So, the filter dialog now tracks the selection as suggested. Regarding improved simple controls, here's what I'm thinking about:
The filter effects dialog gets a toggle for switching between simple and advanced mode. Advanced uses the current setup, which shows pretty much all the complexity of the underlying svg. The simple mode will keep the list of filters at the left, but will remove the filter primitive list (and connections graph), replacing it with a list of effect groups, such as Drop Shadow, Blur, Invert Colors, etc.
Each effect group could be made up of several filters (e.g. Drop Shadow might consist of feGaussianBlur, feOffset, and feComposite.) In order to easily display them in grouped form, perhaps an attribute such as inkscape:filtergroup could be assigned to each of the filters in a group, with a string indicating the type of effect. Each filter group would also have it's own simplified settings at the bottom (e.g. Drop Shadow might have offset and intensity settings.)
Here's a mockup of what this all might look like: http://picasaweb.google.com/NicholasBishop/Inkscape/photo#509397521654263387...
Additionally, after this is done, all the filter stuff (including blend mode and blur) could be removed from the Fill and Stroke dialog, so that all things filter related will be grouped into the Filter Effects dialog.
Comments?
-Nicholas
On 7/25/07, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:40 -0700, microUgly wrote:
Unless with SVG you can apply the same type of filter element multiple times.
Exactly. You can even think of SVG filter elements as the building blocks for a very simple filter programming language.
-mental
This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel