bb> 3. Several people suggested that making keyboard
shortcuts user-modifiable and providing "profiles" imitating other vector editors. This is an attractive idea but there are some issues. I added a
bb> brief overview of this to the KeyboardShortcutsToDo. it would be a great feature.
OK, so whoever is not busy coding (and especially fixing bugs) at the moment could start working towards this. Please pick your favorite non-Inkscape vector app and make a list of its shortcuts and corresponding functions. Please also categorize each function into one of the following groups:
1. There is a corresponding function (with the same or different shortcut) in shortcuts.c (i.e. this is a global verb in Inkscape).
2. There is no such function in shortcuts.c but such a function is listed on the KeyboardShortcuts wiki page (which tracks all shortcuts currently implemented in Inkscape).
3. There's no such function in Inkscape, but it would be relatively straightforward to implement it.
4. There's no such function in Inkscape, and it's not clear how to implement it (i.e. we don't have such a tool, or palette, etc.).
Please use Wiki for creating your lists. You can link them from under "Interface discussions" on the Wiki front page.
corel has something similar in its coreldraw and corel photopaint - but you can switch not only shortcuts but
also
a layout of toolbars to imitate illustrator or photoshop (respectively).
That's I don't see how to do. (Especially given that Illustrator and Photoshop do not have a fixed layout.) And in any case, right now the dialog layout is very rigid and messy in the code ("boilerplate"), so this has to wait until we switch to something more flexible (Glade?).