On 1/24/08, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote:
On Jan 24, 2008 7:25 PM, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:49:44 +0000, Joel Holdsworth <
joel@...1709...> wrote:
Excellent. I'd love to see that behavior as an option on the pencil tool's toolbar.
You say that, but to me, I'm really worried about the number of
switches
that inkscape is taking on. What icon could you use to explain a
choice
between "use old jaggedy line interpolation" or "use new smooth interpolation". IMHO, users just want the app to work right. The switches seem to be being used as an excuse by us to dodge hard design decisions.
I'd advise that we thoroughly test the new code, and see if we use any functionality by loosing the old interpolator, then if there's no significant loss, only gain, then replace the old with the new permanently!
I concur.
just as a side note since we're talking about the pencil tool. There was a proposition to reuse the code from the calligraphy tool (at it was done in SodiPodi). Maybe I am raising a delicate mater but I personnally like very much this behavior and think it also produces some smoother and more natural lines. This can (should?) be a toggle, since the behaviors are so different (or a "mass" slider in which 0 is current behavior). What about this plan? Is there someone still thinking about it? Are there some strong opinions about _not_ including it?
there was a patch in the tracker a while back from me that made the callig tool generate centerlines as well as the strokes so that you could use them as easy fill shapes, that basically does what your asking for here minus the ui toggle. Would need a fair bit of love before it would apply i think tho, bulia commited the wood carving stuff right after I got it working, so there was a lot of change to the files involved.