On Sunday, August 6, 2017 10:11:08 AM IST brynn wrote:
Personally, and even as someone who first learned Inkscape as a complete computer graphics novice, I can't imagine a "light" or "lite" version which would really be useful. It seems to be a normal progression (in both my personal experience and experience helping others learn Inkscape over the last several years) that as soon as users have those more simple tools understood and under control, they are hungry to continue learning at the next level. And they would not have that opportunity with a lite version. Just the existance of an easy or light version might make them afraid to install the regular version, and I think that situation should certainly be avoided at all costs!
I agree on this point.
I can see perhaps a children's version, aimed at maybe 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders. Or maybe an artist version, or cartographers version....oh, or a version for people who use those digital cutter machines would be awesome. I can see it where the difference is about what Inkscape is being used for. But I would be against a beginners version and advanced version.
Instead of aiming for a completely separate versions for every use case. Why not just have a workspace layouts.
This can be in the menu or in the preferences. A layout would be arrangment of tools and docks in a particular way which is helpful for a particular task. For example a minimal workspace would have smaller set of tools and few important docks by default, if the user feels the need to change to a different layout he can do so or he can even customise and make his own workspace.
This would also reduce the effort required to compile several different versions of inkscape. There can be community made workspaces layout schemes which we can then provide from the inkscape wensite.
Thank you