- first of all : when creating many patterns, it is hard to remember the
creation order, so that i've been 'confused' in the fillsettings dialog. Because there is no preview of the pattern in the dropdown menu, one may wish to name the pattern without using XML editor (some don't like coding!! or don't understand SVG at all) : may be the best could be to make a dialog appear to enter a name just after using the Edit/tile command.
Sure, the patterns menu needs previews, similar to those in marker menus. Sometime we'll switch both from menus to table-like scrollable widgets with previews.
- second : The original object is set to rect filled with the pattern.
It is OK, but often, i don't need it anymore in the drawing. It could be hidden.
Just hit Del :)
- third : (and it is not due to pattern filling i think but) but when a
pattern is not used anymore, it is automatically cleared from defs. But should I always really want to remove it ? The autoClean functionnality is very good, but we may find rules about its use.
User-created patterns are not deleted automatically anymore (this was fixed shortly before 0.39).