Comment 4 for bug 1289708

On 2014-03-09 08:27 +0100, Jayson Bourne wrote:
> I have to respectfully say that I have never heard of the Cartesian
> coordinate system being used in any web/print graphics application.

Examples: CorelDRAW defaults to the first quadrant of a positive (aka right-handed aka standard) Cartesian coordinate system, Xara Xtreme 0.7 does, Adobe Illustrator used to (switched in CS5 to a left-handed system i.e. origin top-left, y-axis pointing downwards).

There are plenty of use cases for a vector drawing application like Inkscape to work in the first quadrant of the standard Cartesian coordinate system (technical drawings and diagrams for example).

However, the need to change the fixed legacy GUI coordinate system is well known [1], accepted and on the roadmap for Inkscape 1.0.

Linking as duplicate to bug #170049.

[1] Users who disagree with the current setup tend to get very vocal - thus ignoring the fact that this was a design decision taken in Inkscape's predecessor Sodipodi and inherited by Inkscape, and that a proper fix without breaking backwards-compatibility is not trivial.