On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 21:45:45 -0800 (PST), Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
Alan, if you'd be interested, I'd like to co-author an official response with you. If you have time, it would be great to post a response in the Feb timeframe.
Well, actually I answered most of his points yesterday in comments. And he said he would join the devel list, so we might just sit and wait for him here :)
I have felt that the best approach for us would be to use SVG as the originating syntax, but render to png or bmp, and load those. From my perspective the benefit would be in load times; I think they'd have other benefits as well.
I disagree, as I said loading times of icons are not any kind of bottleneck right now.
mockups for a new preferences dialog were done, no tabs a bit more like the gimp. implementation seems inevitable, others may know but I wont guess when.
I wouldn't bet money on the dual-row tab approach surviving the gtkmm redesign work.
Two (and more) rows of tabs are bad when this is actually one row which is too long and is wrapped. Here, it's not the case. It's a hierarchy. And as such it makes it more logical and convenient, not less.
It's in the roadmap but not for a while. This is definitely an area we could use a highly motivated developer to take charge. We have a lot of rough ideas but what we need is someone with a strong vision and good coding chops to put it into practice.
Agreed
Deleting objects with Backspace. While Del works, my powerbook doesn't
have the del key ;).
dont think anyone has mentioned that before.
Nope, but Bulia's already implemented it. ;-)
yesterday
Object blending. Select two objects and pick how many inbetween states
you want or optionally a path along which to do the morph. Essential time saviour when duplicating objects
Sounds like Tweening to me. Complicated but again I'm reasonably sure there are requests for it already. Knowing the Inkscape developers someone will come along and surprise us with this feature out of nowhere.
Agreed. Very cool idea, certainly not on the roadmap, but definitely the sort of thing to suddenly pop into being. ;-)
It should not be difficult to borrow the algorithm from Skencil, which has always had it. We just need a coder willing to work on that.
Converting stroke into objects. Sometimes you want to have more control
about the dotted outline.
I get the feeling this might be already be possible. Anyone?
I'm not sure what he meant by this one. You may be right that it's already possible.
Of course it is. The second command in the Path menu.