On Sun, February 24, 2013 11:57 am, Benjamin Turner wrote: > On 02/24/2013 09:44 AM, Len Ovens wrote: >> My opinion is that integration is over rated :) Adding krita is 38Mb on >> the ISO or so. I am downloading it now to try. I find mypaint hard to >> use, >> but that is mostly because there is not an artist using the mouse :P > I agree with you about integration, mostly. One major thing to be said > about the 'kde' integration is the ease of setting up custom keybindings > for wacom tablets (what digital artist uses a mouse anymore?! ;) ).
That was sort of my point. I am not an artist. So I do use a mouse, cause I don't have a tablet :) I would like to have one though, because I think it would make a great midi controller surface. Print out a mixer or other controller (or even an organ like keyboard, or drawbars just to name a few) and touch the four corners to set up the program and instant midi controller. > I know that XFCE has some basic setup for tablets, and the pressure > sensitivity is still used in Mypaint etc while under xfce, but being > able to specifically configure the tablet for KDE apps in general is the > real plus of KDE+Krita. Good to know. There are a few areas I would like to see fixed in xfce. Dual monitors is another. It would be great to know how kde does it. One day when I feel rich I will have to buy a tablet to play with. I wonder if just the kde settings app(let) is usable in xfce? I wonder if it uses a setup file, a driver or environment variables. (or just talks to x about it) > I would say that I tend to use Mypaint for quick sketches in xfce, but > if I'm going to do some real intensive painting sessions, I boot up a > Kubuntu session with my specific tablet settings. The main drawback for > me is that I always feel like there is A LOT of overhead using KDE just > to get this functionality, but I don't have the time, or really the > technical know-how to implement this type of thing in xfce. Yes KDE is a bit of a resource hog. I would like to slim down xfce even. I would like to get rid of anything that puts icons on the desktop, like the instance of thunar that runs at session start. > This alone is reason enough to add it to US, but perhaps some effort > upstream to make XFCE's tablet configuration more robust would be the > real winner for every piece of digital painting software in US! That makes +3 and -1 so far. Scott? I know you do more graphics than I do. Any other artists? -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
