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When icon themes were added to Inkscape, it seemed like a great opportunity to provide a symbolic icon set for those people who prefer stark simplicity, while keeping the older, more colourful images for users who find it easier to distinguish between different icons if they’re not all similarly coloured. I fall into the latter category, so was disappointed when 1.1 presented me with a mixture of flat, symbolic icons alongside the colorful ones – replacing some of the old standards in the process. Unfortunately. version 1.2 continues in the same manner (top left)** | When icon themes were added to Inkscape, it seemed like a great opportunity to provide a symbolic icon set for those people who prefer stark simplicity, while keeping the older, more colourful images for users who find it easier to distinguish between different icons if they’re not all similarly coloured. I fall into the latter category, so was disappointed when 1.1 presented me with a mixture of flat, symbolic icons alongside the colorful ones – replacing some of the old standards in the process. Unfortunately. version 1.2 continues in the same manner (top left)** | ||
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+ | Après des mois d' | ||
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+ | Ce mois-ci, je vais jeter un coup d'œil à quelques-uns des changements les plus significatifs de l' | ||
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**As you can see, the system-level operations – loading, saving, printing, and clipboard – all appear as flat symbolic icons, while other tools and buttons get the more colourful icons of the past. This screenshot was taken with the ‘Hicolor’ theme selected (Edit > Preferences > Interface > Theming > Change icon theme), but a similar problem occurs with the ‘Tango’ theme. If you find yourself in a similar situation, then try switching to the ‘Use system icons’ option: on my Ubuntu Mate 20.04 box, this has allowed me to return to a consistently colorful set of icons in the toolbars (bottom left) | **As you can see, the system-level operations – loading, saving, printing, and clipboard – all appear as flat symbolic icons, while other tools and buttons get the more colourful icons of the past. This screenshot was taken with the ‘Hicolor’ theme selected (Edit > Preferences > Interface > Theming > Change icon theme), but a similar problem occurs with the ‘Tango’ theme. If you find yourself in a similar situation, then try switching to the ‘Use system icons’ option: on my Ubuntu Mate 20.04 box, this has allowed me to return to a consistently colorful set of icons in the toolbars (bottom left) | ||
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First of all are a group of toggle buttons that allow you to turn each of the individual drawing tool icons on and off in the main toolbox. This is great news for anyone on a small screen who wishes to slim down the number of icons to something that better fits the available space. It’s also useful as a means to hide infrequently used tools more generally – at last I can prevent that pesky 3D Box tool from taking up space, and I can hide the Pen and Calligraphy tools to stop me inadvertently clicking them when I meant to choose the Bézier tool. When hiding icons, make sure you know which tool is which, as they all share the same generic tooltip in this dialog. If you do choose to turn off some icons, those tools aren’t lost to you: you can still access them via their keyboard shortcuts. It’s a shame, however, that there’s not a shortcut to temporarily display all the icons, which would let you pare the toolbox down to the most commonly used features while still giving you an easy way to get to the less frequently used ones.** | First of all are a group of toggle buttons that allow you to turn each of the individual drawing tool icons on and off in the main toolbox. This is great news for anyone on a small screen who wishes to slim down the number of icons to something that better fits the available space. It’s also useful as a means to hide infrequently used tools more generally – at last I can prevent that pesky 3D Box tool from taking up space, and I can hide the Pen and Calligraphy tools to stop me inadvertently clicking them when I meant to choose the Bézier tool. When hiding icons, make sure you know which tool is which, as they all share the same generic tooltip in this dialog. If you do choose to turn off some icons, those tools aren’t lost to you: you can still access them via their keyboard shortcuts. It’s a shame, however, that there’s not a shortcut to temporarily display all the icons, which would let you pare the toolbox down to the most commonly used features while still giving you an easy way to get to the less frequently used ones.** | ||
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+ | Comme vous pouvez le constater, les opérations de niveau système - chargement, enregistrement, | ||
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**Below these toggles are separate sliders for adjusting the size of the Toolbox (the one on the left, with the tools in), and the Control bar (the two-row toolbar along the top of the window). Being able to adjust these independently is a nice touch. | **Below these toggles are separate sliders for adjusting the size of the Toolbox (the one on the left, with the tools in), and the Control bar (the two-row toolbar along the top of the window). Being able to adjust these independently is a nice touch. | ||
