On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:43:09AM +0300, Spyros Blanas wrote:
However, being able to customize the UI (like MS Office & OpenOffice do, with the ability to change menus, toolbars and shortcuts) is certainly a powerful feature and greatly increases productivity and user satisfaction (why bother finding this specific option in the menu, when you can add a button on your custom toolbar?).
If such functionality existed, it would be trivial (in programming effort) to allow for different 'profiles' to be selected. And then users could easily create Illustrator-like profiles (or anything else they wanted). This way, users have an active role in UI design and can even contribute their own designs!
This way we leave room for both innovation (in Inkscape-specific features) and familiarity (user-selectable UI).
Is this something you are interested working on?
We've long thought that increasing the customizability of the interface is a good idea, but there simply haven't been enough coders to work on restructuring things to enable it. However, the gtkmm refactoring work and the DOM API work brings inkscape much closer to allowing this sort of an approach to be done. All we need is someone with the dedication to create it.
Bryce