Hi Friends, I was just browsing around the website, and happened to notice some wording on the Next Release page that seems odd to me, and that I don't understand.
"It will also introduce some breaking change in how Inkscape handles the resolution of images (don't worry, we will also supply tools to ease the transition!)."
I don't know what "breaking change" means, and I worry that it might be giving a negative impression of "breaking" as in "making it non-functional". I guess it's supposed to mean something like "unprecedented" or maybe "dramatic or extreme change". Or maybe it has a technical meaning that I've just never heard of? I tried to get some clues from both the Roadmap for 0.92 and Release Notes for 0.92, but neither makes any mention of dpi. Does anyone know what that means? Should we find a better way to phrase it? Should some of the things mentioned in the Roadmap or Release Notes be mentioned too?
Thanks, brynn
Hi Bynn,
Breaking in this case means a break in the continuity of what the software will do when rendering sizes. Before it would do X, now it will do Y.
Sometimes these breaks are required so the software can continue to develop along the standard way. For example svg viebox and default dpi in svg2.
There's no loss in functionality, but there may be some images that print bigger (or is it smaller) than they used to if they're not converted.
Martin,
On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 01:25 -0600, Brynn wrote:
Hi Friends, I was just browsing around the website, and happened to notice some wording on the Next Release page that seems odd to me, and that I don't understand.
"It will also introduce some breaking change in how Inkscape handles the resolution of images (don't worry, we will also supply tools to ease the transition!)."
I don't know what "breaking change" means, and I worry that it might be giving a negative impression of "breaking" as in "making it non-functional". I guess it's supposed to mean something like "unprecedented" or maybe "dramatic or extreme change". Or maybe it has a technical meaning that I've just never heard of? I tried to get some clues from both the Roadmap for 0.92 and Release Notes for 0.92, but neither makes any mention of dpi. Does anyone know what that means? Should we find a better way to phrase it? Should some of the things mentioned in the Roadmap or Release Notes be mentioned too?
Thanks, brynn
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Thanks Martin, Oh, so it's more of a technical term then. I would guess that a lot of Inkscape users don't know what that means. If there is any importance for this page to be understandable by users, then I would suggest either leaving out the word "breaking", or maybe a slightly different phrase, such as "introduce some breaking change" to "introduce a change". However, I wonder if maybe the general impression is that this page is more interesting to developers, who know what that term means. If that's the case, then maybe no change in wording is needed. Just a thought :-)
All best, brynn
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Martin Owens" <doctormo@...2...> Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2015 4:37 AM To: "Brynn" <brynn@...78...> Cc: "Inkscape-Docs" inkscape-docs@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] wording on Next Release page
Hi Bynn,
Breaking in this case means a break in the continuity of what the software will do when rendering sizes. Before it would do X, now it will do Y.
Sometimes these breaks are required so the software can continue to develop along the standard way. For example svg viebox and default dpi in svg2.
There's no loss in functionality, but there may be some images that print bigger (or is it smaller) than they used to if they're not converted.
Martin,
On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 01:25 -0600, Brynn wrote:
Hi Friends, I was just browsing around the website, and happened to notice some wording on the Next Release page that seems odd to me, and that I don't understand.
"It will also introduce some breaking change in how Inkscape handles the resolution of images (don't worry, we will also supply tools to ease the transition!)."
I don't know what "breaking change" means, and I worry that it might be giving a negative impression of "breaking" as in "making it non-functional". I guess it's supposed to mean something like "unprecedented" or maybe "dramatic or extreme change". Or maybe it has a technical meaning that I've just never heard of? I tried to get some clues from both the Roadmap for 0.92 and Release Notes for 0.92, but neither makes any mention of dpi. Does anyone know what that means? Should we find a better way to phrase it? Should some of the things mentioned in the Roadmap or Release Notes be mentioned too?
Thanks, brynn
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