Re: [Inkscape-devel] [UI] Rework Document Properties dialog

Sebastian Zartner wrote I find that speaking about guides in this terms is pretty reductive. I use guides to make geometric constructions, to copy angles, to calculate tangent points, to offset distances, to draw circles with a given diameter or rectangles with given dimensions and much, much more. To me guides are mostly (temporary) objects related helpers and I very often open the guide dialog, even more than once for each guide to set it in the right position and to work with it: this dialog shall be lightweight, fast and small, focused on the single guide's options; I usually cycle between fields with tab so they should be few and well ordered and grouped; everything more than this is only going to distract me from what I'm doing or going to cause time waste while waiting for it to appear and populate. Further, I can't see any need for relationships with global options in here (which I would change at most only once per document). In few words: the current single guide dialog is good (I'd only reduce its size rearranging what's already in it and reducing the tab for the color which I find unnecessarily big now). Sebastian Zartner wrote Locked/unlocked is different than editable/non editable. There's no point in locking a non editable object. The lock feature is useful exactly because guides are editable. Grids are not editable. This makes a huge difference to me. Sebastian Zartner wrote I agree with Alvin and su_v replies. Also, I don't like those programs that try to guess what I need, because they usually fail. If I need the document's options dialog I'm fine with having to call for it; if I don't need the dialog I'd be annoyed to have to close it, even if the former was more frequent than the latter. (Anyway, this point would make sense only if the document's options button is removed from the toolbar: now the dialog requires only one click.) Luca -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/UI-Rework-Document-Properties-dialog-tp4... Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.