https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=404834

--- Comment #8 from David REVOY <i...@davidrevoy.com> ---
@philip: About "it should be changed to do so"; I understand here that you
might be right and I understand how much you think to weight for your opinion
in the discussion with such a sentence... but it doesn't really help and I
predict this type of feedback is not really either motivating for any dev. I
explain:

- Krita scope is mainly to produce bitmap artworks from scratch. The fact Krita
use SVG as a tool and transitional way to store, import and manipulate objects
doesn't mean it is designed to be a tool able to produce full vector graphics
and subsitute to, eg. Karbon or Inkscape. In this regards, only community
volunteers will probably submit this type of feature; I'm not sure it will be
part of the priority in development. So, you might probably try to advocate in
this type of bug-report what you are trying to achieve on your artwork and how
this feature could help you to do it.

- If you manipulated Krita vector layers; you probably saw it is still
impossible to import bitmap objects inside the vector layers (exept maybe as a
"reference image tool" who has a sort of vector/bitmap behavior). So all the
bitmap image handling will be still to be done and designed. How do you manage
this picture? are they linked with relative path, absolute, or full embed? Does
it needs a dialog? Can a user convert a paint-layer into a vector layer this
way? If you scale down a bitmap object on canvas, what algorythm to use to do
the synthesis of the missing pixels? (bicubic, lanczos, etc?..). That's just a
sample of a lot lot lot of design to do: it is not just a label to plug in the
top menu. It is weeks of stoping everything and work on this specific feature,
and the team is small. This can add perspective.

- Converting a full *.kra project in a *.svg via a 'save as' would need even
more dialogs: how to convert color space? how to export blending mode not
available in SVG?... What to do with other feature like
assistants/references/etc...groups? mask? filter layers?...

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