On 3/22/06, Michael Grosberg <preacher_public@...9...> wrote:
Another example is the gradient editor: it used to be a part of the fill and stroke dialog but now it is seperate and takes up even more space or gets lost under the canvas.
Quite the contrary - before, you had to open fill&stroke. Now you can do all this right on the canvas without any dialog. The only case when you need a dialog is if you want multistop gradients.
Other dialogs could use a redesign so they have the same width of the narrower dialogs: The font dialog can be rearranged in a more vertical manner, or divided into "font" and "paragraph" tabs.
This one is going to eventually be duplicated in the more powerful Text tool controls bar. (I know I'm way overdue with that...)
The align and distribute dialog can also be
divided into tabs so it isn't so tall.
This might be a good thing to do. Then again, when we have easy toolbars, align&distribute buttons may get a toolbar of their own, in addition to the dialog.
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