[Inkscape-user] What features would you like to see in Inkscape?

[Anna Morris]

Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software advocate from the UK. I am
working for Open Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/ at the
moment on their new feature-by-feature Free Software crowd funding
platform.

I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I made
Loading Image...).

So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

I will compile a list, using emails, forum posts, Facebook messages and
the current list on the forums. I will also be talking to developers of
course!

I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get past the ideas stage
because all the words and pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help prepare the campaigns, which
I am delighted to do, for at least the next month. My time is your time ;)

Let me know

Anna Morris

[Antonio Roberts]

Hi Anna,

It'd be great to finally have a way to invert the coordinates system
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049

Also proper command line options. The Inkscape verbs feature is a start
but is a bit clunky. For example, could the settings of trace the bitmap
operation be controlled via the command line?

Hope this gets off the ground!

Antonio

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software advocate from the UK. I am
working for Open Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/ at the
moment on their new feature-by-feature Free Software crowd funding
platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum posts, Facebook messages and
the current list on the forums. I will also be talking to developers of
course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get past the ideas stage
because all the words and pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help prepare the campaigns, which
I am delighted to do, for at least the next month. My time is your time ;)
Let me know
Anna Morris
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[Anna Morris]

Hey, thanks for your reply! :) I will put it on the list :) Know any
developers who might be interested in coding it?

Best

Anna

Post by Antonio Roberts
Hi Anna,
It'd be great to finally have a way to invert the coordinates system
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049
Also proper command line options. The Inkscape verbs feature is a start
but is a bit clunky. For example, could the settings of trace the bitmap
operation be controlled via the command line?
Hope this gets off the ground!

[Johannes Bauer]

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

1. Being able to manipulate centers of rotation like objects. Example:
I have a square and a circle, both apart from each other. I want to
set the center of rotation of the circle to the center of the square
(and EXACTLY there, i.e. use the "align and distribute" tool or
something like that).

2. Have the ability to have subscript and superscript in text.

3. Tiled clones: Having the numeric fields round off to 1 digit after
the decimal point is RIDICULOUS and horribly stupid. Remove that
arbitrary restriction. If I want 64 rotated clones, I NEED to enter
5.625° because 5.6° will just not work.

4. Better (documented) "tiled clone" functionality. Either it's broken
of sort or WAY too complicated to figure out. Example: I have a square
and a circle. I would like to have 12 circles, rotated exactly around
the square (like a watch). So I place the center of rotation of the
circle in the center of the square (see #1 BTW). Then Clone -> Create
tiled clones. P1, 30°, 11 rows. This is the result:

http://imgur.com/yEh57rR

Why? The first clone (right below the original) is translated, but I
didn't specify that. I wanted rotation only. Why is it below the
original then? I don't get it.

Oh well. Let's see what happens. Sorry about the rant, this cloned
tiles functionality is really grinding my gears.

Kind regards,
Johannes

PS: All of the above refers to Inkscape 0.48.

[Anna Morris]

Hey, thanks - will add it all to the list! :) Again, let me know if you
know any developers that might be intrested in working on these features :)

Best

Anna

Post by Johannes Bauer

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

I have a square and a circle, both apart from each other. I want to
set the center of rotation of the circle to the center of the square
(and EXACTLY there, i.e. use the "align and distribute" tool or
something like that).
2. Have the ability to have subscript and superscript in text.
3. Tiled clones: Having the numeric fields round off to 1 digit after
the decimal point is RIDICULOUS and horribly stupid. Remove that
arbitrary restriction. If I want 64 rotated clones, I NEED to enter
5.625° because 5.6° will just not work.
4. Better (documented) "tiled clone" functionality. Either it's broken
of sort or WAY too complicated to figure out. Example: I have a square
and a circle. I would like to have 12 circles, rotated exactly around
the square (like a watch). So I place the center of rotation of the
circle in the center of the square (see #1 BTW). Then Clone -> Create
http://imgur.com/yEh57rR
Why? The first clone (right below the original) is translated, but I
didn't specify that. I wanted rotation only. Why is it below the
original then? I don't get it.
Oh well. Let's see what happens. Sorry about the rant, this cloned
tiles functionality is really grinding my gears.
Kind regards,
Johannes
PS: All of the above refers to Inkscape 0.48.
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[darkweasel]

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

One that I'd like to have (e.g. to draw better-looking public transport
network maps) is rounded path corners. This is the relevant feature request:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/202751

I could also see this implemented as a Live Path Effect which would then
apply to all corners in a path. I don't know what is easier to develop
but, for me at least, both would be equally useful.

