I'd like to add a few comments on swatches aspect... 1) in grid mode, maybe swatches would look better with a thin black border, like on gimp, don't you think ? when neighbor colors look almost the same (which is likely to happen), I think it helps a lot to choose a color... 2) when moving over swatches, searching for a color, you want to see its name, so you have to wait for the tooltip to come up : it would be nicer, when it's up, that it refreshes instantly when moving over other colors. i hope i'm clear... 3) there's a focus shape on the last selected swatch... there's no reason for keeping that, except if the "focus" is not set to the last selected swatch, but on the color of the selected object. but that's probably more than just a GUI question.
I wish I could drop a patch for those things, but i'm not skilled enough, I'll try to dive more into the code when I have time. Btw, congratulations to you all for this amazing piece of software ;)
françois (alias paco)
On 4/28/05, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
Well, if you can't make it a swatch, make it a button somewhere. E.g. on the top panel of the dialog, left-aligned. That space is wasted anyway.
Yes, I was planing on shoving in a new button somewhere. But... if I get time to embed the swatch palette in the main UI window, I'll just drop it next to that.
And btw, why this horizontal divider and some empty space at the bottom of the dialog? Can you please squeeze that out?
That's from the temp Dialog that's holding the Panel right now. Part of Dockable will let the new Dialog know to draw that or not.
Also it would be very nice to scroll the palette (if it does not entirely fit) by middle mouse button, the way we scroll canvas. Can you do that?
We'll try to get that in. That falls under the container (Panel which implements PreviewFillable) needing new layout code. Among other things, I think behaving like the Gimp's and doing a flow-layout that avoids horizontal scrolling would also be good.
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