On 4/7/10, Matthew Todd wrote:
My name is Matthew A. Todd. I am a second year computer science student at UCSD interested in working on Inkscape as part of Google Summer of Code.
Hi, Matthew!
The Pen tool project would be too small for GSoC, and, as bulia already said, it would introduce a usability clash.
The Layers project indeed would be more than just welcome. You were very polite when you said that it is a little cumbersome :) In fact it needs a lot of work.
I'd summarize the missing features as follows:
- reordering layers hierarchy by dragging and dropping - expanding layers to objects, dragging objects from one layer to another - multiple items selection - "solo" visibility by Shift+click on eye icon (like in GIMP, currently only via context menu) - flattening layers and merging just visible layers, merging down.
I'd also add here "layers effects" which would basically be SVG Filters applied to <g>. It already is possible via a horrible trick with XML Editor. Some nice UI wouldn't harm.
Alexandre