Hi to all,
I've been monitoring Inkscape since I know it. I tried to use sodipodi, but inkscape has boolean ops sooner and have nicer enviroment like panel within work window. I have a few questions: Are you planning to implement masking of vector/bitmap objects? And partial kde-integration (file dialogs)? Gtk file-dialogs are terrible.
Michalz
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 11:06, Michal Zeravik wrote:
Hi to all,
Hello :)
I have a few questions: Are you planning to implement masking of vector/bitmap objects?
No idea, but it sounds like it would be a nice feature. Has anyone else considered this?
And partial kde-integration (file dialogs)? Gtk file-dialogs are terrible.
The next version of GTK+ addresses the file dialog issue, and will be out very soon. I would like to voice my opinion regarding using KDE integration (i.e. using only their dialogs), which is to please stay away from it. Keep the app GTK+, or at least keep it as a configure option (Which for me will turn into a nice little USE flag).
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Daniel Taylor wrote:
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 13:51:29 +0100 From: Daniel Taylor <DanTaylor@...22...> To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] horny user
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 11:06, Michal Zeravik wrote:
Hi to all,
Hello :)
I have a few questions: Are you planning to implement masking of vector/bitmap objects?
No idea, but it sounds like it would be a nice feature. Has anyone else considered this?
And partial kde-integration (file dialogs)? Gtk file-dialogs are terrible.
granted the GTK dialogs are terrible (and I'm not particularly optimistic about the next generation of File Dialog) however hacking in KDE dialogs on an application by application basis is a bad idea and I think it would be best to push for this at a lower level with FreeDesktop.org if they aren't arleady considering it (i suspect they might be which is why I mention it).
If I recall correctly the Inkscape developers removed the KDE integration because it was a fairly large and awkward chunk of code and made things more difficult to maintain. You'd have to ask the developers but I dont think they have completely ruled out the possibility of ever adding it back in again if there was a nicer way to do it.
Sincerely
Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
Hello guys (and ladies) , :)
I have a few questions: Are you planning to implement masking of vector/bitmap objects?
No idea, but it sounds like it would be a nice feature. Has anyone else considered this?
It could be nice feature though. I've worked in Illustrator before I've changed win to linux. It works like this: any object (bitmap, shape, group) should be masked in simple shape. If it would depend on mask-shape fill (white=transparent), it is the best. But I think It's too hard to code this.
And partial kde-integration (file dialogs)? Gtk file-dialogs are terrible.
The next version of GTK+ addresses the file dialog issue, and will be out very soon. I would like to voice my opinion regarding using KDE integration (i.e. using only their dialogs), which is to please stay away from it. Keep the app GTK+, or at least keep it as a configure option (Which for me will turn into a nice little USE flag).
Ok, I noticed you prefer gnome over gtk, it's ok with new version of gtk.
And what about text frames with aligning?
Keep good work. michalz
ps. I can't get a cvs access to build dev inkscape with kerning features.
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 07:16, Michal Zeravik wrote:
It could be nice feature though. I've worked in Illustrator before I've changed win to linux. It works like this: any object (bitmap, shape, group) should be masked in simple shape. If it would depend on mask-shape fill (white=transparent), it is the best. But I think It's too hard to code this.
Could you please submit this as an enhancement request (RFE) here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604309
And what about text frames with aligning?
I'm not sure what you're asking for? Our text tool isn't very sophisticated right now, but it is on the list for hacking. If you're looking for desktop publishing Scribus is a good DTP application.
ps. I can't get a cvs access to build dev inkscape with kerning features.
CVS is building for me... so, it might be something with your setup. Can you post the error that you're getting?
--Ted
On Thu, 19 Feb 2004, Michal Zeravik wrote:
Are you planning to implement masking of vector/bitmap objects?
This sounds like a good feature to put in a feature request ticket for (Go to the inkscape.org homepage and click on 'RFE'.) If you know how to program, this might be a very good feature to get involved in developing.
And partial kde-integration (file dialogs)? Gtk file-dialogs are terrible.
We actually had kde file dialogs originally but took them out. While it's definitely agreed that the kde file dialogs are superior, we felt that keeping the codebase pure Gtk would make maintenance more straightforward. Instead, we've been keeping an eye on the progress in improving the Gtk dialogs, and hope that they'll become available soon. Meanwhile, we're working on improving Inkscape's own file handling system.
Bryce
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