• Default font for text was too small when at the (default) full-size page view.

Hmm, yeah, that'd be quite nice, but I don't think of it as being important.

• The context menu for text should include a link to the Text and Font dialog.

• Changing font color should be easier to access via the context menu and/or the text and font properties dialog.

I'd rather have text editing via the top toolbar and on the fly than in the dialog, anyways. This would speed up things a lot.

• The zoom mouse cursor shows a '+' when zooming in. It should show a '-' when you're zooming out (shift-mouse click)

Yes, yes, yes! And actually I wrote a RFE on it for sodipodi, which you moved to the inkscape RFE list :). It's #850929

• It would be handy to have a way to select objects "under" the object on top. E.g., a modifier to the left mouse click that would cause it to select the next object down in the stack for each click.

Hmm, maybe. Not sure I'd be using that feature. But it would be a great deal better, if you couldn't select the object, but maybe have the outline of the object displayed as well, so that you know, which one you have. On the other hand, I think, that an objects dialog would do.

• When you select 2+ objects and right click, having access to some of the 'Align' and/or 'Boolean' commands could be helpful.

Well, let's not just refer to 2 or more objects being selected. the right click menu should always hold some default actions or in submenus all actions for the specific tool. I filed a RFE on this for node editing.

• When you're editing a multi-stop gradient and then close the dialog and do 'undo's, it appears to undo each individual edit to the gradient rather than just undoing the entire editing transaction.

Sounds good!

He also had a bunch of suggestions for features, most all of which are already captured in RFE's, but here's a couple that I think are new:

• There should be a way to not only convert a text object into a node object, but also to convert the individual letters in the text object to separate text or node objects.

Sounds hard to implement, but there's nothing wrong with it. Anyways I think though that it is more important to be able to assign different styles and colors to individual parts of a text object.

• Pasting text from open office to inkscape or vice versa.

• Paste style is very cool and works as expected. Some sort of 'paste size' might also be useful, if you want to force a range of shapes to have exactly the same dimensions.

So far I haven't used anything like style import or export. Therefore dunno.

Let me know if these sound ok, and I'll add RFE's for them later this week.

Go for it :)

David

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:16:49PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote:

• Default font for text was too small when at the (default) full-size page view.

I actually disagree this this. I think the font is exactly correct. When I did my homework, it was the correct font size by default for a regular sheet of paper. I was pleasantly surprised to not have to much with it. On the other hand, yes, it is unreadable at the default full-size view. But, since we're a drawing program more than a writing program, I'm not sure which is at the top: default zoom text visibility or default text is correct for a typed page.

• When you select 2+ objects and right click, having access to some of the 'Align' and/or 'Boolean' commands could be helpful.

Oooh. Three submenus on the right-click "Align ->", "Distribute ->", and "Boolean ->". That sounds like one I could do.

• When you're editing a multi-stop gradient and then close the dialog and do 'undo's, it appears to undo each individual edit to the gradient rather than just undoing the entire editing transaction.

Does undo work with the gradient dialog open? Because it makes sense to be able to undo each gradient change while you have the dialog open...