[etoys-dev] [etoys-notify] [JIRA] Updated: (SQ-1004) Brush size 1 is missing in PaintBox

[Bert Freudenberg]

On 13.01.2012, at 17:00, K. K. Subramaniam wrote:

> On Friday 13 Jan 2012 3:12:08 PM Scott Wallace (JIRA) wrote:
> 
>> Adds a preference, "singlePixelNib", governing whether the smallest
>> brush-size icon in a PaintBoxMorph should represent a one-pixel-wide or a
>> three-pixel-wide nib.  For the XO this preference should be set to false,
>> so that the three-pixel-nib minimum remains enforced; probably for other
>> platforms it should be set to true.  Thanks to Bert and Subbu :)
> I suspect the issue is much more deeper than just nib-size in PBM :-(. When a 
> 1-pix lines are created on desktop and edited on XO, the resulting sketch may 
> end up with both 1-pix and 3-pix lines creating confusion.
> 
> In any case, I would prefer to use an XOMode preference which then influences 
> the whole of Morphic and Etoys rather than deal with it on as piecemeal basis.

I'd make it a simple preference, off by default, independent of platform.

IMHO for the vast majority of uses we don't need a single-pixel nib. So what Scott implemented is exactly right (though I didn't try it yet).

Possibly the preference should be project-specific. The advantage would be it gets saved with the project. The disadvantage is you would have to set it for each project manually. I'm not quite sure how persistent preferences (which are restored on startup) interact with project-specific preferences.

- Bert -