On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Valerie <valerie_vk@...36...> wrote:
Congratulations on another terrific release! I hope you’re all taking a well-deserved break.
In the meantime, I wanted to discuss whether it’s possible to rework the Tiled Clones interface, mainly to address the following issues:
- Location: Tiled Clones is too powerful a tool to be hidden in Edit. Proposal: move Tiled Clones to Object, and have it open a dialogue like Fill, Align etc rather than a floating box (Ctrl + Shift + C).
Maybe we should just move all the clone commands to Object, for consistency.
Dockable dialog: certainly, this was the original plan. It just needs to be coded.
- The interface: the current interface is very powerful, but it feels like staring down a math/geometry class. :P Separating Tiles and Rotate and adding a preview area using simple examples would be nice.
Preview: yes of course, it would be great to add it.
Separate Rotation: yes, that would be good too, as a shortcut. For selecting rotation axis, we need to offer several options: not only by dragging a handle on screen but via shortcuts such as "object center", "top left corner", etc.
http://a.imagehost.org/view/0611/Tiles http://a.imagehost.org/view/0362/Radial
I'm afraid there won't be enough space for all the shift/angle/opacity etc parameters in the space you provided. They are now in their own tabs for a reason - they simply won't fit otherwise.