Quoting Kodoichi <formicula@...155...>:
- Wouldn't it be more comfortable for us user to set up a
message board on inkscape.org instead of a nerdy mailing list that fills up mailboxes with unwanted discussions?
It's much less likely you'd get answers from real developers (like me) if we had a forum instead of a mailing list.
For high-volume stuff, asynchronous notification (email) is the only way to go. Having to constantly check to see whether anyone's posted anything new on the web forum means that most busy people (particularly developers) won't read it.
*however*...
Maybe we could borrow the setup that ruby-forum has (RForum). It is a web forum which transparently bridges with the ruby-talk mailing list. Threads on the mailing list show up on the forum, threads on the forum show up on the mailing list, and you can post from either one.
Then people could use whichever one they liked best.
We would need someone to host it, however.
Would it be difficult for a coder to change it so the dialogue boxes and menus stay on top?
Yes. There is a bug in Windows GTK that prevents us from doing it (we have the feature coded, but we actually have to turn it off on Windows because of the bug).
is there an option to activate a box listing all the layers or is it planned to code something like that?
Yes, it's planned but I haven't had time to implement it yet.
-mental