On Jun 7, 1:47 pm, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 June 2013 15:28, William F. Adams <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I was asked via e-mail, why not > > >>http://inkscape.org/ > > > - The interface is Byzantine and awful compared to FreeHand. > > - It's limited to what SVG allows, as opposed to empowered by having > > Display PostScript for imaging as Altsys Virtuoso did > > - It's not written in Cocoa, so no Services support in Mac OS X. > > - lack of inspector palettes makes the interface less efficient > > Ah, yes, that was me. :¬) > > OK, so you don't like it much... but these are not /major/ criticisms, > and so are probably why the Stagestack project did not attract much > support.
There's nothing more major for a creative application than its interface. > It might be easier to put a new, GNUstep-based front end onto the > Inkscape code than either write a new program or attempt to finish a > very incomplete, formerly-proprietary one. That's an interesting idea --- any takers? William (who still has the source code for xasy on his ebook reader and has been reading through it trying to reach some sort of understanding....) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
