On 15 February 2015 at 11:20, Teto <teto45@...2519...> wrote:
My first concern is about the svg format itself, that prevents the soft to go further than the format allows to. My only question is : who cares about the format ?
I do. An open standard is important. Even if some of the features we have aren't standard, we strive for compatible output. We failed with the text tool and it's been haunting us ever since.
Let's not do that again.
I never saw a drawing in svg.
Yes you did, you just didn't notice because it looked so natural on the page.
I think that there's no picture in svg in Deviantart or sites like that.
Funny you should mention deviantArt. Their new logo is svg. Right in the page there.
Then we have the huge brony community that have championed the use of svg and inkscape because of how easy it is to share and collaborate. They work around deviantart's restrictions to post svg documents to their stash pages.
why don't we have a single UI for all tools,
Because it would cost about $50 million and more programmers than are possibly available. The amount of energy required to sync up and do design properly across such a large and diverse set of programs is over 9000!
Again, I don't want to insult anyone. Inkscape is not just "better than nothing", it's already a great tool, and it's for free. But tomorrow, if a new tool with all features above is available, I'll say goodbye to Inkscape, and no turning back, even if it costs hundred bucks (but no more).
All of the problems you have could be helped with better funding. A hard problem, we're working on solving. Would you contribute that $100 to making inkscape better?
Martin,