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Re: Plan B for layer names

 

Hi Wayne,
could you please elaborate a little more on the composite widget? En
example would be great. I'll think about the color overload and white
text.
cheers
Fabrizio

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Wayne Stambaugh
<stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 4/15/2013 12:17 PM, Fabrizio Tappero wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>> In attachment an other possible implementation, in my opinion the best
>> one.
>>
>> Regards
>> Fabrizio
>>
>
> This implementation is a little busy (think color overload) for my tastes.
> I would rather see a composite widget for selecting the color and enabling
> the layer assuming it could be done in a way that it's function was obvious
> the to user.  Also, on some of the lighter colors the white text does not
> show up very well.  That being said, a more fundamental question, is the
> amount of work required to save the width of one check box worth the effort?
> There is already way to hide the layer manager for low resolution devices
> where space is a premium. Assigning an accelerator key to it would probably
> make it more useful. You would probably save more space if you provided a
> set of 16 pixel button images for the toolbars or use a custom theme with
> smaller control designs.  This is very much an issue with some of the GTK+
> controls on Linux.  Also please keep in mind that the decision not to
> support low resolution devices was made a long time ago.  I don't see that
> policy changing any time soon.
>
> Wayne
>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Fabrizio Tappero
>> <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> Colours on the standard controls are system-defined (depends on what wx
>>>> is running on); the colour swatch button or the little arrow beside the
>>>> layer name is handled by us so (with some work) we could conceivably add
>>>> some extra UI functionality here.
>>>
>>>
>>> Maybe change the checkbox colour isn't a good idea because it will
>>> lower usability in the sense that people might not see any more that
>>> it is a checkbox. Proposal 3 and proposal 4 can achieve the same thing
>>> and be even better. The current blue arrow is a little strange, a
>>> black border will be probably better.
>>>
>>>> A thing I don't like with the current arrangement is having to use the
>>>> third button to change layer colour (good luck with laptops...) when it
>>>> can be usefully done in this way:
>>>> - Click on the button: change color
>>>> - Click on the layer name: change layer
>>>
>>>
>>> hum, don't know, this way will be pretty hard for people to guess the
>>> functionality. the current middle button click functionality is also
>>> quite hidden (but I like it). Maybe a simple "right click - change
>>> layer color" is easier. Alternatively we can put and edit link at the
>>> bottom of the layer panel. Edit button would maybe also difficult to
>>> guess, or maybe not.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> I think the layer name is sufficiently big as a target to click to
>>>> change layer :D also the whole 3D border for the button is not needed
>>>> for the colour swatch, a simple flat border would suffice (thing about
>>>> the GIMP color indicator)
>>>
>>>
>>> completely agree, as long as the is a white border when not selected.
>>>
>>>
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