On 2009-May-29 , at 05:54 , Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:20 AM, JiHO wrote:
> space to draw in the end. See this example in french on a 1280*800
> display (i.e. not the smallest around)
>
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1047321/inkscape/fat_ui.png
Quick and dirty solution: use smaller font size for UI.
That helps a bit (and that's what I do usually) but I wanted to show
the default configuration.
> Now my real questions: what do you think about removing some of
the
> toolbar items and reducing the number of control bars to two, as
> before? Do we really need buttons for new document, save, print, etc.
> when all of them are readily available in the menu and have standard,
> well known keyboard shortcuts?
Two words: wacom users :)
I am a wacom user myself and find the menus easy enough to get to for
all of these functions, except for undo and redo which are indeed nice
to have just a click away. Do you click new/save/print/preferences
etc. very often that getting them from the menu is not convenient
enough?
As a side note, if you want a wacom with no keyboard interaction at
all, you probably have one with so called express keys and configuring
those to perform those actions is actually very efficient. I
personally have my left keys set to: Control, Alt, Shift, Meta; and my
right ones set to: C, V, X, Z, which gives access to most commonly
used functions.
What we really need is costomizable toolbars
I realize that and completely agree... but are those anywhere near
completion in GDK? Jon Cruz was talking about them a while ago and he
seemed to be almost ready to code them from scratch for Inkscape only.
What's the status of this?
JiHO
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