11 Jun
2012
11 Jun
'12
4:16 p.m.
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 08:47:20 -0700 (PDT)
Darrell Anderson <humanreadable(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I'll do that.
Hmmm. Sounds
like karbon may not fully implement the
svg standard (Inkscape does, except for a quirk with the handling of multiline
text--it's why
they forked from Sodipodi in the first place). Either that, or it has some kind of
weird problem with overlapping shapes.
Anyway, Karbon did install for me, so I'll try to find some
time to poke at it and see what it can (and can't) do. If I can squeeze out a couple
of
lines of description each tool or setting and a few illustrative screen shots,
that'll be more
than we have, and if I can't, we'll be no worse off.
If possible, would you create a bug report with a nominal punch list of what seems broken
in karbon? That will provide us a place to start. Maybe we should browse the old KDE bug tracker for
karbon bugs and after validating, transfer those reports to our system.
If the bugs have been resolved then likely they were fixed in KDE4 rather than KDE3 and we
could look at the respective patches.
There's also a TODO among the source files that we can look at.
I neither expect nor demand that karbon be the
equivalent of inkscape. If karbon could do just the basics then we have a nice little
scalable vector drawing program. Our project approach toward koffice is the suite is a
light weight collection of office apps. We
don't expect to add features but we want to keep what we have functional. :-)
Well, Inkscape is only a few features short of being an open-source Adobe Illustrator,
which is certainly not lightweight. You don't need everything it has in order to do
simple clipart or flowchart-type stuff, which I think is a niche Karbon can fill quite
nicely.
By the way, my quick tests here indicate that
LibreOffice Draw does not support SVG.
Hmmm. That's a bit odd, especially given that there are really only two widely-used
non-proprietary formats for vector data: SVG and the venerable EPS. I wonder if
anyone's opened an RFE with them.