node conversion gui

[Boudewijn Rempt]

On Friday 22 July 2011 Jul, Dmitry Kazakov wrote:
> Just some ideas.
> 
> * replace the drop-down button for creating layers and masks with a row of
> > buttons in the layerbox (this also solves the very fiddly layer creation
> > with a stylus we have). It adds another row of buttons, but we can affort
> > that, I guess.
> >
> 
> Yes, but drop targets should be quite big, to make the work easy. We can use
> three buttons only: Selection Mask, Effect Mask,  Layer. The rest may be
> chosen by a big (easy accessible) pop-up menu.

But that makes it harder to drop masks on layers -- to create layers from masks, which I also want to support. So I think I'll go with buttons for all node types. I wonder how hard it would be to have a kind of dynamic zoom of the buttons to make the drop target easier...

> 
> 
> > * make the buttons drop targets for nodes from the layerbox
> >
> > * when a node is dropped on a button, popup a dialog asking for the
> > relevant options -- perhaps also with the option to remove the original
> > node.
> >
> 
> We can use the way Dolphin works when drag-and-dropping files. The action
> (Move/Copy) is defined by the modifier pressed (Shift/Ctrl). But if you
> forgot to press the Modifier, the popup menu is shown (with the item, for
> exiting). We could use the same modifiers as dolphin even: Shift == Move ==
> delete the source layer.

Good point.

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