On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote:
I use Spiro all the time and no -- this is not fixed, because I didn't even *mention* Node tool.
Switch to Pen tool. Choose Spiro mode. Start drawing. What do you see? Bezier curve. Finish the path. Suddenly it becomes a Spiro spline. Is this expected by users? No. Is it supposed to be so? No.
OK, I misunderstood you. I thought you were referring to Node. Pen is broken in this, yes, I mentioned it myself. But fixing it should be even easier than fixing Node.
I agree that I did a mistake here. But think a bit further. The whole thing about supporting both LPE and 2.5 effects in the future doesn't worry you? A mix of two different approaches to more or less same problem in one standard and at least one authoring application is fine?
As Johan very eloquently explained on this list some time ago, SVG vector effects and LPEs are very different and solve different problems.
But we're not speaking about effects here. What is being discussed (if I understand it correctly) is including Spiro or something similar to the SVG core, on equal terms with Beziers, which is a quite different thing. And I object _not_ because Inkscape has a different implementation but because I consider core expansion without sufficient reasons fundamentally detrimental for SVG.