On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Seymour Fine wrote:
Subject: [Inkscape-user] getting started editing text
I am a novice at Inkscape (0.44.1 with WinXP) and have a problem getting started editing some text. I clicked on the text tool (A) and then on the text but the formatting changes that I try to do, do not happen. What am I missing? I tried in vain clicking the selection (upper left) arrow.
Note to developers: Text editing is not intuitive for beginners. I do not use the word intuitive lightly.
I dont know if Seymore is the same as the person who file the anonymous report but it shows how easily a beginner can get trapped and misunderstand the current layout.
[ 1589314 ] Why cant I write Text??? https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1589314&gr...
That isn't to say the current layout is bad and I'd expect people already familiar with Drawing programs to be comfortable but bug reports can show us how usabitlity needs to be even better for beginners or infrequent users.
If peolpe have suggestions on how the current dialog could be improved please make suggestions, as I'm a little short of ideas. I should probably mention the Text dialog does need to continue to exist as there is far more text functionality than could reasonably fit in the toolbar (there was a bug report suggesting the dialog was redundant).
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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