GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 169799
Path Tool improvements
Last modified: 2018-05-24 11:28:32 UTC
For this tool to be used with maximum ease, paths should be rendered on the fly, and they should have individual options for width, color, etc. (basically, everything that's in the Stroke Path dialog). The path layers should be moved to the normal layers dialog. I believe these ideas have already been lanuched. I would like the ability to: * Join two paths * Split selected points (or selected subpath, if it's easier) into a new path * Select points by dragging a box around them * Select a whole sub-path Other information:
That's not a very helpful bug report because it deals with a number of different and unrelated changes. Individual bug reports should have been opened for these. But let's just ignore the top paragraph (which is already handled in bug #68915).
Sorry, I thought I'd lump a bunch of improvements to the same tool in one bug. And yeah, the first paragraph is basically "this would have to be implemented first".
Lumped suggestions are hard to deal with because Bugzilla doesn't give any simple way to mark progress on them: a bug report is either RESOLVED or not-RESOLVED. Even after (say) four of the six things have been done, a developer still has to read the whole bug report and all the comments in order to understand the current state -- it gets too complicated. By the way, the first part doesn't have to be implemented first, although it might turn out to be. The second part requires much less new machinery.
Ah, fair enough. Should I commit a new bug for each of those things? And, neat! The sooner things can be implemented, the better. :)
No, it's okay, I was just explaining. Also, we are a volunteer project, with only a few people actively writing code, and there are loads of important things waiting to be implemented. So, if you want things done soon, let your programmer friends know that we need more programmers.
Thanks, my first bug commit ever, so. If I had a means by which to fund someone to do things like that, and some money to fund them with, I would. As it is, I will spread the word :)
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