The feature itself is definitely useful and works as expected. I have a few cosmetic comments:
On 11/23/05, Peter Moulder <Peter.Moulder@...38...> wrote:
near the existing Clump/Unclump buttons.
There's no "Clump" button... :)
(Unclump merely reduces overlap, whereas Remove Overlaps completely removes overlap.)
It's not fair to comare them that way. It's not the _goal_ of Unclump to remove overlaps. Anyway, can you please add a description of the new feature to Release Notes on wiki, and I'll edit that part there. (There must be some sort of comparison of Unclump and Remove overlaps in any case, as people are likely to ask about that.)
The icon is noisy and unclear. It takes quite some time to read it. Much better would be just an icon showing 4 different-sized rects side-by-side without overlaps. No arrows.
Please don't use All Initial Capitals except in menu commands.
It's better to avoid abbreviations like "Hor." and "Vert." They look ugly and unprofessional, and they still take too much space, making the dialog almost twice as wide as before. Please consider making the spinbuttons narrower and labelling them H and V (or small icons showing gaps with dimension lines).
I think the gap values should be stored in prefs across sessions.
Why gaps can't be negative? I think this would make sense sometimes.
Please indicate in which units are the gaps measured, at least in the tooltips. In principle you should also provide a unit selector here, but this will make the dialog even more crowded, so let's not do it for now.
Why did you move the Unclump and Randomize buttons? They were not in random positions. Please return them to where they were.
Logically, you set the gaps first, and do the remove overlaps later. Therefore, the gap spinbuttons must be on the left, and the button on the right within their frame.
Finally, I'm not sure about the "Remove overlaps" frame being on the same level as "Align" and "Distribute". To me, it is a type of distributing. So I suggest to move the "Remove overlaps" frame inside "Distribute", at the bottom.
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