MenTaLguY wrote:
Any ideas for reducing this [gradiate button] problem? It's becoming a huge FAQ because people toggle it absent-mindedly and then don't remember doing it because they don't think it did anything. I don't really have a better UI idea than what we currently have, though...
-mental
I wonder if having the gradient lines visible in select mode would help people self-diagnose this problem. Users would then see that the gradients are still there, but haven't been scale for example.
One drawback of this: the extra lines would add complexity to select mode.
Another idea would be to remove this option (or hide it). While I've used the other scaling options (especially line width) I've always kept gradient scaling on. Of course, if there are lots of people who (intentionally) toggle gradient scaling on and off, removing this option would be a bad idea.