On 22 Apr 2017 07:44, "Steve Litt" <slitt@...2357...> wrote:

On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:49:23 +0200
Donn Ingle <donn.ingle@...155...> wrote:

> Bottom line is I don't think there's a good reason that software
> should be a false dilemma. There're ways to make it suit *many* kinds
> of minds. Look at what Firefox does with Addons, for example.

The preceding paragraph pretty much makes my point. About 1/3 of the
people I interact with on Linux group lists have said that Firefox is
now so bloated as to be unuseable. As years went by and they crammed
more and more features, whether via Addons, plugins or hard coding, the
less stable Firefox has become. On my box, by the time I open my 5th
page and operate the program for a half hour, it responds slower than a
DOS program on a 1200 baud modem.

SteveT

I offered it in example of the idea.

Inkscape is great, but also very slow. A few thousand nodes and it suffers. Thus, I do not want cramming and bloating either.

I speak of a graphic design app that has holes where designers need tools.

You speak of why holes are a benefit. This, to me does not compute.

I know its not impossible to have software as good as Freehand or Flash was, years ago, on much slower pcs - because they existed.

If the SVG std is dissolving, it could be time to rethink ink!