On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Valerie <valerie_vk@...36...> wrote:
Oh? I agree about the spacing, but I admit I rarely use kerning. Also, kerning is easier via keyboard shortcuts.
Sure. But sometimes, my hand is on the mouse/pen and I don't want to reach for the keys.
Now, I'm pretty sure that people do charts a lot more frequently than kerning letters. ;)
Users are different. What you're saying is definitely not the case for me, for example :)
- they obscure part of the
canvas which, after they are closed, needs to redraw itself, which may be annoyingly slow in complex documents.
Slower than bringing up the align panel all the time, as is what I have to do right now?
No, of course the dialog is still slower.
Alright, in this case, how about the following:
- I put all the text style elements onto the text toolbar
- I design a Separate tool whose purpose is to take a shape, take
a text, and flow the text into it (with automatic padding, alignment, etc.) to make it a proper chart item that updates itself (for alignment and padding)?
I don't think a new tool is warranted. We still have some reserves in the toolbar: remove some redundant labels, replace others with small icons, drop the text direction buttons (I don't think they are frequently used).