Am Mittwoch, den 04.04.2007, 11:26 +0100 schrieb Daniel Hulme:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:32:35PM +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
On 4/4/07, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote:
Have you tried setting the filter quality lower? (It's in the Inkscape preferences.) That should help, it doesn't turn blur off, but it does make it considerably less expensive.
No I haven't, but Florian replied earlier in the thread that it didn't make much difference even on the lowest quality setting. Anyway it's really something that should be handled on a situation by situation basis whereas app preferences are for modifying global behavior. If you have to change an app preference based on the document you're looking at then I think it indicates a UI problem.
But it's not just a document-specific setting, it's a computer-specific setting. Just because your computer isn't fast enough to handle such-and-such an amount of blur in a document doesn't mean mine isn't, so it would be silly if we were sharing a document and we kept having to change the blur quality every time we sent the file between computers.
I agree, the quality settings shoudn't be saved in the file. And those aren't saved there so its not an issue.
Of course, you're right that it changes according to situation too.
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It strikes me that the best solution would be that the user doesn't set the blur quality, but rather the amount of latency he's willing to put up with. Inkscape would monitor how laggy it's being and set the quality appropriately. Perhaps this could be integrated with the other quality settings as well, so that in the worst case Inkscape would just switch to outline mode. There would also be a menu-/key-bindable verb for "put it in high-quality" for those precision editing moments.
Sounds like a really crazy/good idea to me. But also Bills idea of the "everything outlined but the selected"-toggle sounds great. Or even layer related quality settings might be worth.
Not sure want would be the "best" way or what would be "implementable" for the inkscape-devs. At least I can say the way its now - with the blur settings in the settings menu - I dont like since I like to change them "too" often. Perhaps just a "bad" habit from using xara.
Florian