On Friday, July 20, 2007, 10:52:21 PM, bulia wrote:
bb> So, what if we just add a whole new menu for SVG filters that would bb> largely contain a list of preconfigured filters that can be applied by bb> a single verb (command), without any setup dialog.
I think that is a good idea, especially if the user can add their own favourite filters to this list.
A (long discontinued) SVG editor had, on one of its betas, what I thought was a very nice UI for applying canned filters.
It took the current selection, made it smaller, then applied each of the canned filters to it. Those rendered results were displayed to the user in a dialog. So the user chose by example, the filters applied to what they were currently editing were rendered into the dialog box; they just picked the one they liked.
If there was no selection then I think it applied them to a group of a semi-transparent circle and a rect, or something.