Alan Horkan wrote:
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007, Donn wrote:
Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] I'd prefer guides per layer
IMO a much better improvement of the guides would be
colored guides,
so they could be distinguishable.
And add to that, guide-layers such that shapes draw become guides : any angle and shape.
Corel has some interesting implementations of various kinds of advanced grids. Products such as Microsoft Visio will temporarily show blue lines while drawing to help show things like a 45 degree angle, but these features are quite seperate from Guides which remain as basic and simple as they have always been. ... Understanding the underlying problem and being aware of the approaches other projects have taken allows the Inkscape developers to pick and choose from the best ideas already out there and then do things even better, so screenshots and detailed descriptions with bug reports can be very helpful.
I would gladly see drawings etc. of what people would like to see and how it is done in other programs; I like the time for an exhaustive research myself. I am working on the grid system at the moment, and it should not take too long before the axonometric (3D) grid becomes fully functional. Right now I am trying to provide an easy way to implement new grids, so although it might take a while for any other advanced grid to be implemented, at least the extra info will help me a lot in deciding what to provide and what not.
More on topic: I am thinking about implementing a guide dialog (where all guides are listed and can be editted) aswell as guide coloring as proposed in this thread.
To repeat: for all feature requests, provide as much information as detailed as possible. It will tremendously speed up the implementation process and it provides a good base for discussion.
Cheers, Johan