On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 01:28:20 -0500, Kevin Wixson <kevin@...738...> wrote:
"More context sensitive" makes more sense, but please explain exactly what type of context is missing in Inkscape.
Well, from a cursory reading of this document I see that AI presents its capabilities as many different tools and its "context sensitivity" consists mainly of being smart when to use which tool. As such, this concept is hardly applicable to Inkscape which has just two tools (one for editing and one for drawing). It just does not need to be "sensitive" to switch its tools. Or in other words IT IS sensitive because in the edit tool "knows" to do different things when clicked in different places with different modifiers. We just don't call this "tools".
Again, I know of exactly three fundamental limitations of our node tool:
- it can't drag segments, only nodes
- it can't add nodes in arbitrary place on path
- it can't edit nodes of two objects at once.
These are the things that matter, things you need to tell AI users in big letters. Everyrhing else is either:
- easy to fix (like the two small improvements I added recently)
- actually better in Inkscape than in AI, if you think of it
- purely cosmetic or terminological (like your "context sensitivity").
Surely these smaller issues need to be addressed, and they will be addressed. And eventually we'll approach the three big issues too. However, you won't be doing good service to AI users if you focus on the smaller issues (interspersing them with judgemental remarks) and not put the three big ones on top.
Looks like the majority of replies here, including those from AI users, supports this point. So I think we need to restore this. It is important.
From what I saw of the responses, all of the reactions were based on your phrasing in the email and they hadn't read the Wiki page in question.
Actually, many reactions were based on the firsthand experience with both AI and Inkscape. You can propose your own wording but I insist that this item must stay.