On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 04:20, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I think this sounds like a good approach. It seems like it shouldn't be too difficult to expand use of the polygon tool to provide a few more 'odd shapes', as they'd really just be mods on existing shapes. E.g.:
- Triangle (via star) (purple)
- Round cornered rect (via rect) (white with black border)
- Semi-circle (via circle) (orange)
- Hexagon (via star) (tan)
- Pentagon (via star) (gray)
- Snowflake (via star) (bluish-white)
Of course, these can all be created from the primary shapes, so a minimalist might argue that they're unnecessary, however new users generally won't find those capabilities as quickly as if they were available through a toolbar. And for some shapes, having a button would help productivity (esp. with making triangles).
Excuse my ignorance, but if you placed those odd shapes on the secondary toolbar, where would you place the tool specific options (like number of corners of a star) then? :) I thought the tool options dialog was supposed to go away in favor of the secondary toolbar.
Daniel