[William Adams]

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

A more efficient interface. It is much faster / efficient working in Macromedia FreeHand. Features which I miss include:

- an easy way to select objects which are not on top --- Freehand used <Control>click for this
- the ability to do math in measurement text fields (want an object to be 10 units wider? type +10 after its width and tap enter)
- the ability to move selected node(s) and compleat object(s)
- the ability to align a selected node against an object (or multiples)
- It would be nice if InkScape would conform to industry-standard user interface conventions (usually Shift constrains when dragging, but it's Alt which does that when musing the pen tool)
- wrapping tabs and all other text features which FreeHand had
- the ability to put text inside a box w/ user-controllable insets all around, to set the fill and stroke for the box separately from the text and to have the box be auto-sizing to match the size of the text
- graphics find and replace
- more control over placement of UI elements
- interactive controls for origin of text when placed on a path, ability to have a second line on a different part of the path

Basically, just make it work like FreeHand, 'cause it solved the vector graphic interface problem a long while ago, and nothing has improved on it since, save for FutureWave SmartSketch (freeform / distortable paths) and Creaturehouse Expression (skeletal stroke technology).

Interesting bit of reading on FreeHand here: http://www.enrichdesign.com/fhblog/

William

[Chris Tooley]

Better Diagramming tools.

I'd love to be able to make lines that attach to objects, and then have
those end points move with the objects.. :)

Post by William Adams

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

A more efficient interface. It is much faster / efficient working in
- an easy way to select objects which are not on top --- Freehand used
<Control>click for this
- the ability to do math in measurement text fields (want an object to be
10 units wider? type +10 after its width and tap enter)
- the ability to move selected node(s) and compleat object(s)
- the ability to align a selected node against an object (or multiples)
- It would be nice if InkScape would conform to industry-standard user
interface conventions (usually Shift constrains when dragging, but it's Alt
which does that when musing the pen tool)
- wrapping tabs and all other text features which FreeHand had
- the ability to put text inside a box w/ user-controllable insets all
around, to set the fill and stroke for the box separately from the text and
to have the box be auto-sizing to match the size of the text
- graphics find and replace
- more control over placement of UI elements
- interactive controls for origin of text when placed on a path, ability
to have a second line on a different part of the path
Basically, just make it work like FreeHand, 'cause it solved the vector
graphic interface problem a long while ago, and nothing has improved on it
since, save for FutureWave SmartSketch (freeform / distortable paths) and
Creaturehouse Expression (skeletal stroke technology).
http://www.enrichdesign.com/fhblog/
William
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[William Adams]

I'd love to be able to make lines that attach to objects, and then have those end points move with the objects.. :)

Freehand had connector lines --- I never bothered to find out if there was a specific feature for connecting them since I'd just <alt> drag to select the line end and the text box, then move the selected node and the object at the same time.

William

[Inti Alonso]

Like a designer working for the press industry I will love to see inkscape supporting:

Real CMYK.
Spot inks.
PDF/X-3 standard.
Bleed settings and press marks.

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

A more efficient interface. It is much faster / efficient working in Macromedia FreeHand. Features which I miss include:

- an easy way to select objects which are not on top --- Freehand used <Control>click for this
- the ability to do math in measurement text fields (want an object to be 10 units wider? type +10 after its width and tap enter)
- the ability to move selected node(s) and compleat object(s)
- the ability to align a selected node against an object (or multiples)
- It would be nice if InkScape would conform to industry-standard user interface conventions (usually Shift constrains when dragging, but it's Alt which does that when musing the pen tool)
- wrapping tabs and all other text features which FreeHand had
- the ability to put text inside a box w/ user-controllable insets all around, to set the fill and stroke for the box separately from the text and to have the box be auto-sizing to match the size of the text
- graphics find and replace
- more control over placement of UI elements
- interactive controls for origin of text when placed on a path, ability to have a second line on a different part of the path

Basically, just make it work like FreeHand, 'cause it solved the vector graphic interface problem a long while ago, and nothing has improved on it since, save for FutureWave SmartSketch (freeform / distortable paths) and Creaturehouse Expression (skeletal stroke technology).

Interesting bit of reading on FreeHand here: http://www.enrichdesign.com/fhblog/

William

[Anna Morris]

Post by Inti Alonso
Real CMYK.
Spot inks.
PDF/X-3 standard.
Bleed settings and press marks.

Yes, this is so important to me too. Does anyone know of a developer
that might be intrested in finally making this happen? I would so fund
that! lol

Anna

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 3 Dec 2013 10:08:36 -0800 (PST)

Post by Inti Alonso
Like a designer working for the press industry
Real CMYK.
Spot inks.
PDF/X-3 standard.
Bleed settings and press marks.
On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 12:23 PM, William

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would
you just LOVE to see in Inkscape? What is
missing?

A more efficient interface. It is much faster /
efficient working in Macromedia FreeHand.
- an easy way to select objects which are not
on top --- Freehand used <Control>click for this
- the ability to do math in measurement text
fields (want an object to be 10 units wider?
type +10 after its width and tap enter)
- the ability to move selected node(s) and
compleat object(s)
- the ability to align a selected node against
an object (or multiples)
- It would be nice if InkScape would conform to
industry-standard user interface conventions
(usually Shift constrains when dragging, but
it's Alt which does that when musing the pen
tool)
- wrapping tabs and all other text features
which FreeHand had
- the ability to put text inside a box w/
user-controllable insets all around, to set the
fill and stroke for the box separately from the
text and to have the box be auto-sizing to
match the size of the text
- graphics find and replace
- more control over placement of UI elements
- interactive controls for origin of text when
placed on a path, ability to have a second line
on a different part of the path
Basically, just make it work like FreeHand,
'cause it solved the vector graphic interface
problem a long while ago, and nothing has
improved on it since, save for FutureWave
SmartSketch (freeform / distortable paths) and
Creaturehouse Expression (skeletal stroke
technology).
http://www.enrichdesign.com/fhblog/
William

I second the X-3 vote. And if possible PDF
X/1-a:2001 would be super. That would require
real CMYK of course.

