Can someone please explain to me why we need 2 new pages in prefs for default metadata and license?
What's wrong with just changing the metadata and license in an empty document and saving it as a template?
Saving as a template is not obvious? OK, just make it more obvious. Add a "save template" command for example.
This solution is bad because it unnecessarily duplicates some very heavy pieces of UI, clutters the preferences, and generally makes the program look clunkier and less clean. It also utterly confuses the concepts of document preferences and program preferences, which should be kept as separate as possible.
So, can anyone comment on this please? If no one comments I will roll back this change.
On Jan 6, 2008 8:43 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
Can someone please explain to me why we need 2 new pages in prefs for default metadata and license?
What's wrong with just changing the metadata and license in an empty document and saving it as a template?
Saving as a template is not obvious? OK, just make it more obvious. Add a "save template" command for example.
This solution is bad because it unnecessarily duplicates some very heavy pieces of UI, clutters the preferences, and generally makes the program look clunkier and less clean. It also utterly confuses the concepts of document preferences and program preferences, which should be kept as separate as possible.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
i think it would be even more obvious if the docment metadata and licence were tabs in the Document Prefs... but that is another change again...
i agree, having default metadata in the inskcape prefs is could easily lead to confusion and is redundant.
cheers, ryanlerch
On 1/8/08, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
So, can anyone comment on this please? If no one comments I will roll back this change.
On Jan 6, 2008 8:43 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
Can someone please explain to me why we need 2 new pages in prefs for default metadata and license?
What's wrong with just changing the metadata and license in an empty document and saving it as a template?
Saving as a template is not obvious? OK, just make it more obvious. Add a "save template" command for example.
This solution is bad because it unnecessarily duplicates some very heavy pieces of UI, clutters the preferences, and generally makes the program look clunkier and less clean. It also utterly confuses the concepts of document preferences and program preferences, which should be kept as separate as possible.
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On Jan 8, 2008 2:57 AM, ryan lerch <ryanlerch@...400...> wrote:
i think it would be even more obvious if the docment metadata and licence were tabs in the Document Prefs... but that is another change again...
Initially they were, they were broken out because they were too big (I think)
I suspect the developer of this patch is not on the mailing list, so be sure to provide your questions on the original bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/169954
Bryce
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:18:52AM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
So, can anyone comment on this please? If no one comments I will roll back this change.
On Jan 6, 2008 8:43 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
Can someone please explain to me why we need 2 new pages in prefs for default metadata and license?
What's wrong with just changing the metadata and license in an empty document and saving it as a template?
Saving as a template is not obvious? OK, just make it more obvious. Add a "save template" command for example.
This solution is bad because it unnecessarily duplicates some very heavy pieces of UI, clutters the preferences, and generally makes the program look clunkier and less clean. It also utterly confuses the concepts of document preferences and program preferences, which should be kept as separate as possible.
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sorry for not answering fast. When I developed this patch I was only an inkscape user with a special need and who didnt think of doing it using templates. If it is concensus that the patch is more confusing than helpful, I guess that it could be reverted and ignored.
The patch may not have turned into something really useful, but at least, it was this patch that gave me access to svn so that it enabled me to start working more actively on the filter effects.
On Jan 9, 2008 8:32 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> wrote:
I suspect the developer of this patch is not on the mailing list, so be sure to provide your questions on the original bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/169954
Bryce
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 03:18:52AM -0400, bulia byak wrote:
So, can anyone comment on this please? If no one comments I will roll back this change.
On Jan 6, 2008 8:43 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
Can someone please explain to me why we need 2 new pages in prefs for default metadata and license?
What's wrong with just changing the metadata and license in an empty document and saving it as a template?
Saving as a template is not obvious? OK, just make it more obvious. Add a "save template" command for example.
This solution is bad because it unnecessarily duplicates some very heavy pieces of UI, clutters the preferences, and generally makes the program look clunkier and less clean. It also utterly confuses the concepts of document preferences and program preferences, which should be kept as separate as possible.
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On Jan 9, 2008 2:30 PM, Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...400...> wrote:
The patch may not have turned into something really useful, but at least, it was this patch that gave me access to svn so that it enabled me to start working more actively on the filter effects.
OK, that is what matters :) I really appreciate your and others' work on filters.
So I rolled back that preferences patch.
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