UI Redesign - Tool Options Window : Creation Tools

[hulf2012]

Thanks for answering:

@Genete

@hulf2012

On Synfig, I don’t see the visual difference between feather and bluring. If some one could explain these, then It may be neccesary that differentiation.

Feather never place or modify pixels outside the shape boundaries meanwhile blur is normally 50% inside and 50% outside. Oddly in Synfig, feather is behaving like blur.
-G

In which document says that (about the definition of feather and blur)?

I know it’s not an official document, or it would change but according to wikipedia:“Feathering is a technique used in computer graphics software to smooth or blur the edges of a feature.”
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feathering

It seems to me, that feather it’s just a kind of blurring. And you say that featyher in Synfig is behaving like a blur. Also I see some difference between bluring in Inkscape, and Feathering In Synfig. In Synfig the border of a “feathered” geometry seems to “bright” the nearest regions.

Maybe We are a bit off-topic about UI Redesign?

[jcome]

New Changes:

• Add detailed UI layout
• Make UI a little bit compact
• Add some more descriptions

please ref to the image in first post.

[KonstantinDmitriev]

@jcome

2. where do yu (oups… very bad humor) plan to move “defaut interpolation” ? in the toolbar ?

How about placing it to Time Track Panel (and Keyframe Panel)? Currently, The Default Interpolation widget in Toolbox is for waypoint only, it doesn’t affect keyframe generation.

I absolutely agree with this. It’s best to place default interpolation near other animation-related parameters. Maybe somewhere near the “Enable Animation Mode” button.

@rylleman

Do we need the old sketch tool now when we have proper brushes? The functionality is somewhat different but there is better ways* to archive this and it is confusing to new users to have a pen that you actually can’t use in your animations.

• Annotation tools. I use Gromit MPX to get this across my whole desktop and not just on canvas. There is also good tools in Compiz and KDE for this.

I prefer to keep this tool in Synfig for now. Some people don’t want to waste time for installing/configuring additional desktop tools.
Although, I agree, that different icon for Sketch Tool could help to avoid confusions.