[Martin Owens]

Post by William Adams
- an easy way to select objects which are not on top --- Freehand used <Control>click for this

Use <Alt>+click, if your OS prevents this (and mine does) then report a
bug. I couldn't find one for it.

Post by William Adams
- the ability to do math in measurement text fields (want an object to be 10 units wider? type +10 after its width and tap enter)

This is already there in trunk. Width: 804.56+10 -> 814.56

Martin,

[William Adams]

Post by Martin Owens
Use <Alt>+click, if your OS prevents this (and mine does) then report a
bug. I couldn't find one for it.

When I do that, it just toggles the status of the current selection (Mac OS X) --- my Windows machine doesn't have a keyboard (Tablet PC), but will try to remember to try that.

Thanks!

William

[su_v]

Post by William Adams

Post by Martin Owens
Use <Alt>+click, if your OS prevents this (and mine does) then
report a bug. I couldn't find one for it.

When I do that, it just toggles the status of the current selection
(Mac OS X) --- my Windows machine doesn't have a keyboard (Tablet
PC), but will try to remember to try that.

Please do not file a bug report, but instead read
<http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#How_can_I_make_the_Alt_key_work_.3F>

or visit this site with a few useful tips for Inkscape users on a Mac:
<http://rhult.github.io/articles/inkscape-tips/>
(it has a nice screenshot of the X11 preferences which make the 'Alt' key work as expected).

[M.H. van der velde]

Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..

I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this AWESOME program would be…

1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with ‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto my canvas to quickly make a diagram, a flowchart, a UX-sketch, etc. Very analogue to the we work with clones. It’s more a UI thing.
3) A native Mac OSX interface.

Maarten

[Ole Ersoy]

Just wanted to say thanks for all the brilliant work that's been put into Inkscape. The ability to set the coordinates of gradient stops would make my day.

Thanks again!
Ole

Post by M.H. van der velde
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this AWESOME program would be…
1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with ‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto my canvas to quickly make a diagram, a flowchart, a UX-sketch, etc. Very analogue to the we work with clones. It’s more a UI thing.
3) A native Mac OSX interface.
Maarten
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[Josh Andler]

To set the coordinates of the start and end handles or the stops in between?

Post by Ole Ersoy
Just wanted to say thanks for all the brilliant work that's been put into Inkscape. The ability to set the coordinates of gradient stops would make my day.
Thanks again!
Ole

Post by M.H. van der velde
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this AWESOME program would be…
1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with ‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto my canvas to quickly make a diagram, a flowchart, a UX-sketch, etc. Very analogue to the we work with clones. It’s more a UI thing.
3) A native Mac OSX interface.
Maarten
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[John Fisher]

chiming in for better controls over gradients.

I depend on Inkscape on Linux and like it - thanksfor your work.

I find the gradient tools confusing and frustrating and would really like a better way to control the stops. I want to
be able to open a named gradient, change a stop x-y coord. , and change its color. Then close and save. I know this is
possible, but I usually fumble or even fail. Ideally there would be a thumbnail to illustrate the settings as you
experiment.

I'd be happy to do some mock-ups in the new year if thats of any use at all.

cheers

John Fisher

Post by Josh Andler
To set the coordinates of the start and end handles or the stops in between?

Post by Ole Ersoy
Just wanted to say thanks for all the brilliant work that's been put into Inkscape. The ability to set the coordinates of gradient stops would make my day.
Thanks again!
Ole

Post by M.H. van der velde
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven't read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this AWESOME program would be...
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ZNYX Networks

[Josh Andler]

The gradient handling has seen some significant changes since 0.48.
Here are changes shown in the gradient tool itself and in the Fill &
Stroke dialog. http://imgur.com/a/pANDO Thanks to Tavmjong for the
images!

Cheers,
Josh

Post by John Fisher
chiming in for better controls over gradients.
I depend on Inkscape on Linux and like it - thanks for your work.
I find the gradient tools confusing and frustrating and would really like a
better way to control the stops. I want to be able to open a named gradient,
change a stop x-y coord. , and change its color. Then close and save. I
know this is possible, but I usually fumble or even fail. Ideally there
would be a thumbnail to illustrate the settings as you experiment.
I'd be happy to do some mock-ups in the new year if thats of any use at all.
cheers
John Fisher
To set the coordinates of the start and end handles or the stops in between?
Just wanted to say thanks for all the brilliant work that's been put into
Inkscape. The ability to set the coordinates of gradient stops would make
my day.
Thanks again!
Ole
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this
AWESOME program would be…
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ZNYX Networks
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[John Fisher]

Oh that looks great.
Thanks.

