Hi Inge, thanks for the feedback! 2015-02-03 2:18 GMT+01:00 Inge Wallin <i...@lysator.liu.se>:
> The problem, as you say, right now is that the user can edit shapes but > then > has no easy way to get back to the default operation. The only way is to > go to > the toolbox and select the right tool, i.e. visual tab in the toolbox for > the > operation. This is very unituitive and we have actual bug reports that say > "I > can't get back to edit cells in Sheets after inserting a chart". > Yeah, this all is accounted for in the design, though it seems I haven't worded it well enough. 1. Single click in a shape selects that shape and activates the default > shape > tool where you can move, resize, scale and rotate the shape. > 2. Double click in a shape selects that shape and activates the shape > specific > tool. Examples would be the chart tool for chart shapes and path editing > for > path shapes. > I'm thinking that the single click would bring you right into mode 2, with mode 1 as an overlay, but that is very specific and can easily be adjusted once the basics are in. > 3. Click anywhere outside any shape when the default shape is active > unselects all shapes and returns to normal editor mode, which is specific > for > each application. > That's indeed the plan. > 4. <Escape> key deactivates the shape specific tool if one is active and > activates the default shape tool. (Some special tools may have internal > states > that use <escape> ending some user interaction. If so, then the user may > have > to press <escape> twice.) > Don't have this one included, but it'd be easy to add. > The good thing about this solution, as far as I can see, is that it would > mean > very small changes to flake and none to any shape. So this should be > possible > to get in before 2.9. We shouldn't be doing this now, but the current user > interaction problems are so horrible that I think we should make an > exception. > And this is especially since 3.0 will probably be quite unstable and buggy > and > should be regarded more like a tech preview than a real release. > > > There is one thing we would lose with this solution, though: rubber band > selection of shapes. If any click outside a shape leads automatically to > deselecting all shapes and reverting to the default tool for each > application > then we can't use drag operations to select shapes. > Is this a concern? I'm not really seeing this use case being very frequent, but it can easily be done too. / Tomas
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