[Skencil-devel] Revitalising Skencil

[Igor Novikov]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:17 PM, Bernhard Reiter <bernhard at intevation.de>wrote:

>
> > Further development depends on next issues:
> >
> > 1.Migrate from GIF icons to PNG (will requires include tkpng source code
> > into project)
>
> Am I right in that this would enable higher quality images to be used
> in the gui elements? (Because of the 256 index limitation of GIF?)
> Sounds like a good idea then.
>

Yes, this will be 32bit RGBA graphics with alpha-channel. Such images
really improve GUI.


>  > > 2.Substitute some tk widgets by ttk analogues to provide modern
> > > application L&F
>
> Can you be more verbose on this one?
> If there is no risk involved and development stays equally difficult or
> easy,
> of course getting a better look and feel is a large plus.
>

Ttk widgets (former Tile widgets) are part of tk8.5/8.6 These widgets can be
used  together with other ordinary tk widgets. But they allow achieving an
appearance much closer to native platform widgets

http://tktable.sourceforge.net/tile/screenshots/pixmap.html


>
> > > 3.Backport import|export filters from sK1 including filters for
> CorelDraw
> > > formats (result of reverse engineering).
>
> Sounds good again. I guess that SVG will be something that many people will
> like to have better support for. However this will not just be a filter.
>

Currently we have improved SVG filter and this implementation looks like a
Skencil
filter. This works well for simple formats. But in future we are going to
use other
pattern (model based) for complex formats like SVG, CDR etc, because simple
procedure oriented way is not useful for detailed implementation and
difficult for
support.

Concerning Skencil revitalizing announce I would like to make prerelease on
the end
of this week because on next week I will fly on Latinoware 2010 conference
and would
be great to show revitalized Skencil on the conference.

I have no access to Skencil website so I will post this news on
http://sk1project.org
and I hope building some Skencil packages for most popular distros.

Final Skencil release with all features discussed before I hope to complete
after the
conference.

-- 
Regards,

Igor Novikov
sK1 Project
http://sk1project.org
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