Some issues with the polyline and polygon tools

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Saturday 19 March 2005 23:34, Michael Thaler wrote:
> On Saturday 19 March 2005 20:17, Casper Boemann wrote:
> > Why have two so similar tools, or is this just temporary ?
> >
> > I prefer polyline's open ended nature. Couldn't we just make it a
> > ctrl+click option to close it - or something like that.
>
> That would be one possibility. However, in prinicple it would be nice if
> Krita could also draw filled polygons and there is nothing like that for a
> polyline.
>

Good point: this ties in, however, with the toolbox discussion of a while ago. 
I haven't had time to pursue that much, but that's the design I'd like to 
have evenntually.

> Is it possible to have two icons for one tool? 

Sure, just create two actions.

> I imagine that from a 
> usability point of view it is a good idea to have a polyline tool icon and
> a polygon tool icon and not only one that has an option to close the
> polyline (from a coding point of view having an option to close the
> polylines or not is of course trivial). So if there would be two icons that
> call the same tool, in polyline mode or polygon mode, this would solve the
> problem.

Sounds like a good plan.

-- 
Boudewijn Rempt 
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