On Fri, 30 Jul 2004, Jon Phillips wrote:
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 14:16:25 -0700 From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> Cc: Inkscape Mailing List inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape and the Gimp, gradients.
Excellent Alan!
I'd encourage you to thank Sven.
Similar to our previous meeting with the SCRIBUS folks, we seriously need to have a pow-wow with the Gimp folks (as well as the mozilla-svg ppl who expressed much interest in this relationship).
The Gimp developers seem to be on irc.gnome.org #gimp very often so it should be relatively easy to arrange a time for a meeting on IRC like you did with Scribus.
Of course everyone is welcome to join their developer mailing list http://gimp.org/mail_lists.html as well as filing bug reports and feature requests.
The Gimp supports cut and paste between applications but so far there are not many applications (except Abiword) that make use of it yet and I'm sure it is something the Gimp developers would like Inkscape to support soon.
It could be very useful if Inkscape exported files to Layered MNG instead of needing to flatten everything on export, maybe Inkscape could share some of the code the Gimp uses for MNG? I suppose the SVG importer in the Gimp is already good enough though, which just makes it more important that Inkscape follows standards and works well with librsvg.
I'm sure there are lots more things that could be done to better integrate things but I gotta go...
Sincerely
Alan Horkan.