GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 309740
"style" dialog element in stroke-path dialog ambiguous
Last modified: 2006-10-01 11:01:24 UTC
The problem is, that the user can't realize what pattern he actually chooses. Is it the dash pattern or the selected pattern from the patterns dialog? Show the currently selected pattern from the pattern dialog. Other information:
So you want us to turn this little one-liner: box = gimp_prop_enum_radio_box_new (G_OBJECT (editor->options), "style", 0, 0); into a lot more code ;)
I've played with this a bit and my conclusion is that if I add a pattern preview, we also need a color preview. And actually we would want to use a color button so that the color can be edited and a pattern button with a text entry next to it so that the pattern can be changed as well. Doing this clutters the dialog quite a bit. And this dialog is already rather uneasy to look at. My suggestion to remove the ambiguousity is to add tooltips to the "Solid" and "Pattern" radio buttons (or rather to the enum values which will cause the tooltip to be added automatically).
err, the last comment was slightly wrong. Tooltips would have to be added manually. Perhaps we can also get away by just rephrasing the strings?
2006-09-11 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * app/core/core-enums.[ch]: use "Solid color" as description for GIMP_STROKE_STYLE_SOLID. * app/widgets/gimpstrokeeditor.c: moved "style" control further up to make it less ambiguous (bug #309740).
2006-10-01 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> * app/widgets/gimpstrokeeditor.c (gimp_stroke_editor_constructor): fix dialog layout (bug #309740).