On Sat, 2004-12-11 at 13:20, Alan Horkan wrote:
I think the current attempt to solve them by overloading the tools is not the best way to fix that problem but for the short term does make things more functional but in the long run I dont think the logic behind it is clear enough and it will make Inkscape less easy to learn.
That may be true, but in absence of an immediate better idea the perfect is the enemy of the good.
Becoming stuck in a merely local maximum of usability is a legitimate concern, but we can't let that concern paralyze us.
I hate it when people misrepresent wanting thing to be done better as rejecting the entire functionality rather than just the implementation, of course I want to be able to reformat multiple existing objects.
If one persistently advocates the removal of a feature without proposing an alternative, it does tend to come across as a rejection of the functionality that feature offers.
Does anyone besides bulia get what I am trying to say and why this might not be the best way to manipulate arleady created objects?
Yes. Overloading the drawing tools to perform post-creation modifications introduces some level of inconsistency in the interface.
I don't disagree (though I think the inconsistency is minimal), but I've not seen any better suggestions either.
Do you have a better suggestion?
-mental