On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
We should be taking advantage of that work and avoiding Gimp Gradients (the .ggr file format) and encouraging them to use SVG instead and standard file formats in general (gradients are inherently vectors anyway).
This is a good point that Gimp should be encouraged to support the SVG gradient format, and certainly one of Inkscape's core goals is to seek improved compliance with SVG.
an unusual dependency or would add 'bloat' to Inkscape, it makes sense to either not ship it with the core, or provide it as a non-default option. In the case of the Gimp plugin it may make sense to ship it separately for the purpose of serving as a proof of concept for the extension system, for example. However, if there are no technical or
shipping it seperately would be enough I think.
now I'm off to gather screenshots of gradient editors and to try and put together some mockups. hopefully inkscape can in the future have such a good and easy to use gradient editor that using it to produce SVG Gradients and sharing them with the gimp will become the obvious choice.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan
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