On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 16:19, Jon Phillips wrote:
No it is useful to have the fill and color stroke more like swatches that are compared against each other. The tabbed palette hides this information too much (and yes you can see it on the canvas, but what if you want to color mix without an object selected).
Also, this request is not so much about saving space as about providing a similar experience across applications. Please look at this illustrator screen shot of how colors are handled:
http://protofunk.org/projects/group/inkscape/reference/adobeillustrator/10/a...
Illustrator's smaller interface is brilliant and how colors can be dealt with as foreground/background or stroke/line is brilliant as well.
Jon
I'm not that enamored of Illustrator's implementation, exactly, but I do think it or something like it would be an improvement over the tabs.
A less drastic marginal improvement might be if the tabs contained preview rectangles of the fill and stroke.
-mental