On 2007-December-13 , at 16:21 , Maximilian Albert wrote:
Maximilian Albert schrieb:
I just discovered that the stuff I committed for the 3D box tool also contained a patch for the ellipse tool that had accidentally slipped in.
Whoops, and another one ... (the last one, I promise). However, this one was just for my own purposes and is probably not desired in "official" Inkscape. But since it's in SVN now, I thought I'd ask if anything similar is useful to anybody before removing it.
When using the pencil tool I sometimes find myself just clicking on the canvas to mark a spot with a single dot (like a single node, but a bit more visible). Since curves containing just a single nodes are not possible, I thought it might be convenient to create a small circle instead. The mentioned patch makes this possible; simply Ctrl+clicking on the canvas while in the pencil tool creates a circle with the last-used style and a fixed (hard-coded) radius.
If no one has strong reasons to keep this, I'll remove it again because it gives the tool a kind of a "childish" feeling. But I still think that something similar can be handy. Any suggestions how to "do it right"? Or maybe this would "feel better" when moved over to the ellipse tool?
Keep those "mistakes" coming please ;) I would love to be able to create small vector dots in Inkscape. The way you did it is fine IMHO. I would recommend: - keep it in the pencil tool - if those dots are to behave as the rest of the objects of the pencil tool, the elipse should have special properties: fill and stroke should be swapped for every operation and stroke should be unset. otherwise it would feel awkward compared to the other pencil tool strokes. probably the trickiest part. - make the radius behave as the calligraphy tool: either fixed in absolute units or fixed in pixel units, so that it is still possible to make dots of different sizes.
To produce this image: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/work/illustration/carcinus_maenas_dessin.png I had to create the dots in a raster program (presumably with a special brush in photoshop). I would have loved to do them all in vector on separate layers and to have control over the scale and position of every dot (and I am particularly enthusiastic about the feature because I have several drawings of this kind to make still ;) )
JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/