I just don't get how it's so much less work - I'm not ignorant by any means, and I easily learn new software, so I'm pretty sure that I haven't missed much. But I haven't found Inkscape to be any more cumbersome to use Fill and Stroke. Quite the opposite.
(BTW, the reason I don't generally use tutorials is that I figure things out very quickly and only need to look up a few tricky parts here and there - the fact that this had me baffled, for however short a time, does not have me convinced that Adobe should be mimicked in this regard - certainly wasn't user friendly, as far as I am concerned.)
Additionally (on a related note), selecting colors in Inkscape is vastly easier, in my opinion, than in Adobeware. (I'm looking forward to improved swatching, however, in Inkscape.)
If keyboard shortcuts are the only thing you're saying is better, why don't we just add similar shortcuts? Or maybe do it better(er) somehow?
My intention is not to start a flame war - simply to strongly urge that we don't go that direction, because there has got to be a better way, even if we just adapt what we already have.
JF
On 09/02/2010 05:49 PM, Chris Mohler wrote:
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Joshua Facemyer<jfacemyer@...400...> wrote:
I wish to strongly disagree about combining the fill and stroke dialogs. I recently started to use a "professional" proprietary software suite for a new job (no choice for me) and have had to learn the interface, some elements which this mockup is trying to imitate.
You can Adobe-bash all you want to but the Fill-Stroke in Illustrator is vastly easier to use than current Inkscape. The rest of the interface might in fact be a nightmare, but:
'x' key - toggle fill/stroke active 'X' key - switch fill/stroke '/' key - remove either fill or stroke (whichever is active) Perhaps these keys will help you with your new job ;) Also lynda.com offers pretty good (paid) tutorials on AI, and there are tons of free ones out there.
Not to mention AI F/S parallels the FG/BG concept used by GIMP, Photoshop, et al.
Don't get me wrong - Inkscape does quite a few things better than AI. However, F/S is not one of them, Way, way too many steps involved to manage the appearance of an object. All IMO of course :)
Chris