On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:14:11 -0700 From: Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> To: matiphas@...8..., 'Alan Horkan' <horkana@...44...>, 'bulia byak' <buliabyak@...400...> Cc: 'Inkscape is a vector graphics editor' inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Inkscape Harsh Criticisms
Just my 2 cents there : If, after Gtkmm work, keybindings and shortcuts become customizable,
why
not to provide different 'layouts' of shortcuts. Default one would match current implementation, and some others (to
be
choosed in Prefs) would reflect Illustrator/XaraX/...
Now, THAT is the best idea I've seen so far in this discussion.
Now that I think of it... isn't it theoretically possible for us to be even smarter with the gtkmm and make it support customizable menus too?
It is possible so it will probably happen but to do it is a clean and easily maintainable way could be a huge hassle. I would hope we would have good enough defaults, enough flexibility in the user interface and a good variety of extensions that people would not be rushing to do this. Ways to make transition easier are all well and good and while I'm all for making this very similar there will invetibly be places where we really want people to get used to a new way becuase we are sure it is better not just different.
Kinda in the vein of "GimpShop" if we could take the above mentality and
The pain of maintaining different user interfaces for the same program is quite big (translation, documentation, and various other issues).
that I know of. Honestly though, I love the inkscape way of doing things, so it's definitely not a priority in my book... just a thought. And the other thought is the people that want it to match their program of choice can do the work to come up with those mouse/key/menu sets. ;)
In the long run I do expect it to happen but ideally it would be for testing out new ideas and then going making changes if we come up with something that is genuinely better. Might even be a good way to tempt former Macromedia users away from whatever Adobe does with the Macromedia product lines.
- Alan