On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, Jiaxiang wrote:

Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:14:51 -0800 (PST) From: Jiaxiang <jwasheville@...36...> To: inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape SVG Animation Interface

This is just a quick mock-up of an idea for an Inkscape SVG animation interface.

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/9633/inkscapeaniui8se.png

Thanks for providing it as a link. (The attachement and the other shorter post also got though to the list)

DISCLAIMER: I'm merely an Inkscape user. I don't know anything about programming or GUI design - and I also don't pretend to know.

You might be interested to read the Gnome Human Interface Guidelines http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/

Or perhaps these two websites http://asktog.com/ (Website of Bruce Tognazzi) http://useit.com/ (Website of Jakob Nielsen, mostly focussed on web design)

Animation support is a way off in the future as you can see from the Inkscape roadmap but if a developer takes an interest things might always happen sooner. http://inkscape.org/roadmap.php

Depending on what you mean by Animation then InkView might be of interest to you. Inkview is not Animation software, but it is intended for Viewing SVG files and can be used for simple Presentations.

This is just submitted to give some general idea of what, from the perspective of a this user, may or may not be the bare basics to add such a neat and powerful tool into the Inkscape tool box.

Note: This would ideally be an additional window within Inkscape.

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/9633/inkscapeaniui8se.png

I'm interested by the point you make: "ideally be an additional window" because I believe Animation is a complicated task that merits a seperate application (a seperate window and tools). It would of course make sense to build upon the existing foundations of Inkscape and have a shared core and similar user interface. I expect this is already obvious to the developers given how many features Inkscape has already It would be difficult to make room for all the tools needed to created a good Animation tool.

I would be interested to know if your ideas are inspired by any applications in particular or if you were trying to come up with something original. I've used Macromedia Flash a little and it might have interesting ideas worth considering.

As a user you might be able to put your skills to good use by contributing to the Free Clipart collection at OpenClipart.org http://OpenClipArt.org

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

Free SVG Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Dia is for Diagrams http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Alan's Journal http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://www.abisource.com