-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Xournal-devel] low-hanging fruit for 0.4.8 release? Date: 2014-03-22 13:19 From: romanoc...@rgtti.com To: Denis Auroux <aur...@math.berkeley.edu>
On 2014-03-22 00:27, Denis Auroux wrote: > On 03/21/2014 10:14 PM, romanoc...@rgtti.com wrote: >> And while a it, a pony^H^H^H^H possibility to select from which set of >> layer you copy, and when pasting the ability to paste in the same >> layers >> as the origin, or a flattened version in the current layer. > > That gets quite complicated. Being able to select across layers would > be nice but I don't know how to keep the UI simple and intuitive. Yes, you're right --- I understand is probably much more a long term thing. Let me post my idea to the list so that it is stored for the future... We could leverage the xfig interace --- and now I'm showing my age. See http://imgur.com/5MfG7in ; when there is a new layer a new checkbox appears. It has three states; blue is "active" --- visible and involved in copy/cut and paste. gray is half-active, meaning that is grayed out but is involved in copy operation. Red is invisible and not involved in anything. (*) Drawing is in the layer selected as ever. Copying is from blue and gray layer Pasting is in the selected writing layer unless no state is in blue state. In that case, paste is in the original layers, without collapsing. (*) Bg is special, the checkbox control olny visibility. Or even do not put BG checkbox and let it just visible everytime. It is easy to grasp and intuitive, apart from the multilayer paste, but this is I suppose is a more rare situation and it is ok to have a more complex way to go at it. By the way, drawing this thing I discovered (again) one of the thing I really miss in xournal: a normal shape interface, that would let me draw filled and not-filled rectangles, circles, and triangles. I understand the current interface is an interesting idea, but to make a rectangle I have to try three times with the wacom tablet, and I do not know how to fill it. If I am using the mouse, forget it. My success with circle is 1 on 8 --- showing again my age, I know. Thank you a lot for bearing with me! Romano ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/13534_NeoTech _______________________________________________ Xournal-devel mailing list Xournal-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xournal-devel
