On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Valerie <valerie_vk@...36...> wrote:
the user to add and remove tools from a "tool pool" onto a single toolbar?
Because usually, people use specific sets of tools for specific tasks, common groups of which can be determined:
OK, then, let's ship with several predefined task-oriented toolbars and allow the user to modify any of them by adding or removing tools. I guess at this level it's basically the same as Jon Cruz and you propose, except that I don't want to add as many new tools as you do :)
So basically, you're proposing complex strokes as a sub-mode of pencil and pen?
Yes. For example, a drop-down with a list of LPEs with some preset parameters and a "last used LPE" entry, and separately from that a drop-down with profiles as in your mockup, implemented as pattern-on-path LPE (and therefore disabling the LPE chooser, until we can support more than one LPE per path).
That's workable. How do you propose to settle the UI issue of fill vs stroke color? With LPE, the stroke Is the shape, after all (though I suppose said shape/stroke doesn't need its own stroke).
This is a relatively minor point - but Calligraphic pen works fine using the current fill color for its "strokes" and nobody complained so far :)