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Layout Mode comments: (July 28, 07)
Overall:
Lets copy inkscape's UI as much as is reasonable. BUT: remember, we are
annotating plots, not making icons!
-in layout mode, we need a toolbar to select the various tools.
Handles:
-need mouseover feedback on handles (inkscape changes colours)
-need feedback on potential selection. Inkscape uses mouse feedback,
but since most objects will over a plot, this is mostly useless. I think
showing ghost handles would be better.
-Handle dimensions should be fixed and should not depend on window/object/
parent size.
(It could be cool to have the size fixed relative to the screen size.)
-Handles should lie outside the object so that they are accesible with 0
size objects (eg, horizontal line).
-Handles need to have some indication what they are/do (like inkscape).
-to get to rotate mode, you have to click twice, which is too much like
a double click (which calls up the properties dialog). So, get rid
of double click to properties dialog. Instead get it from the rmb or
from button 2.
-On resize, you should be able flip through zero to mirror the object.
This is especially important for lines.
-Sometimes clicking on an object does not bring up the handles.
Is this a bug, or just a different mode?
Line Properties:
-By default, line properties should depend on the size (width + height) of
the page/TopLevelView/Window and should not depend on the aspect ratio of
the object, or its parent or the TLV. This includes:
-line widths
-dash dimensions
-arrow dimensions
-Ends of wide lines - (should be always perpendicular to line)
so,
-resizing an object and not the window should not change its line
widths. NOTE: this is not the same behavior as inkscape.
-The vertical and horizontal lines of a box should always be equal
regardless of any resizing.
-For 2.x, we should consider a per-object option to allow the line properties
to be a function of the parent size, rather than the TLV size.
-Line property units should be 'points, if printed to US Letter'
Aspect ratio
-All objects except lines should have a 'preserve aspect ratio' option.
-Fonts and Pictures should default to having this set.
-All others should default to this unset.
-When it is set, changing the aspect ratio of the object's parent or TLV will
not change the aspect ratio of the objects
-When it is set, moving the grab boxes should uniformly scale the object
(but not Line Properties).
-When it is set, rotations need to be in display space, to preserve
relative angle.
SO:
-rectangles stay rectangles
-fonts don't get distorted
-When it is not set, rotations are in the (0-1, 0-1) space, so objects
will only preserve their apparent aspect ratio if the TLV is square.
Object Specific changes:
Labels:
-To create a lable, click to location, which pops up the dialog (same as 1.4)
Apply/OK on dialog draws the label. In the first instance, we don't need
to support in-place text editing.
Dialogs:
-Inkscape uses multiple dialogs to edit different properties of an object.
We should not. Use tabbed dialogs instead.
-They need to support everything the 1.4 dialogs support.
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