Post by Josh Andler
The gradient handling has seen some significant changes since 0.48.
Here are changes shown in the gradient tool itself and in the Fill &
Stroke dialog. http://imgur.com/a/pANDO Thanks to Tavmjong for the
images!
Cheers,
Josh

Post by John Fisher
chiming in for better controls over gradients.
I depend on Inkscape on Linux and like it - thanks for your work.
I find the gradient tools confusing and frustrating
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Senior Software Engineer
ZNYX Networks

[Arlo Barnes]

Post by Josh Andler
The gradient handling has seen some significant changes since 0.48.
Oh good! I had the occasion to work with gradients today and was thinking

about how it would be nice to be able to import gradients, like .ggr - or
from an image (I think the stops were equidistant, determined by the
colours extant in the image, and ordered by number of pixels with that
colour) like IFS tool Apophysis, although this should probably be reserved
for an extension. Having a
curves<http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-curves.html#thoughtThereWasASpatialOneForGradientsToo.huh>editor
as in GIMP would be nice too but not essential.
-Arlo James Barnes

[John Cliff]

You can already import ggr files into inkscape, its been supported since at
least 0.47

Cheers

John

Post by Josh Andler
The gradient handling has seen some significant changes since 0.48.

Post by Josh Andler
Oh good! I had the occasion to work with gradients today and was thinking

about how it would be nice to be able to import gradients, like .ggr - or
from an image (I think the stops were equidistant, determined by the
colours extant in the image, and ordered by number of pixels with that
colour) like IFS tool Apophysis, although this should probably be reserved
for an extension. Having a curves<http://docs.gimp.org/en/gimp-tool-curves.html#thoughtThereWasASpatialOneForGradientsToo.huh>editor as in GIMP would be nice too but not essential.
-Arlo James Barnes
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[Arlo Barnes]

You are right, once I thought to use 'Import' in the File menu rather than
looking in the gradient tool options or the gradient editor, it was simple.
Thanks for pointing that out.
-Arlo James Barnes

[Gabriel Grosso]

Hi Anna. As a Graphic Designer myself i would love to see a nice way to
handle guides, i think that the "spot" where you are able to click a guide
and translate it is too small, maybe select guides with rubberband? Another
topic is the rulers. It will be nice if the rulers could adjust to any
object on the canvas. Other nice implementation i'd love to see, is the
movement/scale/rotation of objects in relation to local coordinates of any
object in the canvas, just like the 1.5.x version of Scribus has. And last
but not least, a better way to handle text. Sometimes i found myself
opening Scribus and adding some text in it over an art created in Inkscape,
even if the text is small, the paragraph management of Inkscape it's really
poor. I'm not asking to replace the outstanding text management that
Scribus has, but maybe a little bit of support to the Inkscape text
handling could be superb!

PS: I'm formely member of a Argentinean 'LUG' like community of graphic
designers/artists called Grafica Libre <http://graficalibre.org/social/>.
We have a small social network where we share our thoughts and works with
gnu/linux software. Maybe we can elaborate a list of items in the name of
the group.

Thanks!

Post by Arlo Barnes
You are right, once I thought to use 'Import' in the File menu rather than
looking in the gradient tool options or the gradient editor, it was simple.
Thanks for pointing that out.
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[Mark Crutch]

Post by Josh Andler
The gradient handling has seen some significant changes since 0.48.
Here are changes shown in the gradient tool itself and in the Fill &
Stroke dialog. http://imgur.com/a/pANDO Thanks to Tavmjong for the
images!

Personally I'll be sorry to see the Gradient Editor Dialog go. It could
certainly do with some improvement, but I prefer it over on-canvas editing
of gradients. The latter requires you to be zoomed into an object enough to
see and click the gradient handles, but no so close that they are out of
view.

For very small objects that can mean a slow redraw as you have to be zoomed
in closely. The handles can even obscure the thing you're trying to modify,
if it's very small. Having to zoom in also means that you can't always see
the effect of your changes in the larger context of the image - or see the
effects on other objects that share the same gradient definition.


That aside, the ability to sort gradients by colour will be a huge bonus -
but what I *really* want is a way to replace one gradient with another.
Once they're sorted by colour, that would let me replace lots of very
similar looking gradients with a single definition, and delete the
"spares". When you're drawing a gradient heavy comic that is often made up
of parts pulled in from previous strips it's very easy to end up with lots
and lots of very similar gradients.

Mark

[Josh Andler]

There is a Symbols dialog in trunk already and it will be in 0.49.

Cheers,
Josh

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:51 AM, M.H. van der velde

Post by M.H. van der velde
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this AWESOME program would be…
1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with ‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto my canvas to quickly make a diagram, a flowchart, a UX-sketch, etc. Very analogue to the we work with clones. It’s more a UI thing.
3) A native Mac OSX interface.
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I would also like to see 3). That would be brilliant :)

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Post by M.H. van der velde
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this
AWESOME program would be

1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with
‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto
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A native Mac OSX interface. This is a must!

Post by Chris Tooley
I would also like to see 3). That would be brilliant :)
-Chris
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Post by M.H. van der velde
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this
AWESOME program would be…
1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with
‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto
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analogue to the we work with clones. It’s more a UI thing.
3) A native Mac OSX interface.
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Second for the native Mac interface.

