Tabs, Sub Windows etc

[Robin]

So I wanted to create a second view window.

Since I was in tabs mode:

I went Settings → Configure Krita → General-> Window

Where I changed “Multiple Document Mode” to subview.

The Problem comes here, The subviews all become “main windows” rather than one original canvas and multiple smaller windows.

They don’t dissappear since I can just go to Window and switch between them, or choose “tile”

But it seem counter intuitive to have it work that way.

Another addition: It’ a bit annoying that you can’t have one “main window” and one “sub view”

if click on the square between minimizing and closing

it just loops right back to making all windows except one disappear.

This all becomes quickly annoying when you try to navigate all of the windows.
Either you misclick the scrollbars and drag the wrong one, or you use your mouse and the programm switches between scrolling down with the main scrollbar for height, or it zoom in on one of the canvases.

I tried working around this by using the overview, but you can’t adjust what the overview is showing, it’s just showing all of it

and if you try working in a webcomic format, that just not very helpful

now granted Krita is probably not made for long formart webcomics

but I don’t think that invalidates most of my points.
It all just seems so tedious.

Maybe being able to drag views in and out of tabs mode might be helpful,
maybe I just need to get used to it.
or maybe I’m just stupid and there is an obvious solution for me.

[emilm]

Hi.

@Robin

Either you misclick the scrollbars and drag the wrong one, or you use your mouse and the programm switches between scrolling down with the main scrollbar for height, or it zoom in on one of the canvases.

You can hide canvas scrollbars if you want. Settings → Configure Krita → Display → Miscellaneous → Hide Canvas Scrollbars

Have you tried Subwindow orginizer python plugin? (Haven’t tried it myself.)

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Or maybe add another window.
Window → New Window followed by Window → New View → [select document]

[Robin]

Hi to answer your Ideas:

The first one doesn’t work for me because often times the windows just… sort of disconnect?

When you choose the tile funktion in Krita they are arraged without canvas scrollbar, sort of attached to the top and bottom, but if specific actions are done they tend to to go outside “Canvas” in which case the scrollbar reappears and you need to go to the “Tile” funktion which rearrages them. This is of course incredibly annoying when you tend to be clumsy, because you need to rearrage it over and over again.

The second one also doesn’t work for me, maybe because I’m using Windows but the new window just has all the tool etc. in with it so I would have to keep changeing that everytime.