On Sat, 31 Jul 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:15:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> To: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> Cc: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...>, Lucas Vieites <info@...212...>, Inkscape Devel List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] GNOME HIG
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
It would be great to be part of the GNOME family and PR machine. Also, we have been successful at moving changes up stream and offer GNOME much for the future especially if we abstract our canvas, etc.
If we feel like this is a good direction to move, we should weigh out the options of it more and if yes, then we can start to push.
It would be good if there is a gnome-graphics package that includes gimp, inkscape, ______.
However, it is nice to not rely on gnome specific libraries and so forth right now.
Thoughts?
Jon
With the activity recently going with the Xorg group, I've been wondering if we couldn't tie in well with them. After all, a lot of the lib's we've got coming up in our roadmap (cairo, littlecms, etc.) are actually Xorg things moreso than Gnome.
You are thinking in terms of what would be most useful to the developers, a graphics or creative suite is a user focussed idea. Idea like the Gnome Desktop or a Graphics Suite are high level groupings and I dont think they in any way preclude working closely with Xorg as well.
I feel I must say again that being part of the Gnome community really does not mean you have to add Gnome specific dependancies or in any way neglect cross platform development.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/