thomaso Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I'd like to understand the concept behind the two types of panes (parameter/option windows, palettes, tabs). Some of them can be arranged snapping, others can't, but have the mac-like buttons in the upper left corner to enlarge, minimize or close them and those have a close button, too. Pure, real, tabbed panes: Transform, Color, Swatches, Line, Brushes, Styles, Effects Mac-like windows: Character, Paragraphs, Layer Effects Especially "Effects" appears irritating to me since it is implemented twice: as pane/palette/tab and as window, too. Is there any use/advantage I didn't understand yet for the GUI of the Character and Paragraph windows? Or could they be panes/palettes, too? Furthermore there are features which don't have parameters and they are arranged all together in one window, the "Toolbar". When clicking one of them it results in an immediate action and alteration of page objects, like functions, algorythms. – Whereas the tools are in "Tools", not in "Toolbar". – Could the "Toolbar" functions be panes/palettes/tabs like the others? Last but not least there is one area (without name?): the context sensitive multi-functional but tiny bar below the "Toolbar". In this area I can click to open almost all the windows and panes mentioned above. I'd appreciate to understand the thoughts behind this 'supermarket of windows' – or to see the offer slimmed for easer use with less flickering on screen. If various hardware (screen sizes) is the reason for this massive windows offer, why not offer just one more pre-selecting choice, for instance "Monitors", "Laptop", "Phone". Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Yeah, why not classify the Mac-like windows, as thomaso puts it, as panels, too? Maybe with an optional 2nd row of panels on the right side of the screen. Also, I think that there could be even more context dependent parameters shown in the context sensitive area below the toolbar, things like x/y parameters, rotation value, remove buttons for each of the two node handles like in FreeHand, you name it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff TonyB Posted August 2, 2014 Staff Share Posted August 2, 2014 We plan on doing more work on the Character and Paragraph panels and they will probably end up as drop down panels from the Text context bar but also available as normal tabbed panels so that you can dock or float them. The full Layer Effects is just too big to be only a tabbed panel. The idea is that the most common Layer Effects settings are in tabbed panel but when to need more control you bring up the full Window. This works well for me so I'm hesitant to change it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthias Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Drop down panels sound good to me, Tony. After all, the implementation in Designer is already really good already. As you are still hardly working on so many little parts of the application in this late stage of development I can’t wait how great Designer will come out as an 1.0 version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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