Created attachment 121143 [details] importing is very laborious. Ability to open image sequence and animated gif directly from file menu without create new empty document. Problem: attachment video shows how difficult it is to import the image sequence. for animated gifs, first you need to convert the animated gif into an image sequence and then go through these kill-time stages. Solutions: for Image Sequence; File > Open > Select image sequence checkbox for numbered sequences in File Dialog Window for Animated GIF; File > Open > Select Animated gif file
This might be a task that is better for a python plugin for doing a set of commands quickly than something we need to build directly into Krita. I would consider an animated gif a video, which is a different problem than the video you posted with image sequences. Animated GIFs have an additional step of extracting images before importing them. I did make a python plugin recently that you can import animated gifs (or other video files) to make it easier to import without starting a document. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsYGtPXgJIg&t=12s There could potentially be an option to import an image sequence...but it really isn't saving much time since that option already exists in Krita and it wouldn't save that much time.
For the animated gif, it's intentional to not let it open. You can use Scott's plugin to do it: https://github.com/scottpetrovic/animator-video-reference - but it works the same way as the image sequence. It would be nice if the File -> Import Animation Frames created a new empty file on its own. There could be a combobox or a checkbox "Create a new file" and it would be enforced if used without any document open in Krita. It would be nice if it could work with the plugin as well. Plugins in general work just fine without a document. That's a feature request to @scott though, or just for someone who will either publish their own version or submit a pull request to Scott's one. Note: one shouldn't use gifs (or even videos) as their working format, ever... But I guess making memes require reading videos/gifs.
I would like to work on this.
Then let's it to assigned. :)
The part with importing an image sequence into a new file was being worked on here: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/727
Import of animated gif is implemented here: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/merge_requests/778 But unfortunately, the part of importing an image sequence into a new file (current workflow: create a new file (guess the size etc.), import frames; desired workflow: import frames and Krita will create an appropriate file) wasn't finished. Hence, I'm leaving this wish still open.