Hi everybody,
Working on the Edit Menu part of the Manual (done but in french only, english version on CVS before end of July), i've made different tests on clone and patterns. These are great functionnalities.
One may find pattern samples in the joined file. May be it could be incorporated as a library (the same way markers did). I leave it to our great developers.
But, if alloweded, some things appeared to be difficult for me : - first of all : when creating many patterns, it is hard to remember the creation order, so that i've been 'confused' in the fillsettings dialog. Because there is no preview of the pattern in the dropdown menu, one may wish to name the pattern without using XML editor (some don't like coding!! or don't understand SVG at all) : may be the best could be to make a dialog appear to enter a name just after using the Edit/tile command. - second : The original object is set to rect filled with the pattern. It is OK, but often, i don't need it anymore in the drawing. It could be hidden. - third : (and it is not due to pattern filling i think but) but when a pattern is not used anymore, it is automatically cleared from defs. But should I always really want to remove it ? The autoClean functionnality is very good, but we may find rules about its use.
I will now be working on a Symbol (clone) Library. I'll see from Sodipodi, I guess they've done may things this way since few months.
Thanks a lot. Cedric
