Comment 5 for bug 264052

I certainly don't mind if this feature request closes; I still have my copy of Illustrator 10 for projects requiring a clunky unpredictable interface lacking very basic functionality.

I just thought it was a little unprofessional of the developers to deploy such clean and robust software for free while companies like Adobe struggle every day to sell products of unparalleled obnoxiousness for close to a thousand dollars. I know open source products can never compete with corporate software in this respect, but I thought Inkscape could at least aspire to be a *little* more obnoxious. Sometimes it seems like the developers don't care about anything but making bulletproof software that I enjoy using.

And if you read my first post carefully, I did suggest two specific features I think could help make Inkscape more competitive with Illustrator. I can elaborate on them, though:

1. Remove unicode support. It is currently too easy to make bold and italicized greek symbols. (This should be easy to implement.)

2. Incorporate some random dysfunctional behavior to the eps/pdf importing algorithms. I'm less sure how to go about implementing this as Adobe's dysfunctional algorithms are proprietary. I think using the rand() function with a CPU clock-based seed should at least reproduce the effect qualitatively, though. Certainly jumbling all the letters into a corner should be relatively straightforward, and it might also be nice to randomly make them transparent and/or crash.

I guess if this thread does stay open, I'd like to request a third feature: Please make the loading time longer and add a splash screen that sometimes doesn't render properly. How am I supposed to maximize my unproductivity if Inkscape snaps open right after I click it? I don't even have time to open Firefox.

Thanks for all your help,
Jack