Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Templates] Report

It is not up to me to decide how to implement NewFromTemplate in detail - this one change in behavior of 'Ctrl+N' simply struck me as odd quite early on while testing trunk with the new templates dialog. Why would Inkscape suddenly prevent me from opening multiple new documents in one go? It felt like an unintentional change to me.

What do others think about this?

On 2013-09-02 15:36 +0200, Jan Darowski wrote:

I will fix these things so there is no need to report them in the bug tracker. To be honest, behavior described by you as the first problem (UI regression) is done like that on purpose. I believe it's more natural this way but if you wish it changed, there is no problem.

2013/9/2 su_v <...>

On 2013-08-24 23:40 +0200, Jan Darowski wrote:
> This week I added loading procedural templates into my widget so they
> could be listed next to the static templates. This required some
changes
> in the current NewFromTemplate code but it's functionality remains
> unchanged.

A couple of issues I noticed with trunk builds after the commit of
the first part ("NewFromTemplate GSoC project for static templates")
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/12476
<http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Einkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/12476>>
as well as with an up-to-date build of your branch (r12482)
<https://code.launchpad.net/~slagvi/inkscape/templates
<https://code.launchpad.net/%7Eslagvi/inkscape/templates>>:


- UI regression

It is no longer possible to open multiple new documents from within the
same inkscape process:

   Previous behavior:
'Ctrl+N', or selecting a template from the menu 'File > New' always
opens a new document in a new document window

   Current behavior (>= r12476):
'Ctrl+N', or selecting a specific template in the new dialog re-uses the
current document window unless it has an existing document loaded, or
the current new document has been dirtied.

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