Hi Alexandre,
Thankyou for your reply. Our team had a meeting today, in which we decided to take up the task of testing and re-design of the SVG Filter editor. Our plan for now is to go through the existing implementation and the blueprints, then move on to prototyping new UI designs, iterating them and evaluating them. The result should be a new blueprint, which according to our schedule should be ready on week 13.
- Aslak
Hi Aslak,
We discussed this proposal, but for reasons of terrible
procrastination never got back to you. Sorry about that.
The thing about Inkscape is that we know a lot of our problems, but
ultimately lack manpower to fix them.
One thing that, IMO, would be good to test is our existing dialogs: if
they are clean enough, how placement of widgets could be improved,
whether existing widgets are optimal etc.
There are at least two areas of interest we can think of as an
alternative project:
1. Live Path Effects dockable dialog has a couple of major issues:
range of possible values isn't exactly clear, and the effects
parameters tend to loom, as they are simply listed one by one in
top-bottom direction.
There is a recent trend to make better widgets that would fix the
range visibility issue, as well as provide better experience to tablet
users. And example of a partly implemented (http://vimeo.com/16616760)
GIMP proposal is here:
http://mmiworks.net/test/small.png
IMO, it's worth having a look at that, also for tools options toolbar.
2. We seem to have different views regarding the existing SVG Filters
editor. Right now it implements the SVG specification in a very
literal manner. Some people like it a lot (like Ivan, who did most
filter presets for Inkscape), and some people find it a terrible
solution.
We have two blueprints that suggest two different solutions: one
suggests an even simpler UI, and the other one suggests something like
node compositing:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/non-advanced-filters-ui
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape/+spec/improved-filter-effects-dialog
That makes three different approaches to editing SVG filters, one of
them implemented and currently used. You could test the existing
implementation and come up with suggestions how to improve it, or come
up with a new design proposal.
Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org
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