On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 3:26 AM <dand...@get2net.dk> wrote: > JZA skrev den 2020-01-06 21:37: > > Hi I'm an avid kde user but I still keep some gtk apps like gimp > > (althought using krita more and more), another one is Inkscape and > > here is where maybe Karbon could improve to compete for further ease > > of use. > > Is a bit ironic that inkscape is one of the few gtk apps that make use > > of panes, something that is very well used in Calligra office apps. > > Yet in Karbon, the panes look a bit lacking on the UX. > > > > Also Karbon looks more like a Vision/UML editor than a publishing > > (Scribus), drawing (design) tool. > > > > It also lacks the use of plugins and effects, that could be a great > > space to grow and explore. Specially if there is a support for > > scripting languages such as JavaScript, Python and Ruby. (Maybe Go and > > Rust) > Yes, scripting was disabled in 3.x due to upstream changes, > but I have not looked into it lately so things might have improved. > Hmmm, not much. Seems only javascript has been implemented. (In kde4 it > could do python, ruby and more) > Sims KDE Bindings are dead, at least their mailing list. PyKF5 is also very poorly mantained, as in only a few libraries are supported from the KF5 base 1 layer. Also comparing it to PyKDE4, perhaps this new iteration of KDE has major roadblocks to get some portability from one version to the next.
> Probably we should look to krita to see how they have dealt with it. > > Finally a redesign of the UX that prevent things like 'fat' widget > > groups that make the pane dimensions grow indefinetly. > > > > I'm new to the list so don't have much context for current topics > > being dealt currently but wonder if some of the issues are being > > discussed already. > Since 3.1 I think only handling of multiple pages has been added, > all ui and graphics functionality is as in 3.1. > That's great for Desktop publishing. Scribus also has this functionality as well as OpenOffice Draw. > I'm not a graphics man so maybe Anthony (current maintainer) has further > comments. > > > > Regards > -- Alexandro Colorado GULTab.org Linux User # 319286 Blog: http://www.alexandrocolorado.org/ <http://www.alexandrocolorado.com/blog/>
