I agree with all of your suggestions. I would assume that changes made in the dialog would update the stroke interactively and, hopefully, that the path could be reshaped while the dialog remained open. This would be very useful.
> I find myself doing Edit->Stroke pretty often, and there are a few easy > changes that I think would make it signficantly better. > > 1) The most important is that the dialog should not go away after the > Stroke button is pushed. It often takes several tries to get the > settings right, and it is very annoying to have to bring the dialog back > each time. The gain in usability would easily be worth the cost of an > extra button-click to close the dialog, in my opinion. > > 2) The default for "Dash preset" should be "Line" rather than "Custom". > This is just obviously wrong. Also, it shouldn't be called > "Dash preset", but rather "Line style", and the expander should be named > something different, such as "Stroke settings". > > 3) The "Dash preset" (or whatever it is called) control is by far the most > important in the expander, and should be at the top. In fact, I think it > should be out of the expander, since a user *always* wants to know what > type of line will be rendered. > > These changes would take me less than an hour to implement, I believe, > and I would like to do it. > > -- Bill _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
