NEW: current style & misc usability
* All object-creating tools can use the current style for new objects. The current style is the style that you last applied to an object (when changing its fill, stroke, transparency, etc). For example, after you paint some object black, new shapes you create will be black too. Alternatively, a tool can use its own style for new objects, which is not affected by document editing. The Preferences dialog lets you choose between using the current style (shape tools by default) and the tool's own style (text, pen, and pencil by default) for any tool, as well as to set the style of a tool from current selection. The "Apply to" list in the Fill & Stroke dialog is removed; this dialog now always sets the style of the selection.
* Double-clicking a tool button calls up the Preferences dialog open on the page of that tool.
* The Preferences dialog remembers and reopens the page that was active the last time you used it.
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:03:29PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
- All object-creating tools can use the current style for new
objects.
This is good, but I will miss the previous colourful defaults. Can someone think of a way of providing the usefulness of this change while providing the colourfulness associated with the old behaviour? Should more things default to "tool's own style" ?
Should we have more prominent paint palettes like most drawing programs (gimp) ?
Along the same lines, we could make the star default to slightly rounded with a hint of randomization: something a little "fun".
I took a bit of convincing that the "red ellipses, blue rectangles, yellow stars" change was good, but now I'm hooked :)
pjrm.
This is good, but I will miss the previous colourful defaults.
They aren't going anywhere. When you start Inkscape for the first time, your current style is empty. And when it's empty, all tools use their own style regardless of the setting. Which means you still get red circles, yellow stars, etc - up until the first time you change someone's style. That colorfulness was intended for novices, and novices will still see it at first. If you want the shapes to be always colorful, it's a matter of a couple of clicks to change the setting for each tool.
Can someone think of a way of providing the usefulness of this change while providing the colourfulness associated with the old behaviour?
I think I thought about that, see above :)
Should we have more prominent paint palettes like most drawing programs (gimp) ?
Of course. It's in our stack since forever. Just go ahead and code it :)
Along the same lines, we could make the star default to slightly rounded with a hint of randomization: something a little "fun".
I'm not sure... this may be _too_ cheerful for a poor novice :) But anyway, all shape parameters' defaults will be settable in prefs - that's next in my list.
Well, the initial defaults could stay the red, blue, and yellow, right? Then after subsequent changes, the styles are affected.
Jon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Moulder" <Peter.Moulder@...38...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 8:11 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: current style & misc usability
On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 09:03:29PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
- All object-creating tools can use the current style for new
objects.
This is good, but I will miss the previous colourful defaults. Can someone think of a way of providing the usefulness of this change while providing the colourfulness associated with the old behaviour? Should more things default to "tool's own style" ?
Should we have more prominent paint palettes like most drawing programs (gimp) ?
Along the same lines, we could make the star default to slightly rounded with a hint of randomization: something a little "fun".
I took a bit of convincing that the "red ellipses, blue rectangles, yellow stars" change was good, but now I'm hooked :)
pjrm.
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