Comment 81 for bug 170049

ScislaC++

I love all that you (and team) do, always. I use Inkscape every day,
and love all of it, even the parts that are not perfect, because it's free,
it's ours, and if I wanted to, I could learn how to fix it myself. I
certainly
would not complain about any piece of open source software not being
exactly as I wanted it, since the point of open source software is that
I can make it precisely as I wish at any time. I have that ability.

Thank you.

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On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:29 AM, ScislaC <email address hidden> wrote:

> Jayson: Thank you for adding absolutely nothing of value here other than
> whining that a free piece of software isn't the most perfect tool for
> you personally. It HAS been discussed about why various attempts to fix
> this over the years have been shot down... basically we need to maintain
> compatibility with documents created in the past and fix it properly
> once and for all. Various features in the software currently expect the
> coordinates to exist as they do now and it's not a quick fix. If it was,
> it would have been fixed.
>
> I'm sorry you feel somehow personally slighted for something nobody has
> asked you to pay for or to use. We're currently working with our legal
> counsel on the framework to allow payed projects under the umbrella of
> our organization and I wouldn't be surprised if someone were to take
> this on once that is in place. Either way, almost everyone who works on
> this project is volunteering. Anyone being payed is being done so by a
> third party and the terms of their arrangement (including what they are
> working on) is not something we have control over.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/170049
>
> Title:
> Inverted ruler co-ordinate system
>
> Status in Inkscape: A Vector Drawing Tool:
> Triaged
> Status in "inkscape" package in Ubuntu:
> Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> The y-axis of the rulers' co-ordinate system is
> inverted (increasing upwards), and places the origin on
> the bottom left of the viewport. The SVG spec places the
> default origin on the top left of the viewport, and has
> the co-ordinate system increasing to the right and
> downwards.
>
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