On Tue, 2017-08-08 at 16:03 +0000, Miguel Lopez wrote:
On the Krita side of things, there's one thing we have to offer. Interchangability between Krita vector layer, and Inkscape. This is the first time in open source history where such a thing comes closer to Photoshop and Illustrator interaction. If that can be improved, indirectly Inkscape becomes more viable. There's a way to get Inkscape SVG ported into Krita file. Krita file is essentially a .zip file, and in Krita 4.0 Pre-Alpha, there is content.svg. If you edit that, and then convert the .zip file back to .kra, you have your Inkscape SVG in Krita file. Easy-peasy. Problem with that idea is always development taking so much time, but that is reality. Someway, I do think interactions between software developers is the key to having Inkscape develop at a faster rate. Right now, we do not have much options here. Kickstarters might not help at this stage as Inkscape reputation is decreasing. Likewise, GIMP has that very glaring issue.
Miguel,
Is it decreasing because you think it is, or because you have data to back this up?
I don't mean to be annoyed with you, but please be kinder to the process. We're trying to leverage up our capacity here, but that's a delicate process that needs hope and help.
Inkscape is currently built by part-time developer volunteers. We'd like to move that up to full-time developers. And really, professionals have no good way to ask for anything at the moment, hopefully we can change that and get the needs of users properly accounted for within the funding structure.
But until that's in place. We can't catch-22 the "reputation" of inkscape at this time. Please be patient while we try and get this working.
Best Regards, Martin Owens