Tavmjong Bah wrote:
I just test drove the XaraXL 0.3 release and watched the Xara movies on their website. One feature that really stuck out that Inkscape is missing is the ability to feather an arbitrary shape. I assume that this will come to Inkscape when Inkscape supports SVG filters. Which leads to the question, what is the status of SVG filter support?
Last I knew of any discussion was Bulia making a request on the list for assistance with at least the gaussian blur one and then my subsequent news post on the homepage reiterating his request... neither of which seemed to have garnered much response. There has been talk that we'll inherit filters when and if we switch to Cairo, but there's not been any performance comparisons recently that I know of which has been a concern of Bulia's, and no one has stated an interest in spearheading that switch anyway.
-Josh