On 12/01/2009 06:24 PM, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
2009/12/2 Steren<steren.giannini@...400...>:
Why couldn't it be when switching to node tool ? For me, switching to node tool has a meaning of editing the shape, I would find normal to be able to edit my image border when I click on the node tool.
I see it like this : every rectangular image is an image with a mask. When we switch to the node tool, we directly edit this mask.
This looks like a good idea on the face of it but it introduces a new concept - an "intrinsic image mask". Why only images have such mask by default? Before long you will have users asking why it doesn't work on groups as well as images. Users should learn what is a clipping path instead, because this concept is sufficient. This could be done by improving the visibility of clipping-related options, and enhancing the clipping workflow in general.
The more concepts we introduce, the more confusion will result.
Using the right-click menu doesn't suffer from this, because it doesn't introduce any new concepts - it is just a shortcut that combines creating a rectangle of the same size as the image and applying it as a clipping path. It would behave in every respect like a normal clipping path after that.
Right click menus don't work that well on a touchpad - yeah I know there are ways around it, but the more "special" taps there are, the more things happen when you don't want them to. Not sure how the new yet to appear tablets will preform but my guess is they aren't really designed for right clicks and Inkscape will definitely want to play well on the tablets.
Regards, Krzysztof
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