On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, bulia byak wrote:
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:57:30 -0400 From: bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> To: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Inkscape users list inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: on-canvas gradient editing
Now in CVS:
Gradient editing on canvas is now available, much more convenient and powerful than the old way of dragging gradient knots in the Fill&Stroke dialog.
That is very cool. There is a bit of lag between the spot/handle and when the axis/spokes move which makes it feel a bit sluggish but otherwise this is great. It is particularly trippy if you wave your mouse around while using repeating gradient.
The old gradient position widget in Fill&stroke remains for now (and still works), but I plan to remove it as soon as the new on-canvas editing is sufficiently tested. I would welcome any feedback on the new feature.
I expect you can safely remove most of it but it might be useful to have a more controlled way to adjust gradients in addition to the interactive editing...
Next in my plans: A Gradient tool, which will allow you to actually
... but it sounds like the tool you have planned will provide for most of those issues.
While I'm taking a few minutes to try out the latest and greatest test build I have noticed a few unrelated oddities: There definately should not be ((parenthesis)) used in menu labels. Singular or plural, pick one (one or more can be implied).
Document Preferences could be labelled as "Document Properties" or simply Properties (it is in the file menu so it is implied that it is the Properties of the current file). It would help disambiguate it from the standard Preferences (and allow a more terse label). Looking at it more closely it is actually a combination of what other applications would call "Page Setup" and Metadata corresponds to what most applications simply refer to as Properties.
There are other things I find disconcerting about Inkscape and rough edges here and there but I'd be just repeating myself to bring them up again now so I'll leave it at that.
The new interactive gradient functionality is great and I'm sure it will draw even more people to Inkscape (no pun intended).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com