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The controls themselves are so unremarkable in appearance that I’ve had to include the window border and the end of the horizontal ruler in that screenshot, to help you orient yourself as to where these UI elements appear. The button on the left is a simple toggle to turn snapping on and off as a whole – the same effect as using the ‘%’ keyboard shortcut. To the right of that is a pop-up menu for choosing which options should apply when snapping is enabled, and it’s here that things get a little more interesting. Let’s look at this menu in its default, ‘Simple’ mode:** | The controls themselves are so unremarkable in appearance that I’ve had to include the window border and the end of the horizontal ruler in that screenshot, to help you orient yourself as to where these UI elements appear. The button on the left is a simple toggle to turn snapping on and off as a whole – the same effect as using the ‘%’ keyboard shortcut. To the right of that is a pop-up menu for choosing which options should apply when snapping is enabled, and it’s here that things get a little more interesting. Let’s look at this menu in its default, ‘Simple’ mode:** | ||
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+ | Sous ces boutons, des curseurs distincts permettent de régler la taille de la boîte à outils (celle qui se trouve à gauche, avec les outils) et de la barre de contrôle (la barre d' | ||
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+ | Enfin, il existe une commande permettant de basculer entre « Simple » et « Options avancées » pour la barre de contrôle du magnétisme (Snap) - mais ce n'est pas vraiment l' | ||
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+ | La barre des outils de magnétisme fait partie d' | ||
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+ | Les commandes elles-mêmes ont une apparence tellement banale que j'ai dû inclure la bordure de la fenêtre et l' | ||
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**First, we have a checkbox that duplicates the functionality of the snapping toggle, or the ‘%’ shortcut. Also having this option in the menu itself means one less mouse-click if you need to enable snapping and adjust the options at the same time. But the options you can modify are clearly somewhat limited: you can just turn various classes of snapping on and off – for snapping to bounding boxes, nodes, and ‘alignment’ – but you’re not given any details about which snap targets are actually enabled for each of those three entries. | **First, we have a checkbox that duplicates the functionality of the snapping toggle, or the ‘%’ shortcut. Also having this option in the menu itself means one less mouse-click if you need to enable snapping and adjust the options at the same time. But the options you can modify are clearly somewhat limited: you can just turn various classes of snapping on and off – for snapping to bounding boxes, nodes, and ‘alignment’ – but you’re not given any details about which snap targets are actually enabled for each of those three entries. | ||
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You’ve undoubtedly noticed the ‘Advanced Mode’ link at the bottom of the pop-up. Clicking that reveals something more like the snap controls bar from versions past (shown left), with many, many snapping options to choose from.** | You’ve undoubtedly noticed the ‘Advanced Mode’ link at the bottom of the pop-up. Clicking that reveals something more like the snap controls bar from versions past (shown left), with many, many snapping options to choose from.** | ||
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+ | Notez que les dimensions ne sont pas activées par défaut - en général, vous obtenez simplement les guides orange et rouge illustrés dans la capture d' | ||
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+ | Vous avez sans doute remarqué le lien « Mode avancé » en bas de la fenêtre contextuelle. Si vous cliquez sur ce lien, vous verrez apparaître une barre de contrôle du magnétisme qui ressemble davantage à celle des versions précédentes (illustrée à gauche), avec de très nombreuses options de magnétisme. | ||
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**I won’t describe all these options – most of them have been covered previously in this series. If you want complete control over what parts of your drawing should act as snap targets, then this is the place to come. And if you just want to return to the more straightforward (and limited) set of three toggle buttons, the ‘Reset to simple snapping mode’ link at the bottom of the pop-up will do that. | **I won’t describe all these options – most of them have been covered previously in this series. If you want complete control over what parts of your drawing should act as snap targets, then this is the place to come. And if you just want to return to the more straightforward (and limited) set of three toggle buttons, the ‘Reset to simple snapping mode’ link at the bottom of the pop-up will do that. | ||
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Simple mode also fails to offer options for snapping to ‘Grids’, | Simple mode also fails to offer options for snapping to ‘Grids’, | ||
