I am not crabbing! I am keen to see Inkscape get as much success as possible. But to do that, you need to look at the market, rather than clever gizmos.
My wife lost patience with Corel Draw after their successive versions became so cluttered with 'enhancements' that they were virtually unusable. Corel 8 was very comfortable, but when x7 is installed it has similar microscopic icons to those of Inkscape.
I am sure that a basic subset of the software could be put together with very little effort, offering more than Windows Ink but with 'dive straight in' appeal. Alternatively all but the essential tools could be hidden on first installation, with some tips on how to add them.
Cheers
John
PS I suspect that for the pen to be discovered by the program, the Wacom driver interface might need to be added. If this is the case, maybe a textbox could give that advice, in the same way that Audacity shows how to add LAME for mp3 saving.
On 18-Nov-17 4:35 PM, Martin Owens wrote:
Dear John,
Sorry you had such a bad experience.
On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 13:58 +1000, John Billingsley wrote:
Writing software is great fun, but unless the user is presented with an enjoyable experience it is mere navel-gazing. To me it seems that few of you have demanding graphic-designer wives!
Sounds more like a hardware issue than a graphic designing partner issue.
Inkscape is designed to be used on Desktop systems. This is why we've never pushed Inkscape onto tablets or phones. The UI needs serious re- working to get it into shape for such a different presentation.
There are movements to make the interface more flexible going forwards. But it's slow going and so far we're still tweaking things for gtk3.
Best Regards, Martin Owens