bulia byak wrote:
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Valerie <valerie_vk@...36...> wrote:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1162/textinterfacelk4.png
Looks good to me - and again, the scarcity of controls on the Text tool is not because we want it to be so, but simply because no one got a round tuit so far. However, this toolbar must also have controls for letterspacing, linespacing, and kerning, and I'm not sure if all this stuff would fit. Joshua Andler has made a mockup for those other items, so why don't you two combine your proposals and we discuss the result. Having a community-discussed and vetted mockup is the next best thing to having it implemented :)
For the record, I am following these toolbar discussions. :) And the proposed pencil changes look really awesome. If I felt like I could have added/improved anything, I would have chimed in. ;)
However, I won't have an opportunity to add anything useful to this conversation for a couple days (swamped with work). I had long ago created a text toolbar that just wasn't hooked up (it was a tool controls bar that changed with the tools, it just didn't actually modify text elements). But, that was literally just under 3 years ago (June 14-15, 2005 were the commits). Luckily, I still have a screenshot from that time. http://scislac.com/inkscape/texty.png (I'm sure glad gtk isn't still that ugly)
Valerie, if you would like to add letter/line spacing, kerning, and rotation fields to your mockup (not necessarilly the same as in my old toolbar, if you have better thoughts/ideas I won't be offended at all) it would be an excellent step forward.
-Josh