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Integrating OSS Graphics Apps
erikharrison writes "Newsforge had an article recently which proposed an interesting way to make an integrated OSS graphics "suite" - namely, get existing apps to standardize their look and feel. Now, in a short and insightful article, Bryce Harrington (of Inkscape fame) responds with specifics on the advantages and problems with this approach, and where development should go next in the pursuit of a complete OSS stack for graphic artists."
I don't know what the question is, but SVG is obviously die antwort.
The problem is, you're talking to a crowd who's big complaint about the GIMP UI is that it's not CLI.
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...namely, get existing apps to standardize their look and feel.
...so they can just copy exactly what some other program is doing, and the OSS designers don't have to be innovative or creative on their own? Come on now, do you own work...
Why would you want a standard interface anyway (No, I didn't RTFA)?? That would be absolutely horrible if any major (or even minor) advances, tweaks, changes, etc are made... you're still stuck in an outdated "standard" that probably won't apply to whatever you came up with. Even if you update the "standard", that's just wasting needless time.
Real Men use ImageMagick!
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Yeah, because copy and paste is so rare compared to how often you need to violently terminate your running app.
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