On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Josh Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
I had seen him on IRC a couple mornings ago when he posted his tutorial. I asked if he'd create a bunch of stock filters for us to provide, as bulia mentioned a desire a while back for "easy filters". So, it's definitely a phenomenal start. But we also need to figure out how to implement the UI for easy filters. Just via menu options with no params?
Yes. This is what I proposed long ago. Instant-action commands with no dialogs. So they can be collected in a submenu and assigned shortcuts. In cases where some parameter really needs to be variable, do one or both of the following:
- make filter presets smart so they take into account the size of the object they're applied to and adjust their parameters accordingly
- provide several commands for the same filter, e.g. "Weak Fancy Blur", "Meium Fancy Blur", "Strong Fancy Blur".
Ideally adding a new preset filter must not involve any change in the code, but just adding it to share/filters/filters.svg from where it will be picked automatically.
I don't think it would be too difficult to implement. Any takers?
So at this point, we shouldn't get overly excited until A) we're producing files batik likes (or we file a bug report with them if the problem is on their end) and B) we figure out who really has the most accurate filter implementation and either match it, or inform them if ours is "better".
This needs to be done, but it's all pretty orthogonal to the presets implementation as outlined above.