On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Valerie <valerie_vk@...36...> wrote:
http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/1162/textinterfacelk4.png
I understand that we need to fit a lot of stuff there, but I'm not very excited about having the kern and spacing controls in a drop-down. I think they are quite fundamental and quite often used - more often than text in shape IMHO - to be available via a single click, not two clicks. Apart from two clicks, drop-downs like those you have drawn have other problems: 1) they are not exactly a stock gtk widget and may be hard to implement; 2) they obscure part of the canvas which, after they are closed, needs to redraw itself, which may be annoyingly slow in complex documents.
Note the grid by the way. Whoever thought of it first (not me, but I don't remember who. It was proposed for some other Inkscape feature though) is genius.
It's a good widget, I agree here is a good place to use it, but it's by no means original - e.g. Xara has it.