Re: [Inkscape-devel] freehand smoothing?

Currently, freehand drawing produces a curve in which the nodes are cusp by default. There are other vector programs which do the same. However, it leads to lumpy lines which may not be desirable (for example lumpy contours in mapping are just not on). These are often fixed by selecting all the nodes and making them smooth. My question is why not make the freehand default node type for Inkscape to be smooth? Or at least make it an option in Inkscape Preferences?

Exactly this idea was discussed several times. A number of people looked into implementing this, including Peter Moulder. I don't know why it was never finished. I really hope it will be done some day.