Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...360...> writes:
2009/4/15 Jarosław Foksa wrote:
I know this just cures the symptoms, not the underlying problem, but could we have "Miter limit" "Start Markers" "Mid Markers" "End Markers" labels from Fill & Stroke dialog renamed into "Miter", "Start", "Mid", "End" respectively? This would reduce the dialog width a bit and save quite a lot of horizontal space for somebody who is using docking panel and not-so-wide screen; It shouldn't harm usability too much as there are still some tooltips showed after hovering over labels. It's just a matter of replacing 4 strings in src/widgets/stroke-style.cpp. @Prokoudine, maybe you could do this? Please.
Well, it can be done, but it won't really change a lot, since longest message (Start markers) is just three letters away from "Miter limit" which cannot be cut.
The biggest space waster seems to be the color gradients in the fill&stroke dialogs. currently on Ubuntu + human theme they are 225 pixels wide and cannot be made smaller. If they could be scaled down to 128 that would save a lot of space. But it's basically a problem of widget size - all the combo boxes, spinners, sliders and buttons have very large margins and padding. I suppose it has to do with the theme, but Gimp somehow manages to overcome this so I'm sure it's not impossible to do this for Inkscape as well.