image to paste is available this item (in menu) should be enabled, if not -- disabled.
So, in general, the startup dialog would always look the same -- the only difference would be state of edit->paste item.

ah that menu :) I allways forget about that menu (I use menu bar ala mac os X ;) ), I am not sure how much of krita is in that dialog, which means it would have to be modification in koffice/libs, and that "dialog" is kind of untouchable :'( I am affraid the only solution is : create a new image with the custom widget (size is setup to the size of the image in the paste buffer), then "paste", then remove the unused layer.

I keep the bug open, even if it's probably unsolvable right now, it might be in the future.

comment #3

Why should it not be possible to add another button? There's room enough on the startup screen!

Add a button labeled [Paste from clipboard] below the button [Open document...]. Disable the button if there's no image data on the clipboard.

This is so simple, I propose to make this a Junior Job.

Lars, AFAIK Koffice developers tries to keep the startup dialog uniform (I don't think it is good idea, but I am just a user), and since such feature does not make much sense for KWord for example it is "removed" from Krita as well.

SVN commit 745654 by rempt:

Implement 134588 (not as nice as it would have been had we been able to
add an extra item in the left-hand column, but useful enough).
CCBUG:134588


 M  +18 -1     kis_custom_image_widget.cc  
 M  +1 -1      kis_custom_image_widget.h  
 M  +4 -2      kis_doc2.cc  
 M  +114 -17   wdgnewimage.ui  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=745654

If there's a clip on the clipboard, starting Krita, selecting custom image and pressing the create button will create a new Krita image with the clip as first layer.