On 3/8/11, Bogdan Szczurek wrote: >> - vector layers and drawing geometric primitives [1] > > I'm not convinced of the notion of vector layers. Sure they can be nice > addition but I fear they'll end up being quite frustrating. I think so > because to make them as ellastic and usable as in vector graphics > editors one'd have to double such editor in GIMP. If one won't do that > then there's a danger of whole tool being not much more than a toy. I'm > not generally enemy of the idea, but I've got my fears and doubts if it > hase to be done that way. There are, in fact, different proposal, if you read the page. Each of the three groups came up with a different idea. So there is not *one* way, but actually three ways for you to have fears and doubts about :) > I've got a dream about visual editing program consisting of different > components, each taking care of one of presentation aspects with one > underlaying rendering engine (target aware angine—I don't like cairo's > “I don't care what's on the end” attitude ;)). It's what we, utter geeks, call a framework :) Deneba/ACD Canvas was an attempt to create such one, but it was done on top of software started in mid 80s. Sometimes a whole week passes when I don't wake up in cold sweat seeing it in my dreams. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
