Talk:Brainstorming/UI/Brushcursor

Well it looks like Mypaint is dead as far as i can see not being updated or changing it's front page in almost a year. More's the pity considering MyPaint is the best art program i have ever used bar none. But that aside i suppose i should come on here and point out to any one that's listening a very obvious problem with the Cursor in MyPaint that it seems none of you have even mentioned. It's practically invisible. It has two colors, white and black and changes them according to it's size, this means that when the brush is set to a small size and using a dark color it simply vanishes. Gone, poof. You can only see it if you increase the brush size to often gigantic proportions making fine detail work impossible on any dark color at all. Or one can zoom in until all the pixels are showing and thereby increasing the size of the cursor that way, but causing you to loose all sense of proportion and perspective in the process because you cannot see the entirety of your work. This had been one of the key obstacles to my own use of the program and has been incredibly frustrating.

Now i am not a programmer myself, I'm an artist. You know, one of the people who actually use the program to create art so i can't offer any actual code. However, i can offer some of my knowledge of color and contrast if that would help. The best fix for the problem that i could come up with was to change the code so that the user could assign one of the five primary colors to the brush cursor itself with the push of a key, allowing the user to scroll through the colors until they found one that stood out against the background. This would allow the finest detail even when using a black background (a favorite of mine).

That said, i have no idea if that would be incredibly difficult to implement or even impossible, but i thought i should mention it as an idea.