On 4 janv. 06, at 16:12, Ralf Stephan wrote:
JiHO wrote :
PS: for testing purposes the new document preferences pannel is in the last two dev builds for mac os X (24 december and 4 january).
First, this is work in progress, and you might not have the recent version. I keep changing things daily. The best way to stay up-to-date if you must is by compiling yourself.
This is what I am doing: I am doing the dev builds for mac os X ;-) but not as often as I would like to though.
I recently tested the new document properties pannel on mac os X. I think I am a bit late for that but I liked better the first one (with frames) because it was more compact even if it was not HIG compliant.
This is not so under Linux where it's smaller, mainly due to License having its own page.
Its the same under OS X. on OS X inkscape uses GTK and X11 so it really looks the same as on linux. there is no native "GTK to Aqua" port used right now. And license has it's own page in the latest builds. It is indeed smaller than the one of 0.43 but bigger on the 4th january (frames suppressed) than on the 24th decemeber (with frames). The main reason being a big metadata page I think. hence:
Would it be possible to have the metadata tab scrollable and the others more compact so that the dialog is smaller.
I'm surprised that there is such a problem when, in fact, the size of the dialog under Linux was reduced. There must be widgets under OSX that are not implemented 1:1.
Ideally, we would be HIG and <insert the OSX/Aqua equivalent> compliant. This is the real world, however.
cf what I wrote before. it's exactly the same on OS X and linux. It's just that it was smaller at some point of the rework and I just liked it better that way.
Another problem is with snapping and the freehand and bezier tools: snapping to grid seems to be always on for these tools as long as the grid is displayed and whatever the status of snapping is in the Document Properties pannel (even before the it is changed). Is
Do you mean you want 'snapping to invisible grid'? I'm for it. I remember, though, this is contrary to Bulia's opinion.
no. sorry if I explained it wrong. for snapping I'll probably be with bulia: snapping to grid should be enabled only when grid is on. the problem is that right now there is _always_ some snapping when the grid is on, even when nothing is checked in the grid snapping part. which is a bug in my opinion.
Finally, the current distinction between "screen pixels" and "px units" is not really clear to me. what are px units? 1 px unit = 1 grid unit? may be it could be explained a bit better if it is to be kept.
Maybe you didn't see the recent version with tooltips on the radio buttons? If the issue can be explained better then please someone substitute the text. It's not really difficult. Just search for the string _rrb_pix in ui/dialog/document-properties.cpp
I have the tooltips. I still don't fully understand what px units are. I understand _how_ it works because it is explained but I still don't know what it means if I set it to 1.0, 2.0 or 90.0. Previously, if my grid was every 1cm and that I set snapping distance to 1cm I knew thaht anything I draw will exactly snap to grid. what about now?
Thanks for the feedback. ralf
You're welcome. Thanks for the work. The dialog is better now IMHO... it just needs a little more work I'm afraid... :-)