On Sunday 23 October 2005 06:45, John R. Hogerhuis wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 01:59 +0200, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > for everybody interested in the future of DTP/graphics applications on > > the Linux desktop, a very interesting introduction to the Create > > initiative has been published on Newsforge: > > > > http://software.newsforge.com/software/05/10/11/2055236.shtml?tid=132&tid > >=75 > > > > As it seems, the initiative addresses some important points and > > obstacles in Linux/FOSS productivity applications. > > It's an interesting idea making graphics programs more interoperable by > using common directories for brushes, and using the same hotkeys for the > same functions among other things. > > I think for it to work it really deserves a project though, with actual > releases. A bunch of guys on mailing list blowing hot air isn't going to > achieve the goal.
Err there is a project. create.freedesktop.org > Better would be if someone just created a distro or graphic design live > CD with relevant apps patched to have similar key bindings, similar > menus, common folders for brushes, good fonts that Just Work across > apps, etc. The project would mostly be maintenance of a collection of > patches against applications. Completely irrelevant, this is about distros providing this package as a dependency of the "artistic" (graphics, media, etc) apps for common usage. > If it was executed properly and took off, the upstream projects might > accept the patches. And if they don't, well a fork doesn't really seem > necessary for front end patches. But I'll bet other distributions would > accept such patches. Its not about forking, as above its about providing a common set of colour swatches, brushes, etc etc etc that we will all use. Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, Krita, Cinepaint etc etc. Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20051023/a403bbf8/attachment.pgp
