On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 10:01:33PM +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Bryce Harrington wrote:
I've captured the suggestions so far on this page:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_CodeKeep the ideas coming!
I close serveral requests for Guides at non 90 degree angles, because what those cases really need is a perspective grid. There may be room to implement a variety of grid functionality, such as a Hex Grid and a Perspective grid.
Oh yeah, Nathan had put some thought into that too, years ago. That's a good suggestion.
Trawling through the various requests should turn up some tasks of the right size for the summer of code. There will always be more file formats people would like to see supported and they make for fairly well contained projects which can be achieved in paralell to Inkscape.
Yup. We had a file format converter for one of last year's projects. It's definitely true there's no end of these needed. I suspect that creating a good, usable converter is more than a summer's worth of effort, and unfortunately they don't seem to be things that others would pick up and continue work on, so we might want to think about how we would narrow the scope of the project to something that's doable but still produces useful results. For example, sometimes just nutting out the original format (esp. proprietary formats) can be a project in and of itself.
Anyway, both ideas are added. :-)
Bryce