Sven Neumann wrote:
Well I feel that the "new" button is a bit too much. The plug-in should
just create the layer when it is needed eg. when you've written your
text and applied (or pressed ok) it.
In that case the OK and Apply buttons would be grayed out and only New
would be available.
But it requires the user to do something that isn't necessary.
There is no need to require the user to specifically create it. When the
user clicks inside active GDynText layer it will be edited and if the
user doesn't click inside GDynText layer it will create one.
But most times I just want to add more text in the style of the existing
text. Right know I first have to duplicate the layer, then edit the text.
This is IMHO more annoying than another button.
I propably would include the new button, just make the creation of layer
automatic when not clicking on gdyntext-layer. This is far more
intuitive.
When the user has clicked to gdyntext-layer the new button would create
a new layer with similar settings. The "new"-button would actually be
more like "duplicate this layer and the following changes affect the new
layer" or "work on copy"...
Also making the GDynText-plugin to remember the last settings it was
used with would also lessen the need for "new"-button.
Also slighly off-topic... the Adode InDesign has a tool ("Property
picker" or something similar) that can be used to pick properties from a
text block or from a layer and apply them to another block or layer.
Very usefull functionality... This kind of functionality could be
implemented to GIMPs color picker.
Then again the "new" button is usefull when creating several layers of
text with similar settings, but even then I wouldn't group it with OK,
Apply and Close.
Where would you put it then ?
To the top. I think.
