On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 02:45:30PM -0800, Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jan 7, 2006, at 11:02 AM, MenTaLguY wrote:
I've been pondering the object style minibar, and come up with a variation on the current idea. It's not a huge difference.
I *think* it's a pretty good tweak that gets some nice functionality squeezed into there. One minor shift might be to inset the fill square slightly so it looks more of the size to fit into the 'stroke' size. To have them logically appear as both parts of the same thing, the size of the 'fill' square should aline to the middle of the 'stroke' square. However, I think that doing something that precise makes it lose esthetically. A slight reduction in the 'fill' square, on the other hand, still seems to make things esthetically pleasing while at the same time conveying extra information more intuitively.
But... the main point, I think, is that it really is a large usability improvement, even if it seems to not be a huge difference.
Agreed, I was watching a new user playing with Inkscape yesterday, and she kept having to pull up the fill and stroke dialog, make a minor change, close it, look at the drawing, repeat, rinse later... (Finally I couldn't stand it any longer and just grabbed the mouse *grin*) So yeah, more toolbar action for fill and stroke stuff would have profound benefits.
Bryce