Inklite
Periodically, someone on the inkscape list proposes the idea of a simplified inkscape interface, to make it more child friendly or whatnot.
When I was fiddling with ume and playing with the EEE PC I wondered about a simplified inkscape for subnotebook and embedded hardware, and what it'd take to achieve.
So, in a couple hours of ifdeffing out various things, this is what I came up with:
The main challenge was the aux toolbar - I think we'll need JonCruz's toolbar rework (which missed 0.46 but will definitely be in for 0.47); I just hacked it down. Deciding what to keep in the left toolbox was a tough choice, but I think I kept the most useful tools; the paint bucket would be the next on the chopping block, but I understand kids love it, so it just made it.
You'll note I turned off the scrollbars, ruler, and color palette - this was trivial to do via the menus, and could be turned back on as desired.
I tried getting rid of the grippy handles for the toolboxes, since for this use case people probably wouldn't need to be tearing off toolbars, and it'd save a touch of space both horizontally and vertically.
One thing I noticed as an issue is that some of the tool panels on the right take up a large proportion of the canvas space when at 640x480. A few of the dialogs are rather big too.
So, I think we could quite easily support an 'inklite' version of inkscape, built from the same codebase. Implementation-wise, it'd be easiest to do it as just two different executables via a #define INKLITE type thing; a lot of the menu code and stuff uses structs and static strings that can't be modified at runtime. This is analogous to what we already do for inkview.
Thanks this looks like the perfect program I need to edit my screen shots for my tutorials.
I just hacked it down. Deciding what to keep in the left toolbox was a tough choice, but I think I kept the most useful tools; the paint bucket would be the next on the chopping block, but I understand kids love it, so it just made it.
No, I have no plans to continue work on that; it was just a hacked together proof-of-concept thing. The good news is the inkscape team have taken some of the ideas and modified the UI to be more easily reduced.
This looks really cool. Is this going to be an official part of Inkscape, (ie so that I could download it from the site) or will it be a fork in the project? Is there a download link for what you have so far?
That screenshot looks really great. I'd love to get a copy of "InkLite" - is there any way I could do this?
Hi I build custom versions of puppy Linux and Do have a need for older inkscape replacement and think this would be a great alternative to it, If you could please release a download link via email, I would be more than happy to host it for the puppy Linux community.
Also a Gimp-Lite would also be great if ever possible, maybe with tango icons?
well thanks for your time
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Awesome idea, indeed. Where i can get a win binary with inklite or at least a linux/ubuntu version?
Gimp lite? it would be fantastic too?!