Today my 5 years old daughter spent about 20 minutes in Inkscape, drawing stars. She enjoyed it a lot. She had no problem understanding the role of the selector button ("click it and then you can move your stars around"), node edit button ("click it and you can do funny things to a star by moving those small dots in it") and the star itself. She also used ctrl-z often.
The main reason for joy is that the program did not crash :) There were some problems; the biggest bummer was when she accidentally grabbed the handle of the main toolbar and detached it - then she clicked on the canvas and the toolbar was gone! Bad, bad Inkscape. Also, the lack of a palette was a bit of an inconvenience, although I switched the fill&stroke dialog to HSV and she had no problems dragging the hue slider to get different colors for her stars (with two other sliders set to maximum).
Overall, I think the program passed this test :) I don't think it would be that enjoyable with Sodipodi, with its myriad of confusing buttons and sinking windows...
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Similar to Bulia's daughter... I had some downtown offline today and ripped through designing several different logos and sketches.
It was fairly enjoyable and the app did not crash at all.
After drawing for a while though, I really saw how the additions we've been talking about are direly needed to improve usability and productivity.
I will elaborate more in the future once we get 0.36 out the gate.
I think we are on the right track and have simplified and made the interface much more functional than sodi by a longshot.
Jon
On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 21:16, bulia byak wrote:
Today my 5 years old daughter spent about 20 minutes in Inkscape, drawing stars. She enjoyed it a lot. She had no problem understanding the role of the selector button ("click it and then you can move your stars around"), node edit button ("click it and you can do funny things to a star by moving those small dots in it") and the star itself. She also used ctrl-z often.
The main reason for joy is that the program did not crash :) There were some problems; the biggest bummer was when she accidentally grabbed the handle of the main toolbar and detached it - then she clicked on the canvas and the toolbar was gone! Bad, bad Inkscape. Also, the lack of a palette was a bit of an inconvenience, although I switched the fill&stroke dialog to HSV and she had no problems dragging the hue slider to get different colors for her stars (with two other sliders set to maximum).
Overall, I think the program passed this test :) I don't think it would be that enjoyable with Sodipodi, with its myriad of confusing buttons and sinking windows...
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