User interface issues

Elvis Stansvik elvstone at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 14:18:48 BST 2011


2011/8/12 C. Boemann <cbo at boemann.dk>:
> On Friday 12 August 2011 15:08:51 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
>> > On Friday 12 August 2011, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
>> > > For the text shape, in Stage and Words, no matter which tool is
>> > > selected, clicking inside the shape should activate the text tool
>> > > without any extra click (and show, for movable text shapes) a big
>> > > border indicating where to click to move.
>> >
>> > A suggestion also would be to do like for plasma widgets, and when the
>> > user overlay a shape, it shows the border, if he clicks on the handles,
>> > he would start moving/rotating/scaling the shape, and outside of the
>> > handles, he would be editing the content. Also we could show at that
>> > point, next to the shape, the list of tools that he can choose to edit
>> > the shape. (post 2.4 idea, though).
>>
>> Yes, that would be beautiful. It wouldn't even be terribly difficult to
>> implement, I am fairly sure of that.
> I like it too, but am a bit curious how it would work with for example all of
> kritas tools. To be precise the layers of krita are shapes right.. so the
> would pop up handles too??
>
> Or in fact any shape that has more than one tool to edit the content

If the above concerns can be solved, I'm all +1 for this idea as well.

Elvis



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