On Wed, 2014-12-17 at 20:28 +0100, Xaviju Julián wrote:
Tomorrow we will work on a general design focused on visual details. Being this finished, we will have accomplished our goal for this week, that was delivering to you Inkscape guys a full and reasoned redesign proposal.
No need to say that we are extremely excited about this project and that we would love to have feedback from you about all this. How do you see the proposal so far?
I will review the Tools organization:
1. The first thing I think is that you've confused the tools which effect the canvas, with the "panels zone" activation. You'll notice how none of the current tools activate the panels. But this is ok because many of your ideas could be proper tools, while others should be re-thought when it comes to the panels and how they are activated and hidden.
a. The path selection tool is high use for a lot of use cases. It's low use only applies to some cases, so we should be careful not to bury it.
b. The Align tool would be useful if it was a selection mode with the align tools all nicely designed into the settings bar. Certainly solve my align handles design issue if it was a tool. It might be possible to add the distribute and grid align tools too.
c. The document settings could just be renamed 'document' and the most common elements of document settings could be on the tool bar too. This would certainly help with future multi-page support.
d. XML editing is fairly low use for most cases, it's buried I think because of that.
e. Tweak paths has gone away. It's very useful for some cases.
f. Not sure what edit object would do. Open the objects panel?
Hope this was helpful, thanks for exploring the ui
Best Regards, Martin Owens