On 9/11/10, Aleksandar Kovac wrote:
-Inkscape Accessibility. Some of us can't see as good as others can. Using vectors, we can provide an ability to scale the cursor so that people with 'not-perfect-sight' can be happier with the Inkscape, enjoy and be creative! Scalable cursors and tool icons, might not be a huge bump in the accessibility, but would be a good and friendly step forward.
Exactly how will it help? Okay, we have a larger cursor and larger tool icons. And then what? :) Is content magnified as well? :) Whereas modern desktops already provide rasterized (admittedly) scaling of the whole desktop for free.
-Icons with deeper meaning. What we did with the introduction of the color on the cursor is simply telling the user what's the color at the time of use. This approach could be even smarter. a) For example, imagine that you look at the *toolbar* and see: that all the shape icons have red fill and black stroke. That gives the user 2 advantages:
- to know in advance the color of the shapes.
Are you sure that users won't screw their heads off after dealing with toolbars that change all the time? :) It's an interesting idea though.
b) Dynamic tool icon For example, a tool cursor icon, that changes appearance depending on the Tablet pressure, angle, speed or inclination. This would be nice for some, don't you agree?
How exactly would it look?
-Even more 'bareboney' cursors ;) Human perception tests show, that a small, high contrast, pixelated image demands more attention than smoother, antialiased one.
URL?
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org