Just to chime in a bit.

This is pretty usual feature of more or less all CAD applications.
Attached I'm sending screenshots from Draftsight's GUI covering
patters (often also called array) functionality.

I can imagine that this GUI could be improved, but to me (and I guess
to most of tecnically oriented users) it seems quite intuitivy and
easy to use.

Best regards,
Rok

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:58 AM, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Valerie <valerie_vk@...36...> wrote:

Awesome! It seems we pretty much have the UI then!

Slow down there. This is precisely how bad UI gets implemented. First
off, as ~suv aptly pointed out, the Align & Distribute dialog may not
even be the best dialog to add this functionality to. If it ends up
being the correct place, perhaps the A&D dialog needs to be refactored
& redesigned and the Rows & Columns functionality would be better
placed here as well. Either way, the proposed addition to the dialog
is getting into the territory of too large & complex for novice users.

The excitement for new features to be added is a good thing, but it's
best that it gets added the right way the first time. Trust me, if
you're not familiar with the internals of Inkscape and haven't been
with the project for long, we've had some hard lessons learned along
the way.

I don't suppose we could add an "align along path" feature while we're at it?
(hahah, one thing at a time...)

This is plural, are you contributing code to his school project? If
so, this is something that should be made known to his professor(s).
Also, in the future, please refrain from forking conversations without
need (this thread split off from the thread he started when you
initially replied).

Cheers,
Josh

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