Usability: Trace Bitmap and disabling fields
Bug #818639 reported by
Reijo Tomperi
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inkscape |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Path -> Trace Bitmap opens a very confusing window. I have no idea what fields have effect to the selected tracing mode.
Solution: Disable fields that are not used by the selected trace mode. I'm not usability expert so I don't know if this is the best solution, but I think that it would be a lot better than current system where I have absolutely no idea does e.g. "Colors" have effect when I select "Colors" mode.
| Changed in inkscape: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
| tags: | added: ui |
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| Kris (kris-degussem) wrote | #1 |
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The dialog can indeed be made a bit more dynamic and hence user friendly.
Just my first idea:
- one tickbox / drop down menu to choose between single and multiple scans
- the same three radiobuttons are present
- at the bottom of the dialog, two lines of tickboxes, the first one being the tickboxes that exist now and the second line is the moved "SIOX foreground selection tickbox"
- but only one dynamically altered drop down menu for the settings of the selected radiobutton option
For the right part:
- it would be more intuitive to have the stop and OK buttons below the left part of the UI (because here you set the things that you want to do)
- so only the preview window at the right side of the dialog