I'm cc'ing my reply to inkscape-devel, where more people will be able to comment. On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:30:52 +0300, Anatoly Podlesnuk <beerubeer@...466...> wrote: We haven't yet departed too far from Sodipodi's system of SPObjects tree and repr tree that are synced periodically, though we did a lot of incremental changes to it (mostly in the direction C++fying it). I don't think anything simpler than that will actually work for interactive SVG editing. Of course we will be glad to help you with it. No problem. SWF export is a good thing to have, even if for static SVGs at first. Our goal is to be a complete SVG editor, and that includes animation. So we'll need to add support for all the corresponding elements and attributes. As for the UI, what I had in mind is a timeline control selecting one of the frames for editing, plus a separate preview window (based on inkview?) with actual animation. Of course, at this stage all this requires lots of thinking, planning, and experimenting. I guess the main development principle is that CVS must always remain compilable and workable, without bad regressions. Releases are done when there's enough stuff for a new release, usually every 2 to 3 months. There's a period of code freeze and bug hunt before a release, but at other times you're free to work on your stuff. For coding style, we have a few guidelines here: http://inkscape.sourceforge.net/doc/coding_style.php Let me know what you think.