Tuesday, Mar 15, 2005

The last two weeks have seen a number of new features added, the fruit of some quite heated (and fruitful) discussions on the list. Bulia's work on redesigning gradients has generated a lot of good feedback from the community and should really prove to be a big step forward for the application. Mental has been continuing his work on converting C code to C++ and attending to some of the more complex bugs as they pop up.

The new gtkmm-based gui code is now accessible via 'inkscape --new-gui'. Jon Cruz is adding a new 'panel' system to replace the current 'dialog' focused design, that will give people more flexibility in how the user interface looks and works. There's still a lot more work needed, though, and we desperately need more people working on it.

We're also seeing the impact of the involvement of a number of new contributors. Cyreve is working on improving text flow and wrapping. Kevin Wixson has been plugging away at improving documentation.

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