Created attachment 122875 [details] image showing onscreen toll tip of scribus SUMMARY When drawing on canvas with shape tools, or when dragging a guide or in case the user is cropping the image, it would be great to show relevant information on canvas. Similar to how we show zoom level percentages on screen. unlike the case of zoom, the tooltip when drawing should be near the cursor so that user doesn't have to look at other end of canvas. An example of this feature can be seen in scribus 1.5.5, when you draw a shape it shows you height and width of the shape live. When dragging a guide on canvas it shows you the co-ordinates of the guide. This helps the user by preventing him to look at the tool option while drawing. This will also help in canvas only mode. In addition to the shape we can also show the tool tip while shift resizing the brush, it can show the brush size. To summarise: Show on screen co-ordinates or size information while : 1) Drawing shapes 2) Dragging guides 3) Resizing brush 4) Moving layer objects 5) Moving vector objects 6) Moving mirror symmetry line 7) Moving axes of the multibrush tool 8) Using the measurement tool 9) Using Crop tool 10) Any other tool which requires user to look at the tool option for dimensions I have attached a screenshot of the on screen tool tip of scribus
WISHGROUP: Larger Usability Fixes Implementing the feature itself won't take long, but designing the feature probably will...
As an additional related note: I've recently enabled the cursor position display on the status bar by adding EnablePositionLabel=true to the kritarc configuration file. This works well and is useful. However, it does not update during operations. It would be very useful if it did this, especially when drawing a line/polygon/rectangle or making a selection.
Most of the points of the bug should be fixed by: https://invent.kde.org/graphics/krita/-/commit/a9ffcc5f95c52d8456c730e83549f9686c76470c The following points are not covered yet: 4) Moving layer objects 5) Moving vector objects
@dmitry @sachin, In addition to the width height some elements may benefit from showing position too.