On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Jonathan Phillips wrote:
I agree that it should not be removed. I think that the odd shapes should be integrated into an objects button on the primary toolbar.
Thus after clicking that tool, the 2ndary tool should have the spiral, the star, and maybe a polygon tool of some sort for n-th sided polygons. That would seem more useful...the default tool would be the polygon tool.
The square and circle though should remain on the right hand side.
But I understand that having a majority in jabber of developers makes decision-making very easy, but many of these FEATURES might be better put to users and developers before decisions made.
Jon
Also, I think we may want to consider changes to code in development CVS to be more akin to "strong proposals" than decisions. It is a firm decision only if and when we include it in a cut release.
I know that in many instances it is simpler and faster to make a code change than to write an email explaining it, and while for sake of communication and documentation I strongly think the latter is preferable, from the standpoint of productivity and developmental momentum, I think we should also support the former behavior, and accept that we may get startled by it from time to time.
Bryce