To put a bit of perspective on it, would you rather:
Have a version of Inkscape that works on tablet or would you rather have...
CMYK pdf export for print Full multi-page document support Mesh gradients (coming soon/partially implemented) A vector paintbrush system that emulates the real thing (even watercolour, with mesh gradients. ;)) Customisable UI Freely-rotating multi-touch canvas view (useful in tablet mode) Jpeg, gif, and TIFF export options (*ducks!*) ;) Intelligent file-save that auto-chooses the format based on the extension you type. Better flowed-text (#inkscape irc denizens currently calling it "flawed text", so don't taze me, bro) ;) Smoother gradients Gapless pixel interpolation for adjacent object fills A Tweak/warp tool that doesn't melt your geometry, or add excessive amounts of extra geometry. Full animation support. and lots, lots more. :)
With everything we can imporve in Inkscape, making a tablet version is a novelty that can wait, imho.
-C
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 4:30 PM, C R <cajhne@...400...> wrote:
I remember when I first discovered you could draw in Inkscape using a wacom stylus. It was about 6 years ago... http://www.opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/samples/emmawolf.png
Touch may be ubiquitous to people who poke around with their fingers on a tablet for content consumption purposes, but the graphics industry has always been about the stylus. Note how even Apple is finally caving in to the demand for it with iPad "Pro". If you have a stylus you don't need to change much ui-wise to make Inkscape tablet-friendly, it's trying to make everything large enough to poke at with your meaty paw-sausages. Imagine all numerical values coming up touch-icon size. Talk about a drawing space hog. The alternative most apps use is popup dialogues for values, also much slower in a workflow. We COULD have a tablet mode, however. Making a different version of inkscape just for tablet seems a bit much though.
If you don't have a stylus, well, welcome to graphic design hell. There are plenty of tablet apps that try.to do vector. I haven't seen one yet that was any good at it in comparison to Inkscape. It's not for lack of features, it was hard-core lack of usability without the precision of a stylus, and the benefits of a whole keyboard's worth of hotkeys. :)
My 2p.
Incidentally, Inkscape can not easily be re-written for tablet OSs, and there's enough work to do on Inkscape proper at the moment. Krita is far more positioned to fill the tablet-based illustration needs of designers than Inkscape is. These are your hard-core tablet folks (I'm one of them) ;).
-C
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:20 PM, William Adams <will.adams@...3004...> wrote:
As a person who has been using pen / stylus / touchscreen computers for a very long while, I'd like to weigh in:
- touch is becoming ubiquitous as was noted
- there are also tablet computers which have active digitizers /
styluses which afford pressure-sensitive input --- Inkscape works well on these as is and is quite nice to draw w/ (at least for people accustomed to Bezier vector drawing programs) --- this is not limited to just graphics tablets for desktop computers or Wacom Cintiq units
- simplifying the interface and affording more user control over size /
placement of controls and allowing some on-screen modifiers would go a long way towards making Inkscape more usable w/ tablets, whether touch or active digitizer --- I have to run a small button bar utility on my Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10 which provides Alt/Shift/Ctrl/Space/Tab/Enter keys.
Flash is descended from Futurewave Smartsketch, a drawing program which was originally designed for use w/ tablet computers, so examining it may afford some useful ideas.
William
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