Post by Aliva
A native Mac OSX interface. This is a must!

Post by Chris Tooley
I would also like to see 3). That would be brilliant :)
-Chris
On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:51 AM, M.H. van der velde <

Post by M.H. van der velde
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this
AWESOME program would be…
1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with
‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto
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analogue to the we work with clones. It’s more a UI thing.
3) A native Mac OSX interface.
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[Stuart Edwards]

Yes, I'll vote for a native Mac OSX interface too.

Stu

Post by Aliva
A native Mac OSX interface. This is a must!
I would also like to see 3). That would be brilliant :)
-Chris
Wow, it really is christmas time. We can send in our wish lists..
I haven’t read the other post very carefully, but my wish list for this AWESOME program would be…
1) The possibility to round individual nodes. (Or, to round corners at all)
2) A DIA or OmniGrafle or even Illustrator-like way to work with ‘symbols’. Let me have a library of objects that I can drag and drop onto my canvas to quickly make a diagram, a flowchart, a UX-sketch, etc. Very analogue to the we work with clones. It’s more a UI thing.
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[Martin Owens]

Hey all,

There's a very large difference between Inkscape stable 0.48 and the
current trunk.

I notice one of two suggestions are already done for the next release.
Could everyone let us know which version your using so we can check the
right version's features.

Best Regards, Martin Owens

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software advocate from the UK. I am
working for Open Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/ at the
moment on their new feature-by-feature Free Software crowd funding
platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum posts, Facebook messages and
the current list on the forums. I will also be talking to developers of
course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get past the ideas stage
because all the words and pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help prepare the campaigns, which
I am delighted to do, for at least the next month. My time is your time ;)
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[Hendrik Boom]

Post by Anna Morris
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?

Inkscape files should have enough (nonsignificant) newlines in standard places
so that revision control systems such as git, monotone, subversion have
no difficulty merging branches, since they usually do merges line by
line.

Of course that won't solve the problem of merging in the presence of
significant structural change, but it could be a big help for merging
smaller changes.

-- hendrik

[[e-mail]]

On my wish list: release 1.xx


I would love to see Inkscape reach release 1.xx .
Most IT-departments will not consider installing it,
because it still is in the 0.xx range.




// Gunnar Lestander
// Technical writer

[Josh Andler]

Gunnar,

This is actually a different issue, as this one is really actually
superficial in the case of IT departments. Our internal developer
criteria for what we consider 1.0 vs the general populace is vastly
different. Thank you for mentioning this though as it had been an
issue we've been discussing.

Cheers,
Josh

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On my wish list: release 1.xx
I would love to see Inkscape reach release 1.xx .
Most IT-departments will not consider installing it,
because it still is in the 0.xx range.
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[Josh Andler]

Hi Anna,

I would say some things I would personally be interested in (and this
being from someone within the dev community) are a focus on features
already proposed for future SVG versions.

This like Gradient Meshes, Hatches, "Arcs" line joins, knockouts on
markers, the paint-order property, etc... this is all just stuff
mentioned in one section of the draft at
https://svgwg.org/svg2-draft/painting.html

Basically, for *me* as an artist, rather than things like cmyk and
spot color support, I'd just rather see my creative toolbox filled
with more options to empower me than something to ease a very specific
output process (print features are irrelevant for screen display, and
my print work already runs through a separate proper prepress tool).

Again this is just me and my .02 and I'm not in any way against things
like proper cmyk & spot color support.

Cheers,
Josh

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software advocate from the UK. I am
working for Open Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/ at the
moment on their new feature-by-feature Free Software crowd funding
platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you just LOVE to see in
Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum posts, Facebook messages and
the current list on the forums. I will also be talking to developers of
course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get past the ideas stage
because all the words and pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help prepare the campaigns, which
I am delighted to do, for at least the next month. My time is your time ;)
Let me know
Anna Morris
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[Donn]

Number 1:
=========
A way to import other SVG files in such a way that they remain "live".

Example:
A logo in one SVG file. The application of that logo in various other
files. Logo needs a change? No problem, edit logo.svg. All the others
(when they are converted to PDF or PNG or when opened) will now have the
updated logo.


Number 2:
=========
Multiple page documents.


Number 3:
=========
A way to spot-export to PDF like you can to PNG [*]


[*] Which itself needs work. Right now you use a layer and you draw
boxes on it, you give them an id, you select one (or more) and then you
hide that layer. Then you export to PNG. It's weird, but it works.


Number 4:
=========
A way to bring Gimp XCF files in. With layers (as far as poss.)


Number 5:
=========
A way to show some layers/elements by outline-only while others are
shown as basic fills. The all or nothing view modes are fine, but
complex drawings are still too slow.
Related:
A way to show large blocks of text as grey rectangles - for speed.


Number 6:
=========
A way to kern entire text areas at once!


Number 7:
=========
Colour symbols. I don't know the right phrase.
Example: you use orange in your drawing. Later you want to try pink
where that orange was used. You change the orange to pink. It changes
everywhere.



