Re: Why Inkscape is not in GNOME-Office??

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> Mon, 09 Aug 2004 23:01:34 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.office.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Robert Staudinger wrote:

>Charlie, 
>
>i'm in no way involved with the development of dia, but feel urge to
>slightly disagree. 
>I'm using dia quite frequently recently. IMO it's doing a _really_ good
>job in what it's made for and I think it has grown to be a really handy
>tool. 
>The major difference to other GO applications and maybe Inkscape is,
>that dia's interface is not as polished, e.g. the icons in the main
>window.
>

I didn't say Dia wasn't good, it is a good and useful tool and I was in 
no way trying to detract from that.  But (I haven't used it for a couple 
of months) even until recently it had noticable bugs.  Frequently the 
aliasing on shapes would all become opaque until the screen was forcibly 
redrawn, and other such minor yet annoying bugs.

My 'thought' was in the spirit of pooling efforts and sharing resources, 
half of what Dia requires (the canvas and shape control) is there in 
Inkscape, which has a bigger team working on it.  Right?

/waits to be shot down.

- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>