On Wed, 2015-02-25 at 17:20 -0500, Ryan Lerch wrote:
I know this is kind of out of the blue, but i have been thinking a lot lately about some of the inconsistencies like this in the inkscape interface, and would love to try to help contribute to fixes / be involved with helping with the usability of new tools we create. Has there ever been anyone involved with doing usablity reviews / testing of this sort? (doctormon, i know you did some last year :) ) I know of plenty of UX people that use Inkscape that would probably be keen in contributing in this area.
You're not the only one thinking about these issues Ryan. I've had to put a lot of code contributions on the back burner while I contribute to the website, but I think conceptually we need to bring generated shapes into alignment.
For example star, 3dbox etc. They clutter up the code quite a bit and to be honest bringing them out of the code into something more like an python extension or LPE. It would certainly express the flexibility of the UI to be able to incorporate extensions into toolbars and tool options.
Sadly this will have to continue to wait this end of the line.
Martin,