On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 matiphas@...8... wrote:
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:58:57 +0200 From: matiphas@...8... To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> Cc: inkscape-devel@...6... Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.44 Hard Freeze
Selon Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...>:
Hi all,
We have just this evening reached our bug fixing goal. There is one must-fix bug (see below) but I think it may be out of date anyway.
There aren't any real "bugs" worrying me b but there are a few cosmetic details I'd love to see tweaked to show Inkscape at its best, especially if Effects are now going to be turned on by default.
I'd very much like for the Effects menu to be renamed to Effect (we have the are verbs, we have File, not Files, Layer, not Layers, etc) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1253273&group_id=93... (crappy patch included, might work, might have bitrotted) and also at the same time it would be good to get menu mnemonic for Effe_ct https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1313582...
It can wait but the layout of the user interface in the scripts I looked at are quite busy and complicated. The widgets are not lined up either which doesn't help readability (sticking them into a table and using colspan is a fairly easy way to tidy this up when designing in Glade).
It isn't clear which scripts will pop a dialog and which dont (I'll have to recheck the *HIG but) some of them should probably have ... ellipsis after the menu lable.
* hig explaination on menu item ellipsis on the following page: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-design.html It is confusing but based on what I've seen in other apps it means most of the Effects which do pop a dialog should have ... after them.
I'm not sure I will have enough done in my attempt at a set of Adobe style keybindings but I would like to get in included if only to encourage ordinary users to help improve it.