On 11/7/06, Jasper van de Gronde <th.v.d.gronde@...226...> wrote:
Not really. If you started with a selection in Selection mode but then deselected, you have no choice but to switch to some other mode.
Why not stay in selection mode?
Because there's no selection anymore. When you have a selection again, it will switch back to selection mode. If it tracks selection's width and height, why not let it track the fact of there being a selection or not? I don't really like the idea of it becoming "disabled" or something like that when you deselect.
If you change selection, it just updates width/height while remaining in Selection mode. Seems logical to me.
If you are in selection mode, yes, but if you're not in selection mode it doesn't change the mode (in itself a good thing, but read on). If you deselect it stays in the drawing/page mode (fine by me), if you then select something again it suddenly does change the mode...
So, hence the compromise we are discussing: if your drawing mode was automatic (caused by deselection), switch back to selection. If you clicked on Drawing explicitly, stay there. I think this might work.
I'd say either go for: selected something->selection mode, selected nothing->drawing/page(/custom),
Which is what we have now, no?
or (which I think actually makes the
most sense) simply go with what the user selects and don't try to be too smart.
OK, I agree that we should limit our "smartness" as described above, but I don't think we should eliminate it completely.