I wonder how the Inkscape devs (et al.) feel about this. Could Inkscape not take a new route, perhaps bake-in some new features*, now that the SVG standards seem to be moot?
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Multiple pages in one file — and export to multi-page PDFs.
A real symbol system — within and
between documents.
Custom colours that don't rely on that fake gradient trick (And make them work between documents too!)
Animation time lines.
Output to gif, video and so forth. Perhaps to HTML5 Canvas with some js framework too.
Scripting, Blender-style, right there in the app. In Python and JS perhaps.
Opening of Gimp native files (xcf) into layers, perhaps.
Use of 3D objects and materials, from Blender (say) directly in the canvas — some kind of OLE layer thing.
I am sure there are many more.
I think Inkscape could have, by now, matched what Flash, Freehand and Corel et al. had 20 years ago! It did not go there because it, honourably, stuck to the SVG standards.
Inkscape is the best thing we have for graphic design on Linux (at least), but it's still way too primitive. Could we dare to think bigger? Start our own standard?
Just wondering. Is this a disaster or an opportunity?