On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:32:44 -0800 (PST), Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:

I think that's a good starting point. I haven't seen any other work done along these lines so far.

I meant http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPalette besides this one

Alexandre

On Di, 2005-01-11 at 20:30 -0500, MenTaLguY wrote:

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

...

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:32:44 -0800 (PST), Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:

...

I think that's a good starting point. I haven't seen any other work done along these lines so far.

I meant http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPalette besides this one

I am personally not fond of the "InfoPalette" approach. It's rather unusable.

Me neither. I agree, that it is unusable, and I also think, it's unnecessary. We have dialogues to modify the object properties. These dialogues can't be removed, even on introduction of an info palette. So that means there's be two ways to edit the objects, given redundant possibilities that will just confuse users. What I would like to see, is an object tree, where you can show/hide and lock/unlock the objects and groups (incl. layers). This will render the properties Dialog unnecessary and it can be removed. Further more extra information like stroke width and colour, fill and maybe size and position can be shown in a flyover hint, so that one doesn't need to select an object and have a look at the dialogues, to know if it is the one you want to select.

David