[OT] Alternative to Inkscape

[Alejandro Tejada]

Include SVG-Edit and current versions of these editors:
https://www.sitepoint.com/6-free-web-based-svg-editors-compared/

I just keep wondering why nobody have forked Inkscape
and included the most requested feature: a plain simple
palette that translate page coordinates from bottomleft
to the topleft of the page.

For more than 10 years, designers have been asking
Inkscape developers that they should move the page
origin from bottomleft to topleft (as svg specification
requires). In fact, someone posted a palette that
translate the page origin coordinates from bottomleft
to topleft (without changing or breaking any other
internal code) but this was quickly shutdown by
project maintainers.

Probably this explains the glacial adoption pace
of Inkscape among designers and why SVG 2.0
specification have been stalled for years and face
the risk of not being approved with all features
requested (many of them already in use)

http://libregraphicsworld.org/blog/entry/is-svg-2-really-on-life-support

Here is the main reason:
"there is not enough svg content using those svg features"

While Macromedia and Adobe support pushed Flash content
presence to an incredible 29% (currently 6% among websites)

https://www.fastcompany.com/3049920/the-agonizingly-slow-decline-of-adobe-flash-player

https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/cp-flash/all/all

SVG is only now that is reaching 4.5%
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/im-svg/all/all

That is what I call "The Reluctant Acceptance of SVG"

Maybe in the near future,
1) Inkscape developers could fulfill with more frequency
the most common and reasonable requests of their
own users.
2) SVG new features are used more frequently and
enough content is posted online using those features.
3) Better designed tools appear than allows to use these
new features without having to use so many workarounds
and acrobatics...
 (for example:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14684846/flattening-svg-matrix-transforms-in-inkscape
)

Al