Symbol spray brush

[Ingolf]

After I spray once, stroke and fill colour appear on the context toolbar - but stroke always goes beyond the right margin.

Here's another example of a visually complex context toolbar that I mentioned in the thread where I featured Affinity. But I understand there are initiatives in the works around personalizing this. I still highlight Affinitys with pop out panels though. Their solution with the pop-out panel or similar also removes a lot of text labels from the context toolbar. Note how much labels take up in the screenshot below.

Here and now there's a lot of wasted space - spaces - so it can be tlpassed a bit to make sure the problem with the stroke element doesn't slip over the margin.

Versus this model:

[VectorStyler]

@Ingolf The problem with the Affinity model is that it is not possible to directly enter a stroke width without opening the popup.

[Ingolf]

It's just inspiration. Pop-out can contain many types of content. This is just how Affinity has done it. Of course primary functions should be easily accessible as stroke so is in VS now.

[Ingolf]

The great idea behind the Affinity model is that the context toolbar is not a margin to margin reading task, but a much more compact model where groups of content can be grouped in a pop-out. And I find this example easy and logical to decode, memorize and use quickly even when I need to use a context toolbar for the first time for a long time.

[Boldline]

I think when the customizable contextual bar options and the customizable panel arrangements are in place, the user will have so many options to set up VS as they see fit.

[Subpath]

found that moving fields in context toolbar also annoying
e.g. the field for Stroke width that's why I often use the Panel

even though that I do not necessarily advocate the affinity approach,
still wish for a better solution