On 7/29/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> wrote:
This particularly hit a nerve because the GIMP harasses users with inane questions the first time you run it, including displaying the License. There are better places for evanglism than this.
Those "insane" questions include display resolution, right? :)
Rulers are ugly. Turn them off by default.
Can you share your definition of "ugly" please?
Not pretty. If Inkscape were all about Techincal graphics maybe but rulers add visual noise and complexity for new users, and other software I have encountered turn them off by default leaving a clearer cleaner more pleasant default look. Off course uses can turn them on as needed, just as they turn the grid on as needed. Frankly I just think it looks better, keeps things simpler and is worth the small discoverability penalty.
Well, again -- how else do you add guidelines to a sketch without dragging them from a ruler? The very first thing I do when I use someone's copy of Photoshop/Illy is Ctrl+R to enable rulers. No rulers - no guidelines. No guidelines - no work. This is simple :)
I've rearrange a few dialogs to use left aligned text and it is substantially more readable. English and other European languages left align text, the only time we do otherwise is for decorative effect not readability. There are a few cases where it may look odd at first but sometimes it requires a few other minor layout adjustment to get things to look right.
A mockup to look at has an URL, right? :)
Alexandre