On Thu, 18 May 2006, bulia byak wrote:
On 5/18/06, Spyros Blanas <sblanas@...400...> wrote:
As a new Inkscape user, I have to admit that Kevin has -IMHO- quite a point. I can recall that in the very first five minutes I almost stopped using Inkscape (yes, forever) because I couldn't find out how to fill my juct-created rectangle with a green color, being used to these nice docking swatch toolbars Corel/Xara programs had.
Thanks for reminding! Would anyone object if I enable JonCruz' docked palette by default in new installs? Even though it's rather larger than I'd want (i'd prefer it to be less tall), it would be a big boost for newbie users.
Certainly worth a try for the preview release at least and that would give time objections. If it turned out to be a problem it could still be disabled in the release.
And I am not talking about rocket science, just about painting a box! No one should need to read the manual to do this! (Needless to say, patience paid out well in the end.)
This is a different case I think. Where Inkscape simply lacks some required functionality (such as, until recently, a color palette), I'm
Inkscape does have the functionality needed to draw a box with a green fill if they user keeps looking for a way to do it. Depending on how you look at things they can be missing features or refinements of existing ones.