Subject: Re: AbiDraw UI (was: Re: A new draw on XP refactoring)
From: Paul Rohr (paul@abisource.com)
Date: Fri Feb 01 2002 - 12:24:17 CST
At 05:30 PM 2/1/02 +0000, F J Franklin wrote:
>Thanks. I myself am largely uninterested in the GUI, but I don't think
>AbiDraw should be anything complicated.
>
>We simply don't have the resources to do something like dia, though I
>would like to support plugins and maybe plugins could provide libraries of
>shapes expressed in SVG - but really that's far in the future (certainly
>not before Sunday tea-time).
>
>CAD is well out of scope. Professional illustrators will buy FreeHand or
>Illustrator or whatever. You get what you pay for. With time and plugins
>we may be able to support a limited feature set, but to start with we
>should concentrate on basic shape, image and text support.
>
>Probably useful also would be a flow-chart toolbar...
Bingo. Sounds like you've got your scope for src/draw. Now you just need a
volunteer to rough out a GUI for that, after taking a peek at how it
compares to the simple drawing functionality shipped with comparable
products. For example, I expect that all three of the following suites ship
with some sort of lightweight draw component:
- Office
- ClarisWorks
- StarOffice / OpenOffice
On a related note, if you're looking for a way to narrow the scope of the
src/svg component, I'll reiterate my usual suggestion:
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0064.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0078.html
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/01/February/0900.html
Specifially, focus on the subset of SVG which is expressible by the WMFs
that Word likes to embed. Hmm, now why would that be useful? ;-)
Paul
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