Bug 406148

Summary:	UX improvement suggestion on the lower 4 options in Brush Settings drop-down panel
Product:	[Applications] krita	Reporter:	Tyson Tan <tysontanx>
Component:	Usability	Assignee:	Krita Bugs <krita-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	griffinvalley, scottpetrovic
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	nightly build (please specify the git hash!)
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Tyson Tan 2019-04-02 13:35:38 UTC

I was translating Krita's User Manual, and I found the lower 4 options in Brush Settings drop-down panel (F5) has many naming issues and UX problems:

1) The names are too long.
2) They don't use conventional English wording.
3) Instant preview threshold slider is revealed by right-click which is impossible to discover.

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Here is my suggestions to improve the names and arrangement.

### [OLD] ###
[X] Eraser Switch Size | [X] Eraser Switch Opacity | [X] Temporarily Save Tweaks To Presets | [X] Instant Preview (RMB to reveal Threshold slider)

### [NEW] ###
[X] Keep Changes Until Quit  Erase Mode Unique: [X] Size [X] Opacity  [X] Instant Preview: [ Threshold... ]

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In the new version, I tried to:
1) Use conventional English wording: "Keep", "Until Close", "Erase Mode", "Unique"
2) Group Erase Mode's 2 options,
3) Reveal Threshold option all the time

Comment 1 Scott Petrovic 2019-04-02 14:54:26 UTC

I kind of remember when those properties were being named. The logic we were using seemed to be heavy on "we don't have much space on the GUI...so keep shortening the text".

We probably shortened the text too much. It is a bit difficult to understand unless you read through the documentation or tutorial.

The threshold was also a quick last minute addition recently that didn't really have time for a better UI placement. 

Right now with the brush editor GUI, the UX improvements have kind of stopped until the resource rewrite is done. I don't want many conflicts with that branch since that branch has a ton of changes dealing with how brushes and all resources are managed which end up touching the brush editor area.

Comment 2 wolthera 2019-04-08 14:08:16 UTC

setting this to wishlist also.