On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 06:08 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Actually we have at least two bluepapers exactly on alternative UI for SVG filters: one suggests a simpler UI and the other one goes for Blender-like UI.
I think that once our effects will store/load the settings between uses (as in you pull up an effect on an object with it applied, it loads what was already done), the simple UI for filters is easily doable for the canned ones.
We don't exactly have to write our own widget from scratch. MathMap (http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/schani/mathmap/) already has one (GTK+, C, Cairo) which is quite similar to the one from Quartz Composer, even though it doesn't have per-node preview to the best of my knowledge.
Awesome find! Hopefully it's mostly reusable, because that would be sweet.
Cheers, Josh