David Christian Berg wrote:
Gosh, come on, I really prefer the simple "shapes" as opposed to "paths". We don't need to through in useless words, just because companies like doing that.
David
I can make lots and lots of "shapes" in Inkscape that aren't created with the Ellipse, Rectangle, Spiral or Star tool, and I need a way to refer to them without confusing the reader. I don't think it's really possible to refer to "shapes" and mean exclusively those objects created by the Ellipse, Rectangle, Spiral and Star tools in Inkscape. You will confuse readers and hamstring writers by making it so they have to explain, every time they want to use the word "shape" or "shapes" and are referring to the meaning of the word in everyday English, as in "you can create different shapes," that they don't mean "those special shapes in Inkscape made with the Ellipse, Rectangle, Spiral and Star tool and can still be transformed with those tools."
In spite of how the term was presented, this has nothing to do with marketing, and everything to do with clarity. I intend to use the phrase "live shapes" beyond just the one AI related document, too.