On 14/2/11 23:10, J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... wrote:
My question is: where should this be in the UI. I feel the view mode toggle (which is actually a "cycle") is becoming a bit crowded, or is that ok? Perhaps this view mode toggle would work better if it would toggle between Normal mode and the last used other mode. So then you could click "outline mode", and then toggle back and forth between normal and outline. Or click grayscale mode, and toggle between that and normal... What do you think?
What used to be a toggle was changed to cycle though all modes to address this bug report (in Inkscape 0.47):
Bug #238796 Display mode toggle needs update to all 3 modes https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/238796
See Jimmac's latest comment in the bug report for another assessment of the disadvantages of the 'cycling' behavior with 4 modes.
Personally, I settled with assigning keyboard shortcuts to normal and outline view modes to allow a 'pseudo-toggle' between e.g. outline and normal view (using two adjacent keys), or no-filter and normal (using 'toggle' once and switch back to normal view).
If new modes are added, I'd favor a solution to return to the 'toggle' behavior between normal and last used mode (while keeping the ability to map each mode to its own key using its verb).
~suv