Hi Everyone, Sorry to have made that post just before I logged off for a day and a half. Aside from being a little afraid of what the response might be, I honestly didn't expect much response!
Also honestly, I was totally lost with most of the discussion. And some of it, I can't even make a connection to what I asked. It's almost like my comment about holding onto something for 10 years, prompted everyone else to comment what they've been holding onto for years. But I don't think it ever came back around to my question.
Moving the tool style indicator, or the selected object indicator, or when Fill and Stroke is called up, or setting style before/after, etc., (if I followed it all)..... Yikes, I'm totally lost!
Changing whether we can set the style before or after drawing the object won't solve the problem I'm having. Not unless you somehow make it impossible to draw first and choose style second. And then you'll have complaints from all the "old" users who have it in their workflow to draw first, style second.
I'll try to keep up with whatever mockups you come up with, and offer comments.
But if I can just reiterate my original request (which doesn't require a ui change afaik). Please, can we make all the tools set for "This tool's own style" as the default? I don't mean take away "Last Used Style" as an option (well, I was joking when I mentioned it). I just mean, for the default document (which is what newbies use 99% of the time) can it start with everything set for "...Own Style"?
It would not require current users, who might be using "last style", to go through and change everything, because their prefs file will keep them using whatever they already use. This would ONLY affect newbies, and make them less confused (and those of us who answer support requests, less bothered!)
Not that I know much about programming. But what little I understand about how Inkscape works, it seems like it wouldn't take much time to make this change. Wouldn't it be just changing one thing, for each tool, in the default doc? Or maybe it's a change in the original prefs file?
Since I didn't hear any objections - not to what I asked anyway, I guess I will make the feature request.
Thanks again, brynn
PS - (Re-titled this, in case of comments on my original request.)
-----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 7:51 AM To: Olof Bjarnason ; C R Cc: J. F. Lemaire ; inkscape-devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fwd: Re: last used style
On Fri, 2017-06-02 at 11:01 +0200, Olof Bjarnason wrote:
Just trying to make this happen, and it won't happen if you do not get buy in from some developer that has the time and energy to make this happen...
This kind of UX is right in my wheelhouse. Please add me as principle developer to work on the design. To which we can then test functionally with users.
Best regards, Martin Owens
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