On Sun, 27 Nov 2005, Ted Gould wrote:
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 22:44:38 -0800 From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> To: jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> Cc: Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [inkscape-devel] Re: save choices
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 12:22 +0100, jiho wrote:
3/ I found the Open/Save As/ menus not optimal.
I've always thought we should move towards:
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[Long list of high level menu items]
Although the logical seperation proposed is nice in some ways the downside is further overcrowding of the File menu. Also it means the drop down Type menu in the Save dialog (Inkscape SVG, Plain SVG, etc) would be remarkably empty and sparsely populated. More balance seems better.
I would suggest far less seperation (I'm unsure even if no seperation at all is such a bad idea and wouldn't rule it out). Inkscape could at aleast use Save and Save As for the Vector formats which should be lossless (at least in theory and I expect it would be the long term goal to correct any loss) namemly SVG, SVGZ, INKJAR, EPS, PS, PDF, DXF and others. (Also I think this is more like what others are doing.)
There is more to it than that but I did say I'd try and be more succint and that is the main thing I wanted to say.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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