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While I'm not the most sensitive guy, I can honestly say that I'm removing sensitivity from Inkscape. I finally finished some code to make it so that verbs can be marked sensitive or not on a global or document basis. This makes it so that we can finally make unavailable menu items that are impossible in a given state.

"Previous Effect" is a good example of this as you can't have a previous effect if you've never run one. I realize that this isn't a new GUI feature by any stretch of the imagination, but it now works in Inkscape too!

This is part of my global plan to make Effects insensitive when there isn't anything selected that they can work on. So if an effect only works on paths, and you don't have one selected, it would be insensitive. Hopefully this will help users understand when an Effect might not work instead of having nothing happen.

posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2005 at 01:23 | permanent link

You should download Inkscape 0.42 pre3 and test, test, test. There is a good chance that this will be the last prerelease of Inkscape 0.42, so it is very important that any release critical bugs are found. If you find one, you can report Inkscape bugs here. If you use binaries, more will be available as packagers start to make them, check back.

posted on Fri, 22 Jul 2005 at 01:15 | permanent link