Number 8:
=========
Custom palettes. A way to make my own colour collections and families.
Extension to this:
Share palettes across multiple svg files. Change colour once, update
everywhere (across files).
Extension two:
Swap out one family for another - entire drawing changes to new colours.
This would let you change the mood of a work very quickly.



Number 9:
=========
Interactive, on-canvas, ways to explore colour.
Example: Drag from the colour-chooser to the canvas. A swatch appears.
Drag another out. Dropping it creates interpolated swatches from the
first one. Dragging the end-points makes more room for more interpolation.
Grab all, or pick a few -> add to palette.

Another example:
How about a live way to see what colours look like to colour-blind eyes?
Connect swatches to each other through "recipes" such that you get a new
colour. One such recipe could be "Tritanopia". In one you see green, in
the other swatch, grey.


Number 10:
==========
In complex paths, when in the edit-tool, don't draw all the handles!
i.e. some way to draw only the handles that are near the mouse pointer.
The speed of Inkscape is dire when thousands of handles are drawn and
then, dog forbid!, you scroll the canvas or zoom! Arrrggh!




Enough wishing! ;)


\d

[Francesc Serra Graells]

Post by Antonio Roberts
=========
Multiple page documents.

...combined with a sidebar showing page thumbnails would definitely make
Inkscape a good replacement of PowerPoint. I am currently using layers
together with inkscapeslide tool for that purpose.

Thanks again for this fantastic tool!

Paco

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:43:51 +0000

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software
advocate from the UK. I am working for Open
Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/
at the moment on their new feature-by-feature
Free Software crowd funding platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I
made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you
just LOVE to see in Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum
posts, Facebook messages and the current list
on the forums. I will also be talking to
developers of course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get
past the ideas stage because all the words and
pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help
prepare the campaigns, which I am delighted to
do, for at least the next month. My time is
your time ;)
Let me know
Anna Morris

A way to freeze guidelines so they don't get moved
accidentally.

[niyam bhushan]

I use inkscape everyday, 4 to 6 hours minimum.
Been a long-time user since the sodipodi days.
I could give you an almost endless list of suggestions.

Some suggestions for urgent features:

1. A ePub authoring, exporting, editing tool.
2. multiple-page, facing-pages layout, so pages can be correctly split in
pdf-for-prepress workflows
(yeah i know scribus is for multi-page, but designers might just find
inkscape far more suitable for a brochure project, for instance)

i think i should resume submitting bugs and features, been out of the loop
too long.


regards
niyam

Post by john Culleton
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:43:51 +0000

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software
advocate from the UK. I am working for Open
Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/
at the moment on their new feature-by-feature
Free Software crowd funding platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I
made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you
just LOVE to see in Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum
posts, Facebook messages and the current list
on the forums. I will also be talking to
developers of course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get
past the ideas stage because all the words and
pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help
prepare the campaigns, which I am delighted to
do, for at least the next month. My time is
your time ;)
Let me know
Anna Morris

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[Gary Hawkins]

I'd like to see better digital cutter support

also better printer management, esp. for mac users, or the option to use
built in printer or system printer interfaces

also the ability to scan direct from a scanner into the software.

Gaz

Post by Anna Morris

Post by john Culleton
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:43:51 +0000

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software
advocate from the UK. I am working for Open
Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/
at the moment on their new feature-by-feature
Free Software crowd funding platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I
made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you
just LOVE to see in Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum
posts, Facebook messages and the current list
on the forums. I will also be talking to
developers of course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get
past the ideas stage because all the words and
pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help
prepare the campaigns, which I am delighted to
do, for at least the next month. My time is
your time ;)
Let me know
Anna Morris

A way to freeze guidelines so they don't get moved
accidentally.
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[Gary Hawkins]

Also the ability to import/export different formats - currently everything
seems to need uniconvertor to be installed and it's not THAT easy to do
unless you understand the command line interface. be nice if this were
already installed or inkscape had some other way to import other file
formats - like .fcm, .eps and a few embroidery formats too like .jeff or
.hus or such.


Gaz

Post by Gary Hawkins
I'd like to see better digital cutter support
also better printer management, esp. for mac users, or the option to use
built in printer or system printer interfaces
also the ability to scan direct from a scanner into the software.
Gaz

[|| ΣΖΟ ||]

Yes, something and something like gcodetools included by default perhaps?

http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=35&start=20#Linux_install

Post by Gary Hawkins
I'd like to see better digital cutter support
also better printer management, esp. for mac users, or the option to use
built in printer or system printer interfaces
also the ability to scan direct from a scanner into the software.
Gaz

Post by Anna Morris

Post by john Culleton
On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:43:51 +0000

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software
advocate from the UK. I am working for Open
Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/
at the moment on their new feature-by-feature
Free Software crowd funding platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I
made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you
just LOVE to see in Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum
posts, Facebook messages and the current list
on the forums. I will also be talking to
developers of course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get
past the ideas stage because all the words and
pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help
prepare the campaigns, which I am delighted to
do, for at least the next month. My time is
your time ;)
Let me know
Anna Morris

A way to freeze guidelines so they don't get moved
accidentally.
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[Gary Hawkins]

I have no idea what Gcode is or is used for but looks interesting.

