alt-O Oval - Again the name of the generic form, a circle the special form, plus the letter "O" has the shape of an oval too as an additional mnemonic.
alt-V is the standard in design apps for the selection tool, V has a pointer/arrow-like shape.
alt-F Freefrom
alt-A Arrow
alt-L Line
alt-T Text
Pan & Zoom
Uses outdated interaction scheme from 1990ies design apps and desktop publishing apps: SPACE to pan, scrollwheel to zoom.
On devices with multitouch-trackpads, standard since ca 2010, this would be the more contemporary UX: Two-finger scrolling (on X and Y axis) + pinch-gesture for zooming in/out (Z axis).
Foreword
Very modern ASCII Art paradigms — Great!
Wide variety of export options
Great usability
Minor flaws
Bugs
Usability Improvements
ALT 1-6
as shortcuts for the tools is not a good mnemonic.alt-R
Rectangle - Rectangle is the generic form, square the special form, achieve 1:1 aspect ratio with shift-key downalt-O
Oval - Again the name of the generic form, a circle the special form, plus the letter "O" has the shape of an oval too as an additional mnemonic.alt-V
is the standard in design apps for the selection tool, V has a pointer/arrow-like shape.alt-F
Freefromalt-A
Arrowalt-L
Linealt-T
TextMissing features
More geometrical shapes than just boxes
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Improvements for existing tools
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