A real-world analogy would be for an artist to not pick brush & color
before touching the canvas, but instead to draw using some kind of black chalk, which is then "transmorfed" - using magic - into another another style.
Well, that's if you're talking about painting with a brush. What if you're talking about sketching? You don't go and color everything in, and then later come back and draw the outlines.
I see the current draw first, style second as more intuitive, for rank newbies. If it weren't, we wouldn't be getting this question over and over again!
Thanks :-) brynn
-----Original Message----- From: Olof Bjarnason Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 8:03 AM To: LucaDC Cc: Inkscape Devel List Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fwd: Re: last used style #2
On 5 June 2017 at 14:57, LucaDC <dicappello@...2144...> wrote:
Hi Brynn, you're obviously free to make the feature request, but I'm not sure the solution you propose is the best one. From a first-time user point of view I think that having all circles with a fixed style and all rectangles with another fixed one may be confusing. Then he may learn how to go inside the configuration window and change those fixed styles (and say: "Ooh, what's that use-last-style wonderful option?" :) ) but in the meantime he's bound to change the style of every object he draws. My mind is probably stuck with my workflow, but I really can't see any usefulness of such a per tool fixed configuration.
The point for new users is to understand that they _first_ have to draw, _after_ they can change the style. And this is what is discussed in this thread: it is a counterintuitive way of working. IMHO fixing the style is just a way to hide this problem under the carpet (which can be both a good and a bad thing with new users). So the proposals to change the current behavior into _first_the_style_ (and being able to clearly see the current one) and then _draw_ would achieve the double objective of making happy what seems to be a lot of current users while improving the friendliness of the interface toward inexperienced users.
A real-world analogy would be for an artist to not pick brush & color before touching the canvas, but instead to draw using some kind of black chalk, which is then "transmorfed" - using magic - into another another style.
I think this backwards-order is what most people stumble upon when starting to use Inkscape.
Ctrl+Shift+V (paste style) has become my dear Inkscape friend to workaround Inkscape's oddity in this case.
This is what in my understandings is the link between your first request and the following posts, not something completely unrelated as you may have thought.
Luca
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