I was talking along the lines of the silhouette Cameo or the Phoenix Silver
Bullet cutters that use .svg format but maybe support them in having
direct linking to the cutter driver (currently Sure Cuts a Lot 3 (Scal3),
Signcut Pro or Make the Cut (MTC))

also being able to import/export embroidery files would be very, very cool
as a lot of home machine embroiderer's would be able to design their own
files or adapt svg's for converting in the machines own software (like
embird)

Gaz

Post by || ΣΖΟ ||
Yes, something and something like gcodetools included by default perhaps?
http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=35&start=20#Linux_install

[Gregory Lemon]

I'd love to see a template or symbol library that is made up of other svg
files. This would be excellent for flow charts, UML diagrams, work flow,
etc. Or any other set of images that you'd like to create and re-use often.
What is in the library would be whatever the user wants. Though some of the
common libraries, like I mentioned, could be included in the download.

Any thing that would allow me to create a side bar of svg's that i could
drag and drop in to the current image.

Thanks, Greg

Post by Gary Hawkins
I have no idea what Gcode is or is used for but looks interesting.
I was talking along the lines of the silhouette Cameo or the Phoenix
Silver Bullet cutters that use .svg format but maybe support them in
having direct linking to the cutter driver (currently Sure Cuts a Lot 3
(Scal3), Signcut Pro or Make the Cut (MTC))
also being able to import/export embroidery files would be very, very cool
as a lot of home machine embroiderer's would be able to design their own
files or adapt svg's for converting in the machines own software (like
embird)
Gaz

Post by || ΣΖΟ ||
Yes, something and something like gcodetools included by default perhaps?
http://www.cnc-club.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=35&start=20#Linux_install

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[Jon Cruz]

Post by Gary Hawkins
I have no idea what Gcode is or is used for but looks interesting.

Often used with LinuxCNC to drive things. Such as a HackCNC

http://www.arduinominiconf.org/index.php/AMC2013#Assembly_instructions

Post by Gary Hawkins
I was talking along the lines of the silhouette Cameo or the Phoenix Silver Bullet cutters that use .svg format but maybe support them in having direct linking to the cutter driver (currently Sure Cuts a Lot 3 (Scal3), Signcut Pro or Make the Cut (MTC))
also being able to import/export embroidery files would be very, very cool as a lot of home machine embroiderer's would be able to design their own files or adapt svg's for converting in the machines own software (like embird)

This is a good thing, and also possibly related to tool improvements for working on and sending to services such as Ponoko. https://www.ponoko.com/

[Gabriel Grosso]

Anyone know what's the «progress» of this requests? There are devs actually
working on some of the features?

Thanks

Post by Jon Cruz

Post by Gary Hawkins
I have no idea what Gcode is or is used for but looks interesting.

Often used with LinuxCNC to drive things. Such as a HackCNC
http://www.arduinominiconf.org/index.php/AMC2013#Assembly_instructions

Post by Gary Hawkins
I was talking along the lines of the silhouette Cameo or the Phoenix

Silver Bullet cutters that use .svg format but maybe support them in
having direct linking to the cutter driver (currently Sure Cuts a Lot 3
(Scal3), Signcut Pro or Make the Cut (MTC))

Post by Gary Hawkins
also being able to import/export embroidery files would be very, very

cool as a lot of home machine embroiderer's would be able to design their
own files or adapt svg's for converting in the machines own software (like
embird)
This is a good thing, and also possibly related to tool improvements for
working on and sending to services such as Ponoko. https://www.ponoko.com/
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[Anna Morris]

Anyone know what's the «progress» of this requests? There are devs
actually working on some of the features?
Thanks

Hi, thanks for the reply. I started this thread aaaages ago now - nice
to see it is still going!

The idea was to encourage dev's to put features up here
http://funding.openinitiative.com/ and crowd-fund them.

An example is that one of the core gimp dev's has been having a try; he
does gimp part time and works as a paid developer on other projects the
rest of the time. In this case, the idea is for him to be able to devote
more of his time to gimp by replacing some of his paid work with
crowd-funded work - its a win/win situation really. The main problem
with the gimp project was that the developer chose a feature that was
not especially popular, so with InkScape, I thought it would be a good
idea to ask people first and to give the dev's some ideas as to which
thinks people are really excited about.

My involvement, by the way, is that of a "connector" - an idea the open
funding people are working on, where Free Software people
(users/advocates/developers etc) who have community/marketing/design
skills can help developers with presentation, videos, social media when
they want to crowd-fund a feature.

In general, I am now doing my "connector" role only within communities I
know really well. With InkScape, while there have been loads and loads
of replies from users with ideas, I have had very little response from
the developers and I don't know any of them personally. I would love it
if some of these ideas that would otherwise not get made, could get
crowd-funded into being :)

Again, do contact me if you want to have a go :)

Anna

[Arlo Barnes]

Good clarification. I believe the GIMP feature was mirror painting, which
is interesting and certainly useful to painters (judging by
CTRL-Paint<http://ctrlpaint.com>,
an excellent resource which is sadly PhotoShop-centric) but not as much to
me for cosmetic editing.

