Maximilian Albert schrieb:
I started working in the direction of Valerie's proposal for a redesigned pen/pencil toolbar (see http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Vector-brushes) [...]
Have a look at latest SVN. It implements a dropdown menu in pencil/pen toolbar to select various shapes which are applied instantly after finishing a path. At present it has the options "None", "Clipboard", "Crescendo" and "Decrescendo". The latter two are just offhand descriptions for very long triangles (give it a try and the meaning will become clear :) ).
These verbal descriptions will disappear as soon as I've figured out how to add a images to the dropdown box like in the fill/stroke dialog. I succeeded in adding the widget from that dialog to the toolbar, but it always appeared at the very end (I think even after the "style of new objects" swatch) -- as if it was put outside some inner hbox containing all the other widgets. Any ideas what that hbox would be and how to access it? What precisely does the 'holder' refer to anyway that is passed as an argument to all the toolbar prep functions?
Apart from adding images to the dropdown, shapes should be made loadable from an external files (similar to patterns) and more shapes should be added.
Max