Oh my Text tool, my dearest abomination

This text tool’s future is about as bright as a black hole. All I ask for is a little mercy:

Automatic word wrap based on the text frame size, because apparently, enter “enter” is kinda hurting my fingers.

Color selection that doesn’t play hide-and-seek with the default gray.

Look, I’m a coder. C++ and Python for years.
But I know nothing about Qt and GUI. I can’t really find time to learn those either. It just ain’t happening. (Bc I am learning to draw.)

So, since I can’t contribute with code, here’s my war paint:

I’ve been a loyal Krita user for, oh let’s say, 2.8 glorious years (and yes, I know all the shortcuts, thank you very much). I’m simply not switching software for this text tool torture.

Once Krita blesses us with that auto-wrap function (fingers crossed your definition matches mine!), I’m donating the income from my next 3 projects to the Krita development fund. We’re talking $60 a pop, and let me tell you, those prices will be higher when the update lands.

I know, it’s not Intel level funding, but after factoring in the therapy bills from using another software’s text tool, it’s the best deal i can offer.
This update is basically the QOL many are waiting for, so I hope more folks join this glorious, slightly uncoordinated, user uprising!

What do you say? Guys?
(I am not trying to push the devs to do anything, consider this post a little rant from a loyal user. :laughing: If mods somehow finds this post inappropriate, do remove it as you would, but I will hold my part of promise anyway.)

The text tool is being rewritten from scratch you can follow the development in this thread - Text Tool Thread

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This topic should be moved because it’s not a feature request. General Forums maybe?

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lol :sweat_smile:

It’s not as if the subject was not known and that an inventory of the progress of the re-writing was not regularly carried out by the developer in charge of the subject and also during krita monthly update synthesis :upside_down_face:

Grum999

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Yeah, I think that would be good.
Somehow General Forums is not on my top page, totally forgot about it XD

Yeah~ You are right. :laughing:
Gotta check them out.

Drop by @raghukamath thread he linked.
Alot of your gripes is address there.

Im on 5.3 pre-alpha and the text tool has already improved leaps and bounds. Some of the things you said are already in the todo. Be mindful there is only 1 person doing this and update like this takes time.

The very first part of this update is still be in 5.3 , and not all of the things in the todo will be there. Some will probably come in much later .

Feel free to read and contribute to the thread to help shape the text tool.

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I’m not sure what the topic is so I’ve put it in General Forums: off-topic talks.
If anybody has a better idea, change it to the better idea.

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