On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, bulia byak wrote:
... The only thing I want to downplay in the UI is the fill-opacity and stroke-opacity, which you call "alpha". NOT master opacity. I do it for the following reasons:
- it is redundant, because cases where you want a fill to be
transparent but stroke to be opaque or vice versa are quite rare, and in all other cases you can use master opacity;
Rare, perhaps, but the effect of a stained-glass window comes to mind. Would you propose to get rid of the possibility altogether? (Of course one could work around it, but clumsily.)
- stroke opacity works a bit counterintuitively - it makes fill show
through the stroke, and fill only fills up to the centerline, which makes a confusing and rarely useful sight. ...
I can't think of a counterexample for this :-)
- master opacity equally well applies to groups, again preserving the
group appearance. Fill/stroke opacity is unavailable for groups.
Is it unavailable for a fundamental reason?
- Robert