a mockup i did for some features i wanted us to have in the new revamped gradient editor mike was developing. at the end we didnt incoporate all the features above but am hoping someone will did in the near future.
As requested by Martin Owens here: http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/34734828/ Currently, either possible by multi-difference extension or by duplicating topmost object and repeating, which can be annoying... Combining can easily be chained afterwards or before, if you want a combination. As it's destructive, it would be nice to leave that out of the 'multi' process and let the user decide. Possible to do the same for the remaining two-paths-only operations.
one of the last proposals I made for the new gradient editor * the button "extract" with the color picker in it is a feature I imagined as following: you import a bitmap image to Inkscape then select it and click on the button so Inkscape will extract a color palette from the image and present them as color stops of a gradient.
Here is a UI flow diagram of the proposed Style and CSS dialogs. These are just my initial thoughts, and some questions that came to mind when figuring out the flow.
proposal for a horizontal list of stops in the new gradient editor to save space in the dialog.
i proposed this to save space, make it familiar and retain the extra special functions Inkscape has over other vector tools. for the pattern, we could do this and display a default pattern or if it's possible we could show the actual pattern used in the shape.
my proposal for a draggable list of color stops in the new gradient editor.
I recently found Martin Owen's brilliant 'On Canvas Alignment' proposal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wk_wf1heHF4 It's a great idea but suffers from some issues, e.g. visual clutter and focus on alignment points rather than lines. I took his idea and did some thinking of my own.
This is a UI flow diagram of the new proposed behaviour of Stroke to Path. This document also contains Use case testing steps and results. Please download this svg to view it properly in Inkscape. Any additional use cases, please email them to me and I'll add them in. Thanks. -C
I proposed this as a more familiar and intuitive node workflow compared to the current filter editor one
cursors i designed for the new gradient editor to ease its discoverability
After apply deconstruct, same visual
This is a mockup of an interactive alignment preview.