UI suggestion: make grid behind shapes

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Tue Dec 20 09:04:13 GMT 2011


On Tuesday 20 December 2011 Dec, Yue Liu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I investigated a set of commercial diagramming applications and found
> they put grid behind shapes, while currently we're doing the opposite.
> The advantage of making grid behind shapes is the user will have a
> better impression to the shapes they are manipulating, while this may
> cause trouble to creative apps like Karbon and Krita where grid on top
> of shape is needed for tweaking overlap of two shapes, so I suggest
> paint grid before shapes in kopageapp and words while keep the current
> strategy in Karbon and Krita.
> 
> What do you think about this idea?

Well -- the current grid already shows on top of the shapes, doesn't it? At least in Karbon.

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Boudewijn Rempt
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