On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Jonathan Phillips wrote:
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 12:31:35 -0800 From: Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...> To: inkscape inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] tutorials + renaming menu items
Hello,
1.) After we get a couple more tutorials, how hard would it be to make a big Tutorial menu item with the sub-menu arrow to like our normal tutorials, a tutorial on how to create an icon, and lets say a tutorial a tips and tricks tutorial? If we can do this, I'd be interesting in plowing on these. We have a nice template already of what to do (thx to bulia), and we might as well make use of them. I will start these tutorials if someone (bulia?) makes that hierarchical Tutorial menu item with just the standard tutorial in it for now.
2.) NJH mentioned that we should rename the Import... menu item to "Place..." I thoroughly agree as place just places an absolute reference to a PNG file. A true import implies that a file is converted and put into the current document that a user is working on, right?
I'm not sure that is a valid assumption.
If we agree to this, I'll change it.
I'm also not sure that even if it was true would the distinction be relevant to most users or would it not be better to stick with the better known convention of Import... which is close enough?
Does changing to Place... really improve things? I would assume that Place... would give me a dialog allowing me to specifying the coordinates of where an object is to be placed.
I can see that raster graphics are being 'inserted' or linked to rather than strictly speaking being imported but I would much prefer to see an alternative to renaming the menu item as proposed, even something as simple as copying the raster graphics to the same directory as the SVG Document is being imported into so that the link is only relative (perhaps the orignal location could be stored as a base location or fallback???).
- Alan H.