On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 09:16, Carl Hetherington wrote:
OK. I'm a bit confused about the Import dialogue, though. Is it right that on Linux the menu only offers "SVG", and no other types? ATM, the Windows version offers "SVG files" and "Image files" as selection options.
Oh, you weren't supposed to notice ;) We definitely didn't spend as much time there for this release, though I think it needs to be done. I was pontificating about this on Jabber the other night - let me throw my half-baked idea here.
I think that we need to decide what functionality we want accomplished by 'Save', 'Open', 'Import' and 'Export', and then strive to make it happen. Here is what I'm thinking:
Open - Take a file and make a new window with it
Save - Take the entire document and stuff it into a file
Import - Take a file off the hard drive and put it into the current document
Export:
1) Take the current document and save it, without changing the name of the current file or anything else about the current document (ie modified or anything like that)
2) Take a selection, and put that selection, by itself, into a file.
Issues
- Should the two different exports be different menu items? Perhaps: "Export Document" and "Export Selection"?
Reasoning
- Well, currently the import and export function basically handle bitmaps - which is cool, but I think that there is other functionality that would be useful. Things like EPS in those dialogs would be nice. As I was talking to Bulia he mentioned that a way that Inkscape could be used is to mock up a website, and then you'd want to split it up. Well, today splitting it up into PNGs might be practical, but smaller SVGs may be more reasonable in the future.
Okay, what do people think about all that. It is was kinda a brain dump.
--Ted