On 20/11/2012 14:55, Vladimir Savic wrote:
On 11/20/2012 01:11 PM, Jasper van de Gronde wrote:
Inkscape is supposed to work like this (use Shift to set the stroke). If you feel the other behaviour is better, feel free to try and make the argument (and/or a patch). The main issue is that basically Inkscape really doesn't have any way of selecting stroke and fill separately. The stroke and fill are two properties of a single shape. The gradient editor does handle this a little bit differently, maybe it can inspire you (or anyone else).
I think you misread what user said. He's talking about inkscape trunk where you can activate "temporary" colour picker from within dedicated Fill and Stroke tabs f the same dialogue.
Unfortunately the user did _not_ mention using an unstable development snapshot build of Inkscape on Windows (at least I can't tell that based on the disclosed information «The bug is checked using Windows 7 64 bits and Inkscape 0.48»).
I too would expect that activating it from stroke tab assign colour to stroke. Not that I find it hard to hold shift key, but it's just not optimal UI behaviour.
This current (unexpected) behavior of the new 'one-time' color picker called from the button in 'Fill & Stroke' tabs had been reported in the comments of this (otherwise not directly related) feature request: - Bug #1049481 “Allow dropper tool to edit current custom swatch fill” https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1049481 and (kind of) got stuck there (i.e. not reported as separate item, nor added in the comments of the more relevant original request(s)).
The new 'one-time' color picker feature had originally been implemented based on these requests: - Bug #239392 “Missing Color Picker in Fill and Stroke Dialog” https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/239392 - Bug #171170 “Use color picker to add colors to palette”<> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/171170