Alan Horkan wrote:
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Michael Grosberg wrote:
I don't think the "Export Bitmap" dialog should switch between "Page", "Drawing" or "selection" when the selection is changed. In my experience, sometimes you export the entire page a number of times, while making small changes here and there. All the while, the export dialog automatically switches to "selection" whenever you do something and then switches back to "drawing". You have to return it to "drawing" all the time. I can see how the current setup is useful - when exporting multiple selections as multiple files - but I think the earlier use pattern I mentioned is more common. At least, a method to turn this behavior off should be supplied.
providing loads of behaviours to turn things on and off gradually becomes harder and harder to maintain and test properly. hopefully a better overall solution can be found that requires less fiddling around and micro-optimisations.
This does seem odd to me, when would you ever need that dialog to switch its "mode" (page/drawing/selection/custom) based on what you do in the drawing. I can see roughly two uses of this dialog: - Regularly export the entire drawing/page - Export multiple selections, one after the other In either case there is no need to switch modes (you'd have to do it manually once per session, worst-case). In addition the current behaviour seems somewhat unintuitive (apparently it only switches modes if you first selecting nothing and then selecting something, it's not enough to just change the selection).
All in all, I'd recommend simply removing the "switching" behaviour (hopefully making its behaviour simpler, more intuitive and more efficient). (Submitting a feature request might be a good idea.)