On 10/14/05, Charles Moir <CharlesM@...1042...> wrote:
Worse, our Picture Editor component is going to be an absolute dog to port to Linux because unlike Xara X, it was never designed to be the slightest bit platform portable. GDI+ code everywhere, transparent fading, rounded dialogs, the lot. This remains a major potential stumbling block for the port down the road (it will be the last component we do).
On top of that, in my humble opinion, this is also the most awkward thing in Xara from UI viewpoint. The Xara strength has always been to edit everything on the canvas. So opening a separate window for bitmap feels extremely clumsy. That window does nothing that a dedicated "bitmap tool" with its toolbar could not do right on canvas. Such a tool would eliminate the atrociously inconvenient "zoom by slider" in the standalone picture window and would generally make the interface much more consistent. So in Inkscape, we most likely won't follow you on that; I think the best approach would be to have a Bitmap tool for simple adjustments (such as crop, unsharp, etc) plus a doubleclick to open the user's favorite bitmap editor for more complex editing.
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