Inkscape 0.42: The Ultimate Answer

bulia byak writes "After several months of frantic work by the evergrowing developer community, the aptly numbered Inkscape 0.42 is out. The amount of new features in this version is astounding. Quoting from the (gigantic!) Release Notes, "while some of the new features simply fill long-standing functionality gaps, others are truly revolutionary". Check out the screenshots and grab your package for Linux, Windows, or OSX." The screenshots are pretty mind-blowing; this isn't a 1.0 release, but I think you'll agree it's worth checking out.

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Pretty Neat!!

[ad0le]

I need to do a control panel layout for my WIP mame cabinet. This may be just the tool I need.

This might be the most useful thing I've seen between on slashdot in months.

Re:Replacing?

[perseguidor]

You truly haven't read a single word or viewed a single screenshot, haven't you?; Inkscape is a vector drawing/design program.

Such a low ID and whoring for replies with an early post? But perhaps I'm being too harsh : )

side-to-side scrolling

[hjo3]

With as much as these guys must know about graphic design, you'd think they could make a web site where you wouldn't have to scroll from side to side... and I'm at 1280x1024... man.

Kind of shortsighted on their part

[mveloso]

Sticking your head in the ground and ignoring the de-facto standard is just irritating. I use Photoshop and Freehand, and have been since version 1.0 of both products. Ignoring their key combos means not taking advantage of a huge body of learned behaviors.

While it's nice to be all macho and shit, realistically speaking those key combos are like that for the simple reason that they've stood the test of time. Some of those key combos have a lifespan longer than linux. They've tried other key combos, and those haven't worked.

By ignoring that, the developers show that they're either (1) so young that they don't understand and take advantage of the past, (2) they've got NIH syndrome, or (3) they're so full of their own cleverness that they've gone pinhead.

In any case, that's really Bad News for the future of the app.

Re:Kind of shortsighted on their part

[MrMickS]

_sigh_ how does a rant back get modded as Insightful? Oh, this is slashdot and the rant is in favour of OSS.

Wouldn't it have been better to just have pointed out teh keyboard chart and explaining the reasons without having a go back at the parent?

Re:Keep in mind

[ultranova]

far from being a replacement for commercialware

You'd think they'd know that the opposite of free software is not commercial software, but proprietary software . Even free software may be commercial. For the typical /. troll, I'd not be surprised, but for these actual developers, this is an astounding mistake.

The mistake is yours. The quote you showed didn't claim that commercial software couldn't be free software. It did claim that Inkscape is currently far from being a replacement for commercial software, whether free or proprietary. Of course it's possible that "commercialware" is defined elsewhere in the text to mean proprietary software or some subset of it, but the quote certainly didn't make any such claims.

For a typical /. troll, I'd not be surprised, but for you, this is an astounding mistake.