On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, jiho wrote:
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 18:23:43 +0100 From: jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> To: ralf@...748... Cc: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with Snapping/new Document Properties pannel
On 4 janv. 06, at 17:59, Ralf Stephan wrote:
builds. It is indeed smaller than the one of 0.43 but bigger on the 4th january (frames suppressed) than on the 24th decemeber (with frames). The main reason being a big metadata page I think.
Ah that's true, I moved the multiline input entries back to Metadata1 from Metadata2. But, now that Metadata2 is 'License' (which is much better imho), we can't put the two entities back, it would no longer be the License page.
Sorry.
is there now way to have a scrollable metadata page?
Please don't. I think there might be too much information to present it nicely in a Palette style dialog and I think a scrolling dialog might not be the best way to address the real problem.
the limiting factor now, all other tabs can be much smaller (75% of their current size at least), even the first one.
I think some of the features people want fast access to might be better presented as menu items. (Menu restructuring will be needed at some point anyway, having hardly any submenus was nice while it lasted.)
I would like to reiterate my suggestion that metadata have a seperate dialog. Many programs, particularly office programs have a "Properties" dialog which contains all kinds of "metadata", and Visio particularly has a dialog with lots of options for metadata/properties. (What Inkscape calls Document Preferences is much more like what other applications put under Page Setup, and to a lesser extent Preferences. I cannot think of any other applications with two menu itmes both labelled as preferences and I've always thought it was confusing.)
The way things are going we really do have enough metadata information to put it in a single dialog. Thinking about Licenses I wonder what users who are not already familiar with the various license types would make of it and if there might be some way to make it more self explanitory.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/