On Jan 7, 2006, at 11:02 AM, MenTaLguY wrote:
I've been pondering the object style minibar, and come up with a variation on the current idea. It's not a huge difference.
I *think* it's a pretty good tweak that gets some nice functionality squeezed into there. One minor shift might be to inset the fill square slightly so it looks more of the size to fit into the 'stroke' size. To have them logically appear as both parts of the same thing, the size of the 'fill' square should aline to the middle of the 'stroke' square. However, I think that doing something that precise makes it lose esthetically. A slight reduction in the 'fill' square, on the other hand, still seems to make things esthetically pleasing while at the same time conveying extra information more intuitively.
But... the main point, I think, is that it really is a large usability improvement, even if it seems to not be a huge difference.