On Sat, 24 Jun 2006, MenTaLguY wrote:
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 16:31:37 -0400 From: MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: Inkscape ML inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Filters UI
On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 15:05 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
For what it is worth I would as a user expect the SVG Filters to be included somewhere under effects. There aren't that many of them if I recall correctly, Jasc Webdraw showed all the SVG Filters in a single dialog with nice previews.
Hmm. The thing with SVG filters is that they're really just a set of composable building blocks; most "interesting" filters are going to be built of several, forming a (possibly branched) pipeline. I'm not sure a menu is a good UI for that.
Presenting them similarly to Live Layer Effects* might be useful but they are applicable to any object so that would only be an extra rather than the only way of presenting them.
I'll have to rummage around and see how other programs present their equivalent to SVG filters (but not using SVG as their native file fomrat may be forcing them to do things in a certain way).
The only point that I really wanted to make at this time was to discourage any rush to create and use the Filter menu for some other purpose which would block it being used in a way similar to Adobe. I vaguely recall Macromedia offered something similar allowing reuse of functionality from Fireworks directly in Freehand but as always I'm a little fuzzy on the details and I encourage you to play around with demo versions of other software and find out for yourselves.