Re: [Inkscape-devel] Symbols Dialog

15 Oct 2012


      On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 02:24 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
...
Maybe we change the arrow to be a cog? We need to have some default
without wasting space in the UI for things the average user doesn't
care about...
I don't know how the cog became the metaphor for additional parameters
but it does seem to be quite common. Using a cog would make things more
discoverable. But before I make any changes, I'll let the current
version bake in for awhile to see what other comments people have.
...
On Oct 13, 2012 2:10 AM, "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
        On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 01:46 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
        > What about the size and fit options being in a triangle
        menu, like it
        > is for swatches?
    That is possible but it's not very discoverable.


    > On Oct 13, 2012 1:19 AM, "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...>
    wrote:
    >         On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 11:14 +0400, Alexandre
    Prokoudine wrote:
    >         > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Tavmjong Bah
    wrote:
    >         > >
    >         > > Hi,
    >         > >
    >         > > I've checked into trunk a Symbols dialog. A
    description of
    >         the dialog
    >         > > can be found on a Wiki page at:
    >         > >
    >         > >
    http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog
    >         > >
    >         > > There are still some issues that need to be
    resolved. They
    >         are listed in
    >         > > Wiki page.
    >         >
    >         > What about supporting VSS files in the future?
    (Visio shape
    >         libraries)
    >         >
    >         > Since end of July there is support for VSS files
    in
    >         libvisio. It's not
    >         > yet publicly released, but I have a suspicion that
    getting
    >         Fridrich to
    >         > release a tarball isn't all that difficult :)
    >
    >         Sounds interesting...
    >
    >         > Also, I'm not sure if the preview scale option is
    required
    >         at all, and
    >         > not sure if the preview size should be accessible
    at all
    >         times. What
    >         > I've seen for GIMP's resource dialogs (brushes,
    gradients
    >         etc.) is
    >         > that people pick one preview size and use it all
    the time,
    >         and often
    >         > don;t even touch this preference at all. But
    should that
    >         want to do
    >         > it, there is a dialog's menu for that.
    >
    >         The first two sets of symbols I looked at had symbol
    widths of
    >         6000 px
    >         and 3 px so without a preview size option they
    wouldn't have
    >         been
    >         viewable. That is why the default preview scale is
    "Fit". But
    >         I prefer
    >         to see symbols all scaled the same. If we assume
    that people
    >         only use
    >         symbols that come with Inkscape then perhaps we
    could drop the
    >         preview
    >         scale but I don't think that is a good assumption.
    >
    >         Tav
    >
    >
    >
    >
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