<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bernhard Reiter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernhard@intevation.de">bernhard@intevation.de</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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> Further development depends on next issues:<br>
><br>
> 1.Migrate from GIF icons to PNG (will requires include tkpng source code<br>
> into project)<br>
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</div>Am I right in that this would enable higher quality images to be used<br>
in the gui elements? (Because of the 256 index limitation of GIF?)<br>
Sounds like a good idea then.<br></blockquote><div><br>Yes, this will be 32bit RGBA graphics with alpha-channel. Such images <br>really improve GUI.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> > 2.Substitute some tk widgets by ttk analogues to provide modern<br>
> > application L&F<br>
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</div>Can you be more verbose on this one?<br>
If there is no risk involved and development stays equally difficult or easy,<br>
of course getting a better look and feel is a large plus.<br></blockquote><div><br>Ttk widgets (former Tile widgets) are part of tk8.5/8.6 These widgets can be<br>used <span id="result_box" class="" lang="en"><span style="" title=""> together with other ordinary</span></span> tk widgets. But they allow achieving an <br>
appearance much
closer to native platform widgets<br><br><a href="http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/pixmap.html">http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/pixmap.html</a><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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> > 3.Backport import|export filters from sK1 including filters for CorelDraw<br>
> > formats (result of reverse engineering).<br>
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</div>Sounds good again. I guess that SVG will be something that many people will<br>
like to have better support for. However this will not just be a filter.<br></blockquote><div><br>Currently we have improved SVG filter and this implementation looks like a Skencil<br>filter. This works well for simple formats. But in future we are going to use other <br>
pattern (model based) for complex formats like SVG, CDR etc, because simple <br>procedure oriented way is not useful for detailed implementation and difficult for<br>support.<br><br>Concerning Skencil revitalizing announce I would like to make prerelease on the end<br>
of this week because on next week I will fly on Latinoware 2010 conference and would<br>be great to show revitalized Skencil on the conference.<br><br>I have no access to Skencil website so I will post this news on <a href="http://sk1project.org">http://sk1project.org</a> <br>
and I hope building some Skencil packages for most popular distros.<br><br>Final Skencil release with all features discussed before I hope to complete after the <br>conference.<br></div></div><br>-- <br>Regards,<br><br>Igor Novikov<br>
sK1 Project<br><a href="http://sk1project.org" target="_blank">http://sk1project.org</a><br><br><br>