[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #8759: "Secondary menus" in Icon-O-Matic and WonderBrush should be changed or improved.
- From: "jstressman" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 03:11:39 -0000
#8759: "Secondary menus" in Icon-O-Matic and WonderBrush should be changed or
improved.
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Reporter: jstressman | Owner: stippi
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/Icon-O-Matic | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by jstressman):
OK, I have some new mockups ready. Unless otherwise noted, see
IOMrefactor1.png for the changes.
I refactored the layout to move each section into it's own little layout
box like many other apps/dialogs in Haiku have. I moved the menu for each
up into the main menu so that we again have a single menu to access with
ALT-ESC or whatever.
To compensate for the loss of proximity, we can now access the menu for
each section by right clicking in that section (right clicks currently
either do nothing at all, or just duplicate a left click in most parts of
the app). (See IOMrefactor1-addpath-popup.png,
IOMrefactor1-rightclickswatches.png)
As part of this menu change, Swatches is moved into the Style menu, as
it's a part of the Styles section functionally, and the Swatches menu
specifically can be accessed with a right click directly in the color well
(I'm not sure the Swatches functionality even works at all currently? It
certainly doesn't look or work like it does in WonderBrush, where I copied
the menu layout for it from.) (See IOMrefactor1-swatchesmenu.png,
IOMrefactor1-rightclickswatches.png)
I've moved the Shape section to the top left corner, as it is the "main"
list around which basically everything else revolves. Paths and Styles are
on either side of that, as generally when you click on a shape in the
list, you want to see which Path(s) or Style applies to it.
The icon previews were moved into the middle of the left, to keep them
near the main lists, but to no longer break the really important ones up.
Transformation and Properties are "grouped" in the lower left, and
constrained to smaller sizes, as Properties never grows above the height
its shown at contents-wise, and Transformations rarely ever has more than
an item or two, and can be scrolled if need be. This gives the main 3
lists more room to expand to list all their contents, namely the Shapes
and Paths lists. (The Style list only expands horizontally)
Another proposed enhancement is to add the ability to change the name of
any Style, Path, or Shape the exact same way we change file names in
Tracker. Two clicks in succession, or F2... this way the names can be
changed without having to click on one and then navigate to a totally
different section of the app to change it, and then go back to the section
you were in etc.
(See the Shape list in the upper left of IOMrefactor1-editshapename.png)
I think that about covers it... I'd be interested to know what other
Icon-O-Matic users think about these changes, having gotten a feel for the
existing layout?
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