Just so you guys know, I did write an email to both of the hosts when I had finished listening to it this morning. ;)
As with you Bulia, I made the "transparent gradient" observation and I had to tell them about the gradient tool. If you need something like the example (and description of steps) they gave, it's definitely no more difficult nor confusing in Inkscape.
I pointed out a few things to them that rock about our usability as well. Such as double clicking on any object with the selector to automatically change the tool. In general I tried to tell them things about Inkscape they probably didn't know. On top of that I did point out the (apparent) issues w/ Xara development temporarily stalling and the community not being too happy with the lack of applied patches.
Bulia, as for the Mask tool... what is involved in that? Should we throw the info up on the wiki? My (overly simplified) guess is as follows:
1) It duplicates current selection and applies back to the selection as a mask. 2) The tool works like gradient tool to apply transparency, basically editing a gradient on the mask object.
I assume we'd just have a button on the toolbar to "remove transparency" or something to get rid of it too.
Bulia, I know time estimates are kinda difficult, but could you guess roughly how big of a task this is? Is this something people without a good knowledge of our codebase could try to implement?
-Josh
bulia byak wrote:
On 1/22/07, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
- Xara easier to pick up and run with from a new user perspective. Applying transparent gradients can be done entirely on-screen with click and drag.
I.e. he didn't find our Gradient tool? or didn't guess it does transparency, "entirely on-screen with click and drag"?
Actually, we do need a Mask tool with a UI similar to Gradient tool but applying a gradient to the object's mask. Just one of the million things we still miss.