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+ | Je ne vais pas décrire toutes ces options, la plupart d' | ||
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+ | Mais c'est là que se pose le premier de mes problèmes avec cette interface. En cliquant sur ce lien, vous ne revenez pas seulement à la vue simplifiée, | ||
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+ | Le mode simple n' | ||
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**I quite like the idea of a pop-up for snapping options. It’s certainly a lot clearer to have a title alongside each option, rather than the slow hover-for-a-tooltip that was often required over almost every option in the toolbar from earlier versions. But I feel a better UI would have been to make the sections in the advanced mode collapsible. That would allow users to reduce the list down to the main toggles for a simpler interface, but let them expand each section out for full control when needed. Here’s a quick mock-up of how it might appear in practice, with a couple of the sections expanded. | **I quite like the idea of a pop-up for snapping options. It’s certainly a lot clearer to have a title alongside each option, rather than the slow hover-for-a-tooltip that was often required over almost every option in the toolbar from earlier versions. But I feel a better UI would have been to make the sections in the advanced mode collapsible. That would allow users to reduce the list down to the main toggles for a simpler interface, but let them expand each section out for full control when needed. Here’s a quick mock-up of how it might appear in practice, with a couple of the sections expanded. | ||
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So, back to the conundrum of the ‘Snap controls bar’ option in Edit > Preferences > Interface > Toolbars. I’d pretty much ignore it, use the link at the bottom of the pop-up snap menu to enable advanced mode, and then leave things alone. But if you don’t like the new pop-up menu at all, it’s worth knowing that the option to switch back to an old-fashioned snap toolbar is probably coming in version 1.3 – at that time the setting in the preferences dialog will gain a third option to let you use the toolbar rather than the pop-up.** | So, back to the conundrum of the ‘Snap controls bar’ option in Edit > Preferences > Interface > Toolbars. I’d pretty much ignore it, use the link at the bottom of the pop-up snap menu to enable advanced mode, and then leave things alone. But if you don’t like the new pop-up menu at all, it’s worth knowing that the option to switch back to an old-fashioned snap toolbar is probably coming in version 1.3 – at that time the setting in the preferences dialog will gain a third option to let you use the toolbar rather than the pop-up.** | ||
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+ | Avec ce qui se trouve actuellement dans Inkscape 1.2, cependant, je ne peux vraiment pas recommander l' | ||
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+ | Revenons donc à l' | ||
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**While talking about snapping, it’s worth pointing out a few more snap-related changes that have taken place in 1.2. One relatively minor difference is that the snap settings are no longer stored as part of the document itself, but are stored globally for Inkscape as a whole. To be honest I doubt this change will really affect anyone in any practical way, and it makes sense to take that Inkscape-specific metadata out of the SVG file. | **While talking about snapping, it’s worth pointing out a few more snap-related changes that have taken place in 1.2. One relatively minor difference is that the snap settings are no longer stored as part of the document itself, but are stored globally for Inkscape as a whole. To be honest I doubt this change will really affect anyone in any practical way, and it makes sense to take that Inkscape-specific metadata out of the SVG file. | ||
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Next month, I’ll continue to look at – and offer an opinion on – some of the other UI changes that have taken place in the program with this release.** | Next month, I’ll continue to look at – and offer an opinion on – some of the other UI changes that have taken place in the program with this release.** | ||
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+ | En parlant de magnétisme, | ||
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+ | Une fonctionnalité moins connue qui a été supprimée est la possibilité de définir des tolérances de magnétisme pour certains types individuels de magnétisme. Elle se trouvait auparavant dans l' | ||
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+ | D'un point de vue positif, la suppression de cet onglet signifie également que deux types de cibles instantanées plutôt cachés ont été promus dans le menu contextuel. Auparavant, les options de magnétisme perpendiculaire et tangentiel se trouvaient dans les préférences du document, mais elles font désormais partie de la section « Nœuds » de la fenêtre contextuelle avancée. Cela ajoute une raison de plus pour n' | ||
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+ | Le mois prochain, je continuerai à examiner - et à donner mon avis sur - certains des autres changements de l' | ||
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