On Monday, December 06, 2010 08:18:56 pm Bryan Hoyt | Brush Technology wrote:
> +1, I love the exposé idea.
>
> Without knowing much about the internals of Inkscape, I'd imagine that being fairly advanced graphics software, most of the graphics-level stuff required for animation & scaling will be already in place, and the difficult part will not be creating a flashy-looking animation, but rather designing a functionality that will be intuitive.
>
> - Bryan
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 23:03, Jasper van de Gronde <
th.v.d.gronde@...528...> wrote:
> On 2010-12-04 19:53, Felipe Sanches wrote:
> > I have been using inkscape a lot recently and I noticed that sometimes
> > it can become very annoying to select svg elements that are in the
> > middle of a pile of other elements.
> >
> > Thus, I was thinking that we could have a key-combo that would break
> > appart all "hidden" shapes to allow you to select one of them, and after
> > that, all shapes would be places back in their correct places. Sometimes
> > I do something similar to that by hand, but an automated UI feature
> > would be very useful. Also, it would be solely a visualization mode, not
> > actualy modifying elements in the SVG DOM.
> >
> > I'd like to have some feedback on this idea.
> > thanks,
>
>
> I like the idea, also to be able to select items that are not
> necessarily on top of each other, but are very close (this can be very
> frustrating, requiring very precise mousing and/or zooming).
>
> For shapes that are not on top of each other I think it should just be
> like a kind of magnifier glass, but how would you propose to "pull
> apart" completely covered shapes? I could imagine something could be
> done that's similar to certain graph layout algorithms. But it would
> have to be pretty fast.
>
> The menu idea mentioned by Michael might also be an option, but I have
> some (although it was brief) experience with something like that and
> found it a bit inconvenient, especially as you have to make a coupling
> between the text in the menu and the objects in your image. Thumbnails
> would help, but if they're as small as icons they might be of limited
> use, if they get larger it may just be more natural to have a zoom-like
> behaviour. Also, such a menu solution could make it a bit more awkward
> to also handle selecting non-overlapping (or partially overlapping), but
> very close, shapes.