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From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: bulia byak <archiver_1@...19...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:19:03 -0700

No it is useful to have the fill and color stroke more like swatches that are compared against each other. The tabbed palette hides this information too much (and yes you can see it on the canvas, but what if you want to color mix without an object selected).

Also, this request is not so much about saving space as about providing a similar experience across applications. Please look at this illustrator screen shot of how colors are handled:

http://protofunk.org/projects/group/inkscape/reference/adobeillustrator/10/a...

Illustrator's smaller interface is brilliant and how colors can be dealt with as foreground/background or stroke/line is brilliant as well.

Jon

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:38, bulia byak wrote:

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Couldn't the Fill and Stroke tabs be condensed into one by having a toggle between fill and stroke on the same pane with the color chooser.

Don't see how this is drastically better than a pair of tabs. It's not likely to take much less space.

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This is the most common use in Illustrator, Freehand and other apps. The illustrator approach is pretty useful, because you can change a shape's line and fill back and forth by hitting the 'x' key, and do it in the interface as well.

What do you mean by "doing it in the interface"?

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