https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399375
--- Comment #12 from David REVOY <i...@davidrevoy.com> --- > Why isn't krita changing? @David Edmundson : It is a standard adopted since decades by many apps and compatible MacOS and Windows. All the software I ever used in 20 years of career use combination of Shift, Ctrl or Alt to access modifier variation of tools. To quote a few: Indesign, QuarkXpress, Illustrator, Photoshop, PaintToolSai, ClipPaintStudio, Corel Draw, Corel Painter, GIMP, Inkscape, Blender, 3DStudioMax, Maya, etc..etc.. (and probably most of the professional application, including video editors). Alt is just not a key for the D.E. to move windows around. > "And if we don't solve this, we'll lose digital artists as our KDE Plasma > users and as allies." @Tyson: In my point of view; the big part already left around 2014. I felt it on my blog with the feedback I had (I was a big Plasma4 advocate between 2011 to 2014 and had audience for that on my blog). They left at transition to Plasma5. Plasma5 was quickly adopted by distro and shipped without the digital art features. They were not part of the core things ported to Qt5. So, for the artists, the switch was too violent from something like Mint KDE 14 with Plasma4 with color management and tablet GUI out of the box and already installed by default (ref: http://www.davidrevoy.com/article155/linux-mint-14-kde-for-painters) beginner friendly to the new Plasma, unstable and without this features (unless creating bash script for xsetwacom manually, calibrate tablet with xinputcalibrator,colormanagement with ArgylCMS and obscure command line and flags - but this type of user are *rare* and can use their own Windows Manager and build their own distro). User base of artists I knew at this time exploded to other D.E. learning the hard way to adapt; and a part switched back to Windows defintely. For my own experience, I made a random path into XFCE/Mate/Unity/Awesome/GNOME/Cinnamon sometime experiencing night of work and research to get my workstation working. I'm only back to Plasma since 8 month or so. Nowaday, the tablet GUI is slowly getting back to maintenance on Plasma5 thanks to the work of @Valeriy Malov (I'm building it, my distro -Kubuntu- doesn't pack a version that works). But it will take time until https://github.com/oyranos-cms/oyranos color management system can be back with the tablet as built-in solution, packaged and working... Let just face it: we, artist/designers, are probably just a too minor target audience (something I learned after 10 years of GNU/Linux distros, breaking all what I advocated years after years on my blog and turned my involvement into a "this-guy-must-be-idealist-or-crazy-to-keep-using-that"...). So, I'm not really surprised if things doesn't change on this topic and that's why I gave up quickly on this discussion. But I appreciate your tenacity @Tyson and I fully support what you said. On my side, I'll probably change the tone of my blog posts and teach to digital artists this vision I experienced; the hard way" the command line tools, the settings to customize, the obscure flags... I don't expect anymore an out-of-the-box positive experience. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
