Archive for July, 2006

Inkscape mockups

Monday, July 24th, 2006

Did a few mockups today for inkscape .

Just wanted to show my favorite mothod for using the filters once they have finished being implemented.
Below is a mockup.
style dialog

Also I created a styles editor mockup. This is my dream interface ( oh the filters of love svg is really being rendered by inkscape’s current implementation of the blur filter but most of the other new stuff is just mocked up )

style and xml editor

Just incase you didnt notice it , the link icon on the tab means inkscape loaded an externally referenced stylesheet for editing.
I guess I’ll have to show a tab highlighted to illustrate it contains styles relevant to the selected object , then highlight the lines in the editor for the rules that apply to the selected object.

Really, a visual css editor within inkscape is nessecary ( as well as editing of objects that exist in document defs and not on the canvas. For that id have to mockup some kind of object library dialog where users can drag / drop element references to it.

Just a thought.

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Overweight stalker school-girls need vector graphics too !

Wednesday, July 5th, 2006

Last night Karla and I flicked on the TV ( that’s a television for you internet kids) and witnessed personal open-content history in the making…

It seem F-grade comedy show The Wedge has a segment where a schoolgirl named Lucy records messages of comical obsession through her computers webcam. ( to some guy named dylan )

Anyway, this skits always start with a computer desktop environment featuring icons that I contributed to the public domain!!!!

Most prominently is an Inkscape icon, gnome-terminal illustration and various others.  Im sure they  got to these via openclipart where all my contributions are pledged to the public domain and free to use anywhere.
The icons are very old works of mine so im guessing they look the part for a crazy stalker chicks desktop.

This is almost as cool as the mention of ubuntu on teen-drama veronica mars by a character who later is revealed as a terrorist. Hah!  isnt TV great..  stay tuned kids !
Pledging content to PD is great because you dont have to be 70 years dead to appreciate someone else using it.

peace

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