Thanks Brynn,
In all the years I've used inkscape, this part of it has never really made sense to me. I cope with it though, by having pallet objects on the screen I can copy style from, and an bucket object I can set a style to for the next drawn object.
Clicking on the fill/stroke opening preferences isn't good UX, as I don't expect preference there.
The better thing would be to 'select' the default 'object' and enable the Fill and stroke dialog so I could 'set' all the styles directly. (see attached screenshot)
I can confirm also that when training teenagers to use inkscape, (15- 18yo, 2010-2016) you see a mixture of pre-setting and post-setting behaviours. pre-setting behaviours are met with confusion, but post- setting works very well.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 13:12 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 10:34 +0100, C R wrote:
Looks like we generally agree that the workflow should be changed to enable setting of the stroke visibly before drawing when no objects are selected.
To implement this: Fill and Stroke show current/last used style when no objects are selected rather than nothing. The user should then be able to change this current/last-used style.
I'm confused. The fill/stroke that will be used are shown at the right of the toolbar for all drawing tools except text. If no item is selected then clicking on the palette sets the fill and shift- clicking sets the stroke for the next drawn object (for tools using "last-used style"). Clicking on the fill/stroke widget at the right of the toolbar will open a dialog where you can choose between "last used style" and "this tools own style" as well as set "this tools own style".
Tav
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