Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017 um 23:08 Uhr Von: "Sylvain Chiron" <chironsylvain@...3370...> An: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.92 review in German
Hi,
Le 15/02/2017 à 09:14, "Christoph Schäfer" a écrit :
Alex, frankly, I'm really fed up with your arrogance, your rudeness, your superficial pedantry and your total lack of manners. People like you are one of the reasons that make it hard to "sell" Open Source software to open-minded professionals who want to escape Adobe's clutches and who also may decide to help projects like Inkscape. Why don't you just go away and leave civilised people alone?
Translation in English: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=fr&sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3...
True that the article’s tone is a bit hard, but it’s probably great for the project to get such an analysis on issues professionals have with the program. Computer software issues have always been a pain for everyone, they must be listed sometimes.
Thank you for sharing your article and for your interest in Inkscape, and sorry for the agressive reaction of one of our members.
(I’ve rarely been a good reference for politeness too, therefore I’m practising.)
Regards,
Sylvain
Salut Sylvain,
First of all, you don't need to apologise for someone else.
Second, I don't think the article is too harsh. It's full of praise, but the conclusion is the same that has transpired in countless comments on this list, namely that 0.92 wasn't ready for release. My recommendation at the end is that 0.91 users should wait for 0.92.1 or 0.92.2 until the issues have been hopefully fixed and a DMG for OS X is available.
To give you some perspective, the readers of this magazine, which has an excellent reputation not only in Switzerland but in all German-speaking countries, are mostly working in the publishing industry, either print or cross-media, which means at least 90% of their readers are working on Macs. With no DMG for OS X available, they'll immediately lose interest, because installing a software via Macports or Homebrew can take hours.
I stumbled across this magazine years ago, when I found an article on Scribus that was outdated, and I contacted the editor about an update regarding Scribus (I'm a Scribus guy, btw). He agreed, and since then I've become their go-to author for articles regarding Libre Graphics (and more). I'm now a regular and trusted contributor and columnist. Moreover, I've been able to change the editor's stance from sceptical but interested to open and supportive of Open Source. All full-time editors of the magazine use either OpenOffice or LibreOffice these days, Firefox as their browser and Thunderbird for emails. The editor-in-chief is a fan of Ubuntu and uses it exclusively at home and at work. The magazine has also provided real-world test files for Scribus and the Document Liberation Project to improve the import libraries, which is their way of supporting Libre Graphics.
My reputation and the resulting trust was the result of critical reporting. It also resulted in me being invited to their annual autumn event as a speaker on Libre Graphics issues, which I've been doing for several years now. In addition to one or two talks I'm also available for questions about and demonstrations of Libre Graphics software during the whole event. Last year I also managed to get a PC with a huge screen and openSUSE as well as all the Libre Graphics goodies, including Inkscape, pre-installed and sponsored by a Swiss SUSE partner, so people could play with GIMP, Inkscape & Co.
Over the years not only business-like relationships, but also friendships developed, and I know firsthand what these professionals need. It's a huge mistake to think that everyone's enamoured with Adobe's quasi-monopoly, quite the contrary. Vector graphics professionals who tried to use Inkscape like it a lot, better than Illustrator, actually, but I've heard the same comments year in and year out: Lacking support of CMYK and spot colours as well as no PDF/X export are prohibitive.
Since I was writing for this particular audience, I hope you understand my conclusion.
Kind regards, Christoph