Vector/Shape Selection

[Cyrille Berger]

Hi,

> I have commited a prototype of the new shape selection.
looks cool :)

> Boud and Thomas criticised that too many shape could get overwhelming
> and confuse the user.
yes especially for rectangles which are created inside the selection, I was a 
little bit surprised at first by them "appearing".

> Some other questions:
> Should the shape selection use KoPathShape only or should it be
> possible to use e.g. rectangle (for rounded corners) and circle
> shapes?
Well for me, the KoPathShape is enought, most of the time when I have a 
selection, I first create it with the "fill selection" tool or with the 
magnetic outline tool, and then I use the "paint on selection tool" to adjust 
localy the selection. I could imagine that with a path selection, I could 
just drag the border. *But*, I have seen quiet a few tutorials (for instance 
for creating buttons for web site) that starts by creating a selection, using 
the rectangle/elipse tool, so I guess that having the possibility to edit the 
rectangles/circles is a good idea.

> Should the shapes be in the global shape manger (which is at the
> moment layers only)?
> Should the shapes be visible inside the layerbox?
They should be visibles as a selection.

> Another idea: Is it usefull to have add and subtract shapes?
I think so.

And I have an other question:
How shapes selection are going to play with the pixel selections ? Are we 
going to have KisSelection be some sort of GroupLayer which can contains 
pixels layer and shapes layer ? Is the rectangle/circle tool allways going to 
manipulate shape selection ?

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Cyrille Berger