Hi

My opinion, the Draw is a good application because is very easy to use,
Inkscape is better because have more options to draw, but is to hard for the
end-user use.

Mayko Meier
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2010/11/16 Ian Lynch <[email protected]>

> On 16 November 2010 14:35, Luc Novalès <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am OOo, and now LO user.
> >
> > Le 15/11/2010 14:22, RGB ES a écrit :
> >
> >> 2010/11/15 Ian Lynch<[email protected]>:
> >>
> >>
> >>> The point is that for me Inkscape is more usable and if there was an
> >>> option
> >>> to replace Draw with it in LO/OOo I'd take that option. Clumsy
> >>> non-multi-tasking dialogues are just one of many issues. I guess if a
> >>> long
> >>> time supporter of OOo like me is saying this many others would too, so
> >>> rather than trying to justify Draw's shortcomings we need to work out
> how
> >>> to
> >>> prioritise improvements to Draw and learn from applications that do it
> >>> better.
> >>> --
> >>> Ian
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I use Draw only for simply diagrams, for complex stuff I use Inkscape
> >> or (maybe, I'm starting the tests with it) karbon14.
> >>
> >>
> > Draw and Inkscape  are not equivalent. To draw freely, I prefer Inkscape
> > but in some cases I think Draw better to be integrated in an office suite
> :
> >
> >    - specific scale drawing (plans, technical drawing...)
> >    - automatic dimension lines
> >    - different export formats
> >    - multi-slide possibility
> >    - layers comportment (functional layer vs. position layer)
> >    - separated display and print layers functions
> >
> >
>
> Why not incorporate the best features of both products in one application?
> This artificial separation of functions has no logic to it. Why would it be
> a disadvantage to do specific scale drawings in Inkscape? Why would
> automated dimension lines not be good in Inkscape? etc
>
> As we lost layers in OOo 1.0 impress module (used for multi-languages
> > presentation or different displayed and printed documents ), replacing
> Draw
> > by another module should be damageable for LO usability.
> >
>
> No-one is saying do a straight replacement of Draw by Inkscape. The point
> is
> that Inkscape has some very good features that would make Draw better
> (probably Draw has some features that would be of benefit to Inkscape but
> we
> are talking about making LO better not Inkscape). I see no reason why
> improving Draw with some of Inkscapes
>
>
>
> >
> > Luc.
> >
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