# Planned changes to assistants coming in 2022 (or later)

**URL:** <https://krita-artists.org/t/planned-changes-to-assistants-coming-in-2022-or-later/43064>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** for-tools, for-ui-ux\
**Created:** [June 22, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/planned-changes-to-assistants-coming-in-2022-or-later/43064 "2022-06-22T23:49:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 2, 2022, 12:35pm UTC](https://krita-artists.org/t/planned-changes-to-assistants-coming-in-2022-or-later/43064/27 "2022-08-02T12:35:45Z")

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> [@Grum999](#):
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> Ok I’m not using it as an assistant for my pencil, but more as an assistant to get proportions in space  
> Really useful especially for animated frames…

I do intend to keep the subdivisions, I just want to move it to one assistant called “Ruler” (most probably) and it will only work in either infinite or parallel way. Though I’m not sure, maybe adding a checkbox for limited ruler (limited to the begin and end of the assistant) is a good idea too? Do you use it? Does anyone use it?

> [@Grum999](#):
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> Duplicate assistant

Added to my spreadsheet as F152.

> [@Grum999](#):
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> Window hint color

That’s a good idea. Added as F153.

> [@Grum999](#):
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> Linked nodes

I am thinking of solving it like this:

- by default, all assistants are not selected, or the last created assistant is selected. You can select an assistant by clicking on its editor widget, and probably select multiple ones by ctrl+clicking.
- when the assistant is selected, you can move its handle.
- when there are multiple assistant selected and there are multiple that have a handle in one place, all of the handles will move if you try to move them.
- a handle will snap to other handles when moving  
That way it should be possible to both move just one handle out of the three (just select one assistant instead of three) and all three at once (just select all three assistants and move the handles).  
Does it sound good to you?

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