Inkscape

Bug #246471
Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 246471

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Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka) wrote on 2008-07-09:

I am no one to question the development of the system nor the developer's chosen direction.

This bug is a purely selfish one. I cannot with ease shift the values in a manner that I used to. I find the sliders quite a bit slower than the original 'pop in the value and draw'.

I change my values an awful lot while drawing, and I am often flipping between known values.

That said, I'm willing to try anything to see if I can make it work.

Matching a width with an on-canvas width adjustment would probably work wonderfully for the width.

The drag is a much more fussy one, and I simply wish I could adjust the granularity on the slider so that I can hit every value. I _do_ appreciate the ability to slide from 1-100. That is absolutely terrific. The only unfortunate thing that I have had is that the sliders greatly adjusted the workflow -- which is in part the a byproduct of evolution. My workflow is extremely fast at this point as I have done a lot of work with Inkscape. Unfortunately, I find it frustrating trying to pop that slider around to get to x.2 or y.7 -- as I am never in the whole number values. I apologize in advance for my fussy silly business, but alas, that is how I have come to work within Inkscape.

I also cannot zoom in as I have set my prefs to a fixed value and further, the blurring I use generally would greatly break up the speed at which I used to operate.

The best of what I could hope for is that someone might be able to get to _every_ value on that slider. If we can do that from a single view without zooming, I would be dearly content. The rest I can work on integration into the workflow.

Is it possible then to have 1) all values accessed via slider (hotkey to get greater granularity maybe?) _and_ even better in conjunction with that, 2) the ability to bookmark a settings batch to a preset selector or two or three?

Great work bbyak. Don't read this as a criticism but more an attempt to flow with the evolution. Thanks again. Your work is greatly appreciated, especially the love you give to the Calligraphy / Freehand tool.

I am no one to question the development of the system nor the developer's chosen direction.

This bug is a purely selfish one.  I cannot with ease shift the values in a manner that I used to.  I find the sliders quite a bit slower than the original 'pop in the value and draw'.

I change my values an awful lot while drawing, and I am often flipping between known values.

That said, I'm willing to try anything to see if I can make it work.

Matching a width with an on-canvas width adjustment would probably work wonderfully for the width.

The drag is a much more fussy one, and I simply wish I could adjust the granularity on the slider so that I can hit every value.  I _do_ appreciate the ability to slide from 1-100.  That is absolutely terrific.  The only unfortunate thing that I have had is that the sliders greatly adjusted the workflow -- which is in part the a byproduct of evolution.  My workflow is extremely fast at this point as I have done a lot of work with Inkscape.  Unfortunately, I find it frustrating trying to pop that slider around to get to x.2 or y.7 -- as I am never in the whole number values.  I apologize in advance for my fussy silly business, but alas, that is how I have come to work within Inkscape.

I also cannot zoom in as I have set my prefs to a fixed value and further, the blurring I use generally would greatly break up the speed at which I used to operate.

The best of what I could hope for is that someone might be able to get to _every_ value on that slider.  If we can do that from a single view without zooming, I would be dearly content.  The rest I can work on integration into the workflow.

Great work bbyak.  Don't read this as a criticism but more an attempt to flow with the evolution.  Thanks again.  Your work is greatly appreciated, especially the love you give to the Calligraphy / Freehand tool.