Why not "Filter Manager" ? It doesn't only edit or create filters. It adds and removes them too.
ivan
________________________________ De : bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> À : Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé le : Jeudi, 5 Février 2009, 0h23mn 37s Objet : [Inkscape-devel] Filters top-level menu?
I think filters are sufficiently complex, different from everything else, and have enough support in Inkscape now, so they deserve to be treated more like a top-level entity. In particular, I propose to add a new menu, Filters, before Effects. It would contain:
- All the submenus with preset filter that are now in Effects > Filters. Ivan Louette is working on a huge and exciting expansion of that hierarchy, adding lots of powerful new filters. It's obviously too deeply hidden now, it deserves more visibility as one of the most important 0.47 additions.
- The "Filter Effects..." dialog command which I propose to rename to "Build Filters" or "Filter Builder" or something like that. The current name is not very descriptive and even a bit misleading due to the word "effects" which refers to too many too different things in Inkscape (once again, let me reiterate my old wish: rename "Effects" menu to "Extensions", that is what they are!). The typical workflow would be to first choose one of the presets, then if needed, go to the Filter Builder to adjust the preset or start a new filter from scratch.
- The Remove Filter command.
Thoughts?
Thanks everyone for your input! Now in Inkscape we have:
XML Editor Path Effect Editor Filter Editor SVG Font Editor
All these are indeed "editors" in that they have their own means of selecting things to edit from their domain, not just follow the object selection on canvas.
More later...
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:26 AM, bulia byak wrote:
Path Effect Editor
While you are at that, could you please remove the "Visible?" checkbox from this editor? It really duplicates the eye icon in the stack for no good reason at all ;-)
Alexandre
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:26 AM, bulia byak wrote:
Path Effect Editor
While you are at that, could you please remove the "Visible?" checkbox from this editor? It really duplicates the eye icon in the stack for no good reason at all ;-)
Indeed. Johan, I looked into that but it seems it creates a checkbox for every param. Can you leave the param but suppress the checkbox?
Also, the "deactivate knotholder" checkbox needs to be either removed (why is it necessary?) or fixed:
- it is wrong to use negative verb for a checkbox, very confusing
- "knotholder" is jargon, users don't know what this is!
- it is on for (most) effects that have no knotholders at all - if you leave it, then it needs to be shown it only where it makes sense
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 2:26 AM, bulia byak wrote:
Thanks everyone for your input! Now in Inkscape we have:
XML Editor Path Effect Editor Filter Editor SVG Font Editor
By the way, when you choose "Remove filters" in the Object menu, the checkbox in SVG Filters dialog is still on.
Alexandre
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine
By the way, when you choose "Remove filters" in the Object menu, the checkbox in SVG Filters dialog is still on.
please file a bug while it's not forgotten...
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Alexandre Prokoudine -
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Ivan Louette