OK, so the Commands Bar is in. The icons look really ugly and inconsistent when lined up in a toolbar, but that's the way they are. I wanted to add a few more commands but they don't have any icons at all now. Still I think some may find this new toolbar convenient; those who hate it, just hide it via the View menu and forget.
P.S. As for terminology, all variants except "commands bar" seemed to be too vague or confusing for the new toolbar. And for the former top panel, "Tool options bar/panel" might be OK but is confusing because we have tool preferences tabs in the Preferences dialog, so I'm sticking with "Tool controls [panel]". Feel free to disagree.
P.P.S. In reponse to loud complaints from the public, the nasty "Hide Menu" command is hunted down and killed mercilessly. Enjoy its absence :)
Hi peoples,
This program is now available free in PC and Win forms. For those who do not know, it is a vector based painting program and one of the best programs available for free on the net at present. There are many things that it does that Inkscape is heading towards. The company was taken over by Microsoft last year and the program is now known as Microsoft Expression. The following is taken from Sue Chastains site at http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/illustration/gr/expression.htm and the program itself can be downloaded at http://www.microsoft.com/products/expression/default.asp?pg=home. The PC version of the download is 57.5MB and became available about a week ago. Who knows how long it will stay available.
a.. Vector-based drawing and illustration software based on unique 'skeletal strokes' technology. b.. The first application to introduce the concept of drawing with strokes of objects along a path. c.. Any kind of object, whether vector- or bitmap-based, can be defined as a custom brush stroke. d.. Unique features go beyond traditional drawing software to provide ultimate artistic expression. e.. Pressure-sensitive pen support, familiar and specialized drawing tools, many import/export options. f.. Version 3 adds repositionable textures, reflection-mapped fills, user-definable fringes, g.. eraser mode, head/tail anchoring, repeatable sections, transparency and width variability, h.. new and improved drawing tools, productivity enhancements, and PSD and PNG import/export. i.. Boxed version includes a detailed, 200-page printed user guide with several tutorials. j.. Windows and Macintosh versions of Expression 3 are available for free download from Microsoft. There does not appear to be a time limit or any obvious restrictions.
vellum
Hi Bulia, I think the new commands bar is great. It makes Inkscape much faster for me. May be a personal thing but I am sure there are lots of others who will find a speedup in using the program with this setup.
One thing I would find very useful would be to be able to set more in Inkscape Preferences. In particular I'd like the Stroke Style characteristics of Width, Join, Miter limit, Cap and Dash preference. I know that some/all of these can be set in preferences.xml but that is slow and a pain.
vellum
One thing I would find very useful would be to be able to set more in Inkscape Preferences. In particular I'd like the Stroke Style characteristics of Width, Join, Miter limit, Cap and Dash preference. I know that some/all of these can be set in preferences.xml but that is slow and a pain.
If you mean setting the defaults, then the plan is to have the notion of a "current style" in each editing window which is:
- set whenever you change an object by dropper, paste style, or fill&stroke (later also by palette)
- stored between sessions
- displayed in a current color widget (showing fill, stroke, and stroke width) at the bottom of the toolbox
- used for new objects created by drawing tools; this is settable per tool, i.e. you can configure rects and ellipses to use the current style while pen and text tool use their own style as they do now (the tool's "own style" will be settable by a "take from selected object" button in the prefs dialog tab for that tool)
Most of the underlying infrastructure for this is already in place, so it's realistic to have this implemented in 0.40. If you have any comments or objections, fire away :)
Bulia wrote:
If you mean setting the defaults, then the plan is to have the notion of a "current style" in each editing window which is:
- set whenever you change an object by dropper, paste style, or
fill&stroke (later also by palette)
- stored between sessions
Yup. Default style which is saved between sessions pretty well covers it. That would be very useful. vellum
The author of RFE 981544 would like to get dialogs to stay on screen. So would I. Whether I use none, normal or aggressive in Inkscape preferences/Windows/dialogs on top, they still disappear. I think I know what should happen. They should stay on top-right? Can someone tell me what does happen in linux and how can we make it happen in windows? vellum.
The author of RFE 981544 would like to get dialogs to stay on screen. So would I. Whether I use none, normal or aggressive in Inkscape preferences/Windows/dialogs on top, they still disappear. I think I know what should happen. They should stay on top-right? Can someone tell me what does happen in linux and how can we make it happen in windows?
I had to disable transient (always-on-top) dialogs on Windows altogether because of weird behavior. Namely, they stay on top OK, and when you minimize the editing window they're minimized with it, but when you try to restore it, only one of the dialogs comes up, and you can't access the editing window unless you close that dialog. I considered this to be a worse problem than the lack of always-on-top behavior so I disabled it. This may be a GTK problem and as such it may be fixed in a next version of GTK, or it may be something different - honestly I haven't looked into it much. Whoever wants to play with it, just remove #ifndef WIN32 around lines 200 to 242 of dialogs/dialog-events.cpp.
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