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* Text and Font: stays, but with changes as described on the TextUsability page. | * Text and Font: stays, but with changes as described on the TextUsability page. | ||
* Size and Position: to be eliminated, its controls go to the SecondaryToolbar for Selector | * (DONE) Size and Position: to be eliminated, its controls go to the SecondaryToolbar for Selector | ||
* Transformations: stays mostly as is, with usability tweaks and new features added. | * Transformations: stays mostly as is, with usability tweaks and new features added. | ||
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Other things to be done in all dialogs: | Other things to be done in all dialogs: | ||
* Reduce size as much as possible. Smaller fonts, denser layout. Currently some dialogs are way too bulky. | |||
* More hotkeys! Most if not all widgets with text (buttons, tabs) must have one of the letters with an underscore so that alt-letter will jump there. | * More hotkeys! Most if not all widgets with text (buttons, tabs) must have one of the letters with an underscore so that alt-letter will jump there. |
Revision as of 13:33, 11 January 2004
Currently there are too many dialogs, they are confusingly named, and their functions overlap. We must reduce the number of dialogs to a manageable amount and reorganize them. Here's my plan:
Detachable toolbars in the document window
- (DONE) Toolbox: becomes a docked (but detachable) toolbar with only the several tool buttons (and not the entire roll as before).
- SecondaryToolbar: new, combines secondary buttons from the toolbox plus some other options and controls.
- ColorPalette: new, to be created, at the bottom of the window by default. Also incorporates the CurrentColorWidget.
Floating dialogs
- Fill and Stroke: stays mostly as is, with usability tweaks.
- Text and Font: stays, but with changes as described on the TextUsability page.
- (DONE) Size and Position: to be eliminated, its controls go to the SecondaryToolbar for Selector
- Transformations: stays mostly as is, with usability tweaks and new features added.
- Align and Distribute: stays mostly as is, with usability tweaks and new features added.
- Item properties: to be eliminated, its controls are disposed of as follows:
- ID field is redundant, there is the same functionality in XML editor
- Sensitive, visible, active, printable toggles: IMHO these properties must be editable for layers, not for individual objects; if you absolutely must set them for an object, you can do so in XML editor. So leave them for now, but delete as soon as we have a Layers dialog.
- Transparency: redundant, use Fill and Stroke instead
- Transformation matrix: a useful thing, but it will be much more appropriate as a new tab on the Transformations dialog - move it there
- XML editor: stays as is
- Document settings: to be eliminated, its controls go to the new Document settuings (below)
- Editing window: is renamed to Document settings. The content of the former "Document settings" go to its "Page" tab. All the options in this dialog must be saved with the document (into sodipodi:namedview).
- Tool options: to be eliminated, its content goes either to Preferences (for Selector) or to the SecondaryToolbar (for other tools), with the exception of the "Defaults" buttons that must be removed.
- Tool attributes: absolutely redundant, to be eliminated. (DONE removing from the menu, but the leftover code is to be eliminated also)
- Display settings: is renamed to "Preferences" and massively expanded, see PreferencesDialog.
- Layers: new, to be created when the layers are fully implemented.
Other things to be done in all dialogs:
- Reduce size as much as possible. Smaller fonts, denser layout. Currently some dialogs are way too bulky.
- More hotkeys! Most if not all widgets with text (buttons, tabs) must have one of the letters with an underscore so that alt-letter will jump there.
- More tooltips!
- Eliminate all Close buttons (redundant) and Apply buttons where it makes sense
- Fix keybindings in widgets:
- Ctrl-PgDn/Ctrl-PgUp in spinbuttons must not cause them to change value! These are for switching tabs.
- Tab in text widgets must not insert tab char - it's for navigating widgets.