On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 03:53:54PM +0200, su_v wrote:
On 2014-04-04 13:15 +0100, Martin Owens wrote:
This is a list of long standing UX issues from RedHat/Gnome/Fedora devs:
Thanks su_v for looking up existing bug reports for all these issues, and Martin please do follow up by filing bug reports for the other items.
It looks like several of the raised issues regarded the page shadow and default maximization state are things you'd notice as a new user, but probably the last thing you'd mention as an experienced user. So a lot of this list kind of sounds like bikeshed painting... Certainly nice feedback to have, and all stuff we should consider, but maybe not things that necessarily need to be the highest priority.
That said, thanks muchly Martin for capturing the feedback. And please do help make sure we follow up on at least considering all the suggestions.
Bryce
- Preferences dialog is the wrong size or doesn't have a minium size
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/448728 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/357631
& doesn't set to the center of the parent window.
AFAIU detached (dockable) dialogs store the current pointer position when they are closed, and re-use it as center position of the dialog the next time it is opened.
i.e. if you close by clicking on the 'x' (top right) or the close button of the WM, that position is reused as center for the dialog next time, and thus the dialog will reopen further to the top and to the right (or to the left) the next time (until it reaches an edge of the screen).
To center it, keep the pointer position in the center of the screen, close the dialog with the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+W, the dialog needs to have the focus), and reopen it (e.g. with the keyboard shortcut).
- The zoom correction should only effect documents set to physical units. ! Different document modes are needed for different workflows.
Please file a bug report.
- Inkscape should be maximised by default
Trunk has a new preference setting for default new window size (Small | Large | Maximized), and currently defaults to 'Large' size. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/830663
Follow-up (regression) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1190828
Comment: If a majority wants 'Maximized' instead of 'Large' as the new default window size for new documents in 0.91, then Inkscape needs a command line switch which allows to override that setting.
- Shadow/border on document is not settable as the global setting.
No related wishlist reports in the bug tracker ...
Comment: Whether or not one wants to have the page border visualized on-canvas depends on the file and its content, and should not be turned into a global setting (IMvHO).
- The shadow shouldn't be the default.
No related wishlist reports in the bug tracker ...
Comment: To be considered - if the shadow is off by default, many new users won't understand that the visualization of the page border is not a drawing object which can be selected and deleted (this based on the number of user support questions on how to delete that "obscure" rectangle object that is present in every new document).
- Default colour for the border should be half gray half transparent
No similar wishlist reports in the bug tracker ...
- Restarting inkscape to load a new font is not good.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/168960
- Lots of fonts installed causes inkscape to be slow.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/488247
- Color outside the page should be a slight shade different
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/998244
Alternative proposal: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1174229
- The resize page shouldn't be hidden by default.
The actions have verbs defined - maybe alternatively inkscape should define default shortcut keys (in share/keys/default.xml), and add the two commands in a sub-menu (e.g. of the menu 'Edit') for quicker access.
- Maximise should be the default for inkscape.
See above (option exists in trunk).
Comment: disagree.
- "Selection" option means "Whole Selection" in align
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/revision/13257
- The align and distribute relative to should set some defaults
depending on the selection. If one item is selected then the default should be to Page and if there are multiples selected then it should be to "Whole Selection" as it is now.
This conflicts with storing the selected 'relative to' option across sessions.
To be considered if introducing a 'guess what the user wants to do'-type of mechanism: trunk now has verbs and keyboard shortcuts for individual align commands, but no way to set the 'Relative to:' without opening the dialog. Currently the last used setting is in effect (saved across sessions). If above proposal gets implemented it would be impossible to align multiple object relative to the page with the keyboard shortcuts, without being forced to reopen the dialog to override Inkscape's guess about the user's planned actions.
- BUG: Where three text items are selected, the align to
text-baseline sometimes depending on the item selected, aligns to the wrong item when Last Selected is used. First selected is also effeted.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/167228
- Gimp's small theme allows more widgets to be displayed on the
screen. Maybe some themes for inkscape would be useful.
Related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/963576 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/414372 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/322806 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/220652 https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/180302
- Never make an object that is transparent and thus not selectable.
The 'last used style' sometimes picks up '0' opacity (or alpha) unexpectedly (IIRC from gradient stops?), which confuses a lot of (new) users. OTOH there exist use cases to create fully transparent objects - 'never' to me seems a bad solution for an issue which probably could be fixed otherwise (related to how the 'last used style' is picked up).
- Multiple pages
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170369
None important issues
- Zoom correction should be specific to a screen.
Please file a bug report.
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