Tarax wrote
Guides/grid/snapping are killer features... thanks for investigating in this field !
In particular, what do people think about the two tools behaviour?
Little lost at first try but getting back and 3 minutes of more "methodic" test later it seems to be good...
Why were you lost? We've been talking about the two tools, and it appears that we can get all the behaviour we want from one tool (tentatively :) so the two tools issue may disappear.
Should this be folded into a modifier key on the selection tool? Can it be done well with only one tool? Is the breaking of constraint behaviour (which control point disconnects when you move something) reasonable, or can you suggest a better heuristic? (Currently the rule that is broken is chosen arbitrarily, perhaps it would be better to break the oldest created relationship, or perhaps the least recently moved?)
Seems like this is going to be the hot point ! For sure, it's what lost me at first try, but feel like for dumbies like me, arbitrarity (english ? :-P) is not so good as, from definition, it's not predictable and makes anticipating the way you're going to draw quite impossible.
This is something we would like feed back on. If I added a menu to allow different rules, would you be able to give us feedback on which rules felt the most consistant?
What do people think of the indicators for how control points are connected to guide lines and guide points? Suggestions?
AFAIC... excellent !
Groovy!
In case you're wondering, our intent is to provide Dia level diagraming support, as well as strong CAD type design elements. Some things which
From architectural CAD point of view, it would be very nice to be able to get rid of orthogonality. I mean:
- set the angle between "vertical" and "horizontal" grid lines (instead of
90°)
- set the angle of angle of "vertical" and "horizontal" guides
One thing we've looked at is providing a different affine space in a group, but this has been mostly talk. It poses several complex UI issues. More interesting is allowing guidelines have their own angles. At the most primative level a guide line could be created with a specific angle, or passing through a specific pair of lines, but things get tricky if the designer is allowed to change the line angle once things have been attached to it. We're working on this now, but it may be too hard.
BTW, subscribed to this list as soon as I discovered yall had forked from Sodipodi and didn't got time to wish Inkscape my bests... so that's done now ! ;-) Hope I'll find time to build Inkscape this week and report my feelings.
well 0.36 is about to come out, so you can install that and test it!
PS: Just leading my first fights with programming and Python, let me thank you, Peter and Nathan, for providing such an "example" graphics Python/GTK app :-)))
Cool!
Spéciales dédicaces !
njh