Agree with that entirely.
In that context, I'd place Trace Bitmap at 2 or 3. It's hard for me to imagine working with Inkscape in the professional graphics world without it. I used it twice today, and that was a light day where I'm mostly using GIMP. It's true you can get by without it, but life would suck. ;P That's probably why it's up at the top three functions in the Path menu.
-C
On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
On Wed, 2015-12-02 at 12:48 +0000, C R wrote:
At the same time, I use Trace Bitmap pretty constantly. It is such a an immensely useful feature that I think it's worth making sure Potrace is installed as a dependency of Inkscape, unless there is a particularly compelling reason why it isn't.
Aye it probably should. But I'd have a couple of levels of attachment:
- core (wouldn't work at all with it)
- strongly recommended (always required in debian)
- somewhat recommended (always suggested in debian)
- plugins and others (separate)
I'd actually only remove menu entries for 4. and disable them (grey out) if they are 2 or 3. That way the functionality if sign posted in context, without letting the user do something that might break inkscape.
Best Regards, Martin Owens