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by pbhjpbhj 4154 days ago
As a long term user I'd agree to some extent, the 1.0 version feel has definitely been and gone - probably I'd say this is about a version 4, to my mind.

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeInvariants are the stated aims of the project and AFAICT they've not achieved the SVG spec compliance completely yet. Though I thought I recalled them aiming at the reduced SVG "basic" set (? if that's what it's called) and reaching it.

I've been a user since it forked from SodiPodi (and indeed was a SodiPodi user too).
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rektide 4154 days ago
I miss SodiPodi, with it being multiple-document single-toolbar'ed. Iirc this was the sole contention of the fork- Inkscape was born explicitly to have each document have it's own suite of controls.
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ScislaC 4154 days ago
No, it was born because of the structure of SodiPodi. Lauris was effectively the gatekeeper and others did not have commit access. He wasn't accepting patches he didn't want to, so a handful of our founders decided to fork and have a much more open approach. As it stands, if you have two patches accepted with the project (Inkscape) and want it, you can have commit access.
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