
Toolbar with 'send to another application' menu open: Someone had a grand vision creating this page, and I don't want to see it come to nothing. I will try to return to this page and expand on my ideas more solidly. I suggest information.xml contains metadata about the programs, what they produce, formats etc, and the (potential) database inside the Inkscape folder actually contains information such as location of the image, when it was last opened, by what, created, by what, notes attached to it, whether it is a derivative of another file in the database etc. insert here either actual files, shortcuts to files or database of files.

there could be a database (XML?) of the various programs/files/whatever is needed for efficient operation. This would then contain a set directory structure, e.g. We could then say that every Pixelshare-supporting program makes sure that a Pixelshare resources folder has been established. ~/.graphicsresources or %appdata%\Graphic resources\?Ĭould this system be turned into a new open source project/standard of its own? For example, say we called it something like 'Pixelshare', for lack of a graphic-y sounding name. Unfortunately there is no obvious choice of cross platform and open source Thumbnail browser.Ĭould all the open source projects agree on one location to store all these resources or links to them e.g.

To help manage these resources it would probably be wise to try and incorporate some kind of Thumbnail Browser into any such suite. It would also mean that when you used a vector image in another program you wouldn't have to rasterise it, so output would be better quality.

I think the ability to know that your source svg looks fine in the GIMP or several other programs on anyone else's computer would encourage people to use it a lot more (and would leapfrog the Adobe formats). We need some kind of universal, portable and standard svg rendering engine that can cope with InkscapeSvg. ai format (each text line with each colour name and its rgb, cmyk or whatever)) Palettes (We need a standard here.) (suggestion.5.1.2 Font Management Software (like suitcase or atm)Ĭommon dialogs Tool consistency Resources that can be shared:.5.1 The Open Publishing Tools Organization (OPTO).
