On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 08:37:42PM +0200, Johan Engelen wrote:
One big issue is what to do with the "px" unit description in Inkscape's UI. It means "pixel" for most people I think. My question is, if it is OK to have the "px" unit in Inkscape's UI mean something different than the "px" (=user unit) in SVG. If no, then I believe we should remove "px" from Inkscape's UI. Given that some people do want to use pixel units (e.g. our icons file), I don't know how much trouble that removal will cause to people. So I'd like to keep the "px" unit description, and have it mean pixel with an explicitly defined DPI (if undefined, use 90dpi as old Inkscape did).
Again, I think differentiating the display mode from document mode better (so we can have two different definitions of px - one that corresponds to SVG, the other that corresponds to what users actually expect), may be the safest way to go.
Sidenote: most Inkscape document do not have proper units defined. So almost all the "mm" stuff currently is ill-defined. We need some kind of fallback that works with older documents too, where 90userunits = 1 inch (if I'm not mistaken).
Agreed.
Bryce