https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=495812
Bug ID: 495812
Summary: Group and Organise Dockers in Drop-down Menu
Classification: Applications
Product: krita
Version: 5.2.3
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Usability
Assignee: krita-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: kde.tm...@passinbox.com
Target Milestone: ---
ISSUE:
Currently, the drop down menu under ' Settings > Dockers > ' is sorted
alphabetically. This makes it very hard to navigate unless you know the exact
name of the thing you are looking for. If you're looking for a Colour Selector,
then you cannot find any of the 7 options under "C" for "colour". It's under S
or A or D or P or W, but not C. It's difficult to find something in this list
unless you know *exactly* what it's called (which depends on localisation),
rather than being able to see the options I have for Colour Selection dockers.
A friend remarked they liked the colour selector I had my workspace, but
because they didn't know what it was called, they hadn't been able to find it
until they saw the screenshot I'd shown!
PROPOSED SOLUTION:
It would be much more useful to group selectors into categories. Below is a
first-draft attempt of making these groups;
==================================
Animation ------------------------
Animation
Animation Curves
Animation Timeline
Colour Selection -----------------
Advanced Colour Selector
Artistic Colour Selector
Digital Colour Mixer
Palette
Specific Colour Selector
Small Colour Selector
Wide Gamut Colour Selector
Document and Colour Management ---
Channels
Histogram
Layers
LUT Management
Gamut Masks
History and Recording ------------
Brush Preset History
Undo History
Recorder
Snapshot
Task Sets
Presets --------------------------
Brush Presets
Patterns
Symbol Libraries
Shapes and Vector Drawing --------
Add Shape
Arrange
Shape Properties
View -----------------------------
Overview
Compositions
Grids and Guides
Onion Skin
Log Viewer
Storyboard
Reference Images
Touch Docker
==================================
It might be prudent to make a "Layers" group with the Layers, Storyboard, and
Compositions dockers, but I haven't used Storyboard or Compositions to know if
they should be grouped together or not?
This also gives some more indication as to what each tool actually does. Some
tools, like "Arrange" and "Task Sets" give no real indication as to what they
do until you open them or look them up in the documentation.
If "Arrange" was categorised under "Shapes", then it is a lot more obvious that
"Arrange" is about 'arranging shapes'. This could also give the option to
shorten the name of some dockers, such as;
Colour Selection
Advanced Colour Selector -> Advanced Colours
Artistic Colour Selector -> Artistic Colours
Small Colour Selector -> Colour Selector
(if it's the "standard" one, does it need an adjective?)
Digital Colours Mixer -> Digital Colour Mixer
(in en-gb, "colours" is plural for no apparent reason)
Specific Colour Selector -> Specific Colours
Wide Gamut Colour -> Wide Gamut Colours
Presets
Brush Presets -> Brushes
(consistent with "Patterns", and "presets" is now obvious from the
category title just above it)
View
Touch Docker -> Touch Controls
(why does only this docker have "docker" in the name? The current name
is also not descriptive)
Log Viewer -> Logs
(since it is now in the View Category)
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
Worth noting for where I'm proposing changes to names; my system is using
British English with US English as a fallback; some of these names might differ
between UK and US English (including the obvious Colour/Color).
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