It seems like the first step in something like this is ascertaining whether
the devs would be able to devote more time if there were feature bounties
anyway, that is not always the case.
Anyone know what's the «progress» of this requests? There are devs actually

Post by Gabriel Grosso
working on some of the features?

Thanks

Post by Gabriel Grosso
Hi, thanks for the reply. I started this thread aaaages ago now - nice to
see it is still going!
The idea was to encourage dev's to put features up here
http://funding.openinitiative.com/ and crowd-fund them.
An example is that one of the core gimp dev's has been having a try; he
does gimp part time and works as a paid developer on other projects the
rest of the time. In this case, the idea is for him to be able to devote
more of his time to gimp by replacing some of his paid work with
crowd-funded work - its a win/win situation really. The main problem with
the gimp project was that the developer chose a feature that was not
especially popular, so with InkScape, I thought it would be a good idea to
ask people first and to give the dev's some ideas as to which thinks people
are really excited about.
My involvement, by the way, is that of a "connector" - an idea the open
funding people are working on, where Free Software people
(users/advocates/developers etc) who have community/marketing/design skills
can help developers with presentation, videos, social media when they want
to crowd-fund a feature.
In general, I am now doing my "connector" role only within communities I
know really well. With InkScape, while there have been loads and loads of
replies from users with ideas, I have had very little response from the
developers and I don't know any of them personally. I would love it if some
of these ideas that would otherwise not get made, could get crowd-funded
into being :)
Again, do contact me if you want to have a go :)
Anna

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-Arlo James Barnes

[Anna Morris]

Post by Arlo Barnes
It seems like the first step in something like this is ascertaining
whether the devs would be able to devote more time if there were
feature bounties anyway, that is not always the case.

I agree. I think this will be a slow change too. If we want to have more
full time, paid developers in Free Software then we need to really
refine some of these ways of funding them. I am concerned about the
number of folk resorting to to "bottlenecking" type methods, and of
course there are a lot of dev's paid for by big business too
(google+mozilla). I feel that the crowd-funding method would be a very
good thing if we scaled it up a notch in some ways (number of projects
funded) but tuned it in more too (specific features as well as huge and
general projects)

A
x

[Gregory Lemon]

I'm not a developer but I am a software project manager who loves using
Inkscape.

How can I help?

Thanks, Greg

Anyone know what's the «progress» of this requests? There are devs
actually working on some of the features?
Thanks
Hi, thanks for the reply. I started this thread aaaages ago now - nice to
see it is still going!
The idea was to encourage dev's to put features up here
http://funding.openinitiative.com/ and crowd-fund them.
An example is that one of the core gimp dev's has been having a try; he
does gimp part time and works as a paid developer on other projects the
rest of the time. In this case, the idea is for him to be able to devote
more of his time to gimp by replacing some of his paid work with
crowd-funded work - its a win/win situation really. The main problem with
the gimp project was that the developer chose a feature that was not
especially popular, so with InkScape, I thought it would be a good idea to
ask people first and to give the dev's some ideas as to which thinks people
are really excited about.
My involvement, by the way, is that of a "connector" - an idea the open
funding people are working on, where Free Software people
(users/advocates/developers etc) who have community/marketing/design skills
can help developers with presentation, videos, social media when they want
to crowd-fund a feature.
In general, I am now doing my "connector" role only within communities I
know really well. With InkScape, while there have been loads and loads of
replies from users with ideas, I have had very little response from the
developers and I don't know any of them personally. I would love it if some
of these ideas that would otherwise not get made, could get crowd-funded
into being :)
Again, do contact me if you want to have a go :)
Anna
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[Martin Owens]

Post by Gregory Lemon
I'm not a developer but I am a software project manager who loves
using Inkscape.

The first task is to join the inkscape-devel mailing list[1], this will
allow you to talk about project related activities.

Next is to find the right way to use project management skills to make
inkscape better. Suv does a pretty good job managing bug reports[2] and
likewise we have no one who's job it is to look after blueprints[3] and
tidy up wishlist items into blueprints.

Would this be something you'd be interested in doing?

Best Regards, Martin Owens

[1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape
[3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/inkscape

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:43:51 +0000

Post by Anna Morris
Hey, my name is Anna, I am a Free Software
advocate from the UK. I am working for Open
Initiative http://funding.openinitiative.com/
at the moment on their new feature-by-feature
Free Software crowd funding platform.
I am also an Inkscape user (here is something I
made
http://fsfe.org/graphics/xbox-infographic.png).
So, some a question - which features would you
just LOVE to see in Inkscape? What is missing?
I will compile a list, using emails, forum
posts, Facebook messages and the current list
on the forums. I will also be talking to
developers of course!
I know crowd funding campaigns often don't get
past the ideas stage because all the words and
pictures are hard work to put together and
people are busy etc - but I am here to help
prepare the campaigns, which I am delighted to
do, for at least the next month. My time is
your time ;)
Let me know
Anna Morris

I forgot the biggie: export to pdf X/1-a:2001 and
X-3 formats.