bulia byak wrote:
On 8/17/07, Aaron Spike <aaron@...476...> wrote:
Transparent boxes cannot be seen by the user.
They can when you need them. Just select it and it's perfectly visualized.
It would be more convenient and require less mental effort for the user if they could see them. It helps to be able to see all of the boxes, not just the selected box, while creating new boxes. It also helps to see the boxes so you know which to click to select. You will tell me that there is a simple solution. I can select all the boxes and give them color while I am working with them. But again this is only a work around. And it require effort from a user to do something that we should provide a real solution for.
Transparent boxes cannot be selected with a click to the area.
Yes, but this is just one of the dozens of selection methods available in Inkscape. Most other methods work fine.
Could you please list the "dozens" of selection methods? I know we provide quite a number, perhaps even 12 but I think you may be exaggerating. Now, of all of the selection methods that Inkscape provides, what would you say is the simplest, most obvious method for selecting a single object. I argue that it is the single click of the selector tool.
As I said before, I agree that boxes are a work around. But I will not agree that they are a solution. They do not make the job convenient, only possible. This topic has already been debated a few times. There are always two sides. One side argues that boxes are a solution. The other side pleads for Inkscape to directly address the problem and walks away unhappy because we fail to admit that the problem exists. Let's not do it that way again. I'm not asking you or anyone else to code up a solution. I'm asking you to admit that there is an unsolved problem and discuss solutions that would address the problem directly. I'm confident that if you add your positive input to the ideas that our users have suggested, we can develop a plan for something great.
Aaron Spike