On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Jozsef Mak wrote:
Inkscape, in some ways, is in a similar situation as Freehand was a few years ago. It is new, it doesn�t have to worry backward compatibility issues and free to think out a development strategy which can make it flexible (in terms of usability) and in the mean time it can devise its own character. In my view, it makes lots of sense to take a good look at the commercial programs, adapt what is great in them, and discard the rest. This way of approaching to developing Inkscape would not make it a clone; far from it.
Yup, exactly, you got it. We want to synthesize good ideas from a lot of sources and hopefully produce something which pushes the ball forward in a few areas, too. :-)
If you look through Inkscape's Wiki, you can see some pages that people have written that review various applications. It would be wonderful to flesh those out further, and add more pages about additional applications.
Bryce