User interface issues

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, C. Boemann wrote:
> 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??

Well, only in a very superficial sense -- they cannot, for instance, be selected by the default tool already, because that would be confusing.

> Or in fact any shape that has more than one tool to edit the content

I'd show the handles by default on hover, until the first click inside, for all movable shapes. So the main text shape in words wouldn't show the handles.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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