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Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by myfonj »

andrea76 wrote: post #22
nicopappl wrote: post #14

Yes! I use regularly Inkscape, and it has been a constant source of frustration. The UI is the exact opposite of how I expect things to work. It's improving at breakneck speed though. 1.2 already solved some of my frustrations (the new interface for linecaps & line dots, amazing!) Almost all the features in this release seem to solve a major frustration I had with Inkscape. * The node deletion behavior, it was so ann…

> Now please give me a dialog for key rebinding, similar to Krita. And better key binding discoverability. Krita is using the default KDE key binding dialog box. I don't know is there something similiar in GTK.

As for discoverability (of keyboard shortcuts as well as commands), few versions back Inkscape introduced `View > Command Palette`, by default bound to "`?`" key:

https://inkscape.org/doc/keys-1.3.x.html#idm734

It allows you to search for command by name and "tooltip description" and displays their assigned shortcuts. This is IMO the one of the few recent features that should be implemented in all applications. In Inkscape it is not as smooth as in IDEs, has somewhat slow first run, but I'm super glad it is even there.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by globular-toast »

jldugger wrote: post #6
NoMoreNicksLeft wrote: post #2

Some of these features look useful, but their example animations make me feel inadequate.

Most of them seem fine but that first one is pure "chip away at everything that doesn't look like David."[1] [1]: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/06/22/chip-away/

Is it, though? It looks like they drew the dolphin with circles. They aren't just randomly placed circles.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by almenal »

Inkscape is a gem, I used to like it a lot in earlier versions despite its clunkiness (after all, I'm not paying for it so I can't really complain if it doesn't looks like an Adobe product). And yet in recent versions it feels like it has improved massively, both in terms of UI and performance. Truly amazing!

Re: Inkscape 1.3

#34

Post by Freak_NL »

duckmysick wrote: post #23
Freak_NL wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A fun thing they show in the animations is how you can do basic arithmetic in the size fields. So if you've setup your document in millimetres (I do this for woodworking designs) and you have a shape with width 5mm you can do this: 5.000 + 2mm Or: 5.000 + 0.2cm I don't know when Inkscape started doing this, but I just gave it a go one day because it felt like something I would put in (and to their credit, they did).

> I do this for woodworking designs Can you talk more about it? What kind of things are you designing? How detailed are the designs?

Nothing professional; just sketches for personal projects in and around the house. Usually fairly detailed, but mostly useful to get a sense of proportion and to design the basic layout of things like built-in closets.

Inkscape's snapping, aligning, and layering features make it a good tool for this as long as you need nothing more than 2D views.

I also use Inkscape to prepare the (plywood, MDF) sheet sawing instructions for the lumber yard. They love it when customers present them with a clear overview for the cuts (and I love it when wood I order is cut correctly). For me it's useful to use a single sheet as economically as possible.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by zelphirkalt »

For me Inkscape has been one of the stars of free software. I especially like how one can align all the things rather easily and exactly, without having to trust ones mouse pointer movement skills and helper lines. Of course SVG is also about exactness, so a tool working with SVGs should also allow you to do things exactly.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by _s_a_m_ »

nicopappl wrote: post #14

Yes! I use regularly Inkscape, and it has been a constant source of frustration. The UI is the exact opposite of how I expect things to work. It's improving at breakneck speed though. 1.2 already solved some of my frustrations (the new interface for linecaps & line dots, amazing!) Almost all the features in this release seem to solve a major frustration I had with Inkscape. * The node deletion behavior, it was so ann…

The UI is garbage. It's like GIMP. I'm more than happy to pay for software especially when it has a well designed (user first) UI. It is not only the UI, it is the UX generally. It's weird and nerdy and thinks it must be "better" somehow.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by CuriousSkeptic »

_s_a_m_ wrote: post #36
nicopappl wrote: post #14

Yes! I use regularly Inkscape, and it has been a constant source of frustration. The UI is the exact opposite of how I expect things to work. It's improving at breakneck speed though. 1.2 already solved some of my frustrations (the new interface for linecaps & line dots, amazing!) Almost all the features in this release seem to solve a major frustration I had with Inkscape. * The node deletion behavior, it was so ann…

The UI is garbage. It's like GIMP. I'm more than happy to pay for software especially when it has a well designed (user first) UI. It is not only the UI, it is the UX generally. It's weird and nerdy and thinks it must be "better" somehow.

Free software isn't about cost primarily though. Its about avoiding stuff like this: https://petapixel.com/2019/10/08/adobe-blocks-all-users-in-v...

In fact being free software means anyone can jump in and change the UI to work for you. Even for pay…

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by planede »

atoav wrote: post #13
flas9sd wrote: post #4

if you use Inkscape in print workflows, two thing stand out: rewritten pdf import and page margins and bleed. To clean up path tracings from surplus edges, a changed "node deletion logic" is also welcome.

If I think for print the single most important thing that I would think of is CMYK support

I expect that having SVG as the native Inkscape format makes this somewhat difficult.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by parasti »

afandian wrote: post #30
jillesvangurp wrote: post #25

Looks like usability on mac improved massively between version 1 and this version. Version 1.0 was barely usable on a mac. I just tried version 1.3 out for a few minutes. The UI looks very slick and responsive compared to what I last saw. I'm not a designer but this looks like I could use it and would probably experience a bit of a learning curve. It's a bit intimidating with all the buttons on all sides of the windo…

I love Inkscape but for as long as I can remember it's always been laggy on a Mac. IIRC at one point there was a disclaimer on the website that the Mac version wasn't well maintained. I'm running Inkscape 1.1 on an M1 Pro. I just measured time between clicking a plain rectangle and it being selected. It takes about 460 ms. New 1.3 version takes 216 ms, about twice the speed. It looks a lot more usable!

How did you measure this?

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by hjek »

JZumun wrote: post #19
berkes wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, above that, is multi-page support. I understand why it's not there, though. But for me, an accidental "need to design this quick" amateur, I really don't like juggling 01_cover.svg, 02_inlay_left.svg 03_inlay_right.svg and so on. Designing a booklet, folder, or even business-card is frustrating.

I think they added multi-page support in the previous point release[0]. I only use inkscape to make graphics though, so I'm not sure how user friendly the implementation is. [0] https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/

it's really good. very easy to import and work on multi-page docs, even with different page sizes. the developers did an amazing job there.
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