Nicholas Bishop wrote:

OK. Any other suggestions as to what projects Inkscape does need that aren't being worked on by others?

-Nicholas

Hey Nicolas! Glade to see you working on inkscape this year. The sculpt tool you did for blender is incredible! Here is a test I did in 1 day during the developpement of blender 2.43 (remember, the shapekeys bugs? :) ): http://www.ronanzeegers.com/showreel/Moontest.mpeg

If you need suggestions for SoC this year, I have one: why not push inkscape more to the animation area? Right now, the there no opensource program to do traditionnal 2D animation or storyboarding like toonboom or flash... Inkscape could become a great tool for 2D animation. Here is a description of what need to be done:

More important: -Add something to handel multiple draws/pages/frames (maybe trought the <mutlipage> svg tag?). -Add a timeline to handle keyframes and the duration of keyframes. -Add onion skin function. -Add realtime playback (temporary ram cache ?). -Add "export multiple frames" function.

Secondary stuffs: -Improve the Brush/Calligraphic tool with automatic boolean function (like the one of flash). With that kind of option, it would be easy to add Eraser Tool... -Add an UI to handel different brush shapes/options. -Add a Cut Tool

I would like to work on those area myslef to but with my actual coder skills, it would take years before getting something. So if you are interessed in those area, I'm sure you can make the opensource world for animators a better place ;)

see you, Ronan