Hi!

Thank you for the review.

The use of multiple collections of patterns is planned and partially implemented. The name "pattens" is taken from SVG file name. As for the use of expanders, I would like to keep consistency with new swatches UI, that is also part of my project [1]. There the categories are not exclusive. The user might want to use multiple palletes (eg. blues and greens) at the same time. 

[1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/7nbg1uzk1sal2kn/new_swatches_ui.png

Regards,
 Tomasz


On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
Hi Tomasz,

Thanks for posting the video and screenshot, these help a lot and I
wanted to give you a user interface review. I like the icons and these
show the patterns much better than the old drop down.

Because 'current Document' and 'patterns' have exclusive options, they
are more properly expressed using a tab pattern. Those expanders are
most often used in gnome for setting categories which are non-exclusive
and thus one must have access to all of them in one stream.

The symbols dialog contains the closest match with it's 'current
document' and then other sources for symbols as categories available in
a dropdown.

But, if there is only going to be two entries (current document vs other
patterns) I would:

a) Copy the solid fill ui with it's use of tabs
b) use text labels instead of icons (like you are now)
c) Select current document if it has any patterns
d) or Select the "other patterns" by default instead

If we plan to have multiple collections of patterns, then a drop down
will be better as the user could expand the available set of patterns.

Hope this is helpful.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

On Mon, 2014-06-23 at 22:05 +0200, Tomasz Boczkowski wrote:
> Hi!
>
>
> Now it's time to write about week 5 of GSOC.
>
>
> I've implemented pattern preview in fill and stroke dialog. It loads
> pattern files from inkscape stock directories, displays as tiles and
> allows selection. The screenshots [1,2] show the widget in action.
>
>
> Regards,
>   Tomasz
>
>
> [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/4c88d2qkb7s8yfq/pattern-selector.mpeg
> [2] https://www.dropbox.com/s/kpbf9vqls5lxpf7/pattern_dialog_bg.png
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Tomasz Boczkowski
> <penginsbacon@...400...> wrote:
>         Week 4:
>
>
>         This time I had to do a couple of tasks for my university, so
>         the development has slowed down a little bit.
>
>
>         I managed to integrate the TileView widget with symbols
>         dialog. Screencast [1] shows the dialog in action.
>
>
>         Another task I was involved in was creating a model for
>         storing paints. This one should allow grouping
>         into categories, and manage such functions as reading the
>         resource directory and reacting to the changes
>         in current document. I also considered the possibility for the
>         model to store any kind of previewable elements,
>         including symbols. I had to do a few tries "from scratch",
>         what took a lot of paper. The model will be ready tomorrow.
>
>
>         [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/nn93i2cvdbnfk4y/symbols-dialog.mpeg
>
>
>         On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Tomasz Boczkowski
>         <penginsbacon@...400...> wrote:
>                 > As you progress with converting existing dialogs to
>                 the TileView widget
>                 > and adding new dialogs that use the widget, have a
>                 look at what
>                 > behaviors should be common to all the dialogs. For
>                 example, I would
>                 > think that users would want to control the size of
>                 the tile (as is done
>                 > in the Symbols dialog).
>
>
>                 I've noticed that symbols, patterns and swatches are
>                 very similar in the
>                 way they can be stored, rendered and presented to the
>                 user. They are
>                 all fragments of SVG documents, usually stored
>                 in /shared directory.
>                 When I finish implementing model for strong paints
>                 I'll see if it's usable
>                 for symbols. It seems to me much of the code can be
>                 shared.
>
>
>                 In addition to symbols dialog, size of the tile and
>                 fitting into tile will
>                 be controlled in swatches dialog. TileView widget
>                 supports it.
>                 I have to choose what kind of UI to use for setting
>                 the size. Currently
>                 the symbols dialog uses buttons at the bottom, while
>                 existing
>                 swatches dialog provides menu with options to control
>                 the look.
>                 In addition to this, in my proposal [1] I sketched a
>                 dialog for TileView
>                 configuration, but now I see it using it would mean a
>                 lot of clicking.
>
>
>                 [1] https://www.dropbox.com/s/vupc7hl7wwsxsj1/new_patterns_ui_3.png
>
>
>                 Tomasz
>
>
>
>
>
>
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