On 2009-May-29 , at 05:54 , Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:20 AM, JiHO wrote:
space to draw in the end. See this example in french on a 1280*800 display (i.e. not the smallest around) http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1047321/inkscape/fat_ui.png
Quick and dirty solution: use smaller font size for UI.
That helps a bit (and that's what I do usually) but I wanted to show the default configuration.
Now my real questions: what do you think about removing some of the toolbar items and reducing the number of control bars to two, as before? Do we really need buttons for new document, save, print, etc. when all of them are readily available in the menu and have standard, well known keyboard shortcuts?
Two words: wacom users :)
I am a wacom user myself and find the menus easy enough to get to for all of these functions, except for undo and redo which are indeed nice to have just a click away. Do you click new/save/print/preferences etc. very often that getting them from the menu is not convenient enough?
As a side note, if you want a wacom with no keyboard interaction at all, you probably have one with so called express keys and configuring those to perform those actions is actually very efficient. I personally have my left keys set to: Control, Alt, Shift, Meta; and my right ones set to: C, V, X, Z, which gives access to most commonly used functions.
What we really need is costomizable toolbars
I realize that and completely agree... but are those anywhere near completion in GDK? Jon Cruz was talking about them a while ago and he seemed to be almost ready to code them from scratch for Inkscape only. What's the status of this?
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/