On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 15:28 -0400, bulia byak wrote:
On 11/23/05, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
Hi,
I would like to see the Fill and Stroke dialog changed so that if noobject is selected the dialog can be used to change the default drawing style.
We don't have "default drawing style". We have "last set fill/stroke color" which most tools use by default (and all can use if you tell them to). This color is changed, naturally, when you set a color to anything by any means.
OK, substitute "last set fill/stroke color" for "default drawing style".
But why can't the "last set fill/stroke color" be changed prior to use? If I select the Rectangle tool with no objects selected, why can't I preset the fill color and stroke color? It seems quite strange to me that the new Fill and Stroke color won't show the colors that will be used when drawing a new object (when no other object is selected). Having this visual cue could only help.
This would be of benefit when one first draws a background object and then wants to add additional objects on top of the background. In the current situation, the new objects are "invisible" until their style is changed.
Not really.
Draw a big rect. For example, suppose it's blue.
Draw a small rect on top. At first it's blue too. Now paint it red.
This is my point, the second rectangle is blue and you can't see it while drawing it. There is no visual feed back as to what you are doing. And accidentally unselect it and it is lost from view. The statistics are small but three out of three people I watched who where trying to learn to use Inkscape had exactly this problem (and were greatly confused by it)!
- Draw more small rects. All of them will start red, without you
doing anything special for that.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
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