Hi bulia, Joshua, and all:
I apologize for my delay in replying to your messages. I just got back from the UIST conference, where I met many UI researchers -- and fellow Inkscape users.
Thanks for your enthusiasm about the undo-saving feature! We would like to release the code for this for all the reasons you mentioned: to comply with the GPL, to get users across platforms, and ultimately to contribute to the Inkscape project. [We'd also welcome help identifying and fixing bugs. :)] What is the best way to do this? As the number of files touched is small, perhaps the fastest is to post these on our website, then work on adding the changes to the SVN trunk. Thanks for your invitation to do so.
Sara
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:52:04 -0300 From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...155...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] contribute to graphics research! To: "Inkscape User Community" inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net, "Inkscape List Devel" inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
(forwarding this to devel list as well)
This sounds like a very nice addition. We (developers) actually were thinking about adding something like that, as an option. Would you consider adding your patch to the SVN trunk so it becomes part of the official Inkscape releases? For users, persistent undo is an important enough feature by itself, with or without helping your graphics research :) And if you keep working on it to add more features like selective undo, this is much better to do in the main trunk.