Krita user of 2 years, Kubuntu user of… pretty sure less than a month, here. I regularly draw using Krita, using old project files as basis for new projects, and I have to say that that’s admittedly one of the things that drew me to Kubuntu specifically— the fact that Krita was preinstalled immediately caught my eye.
But what I don’t like at all is the ‘open images/save as’ dialogue. Namely, the only two views supported by the dialogue are List View and Details View, with Dolphin’s Icon View– or an equivalent– nowhere in sight, and especially not with crucial-to-my-workflow features like Show In Groups/Sort By Type (which I use to segregate the .KRA and .PNG files, so I don’t accidentally click the wrong one).
Worse still, despite there seemingly being a pane on the right to display the currently selected file, this goes completely unused in ‘Open Images’ and ALMOST goes unused in ‘Save As’ due to a crucial flaw– the first click doesn’t select the file, it OPENS it (directly opening the image immediately in Open Images mode, or attempting to overwrite it in Save As mode; this is why it doesn’t technically go unused in Save As, because the ‘Filename.png already exists. Do you want to replace it?’ dialogue box pops up, allowing you to look past it to see the file popping up on the side pane.). This behavior is DESPITE me setting KDE to select on the first click and open on double-click in the System Settings app; a setting that Dolphin obeys but this dialogue doesn’t.
Between the lack of respect for “Select on single click, open on double-click” and the lack of icon view, this means that there is no way to SEE the contents of a given file before opening it. In ‘Save As’ mode this is… mostly fine-ish, as the typical use case for this dialogue in this mode is “Find the correct folder and type in a new filename”; in ‘Open Images’ mode this is nigh UNUSABLE, forcing me to instead open up Dolphin to find and open the file I want to open.
And this is in contrast to… well, I’ll say it, Windows, which seemingly just uses File Explorer straight-up, the icon mode and grouping are (as I remember it) right there, and if I want to open a file, it will behave the same way File Explorer does in that it wants me to double-click.
I get that I can’t simply set Dolphin to be the save/load dialogue; failing that, can the save/load dialogue at least be improved in some way?
