User interface issues

[Cyrille Berger Skott]

On Friday 12 August 2011, C. Boemann wrote:
> On Friday 12 August 2011 15:08:51 Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > On Friday 12 August 2011 Aug, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> > > 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 krita's layers and words's "background/page" text should most likely be 
excluded from this system, they work differently, and I don't think any user 
perceive them as being a "shape", no matter what the underlying libraries 
think.

> Or in fact any shape that has more than one tool to edit the content
I don't see how this is a problem ?

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Cyrille Berger Skott