change and mark hot spot of mouse pointer icons

[Nikolaus Filus]

Some of the editing tools have usability issues as the effect position is hard to predict and must be corrected afterwards.
- freehand line: OK, hot spot is at end of pen
- marker: OK, wide effect matches symbol and can be centered by the hair cross
- straight line: NOT OK, symbol is bottom-left to top-right, while hot spot is in the bottom-right corner
- arrow: OK, hot spot matches the end of the arrow
- rectangle: NOT OK, hot spot is in the bottom-right corner while in the LTR-world top-left would be assumed. 1 corner in the symbol could be marked with a red spot or something like this
- ellipse: NOT OK, same as rectangle
- text: NOT OK, HORRIBLE, hot spot at the end of the string needs placement correction in every case
- censor: NOT OK, hot spot in the bottom-right corner. optimal hot spot is in the middle of the current symbol
- numbering: NOT OK, same as censor tool
- crop: OK

total: 4 OK, 6 NOT OK

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Thank you very much for your detailed bug report, Nikolaus.

I think this improvement fits perfectly to our usability release (0.85).

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

I was also annoyed by the cursor icons, so I've started to work on this during the last days.

There is a new testing-version of Shutter available in our Testing-PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~shutter-testing-team/+archive/ppa

You might want to have a look at it. Most of the new cursors are based on/taken from the inkscape project and they seem to be very handy.

What do you guys think?

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

The "incremental shape" tool is still quite confusing but the other ones are pretty cool.

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

The "incremental shape" tool itself or the cursor?

[Michael Kogan (michael-kogan)]

The cursor, of course. It's centred on one of the corners and the shape appears not in the center of the cursor. It's good for resizing but bad for placing...

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Am Mittwoch, den 22.07.2009, 11:54 +0000 schrieb Photon:
> The cursor, of course. It's centred on one of the corners and the
> shape
> appears not in the center of the cursor. It's good for resizing but
> bad
> for placing...

Placing the tags centered would solve the problem? Would this apply to
the text tool as well?

What do the others think?

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Some things are changed in the latest development version 0.85 (will be
released in the next days). Please reopen this bug if necessary.

[Nikolaus Filus (nfilus)]

Hello,
thanks for the fantastic work in 0.85~ppa4. I'm free to reopen the request to ask for fixing the 2 remaining edit tools:
- text: hot spot should mark the beginning of text (center-left for LTR-languages)
- numbering tool: hot spot should mark center of the circle

Sorry for the complaints :)

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

new testing version shutter - 0.85~ppa5 is available:
https://launchpad.net/~shutter-testing-team/+archive/ppa

[Nikolaus Filus (nfilus)]

The attached picture shows everything :)
One last request: how hard would it be to
a) open the Text Entry dialog before placing the box or
b) add the object in "active enter" mode (cursor waiting for input)?

[Mario Kemper (Romario) (mario-kemper)]

Thanks!

Answer to the question:
a) not very hard
b) harder than a)

;-)

This will be implemented in the next version of Shutter ( I don't know if a) or b) ):
https://bugs.launchpad.net/shutter/+bug/482791