On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:13:12 +0300 From: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> To: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Gtkmmified Document Preferences Dialog
On 12/13/05, Diego Gonz�lez wrote:
hi
Now that the dialog has been completely rewritten why not make it comply with the Gnome HIG guidelines?
Could it possibly be an equivalent of Andreas Nilsson's mockup [1] for Preferences dialog?
[1] http://hagemaenner.de/stuff/inkscape/preferences/inkscape_new_prefs_mockup3....
Inkscape has both "Inkscape Preferences" and "Document Preferences" and it is only the latter which has recently been redone using GtkMM. Having two menu items both of which are described as Preferences is confusing to me and I think you may also have been confused and mixed up the two.
I equate the first of these "Inkscape Preferences" with what other applications would call Preferences or Options. (And I must say it seems very unusual to me to include branding overtly in the menu labels.)
The second is more like and a mix of both Page Setup and Properties (Document Properties, also known as metadata as seen in Office applications like Gnumeric) neither of which would normally be designed like palettes or expect to be left open.
I dont think there was much (any?) disagreement the proposal for the main Preferences dialog with a Tree View and everything would be something great to have and we would all be much happier about.
There were quite strong disagreements about my suggestion to reorganise the latter Document Preferences which this thread was discussing but I would be interested if people could explain more about why they like the current always open palette based design for options (and especially metadata) which I wouldn't have thought required such frequent changing that you would want have a compact dialog open all the time. Perhaps there might be room to make thing a little more like how other applications do things?
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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