On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Andrew Chadwick <a.t.chadw...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On 21/07/11 05:17, David Gowers (kampu) wrote: > > I've just tried this feature out, and I'm totally in love with it! > > Esp. the visualization of viewport extents/rotation in the 'main' > > segment :) A few suggestions: > > > > * Does the 'viewport outline' adjust to the overall canvas color? If > > not, I suggest switching from cyan/white to black/cyan to ensure > > visibility. > > I'm tempted to use the GTK "base" (text field) highlight colours too :/ > > Paint Tool Sai (I think), and maybe Photoshop seem to use a red/magenta > striped rectangle with no border in their overview widgets. I tried it, > but that doesn't look so good with our arrow (those programs don't draw > arrowheads on their "this way up" line). > > Speaking of arrows, I'd love some suggestions about how to show > mirroring with this thing. > Only thing that occurs to me is the filling of the arrow: If you divide the arrow inside into 4 quadrants, and number them left->right, top->bottom 1,2,3,4: all filled: no flipping 2,4 empty: horizontally mirrored 3,4 empty: vertically mirrored 2,3,4 empty: h+v mirrored. (might require a chunkier arrow shape, like _-_ - - / \ /_____\ (ASCII forgive me, for I have sinned;) > > * IMO highlighting the viewport on the main segment is unnecessary > > (and a bit annoying). Highlighting on viewports other than main is > > all that's needed to make the necessary distinction. > > There's no artificial distinction between "main" and other - users get > to decide how they want to divide up space and whether they want the > main one on the left or on the right (or top, or bottom). We do need to > show which is current however, since that's the viewport that rotation, > mirroring and whatever commands apply to. > Yes, yes there is such a distinction! The main one is the one the menus are attached to! (Sure, you can invoke the menus anywhere, but only using the Menu key) > > Perhaps the current-viewport frame outline should be a bit more subtle. > Oh, also.. what is the fullscreen behaviour supposed to be? Is this defined? (IMO fullscreening just the current panel is appropriate) > [* Also, being able to specify default viewport setup (via a > > 'template' ORA file) would be pretty helpful.] > > It's possible to save a single default viewport setup to the prefs at > the moment. It gets recreated when you start MyPaint up or invoke File→New. > Ah, great.
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