Re: [Inkscape-devel] Symbols Dialog

On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 16:38 +0200, Tavmjong Bah wrote: I've just reviewed the ui design for the symbols dialog. See this link for reference screenshot: http://imagebin.org/251687 1. Symbol names shouldn't have .svg in them. Use the document's meta data name or the filtered filename to make it more human. i.e. inkscape-volcano_set1.svg should become "Volcano Set 1" 2. The clone functionality has unlinking already, do we need to unlink here too? 3. These options need to go into the tool preferences. If we were to design all dialogs with all their options built in, the ui would be poor. If it's possible to store a recommended option in the file, then perhaps each symbol set could specify the display options. But otherwise the options are important but not in the right place. 4. The menus for putting things into the symbols set needs to go. The menu is obscure and out of context for the operation. Add a +/- button to the symbols dialog itself. 5. It should be possible to import a symbols set from a file and from the open clipart library. We just need to handle the file and save it in the right place. It'd be really great to have external symbol sets available to all users from the user interface. (is this something we should design with fonts and other external media in mind?) Best Regards, Martin Owens