Comment 3 for bug 1645034

pointless response. Thanks for nothing.

On Sat, Dec 17, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Brynn <email address hidden> wrote:

> I can't help, since I'm not a developer. But we have seen a lot of
> issues when using Inkscape with multiple monitor setups. I'm sure you
> could learn a lot more by searching bug reports about it.
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> Title:
> UI is completely askew
>
> Status in Inkscape:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> First use and I am not impressed.
> I noted the bug about dialogs appearing on the other monitor. They also
> don't take cues about the size of the monitor before drawing so can have
> their top and bottom off the screen.
>
> But the dialogs don't obey even their default preferences. I just open
> the 'preference' dialog, at the bottom of the edit menu (wrong
> location) but there seems to be an option to remember size and
> location, always default to the wrong selection; big and remember
> where you were last time? Every time I started inkspace the print
> dialog was there, making the program unusable as I couldn't get the
> dialog to close! until I unplugged a monitor. Start simple, not the
> last programmer's defaults.
>
> I realize it's a drawing application and many user will have two
> monitors but they may not be the same size. You need to query the
> screen for it's size before drawing dialogs. If a dialog is so busy it
> wont fit top to bottom on a fairly standard laptop screen the dialog
> is too busy, to many things in it. Did no one read the Apple UI
> guidelines from the late 90's? It's quite instructive about good UI
> design.
>
> Also when a new application opens and an inkspace menu is open, it
> should not appear above the new application. The menu is attached to
> the inkspace window only, like every other application. In fact every
> other application closes the menu when the their application is sent
> back behind another application.
>
> So far, just getting by the cluttered UI, I've had nothing to say in
> praise of Inkspace. I want to make a colored four point star and I'm
> two hours into trying to get the UI to behave properly. Gimp 1.5 was
> better than this and their UI was pretty screwy too.
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