Bug 495812 - Group and Organise Dockers in Drop-down Menu
Summary: Group and Organise Dockers in Drop-down Menu
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: krita
Classification: Applications
Component: Usability (show other bugs)
Version: 5.2.3
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
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Assignee: Krita Bugs
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Reported: 2024-11-05 04:17 UTC by i
Modified: 2024-11-05 04:17 UTC (History)
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Description i 2024-11-05 04:17:48 UTC
ISSUE:
Currently, the drop down menu under ' Settings > Dockers > ' is sorted alphabetically. This makes it very hard to navigate unless you know the exact name of the thing you are looking for. If you're looking for a Colour Selector, then you cannot find any of the 7 options under "C" for "colour". It's under S or A or D or P or W, but not C. It's difficult to find something in this list unless you know *exactly* what it's called (which depends on localisation), rather than being able to see the options I have for Colour Selection dockers. A friend remarked they liked the colour selector I had my workspace, but because they didn't know what it was called, they hadn't been able to find it until they saw the screenshot I'd shown!


PROPOSED SOLUTION:
It would be much more useful to group selectors into categories. Below is a first-draft attempt of making these groups;

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Animation ------------------------
    Animation
    Animation Curves 
    Animation Timeline 
Colour Selection -----------------
    Advanced Colour Selector
    Artistic Colour Selector 
    Digital Colour Mixer
    Palette 
    Specific Colour Selector
    Small Colour Selector
    Wide Gamut Colour Selector
Document and Colour Management ---
    Channels
    Histogram
    Layers
    LUT Management
    Gamut Masks 
History and Recording ------------
    Brush Preset History
    Undo History
    Recorder 
    Snapshot 
    Task Sets 
Presets --------------------------
    Brush Presets 
    Patterns 
    Symbol Libraries
Shapes and Vector Drawing --------
    Add Shape
    Arrange
    Shape Properties
View -----------------------------
    Overview
    Compositions
    Grids and Guides 
    Onion Skin 
    Log Viewer
    Storyboard 
    Reference Images
    Touch Docker
==================================

It might be prudent to make a "Layers" group with the Layers, Storyboard, and Compositions dockers, but I haven't used Storyboard or Compositions to know if they should be grouped together or not?

This also gives some more indication as to what each tool actually does. Some tools, like "Arrange" and "Task Sets" give no real indication as to what they do until you open them or look them up in the documentation.
If "Arrange" was categorised under "Shapes", then it is a lot more obvious that "Arrange" is about 'arranging shapes'. This could also give the option to shorten the name of some dockers, such as;

Colour Selection
    Advanced Colour Selector    -> Advanced Colours
    Artistic Colour Selector    -> Artistic Colours
    Small Colour Selector       -> Colour Selector
        (if it's the "standard" one, does it need an adjective?)
    Digital Colours Mixer       -> Digital Colour Mixer
        (in en-gb, "colours" is plural for no apparent reason)
    Specific Colour Selector    -> Specific Colours
    Wide Gamut Colour           -> Wide Gamut Colours
Presets
    Brush Presets   -> Brushes
        (consistent with "Patterns", and "presets" is now obvious from the category title just above it)
View
    Touch Docker    -> Touch Controls
        (why does only this docker have "docker" in the name? The current name is also not descriptive)
    Log Viewer      -> Logs
        (since it is now in the View Category)


ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Worth noting for where I'm proposing changes to names; my system is using British English with US English as a fallback; some of these names might differ between UK and US English (including the obvious Colour/Color).