Inkscape 1.2

Such a wonderful program. I have used Inkscape for decades! I love it.

THe only problem I have is that when I use it heavily, I get proficient with the UX, then I dont touch it for an extended period and have to re-learn a bunch of stuff each time.

Anyone switch to Krita? I have Krita, but I always go back to Inkscape.

I did all the documentation for the LucasFilm, San Francisco General Hospital, Brocade and others in a combination of Visio and Inkscape.

I'm a huge fan of inkscape, but I find the layers in 1.2 really annoying, and a backwards step. That the visibility "eye" only appears when a layer is not visible seems pretty counter intuitive to me, and that clicking anywhere else on the layer opens it up to reveal the elements inside is also a backwards step to me. Being able to see them is a great idea, but this move makes it much harder to manage documents with multiple layers.

I've used and evangelised for inkscape for many years, but I wish I had the skills to contribute to it in a meaningful way for areas like this.

I think you're one of the few people I've seen complain about the merged layers/objects view... Do you use Inkscape frequently & as an artist, or is it in a different capacity? Is it the principle that annoys you, or just the bugs you mentioned?

I personally welcome the idea a lot, as I don't have to travel 70% of screen distance to swap between layers and objects. In fact, I was using the XML window because of how annoying the old UI was. Also, now its much much easier to organise larger projects into something structured. Previously half the time I would spam send below/above commands on a select object until it popped into place. Now I don't even think about it, it almost just happens because I'm already "in" the place I want my object to be.

I use Krita for painting, but for illustrations I tend to use Inkscape. Sometimes I'll sketch in Krita and then redraw it Inkscape. I wouldn't really use Kira for vector graphics (you can, but it's not really that ergonomic).

Inkscape is one of those programs that I have a love/hate relationship with.

I’m not a heavy user; when I use it, I’m coming at as a novice, usually with a specific task in mind and I find that I might as well have Inkscape open on half the screen and Google open on the other half as I have to search for how to do anything. Once I find it, it works fine, but the UI seems the exact opposite of approachable for me. (It feels in many regards like Gimp was 10 years ago; I have no idea if Gimp got better because I gave up on it with enough good alternatives. Inkscape is better than that, but it gives me the same feeling of “does this really need to be this hard to import a multi-color SVG and make a slight touch up?”)