On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 10:12:20AM -0500, DAVID GRESSETT wrote:
The Inkscape developers would do well to clone the Paint Shop Pro bit-map editing user interface and the original thumbnailer. It is a better user interface than what Photoshop has. An Inkscape like this would produce a mass defection of the Paint Shop Pro original user base to Inkscape. An Inkscape has the definite advantage in that being free/open-source software, it is immune to the kind of hatchet job that Corel did to Paint Shop Pro.
David, you seem to have some really good ideas here. Would you mind taking an additional step and writing up your thoughts about cloning PSP's features in more detail into Inkscape's wiki? Particularly focus on describing specific PSP functionality that Inkscape could integrate, and speculate on how it could fit into our UI.
Of course, I can't promise that these features will be implemented, but we've often found these sorts of detailed conceptual posts to be handy to guide future development work.
Bryce