i think we should put more tooltips into the header status text (that way
expert users can hide it away and don't need to pay with increased clutter
for hints that might be important for novice users). especially modifiers,
mouse buttons, mouse wheel etc for the center overlay. xfig has this cool
context sensitive mouse button help drawing somewhere..
-jo
On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 10:41 AM, Rob Z. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> As a user a ‘cheap trick’ that I would like might be to clutter the
> interface with a toggle box that switches curve and straight-line modes.
> That would also be a good place to put a tool tip telling me I can
> alternatively just use the control keyl, and maybe alt-ctrl or something
> to toggle between the two modes from the keyboard as well?
>
>
>
> Rgds,
>
> Rob.
>
>
>
> *From:* jeremy rosen [mailto:[email protected]]
> *Sent:* 07 May 2013 09:29
> *To:* alic VB
> *Cc:* darktable-devel
> *Subject:* Re: [darktable-devel] Mask ideas
>
>
>
>
>
>
> 1. It's "near" impossible to create masks on rectangular objects or
> objects with straight lines
> Why not make two more mask tools. One for rectangular masks and one for
> straight line polygon masks?
> Then it would be easier to mask objects with straight lines and sharp
> corners like houses, architecture, car plates, signs and so on.
>
> Did you try to add curve points with ctrl key pressed ?
>
>
>
>
>
> that sort of comment might be a signe of a highly-used but hard to
> discover feature... I am not sure how to make it more visible (my guess
> would be to make a "square" tool that would be just like the curve tool but
> withe the effect of the ctrl key inverted. cheap trick but that's what a
> user would expect)
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