On 8 September 2010 22:37, Martin Renold <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 08:40:34PM +0200, Jon Nordby wrote: >> 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. I'm not set on the name, but I'm not sure "diversity" is much better. Might have to do some brainstorming to find the right one / the best one. This should be done before a string freeze.
>> 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. Yes. I'm hoping this can be communicated through the name and icon of the brush. >> 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. If we can find a person to do that job, I think that is a good idea. I just fear that is not so easy, and we'll have to settle for less. Meaning that you and I do the main job and request feedback/help on smaller, more specific things from other interested people. >> 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. Yes, the brush sets that are not in shipped by default will be less accessible. However, if we do a decent job with the defaults, most users should not miss much. Some will be a bit disappointed that favorite brush X was removed, we can't avoid that, but I think the improved usability of the default set is worth it. We probably won't get it perfect on the first try, but that should not keep us from improving the current situation. -- Regards Jon Nordby - www.jonnor.com _______________________________________________ Mypaint-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/mypaint-discuss
