Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
2010/4/6 Jon Cruz <jon@...18...>:
That is, we need to make it easy to work with multiple views ("desktops") on a single document with everything consistent. Allowing for rotation is a view-specific twist that I think can help with considering where and how to separate coords.
I think being able to create multiple desktops for the same document is a huge misfeature. It introduces considerable additional complexity for little benefit.
A commonly used benefit would be viewing the document at two zoom levels at the same time. A user can adjust a drawing at a high zoom level and see how it affects the overall look of the image without repeatedly having to change zoom level (very frustrating). A long time ago Jon did a mockup of combining multiple views in a single window:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SplitPaneUI
Just as "Other software does this" isn't the best argument in favor of a feature, neither is "Other software doesn't do this" always the best argument against a feature. For some reason comparative arguments tend to detract from the main point: the affect on the user. Whether or not other software allows it, providing multiple views of a document can make a user more efficient.
Aaron Spike