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Brush dynamics are confusing at their current state

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Brush dynamics are confusing at their current state LightningIsMyName 09 Jul 22:38
  Brush dynamics are confusing at their current state Alexia Death 09 Jul 22:55
  Brush dynamics are confusing at their current state peter sikking 15 Jul 15:20
LightningIsMyName
2010-07-09 22:38:53 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Brush dynamics are confusing at their current state

Hello,

After a bug report like this https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623980 and some more discussion on IRC, it was pointed out that brush dynamics are now confusing for users who don't know them. Some example problems are:
- Brush resizing because the default dynamics maps the velocity to the brush size, will make regular users wonder why their brush resizes (like the bug report above)
- Users that used the basic dynamics in 2.6 possibly won't find them in 2.8 and will complain about missing features - Finding where to choose brush dynamics is simply not intuitive

Suggestions: 1. Change the default brush dynamics to mimic the default settings in 2.6 (Pressure mapped to Opacity, and disabling all the other inputs). Simply disabling all the dynamics by default (or more precisely, setting them to "Dynamics Off") will cause bug reports about missing pressure support...
2. Adding a widget in the tool options window, to select the brush dynamics. This sounds logical if we already allow to select the brush and gradient from the tool options window.

We need feedback for both suggestions - what should the default dynamics be (maybe we should enable things like tilt which don't affect users that use a mouse), and whether to add or not to add a widget to select the dynamics from the tool options window.

~LightningIsMyName

Alexia Death
2010-07-09 22:55:55 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Brush dynamics are confusing at their current state

On Friday, July 09, 2010 23:38:53 LightningIsMyName wrote:

Suggestions:
1. Change the default brush dynamics to mimic the default settings in 2.6 (Pressure mapped to Opacity, and disabling all the other inputs). Simply disabling all the dynamics by default (or more precisely, setting them to "Dynamics Off") will cause bug reports about missing pressure support...

It's pretty much a decided thing that the default dynamics are not intuitive and they are going to change to 2.8. To what is open for discussion, but I'm also favoring mimicking 2.6 unless a better option is proposed.

2. Adding a widget in the tool options window, to select the brush dynamics. This sounds logical if we already allow to select the brush and gradient from the tool options window.

This is also pretty much a decided thing. Not implemented yet tho. Wanna do it?

--Alexia

peter sikking
2010-07-15 15:20:03 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Brush dynamics are confusing at their current state

Lightning...,

I was on holiday for a week+ and hence absent.

the current state of paint dynamics is that there is not a good UI design, just a lash-up for last year's SoC:

There is work being done on designing a UI for paint dynamics. This takes methodical steps that at the end addresses the needs of users that you point out.

at this moment it is not worthwhile to put band aids on the clutch we have at the moment.

--ps

founder + principal interaction architect man + machine interface works

http://mmiworks.net/blog : on interaction architecture