Fitting in
To fit in with KOffice, one needs to do as KOffice does. Since Krita should be bona-fide KOffice citizen, that means Krita needs to fit in. Now, what's the first thing you see when you start a KOffice app? Right, it's the three-tabbed file window. Create, Open, Recent. And what do you see when you click create? Right, a host of templates. So today I created templates and made that dialog work. More or less -- but first a screenshot, and then I'll talk about the less.
Nice icons, innit? I like them, and I created them with Karbon. I wish Rob Buis would keep working on Karbon, because it's got all the potential and a lot of the features of an Inkscape, but as it is, it's still buggy (don't select the 'pattern fill' button, and don't use it on a powerpc). Anyway, these are bona-fide svg icons...
And then I ran into problems. Image editors differ from presentation apps or word processors that you cannot catch everything a user wants to do in a template. There's an infinite range of sizes, and besides, there are background colours, transparency issues and colour models. So I would need to add a page to the template dialog where the user can create a document from parameters. Haven't figured that one out...
The other, even bigger, problem is that apparently templates should not be the same as ordinary files. Krita crashes when I want to create something from a template.
Still, the icons are nice...