On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 15:05:07 +0100 (BST) Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote:
For what it is worth I would as a user expect the SVG Filters to be included somewhere under effects. There aren't that many of them if I recall correctly, Jasc Webdraw showed all the SVG Filters in a single dialog with nice previews. Users should not _need_ to know how an Effect is implemented but ideally it should still be possible to somehow tell apart an SVG Filter for those who want to know and take full advantages of the functionality they offer.
I'd like to make a note here: while there are only a handful filter primitives, there is a vast amount of possible filters.
For example feConvolveMatrix filter primitive is capable of doing box blur, gaussian blur, emboss, sharpening... and plenty of other effects. It's just matter of parameters.
A SVG filter is not limited to having a single filter primitive - it can have several of them and pass output of one filter primitive as the input of some other filter primitive. In programming terms, a filter can be thought as an acyclic directed graph (ADG) of filter primitives.
While grouping a bunch of canned filters in single dialog would be an relatively easy choice, I don't think it would really be a good one.