Re: [Tuxpaint-devel] Selection tools proposal - feedback wanted!

[Albert C. <aca...@gm...>]

On 2/7/06, Bill Kendrick <nb...@so...> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 09:24:49PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 14:49 -0800, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> > > As for deletion.  D'oh... I hadn't thought of that!
> > >
> > > It's going to get crowded, but perhaps when one of 'My' stamps are se=
lected,
> > > a "Trash" icon could appear at the bottom of the right selector...?
> > > (Near the mirror/flip/scaler.)
> > >
> > > Of course, disabling the ability to delete created stamps could be a
> > > simplification option in Tux Paint Config...
> >
> > Well, how about just making it part of the "Load" dialog?  To load a
> > stamp gives you a chance to edit it and save it (either as new or over
> > the old one).  Of course, once you're editing it again, to be
> > consistent, you'd need to select it all over again before saving it ...
>
> The problem here (IMO) is that if the user doesn't do the "selection"
> and then "save as stamp" part, they'll just end up re-saving the stamp,
> but now as a mostly-white image in their Save/Open folder.

It shouldn't be so complicated. This is better:

Draw something. Save it like normal. It's a stamp!

The alpha channel should be 100% automatic, using the predominant
edge color as a color key. Sizing should be 100% automatic, using
the smallest rectangle that will hold the image. If you delete the image,
it disappears as a stamp. If you edit the image, the stamp changes too.

Maybe there could be a checkbox to let the user exclude some
drawings from becoming stamps, but this may be needless
complexity. It's OK to make all saved images become stamps.
It would be reasonable to filter out images that appear to be
unsuitable, such as lacking an obvious color key or being based
on a starter image.