Re: Whishlist for sodipodi 0.35 or later

I was writing this as a reply to "Hello, I'm new ;)" but thought I'd
better post it as a reply to this message, because I mention a lotta
thinks I'd like to see changed, just as tobias does.

On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 19:59, Lauris Kaplinski wrote:

> > * The unability to insert a node anywhere.
> 
> Agree, this sucks :-(
> 
Yes it does :(

> > * The lack of *symmetrical* nodes, as opposed to just smooth.
> 
> Hmmm... it has got lost from toolbox. Try 'y'/'Shift-y' - it should make
> node(s) symmetrical
> 
'Shift+y' it is. But who would ever figure that out? I just thought it
was impossible and arranged myself with that because it didn't matter
too much to me. There must be a button for this.

This brings me to a dramatic change I'd suggest for sodipodi. I think a
inkscape like toolbar with only the basic tools and further tool options
would be great to introduce. I don't like the way the toolbars are
embedded in inkscape though. So it should be more like "gimp style",
with an extra tool option window. Another advantage of this is that
sodipodi could be using actual buttons instead of some wierd custom
widgets ;-)
But: there'd best be a way to have the toolbar and dialogs stay on top
of the document all of the time... I actually would love that anyway.
But I'm not sure if there's a possibility to achieve this. I'm using
metacity as window manager, others might still be using sawfisch, what
is possible for windows?

Oh, and since we were talking about node editing... I'd love to see a
right click menu when one has one or multiple nodes selected to have all
the options to edit a node.
And 'Del' I think should delete selected nodes.

Anyways, just a few thoughts on where I'd like to see sodipodi in the
future... of course there are more important thinks that have already
been discussed on this list, like gradient editing and boolean opps.

Take care and thanks for sodipodi (though right now I don't have the
time to be using it that much)

David


PS: I'm very concerend of where sodipodi actually might be going,
considering the commitment to anarchy ;-)



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