Hello,

I think for rect the plan is to put the "roundness ratio" tool options on the secondary toolbar, that should make it more obvious. Also I wondered if it would be useful to make those tools "sub groups", like in Open Office.org. This would work like the shape tool in Sodipodi, so you hold and press to see other shapes. Only that it would only show possible sub shapes of the appropriate tool (thus you would never _have_ to use it, it would only change the shapes created by default). A little arrow on the button could show that it contains sub items (like in OO.o). This would make it more discoverable which shapes each tool is capable to produce and another advantage would be, that you could change your "default" shape to something you use more frequently. OO.o provides the following sub shapes for the rect tool for example: Rectangle, Square, Rectangle Rounded, Rounded Square and all of them in an "unfilled" version. This might give us added functionality at no cost. What do you think?

Daniel

On Fri, 2003-12-26 at 10:13, Peter Moulder wrote:

Someone (jleach81) came on jabber to ask how to make rectangles with rounded corners with inkscape. I'd guess that elliptical arcs are similarly hard to guess how to do.

The person arrived & left while I was away from my terminal, so I don't know whether the person didn't know what tool to use or didn't know how to use the tool to create those alternative shapes.

The tooltips of the relevant tools (with square and circle icon, respectively) already say what shapes these tools can do.

The circle-iconed tool's cursor shape indicates that it can do elliptical arcs. Perhaps the square-iconed tool's cursor shape should have a rounded rectangle cursor rather than a square-cornered rectangle as at present?

It may be useful for the secondary toolbar for rectangle to have specializations: a square, a rectangle, a (circular-)rounded rectangle, and perhaps a circular-rounded square. Similarly for the ellipse. This would be consistent with the suggestion in the "spiral???" thread that the spiral/star tool might populate the secondary toolbar with different "odd shapes" like regular polygon, star, spiral. (Message-id: <1071701170.17080.20.camel@...16...>)

I'm not sure of a good way to make it obvious that the knot editing tool can be used to change the roundedness of rectangles.

pjm.

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