On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Alan Horkan wrote:
You are thinking in terms of what would be most useful to the developers, a graphics or creative suite is a user focussed idea. Idea like the Gnome Desktop or a Graphics Suite are high level groupings and I dont think they in any way preclude working closely with Xorg as well.
I feel I must say again that being part of the Gnome community really does not mean you have to add Gnome specific dependancies or in any way neglect cross platform development.
Hmm, maybe that's true in theory, but that wasn't the sense I got. Seemed like they were mostly interested in getting us to use their libs and making a plugin so to give graphics editing capabilities for the other apps. So other than the libs (which we can use anyway regardless), it wasn't clear what benefit Inkscape would get..
If being part of an office suite is helpful for users, then wouldn't OpenOffice be the suite to join? I dunno, it seems like the best thing for Inkscape is to try to be a good app that'd work okay with whatever suite. If there'd be something specific to gain from joining a suite, great, but if it only means more development expectations... well we've already got a lot to do...
Bryce