Johan, thanks for reading that, I thought it was a particularly inspired part of the proposal, as there are many uses for such a feature, and I can only imagine what current users must go through when they could be making use of that feature.
A Quick Export might be very nice, but also, it might prove problematic if it's not exporting anything other than the entire document; e.g., if selections change. One thing that an artist could do is, on another layer, put a transparent rectangle, and export that. Or, maybe there could be a specified, 'official' export rect within the document, which would be set by selecting an empty, transparent rect within the document, then clicking a button within the Export Pane that would make it stay and be specified as the Quick Export Area. This would make a Quick Export for a selection much less complicated, and would help users, because I've currently done things like this before, but the problem is, transparent rectangles are removed from the document by Inkscape, so it can be annoying to do it that way at the moment. Regardless, it's a feature that would probably go hand-in-hand with profiles feature, I agree. If Quick Export were to be developed, I don't think I'd make it as a separate button, however, I think I'd just put that functionality into the current Export button.
Also, what a coincidence, I know someone named Sander B. who goes to University of Twente. :)
-- In response to JF, if that's the general consensus, I think it must be done, then. ;) But seriously, I agree it would be for the better to remove the vector export functionality from the save dialogs, then just keep that to the export pane.
Another thing for the Export button is, I should have an option for it to overwrite, or numerical increment. If overwriting, a confirmation dialog would be shown, but not so with increment. Good idea.
-- Martin, I believe Inkscape already does this, if I understand the both of you correctly. Once you've saved the document, it will already have the same directory you saved it to selected. But yes, things in the Export Pane, including the vector exports, should be handled the same was as PNG export.
- Alex
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 1:38 AM, <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Alex Trujillo [mailto:cryptoquick@...400...] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2010 01:34 To: john cliff Cc: Inkscape Devel List; Alexandre Prokoudine Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC Entry - Inkscape Export Pane
Agreed, I think the three of us can agree that it is best to Save, Save As, and Save a Copy (everything with the word Save), then Export with everything else, bitmap and vector.
I complicated this with the menu changes, and I don't think there was mention of that in my original proposal; I tacked it on with the email here. This really is more for an Export Pane which integrates many formats into a single Pane... I had a graphic of that in the document I linked to in the original post, just in case not everyone has seen it to get a good idea of what the main proposal is here.
Exactly, let's stop the discussion about the Save stuff. Imho, it is a very uninteresting minor thing, compared to the rest of the proposal.
I like the idea of "export profiles" that can be saved. So that one can export e.g. to PDF without thinking about it, and with one click of the button. Like the PNG export, Inkscape should store the file to which was export to last time. Perhaps it is even possible to have a "quick export" button, to export exactly the same way it was done last time.
Cheers, Johan