Comments on 2.0.0-alpha1

First of all: awesome work with this plugin! I found this because I got the idea of using Inkscape entirely for creating presentations, but my own idea was simplistic and more in the lines of Inkscape Slide. The idea of enabling slide-view with JavaScript is simple, great and provides possibilities not possible in pdfs and such.

In general, I think that the solution in JessyInk 2 with grouping objects for the effects is quite elegant and makes for an intuitive workflow. Moreso than the old one, where I guess you as a designer had to remember all assignments to all objects and their order numbers. This is not so practical when returning to the presentation a year later.

I have various small comments and suggestions to features. I know that 2.0.0-alpha is a very early version, and that you probably have thought of several of my suggestions already -- perhaps even implemented them -- but then just see them as feedback for cool features ;-)

- A default svg file to install in Inkscapes defaults-folder. This would give a "blank" presentation, containing the Module layer with all the JessyInk command objects.
- A Master slide possibility. This could be included as a special layer in the above default svg file. Furthermore, one could support changing the current Master layer during the presentation by creating a command object defining a layer to be a Module layer (if it contained that command object). This would superseed any earlier Module layers and be applied as a backdrop to all following slides, but would not itself be slide.
- It would be cool with a Display mode which hides the JessyInk command objects. I have no idea whether this is easily possible in Inkscape. It can be a bit difficult to overview the slides with all these objects flowing about.
- When playing the slideshow, it would be nice with a next/previous slide button which skips the transitions, or at least, when pressing next/previous several times, the current transition immediately continues to the next (i.e. if the next slide is a different layer, go immediately, if it is a different view, go to that view directly instead of first finishing the current one). This is e.g. the functionality of Sozi.
- Put pressure on the Inkscape designers to add a rotate canvas option when drawing the presentation ;-) This would be immensely useful if doing persentations in a Prezi/Sozi-fashion with multiple views with semi-random rotations.

Otherwise, thanks for the good work. I look forward to seeing the next version of the program.