On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:06:18 +0000 From: bulia byak <archiver_1@...19...> To: horkana@...44... Cc: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Inkscape minor changes I'd like before the next release (if acceptable)
<snip> I'll try and look at this again tomorrow when my head is clearer although I did put a fair amount of thought into my message.
Too bad :) I don't think we'll change that to conform to Illustrator because: 1) we already have established keys for back/forward and 2) [ and ] are convenient for rotate. So we'll leave this for the "Illustrator compatibility mode".
I desperately want the Page Up and Page Down keys back so that they can be used to move up and down the page as the Gods of User Interface Design intended so I have been thinking about the possible shortcuts.
arrows, because there are 4 of them. On the other hand, pgup/pgdn can later be used for navigating across "pages" or "layers" of an svg, but that's far away into the future. For now, I like pgup/dn as they are.
Even though you can think of Inkscape of currently only having one page I think having 'page up' and 'page down' do just that is best. (Even given the importance of Layers in the GIMP I dont think they should be stealing Page Up and Page Down either and that they should use a differnt shortcut).
Whiel I'm at it I may as well mention that I really strongly want to rename the Dialogs menu with a 'Tools' menu and make it consistant with about a zillion pieces of Software instead of just a handful of ugly software (Gimp, Cinepaint, Sodipodi, Dia).
"Tools" is vague. "Dialogs" is exactly what this menu contains. I see no reason for a change.
Consistancey with about a Zillion applications ... Dialog is a really poor label by which to group functionality (Tools isn't significantly better but at least it is consistant). Labelling the menu 'Dialogs' risks encouraging developers to throw things there because they have a dialog and I'd rate it one step above "Miscellaneous", it is not like as the GIMP developers ever gave it much thought and those that copied the GIMP gave it even less thought.
I found a PDF document that lists some of the shortcuts (keybindings) used by Adobe Illustrator 7.0 http://www.bsu.edu/web/ucspubs/pdf/other/crossprod.pdf
See KeyboardProfiles - if you care about Illustrator, plan a profile as described on that page. I promise to implement loading keys from a file as soon as we have two complete profiles of different mainstream editors.
I will still push for the defaults to be as much possible like Adobe Illustrator or failing that another well established piece of professional graphics software so that at least one large userbase will be able to migrate relatively easily to Inkscape. Lots of new and unique keybindings is the worst of all worlds.
PPS I figure I must be doing something wrong or overlooking some detail but I cant quite seem to get Inkscape (on windows) to import any Images.
File > Import?
That was among the things I tried but that didn't work.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan