On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:40:34PM +0200, Jon Nordby wrote: > Limit all shipped brushsets to 35 brushes (6*5).
Sounds good. > Ship a maximum of 2 or 3 artist brushsets. This is simply to keep the > number of sets/brushes down. Tough choice. It's probably better for the users, yes. > Ship two non-artist brushsets - one "classic" and one "experimental". > Classic for the most useful brushes, experimental for the more > fun,wild, and interesting ones. I call the second one "diversity" in my mind. Maybe there is a better name. I used the "experimental" group as a place to dump new interesting but not-quite-useful ideas. > Tilt stuff should probably go in the second one We need a way to mark them. With a tablet that supports tilt it can easily feel like odd unexplainable behaviour if you just try them without knowing. > Recruit an artist (or several) to improve the icons for the non-artist > brushes we chose to still ship. There should be a focus on communicating > what kind of brush this is, what it does, and how its different from > others. I think we should not give away the task away to redesign icons, but the task to select and maintain the default brush collection. This is collecting and presenting brushes, not really tuning the settings much. This is be different from the current "artist's brush collection" because it needs more awareness of how MyPaint is used by others, compared to the own preferences. And "maintain" means also to check and integrate contributions of others who want to help, maybe have some guidelines or templates, or whatever works. And it also means that I somehow have to convince myself that I am no longer responsible for that task. > Host the artist brush-sets who were in 0.8 that we chose to not ship in > 0.9 on our website. Put all the non-artist brushes we drop from 0.9 in a > set and host it on or website. Name it "MyPaint 0.8" or something. > > Thoughts? Negative: Brushes get less accessible. Extra step of figuring out that they exists, and downloading. Positive: We finally have a place to look for brushes, and for artists to publish/announce their collection, independent of the MyPaint release cycle. -- Martin Renold _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
