Re: Re: Reply To: Sodipodi / *nkscape...

just a note i as a user of debian unstable are still stuck with the old
sodipodi whereas the inkscape using the same boolean operations as the
actual release of sodipodi is available. additionally inkscape finally
came around to make the property windows float above the document,
instead of being hidden behind it. 

see it as a fact that you have some competition now. another thing. i
dont know what the sodipodi main toolbar is about, its just a hassle to
go there and select the tool i need. i dont know why but its just my
impression. 

for now ... i as a user will switch completely to the next app that
realizes a palette tool. a feature i asked lauris for, i think 2-3 years
ago, and which still hasnt been accomplished yet.

and btw. sodipodi may be a cool name, but let me ask you all one thing -
if you say sodipodi to someone, what will the person think - will the
person associate a vector editing tool with it? i guess no. so much to
the reason why inkscape got so much attention. 

point three - they switched/wanttoswitch to c++. honestly doing large
scale projects in C is shooting yourself in the foot. i am no
professional programmer, but when C++ offers a class structure that
doesnt need obscure hacks like gtk+ C with its gobject stuff (big mess
imho, turning off lots of people with its really unelegant style of
programming) this really raises the bar for the skills needed to work on
a large scale project like this. of course they (will) get more
programmers simply beause they try to make an effort to clean up the
source code in such a way, that hacking on it gets easier and progress
comes faster. to just describe my view on gtk/C. i shed out the money to
buy the german version of programming gnome2.0, i have some knowledge in
C but no real CS education. after reading around 100 pages i am asking
myself if all this stuff is worth it, or if i should switch to C++/gtkmm
or even QT, just because they have a more open - not strictly for CS
student style of approach.

well thats my oppinion on it, i use sodipodi since around it came out
and came to live with its quirks. yet it seems to me that inkscape
realized some ideas and concepts on the userinterface side that sodipodi
would have profited as well from. 

so i either would like to see a merge of the two projects. inkscape is a
much better name for users, and they seem to care about menu
organization, how the property windows behave and other stuff. it's just
my two cents but personally i like the inkscape approach much better.

cheers markus
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