On 2010-09-04 08:39, Aleksandar Kovač wrote:
... There are many directions for the brainstorm on untangling this trickiness you mentioned, I think. For example:
- 'natural analogy'... i.e. What is happening in the real world when we
deal with color?
- 'direct manipulation'... i.e. Can we just ignore the panels and manage
the color directly, on object?
- 'color as metadata'... i.e. Treating color as a 'tag' that can be
stuck on any object. Even several of them, and then just selecting the one we like?
- You come up with some more... ;)
I think you're going in the right direction here, we need to zoom out a bit and look at the bigger picture, not just try to improve the fill and stroke dialog.
Personally I had been thinking about perhaps extending the gradient tool to become a "color" tool (or shading tool, or whatever general name we'd like to use). Currently we can already create either a linear or a radial gradient on canvas, but why not also a flat color or a pattern? Then we could simply have a single color picker to modify the color of whatever is selected. (Note that currently this sort of works with gradient handles, but is a little awkward as we don't really have a single dedicated color picker.)
btw, I have been working on my own, on a concept for a fundamentally different approach to graphic app paradigm. But I am not sure if it would be coherent at all with the Inkscape's paradigm, but if anyone's interested I will be more than happy to share some thoughts, maybe you could find a way to fuse it, or just give me a reality check. ;)
Bring it on :)