Hi inkscapers,
I was looking at a few bugs (#168504 and #168958) and thinking about some of my own personal grievances with the whole business of exporting and saving as.
Currently in inkscape 0.46 (Ubuntu 8.10) there are a whole boat full of exporting, saving, loading menus in the File menu. Most of which seem to follow this logic:
1) File New/Load/Save * New > * Open ... * Open Recent > * Revert * Save * Save As ... * Save a copy ... 2) Import/Export * Import ... * Export Bitmap ... * Import from Open Clipart ... 3) Print ... 4) Vacuum Defs 5) Preferences * Document Properties ... * Document Meta Data ... * Inkscape Preferences ... * Input Devices ... 6) Application * Close * Quit
This seems a bit of a mess, although I don't know if you've changed much for 0.47 so apologies if this has already been put through for refinement.
My suggestions would be as follows:
* Move Revert to Edit and have it as a function of the undo system. And/Or rename it to 'Reload from File' * Remove Save a Copy and replace with 'Publish ...' which would have a dialog specifically designed to export to pdf, plain svg or png and with options that make sense such as v1.1 svg, clean defs and no personal data (such as paths). * The document properties and meta data seem out of place, since they're more to do with the document object than the file object. Maybe a top level document menu? One that includes some of the edit menu items specific for the document? * Vacuum Defs seems like a plugin or something that could be a part of publish, or the doc menu. * Import and Export make sense, but perhaps having plugins that allow imports and exports to various places and removing the specific link for open clipart.
Thoughts? Flames?
Regards, Martin Owens