On Oct 13, 2012 2:10 AM, "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:

On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 01:46 -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
> What about the size and fit options being in a triangle menu, like it
> is for swatches?

That is possible but it's not very discoverable.


> On Oct 13, 2012 1:19 AM, "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
>         On Sat, 2012-10-13 at 11:14 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
>         > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Tavmjong Bah wrote:
>         > >
>         > > Hi,
>         > >
>         > > I've checked into trunk a Symbols dialog. A description of
>         the dialog
>         > > can be found on a Wiki page at:
>         > >
>         > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SymbolsDialog
>         > >
>         > > There are still some issues that need to be resolved. They
>         are listed in
>         > > Wiki page.
>         >
>         > What about supporting VSS files in the future? (Visio shape
>         libraries)
>         >
>         > Since end of July there is support for VSS files in
>         libvisio. It's not
>         > yet publicly released, but I have a suspicion that getting
>         Fridrich to
>         > release a tarball isn't all that difficult :)
>
>         Sounds interesting...
>
>         > Also, I'm not sure if the preview scale option is required
>         at all, and
>         > not sure if the preview size should be accessible at all
>         times. What
>         > I've seen for GIMP's resource dialogs (brushes, gradients
>         etc.) is
>         > that people pick one preview size and use it all the time,
>         and often
>         > don;t even touch this preference at all. But should that
>         want to do
>         > it, there is a dialog's menu for that.
>
>         The first two sets of symbols I looked at had symbol widths of
>         6000 px
>         and 3 px so without a preview size option they wouldn't have
>         been
>         viewable. That is why the default preview scale is "Fit". But
>         I prefer
>         to see symbols all scaled the same. If we assume that people
>         only use
>         symbols that come with Inkscape then perhaps we could drop the
>         preview
>         scale but I don't think that is a good assumption.
>
>         Tav
>
>
>
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