On Dec 1, 2009, at 6:24 PM, MilesTogoe wrote:
Using the right-click menu doesn't suffer from this, because it doesn't introduce any new concepts - it is just a shortcut that combines creating a rectangle of the same size as the image and applying it as a clipping path. It would behave in every respect like a normal clipping path after that.
Right click menus don't work that well on a touchpad - yeah I know there are ways around it, but the more "special" taps there are, the more things happen when you don't want them to. Not sure how the new yet to appear tablets will preform but my guess is they aren't really designed for right clicks and Inkscape will definitely want to play well on the tablets.
Well, I think one main issue here is that nothing should be solely in the context menu. Things *can* be there, but for many people that is not the way they will want to work.
A lot of the behind-the-scenes work I've been doing will make the context menus much more useful... but at the same time those actions will also need to live multiple places in the UI. Proper encapsulation and modularity will make that all easy.