On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 00:57 -0600, Jesus Mager wrote:
The idea is make it for kids in what sense: easier, fashionable, lighter?? I saw the possible GUI: It only seems to do it for netbooks, and lighter platforms. But if the main idea is make it for kids: what about make a cooler kid-friendly interface... may be like tuxpaint (www.tuxpaint.org)? Any idea?
When I've thought about this before, I'd really like it to be accomplished through the configuration means already in Inkscape. This would be things like a custom menu's file, a set of better preferences and toolbars (toolbars don't currently read from files, but static XML srings, but that'd be easy to change).
This doesn't solve the problem of making the program lighter, but I think that even professional designers would like that :)
My concern, in general, as we continue to add features and enhancements to Inkscape we'll need to have UIs optimized for different use cases. It's a real documentation nightmare, but I think that it could lead to the program being more useful in the future. (Note: I don't want to make a framework ala Mozilla or Eclipse, please no :) )
--Ted