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Re: Inkscape 1.4

#11

Post by thot_experiment »

msarnoff wrote: post #5

I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.

Is there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity.

Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a menu, it needs to run at 100+fps when I'm editing paths.

EDIT: I installed the latest version (under W10) and while it doesn't degrade to bounding boxes it's still like 10fps and it leaves trailing copies of the item being dragged around the canvas while I'm dragging. Really disappointing.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#12

Post by wg0 »

thot_experiment wrote: post #11
msarnoff wrote: post #5

I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.

Is there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity. Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a…

Can't say about Windows but on Linux - it works flawlessly since ages.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#13

Post by thot_experiment »

wg0 wrote: post #12
thot_experiment wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity. Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a…

Can't say about Windows but on Linux - it works flawlessly since ages.

Just installed under Arch and while performance is better and there are no solitaire style copy-trails when I drag stuff it's still like 15-20fps when I'm dragging even a simple shape around while Illustrator manages 170fps without issue even with complex nested groups.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#14

Post by janci »

wg0 wrote: post #12
thot_experiment wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity. Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a…

Can't say about Windows but on Linux - it works flawlessly since ages.

It's laggy on windows. On linux it works great.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#15

Post by janci »

neves wrote: post #10

I've just bought a Surface Pro tablet. Does Inkscape interface work well in a tablet or with a pen?

Some operations are best with keyboard (i.e. moving, zooming, panning, duplicating, acessing panels) and you need modifier keys quite often. You can map one or two to the stylus buttons, but that may not be sufficient

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#16

Post by wg0 »

thot_experiment wrote: post #13
wg0 wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can't say about Windows but on Linux - it works flawlessly since ages.

Just installed under Arch and while performance is better and there are no solitaire style copy-trails when I drag stuff it's still like 15-20fps when I'm dragging even a simple shape around while Illustrator manages 170fps without issue even with complex nested groups.

Illustrator is on Linux too? Could this low frame rate be related to missing drivers? Very less likely though.

I think Inkspace probably should have its own UI kit rendered directly on GPU. That's lot of work however.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#17

Post by exe34 »

thot_experiment wrote: post #11
msarnoff wrote: post #5

I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.

Is there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity. Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a…

$ nix-shell -p inkscape

[nix-shell:~]$ inkscape --version Inkscape 1.3.2 (091e20ef0f, 2023-11-25)

[nix-shell:~]$ nixos-version 24.05.3787.a781ff33ae25 (Uakari)

Seems flawless for me. simple example I made: https://imgur.com/a/wi0kXbm

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#18

Post by fourteenfour »

ants_everywhere wrote: post #9
billfruit wrote: post #4

Have they added any method of setting a tool style before drawing, rather than adjusting style after drawing?

It's always fun to set up your font, then write some text and realize it's in the wrong font and all your work was lost

I just installed 1.4 to check and it now appears to keep the font you've chosen.

Re: Inkscape 1.4

#19

Post by __mharrison__ »

thot_experiment wrote: post #11
msarnoff wrote: post #5

I love Inkscape. I’ve been using it for 20 years. But it boggles my mind how it’s still so horribly laggy on macOS. At least they got rid of the Xquartz dependency though.

Is there an OS it's not horribly laggy on? Last time I used it you couldn't even get previews of things when you dragged them around, it would just degrade to a bounding box. Heaven forbid you have a scene with any complexity. Every time I see an Inkscape update I skim it for "massive performance upgrades" and am invariably disappointed. Inkscape doesn't need features, it needs to not lag for 5 seconds when I open a…

Never had issues on Linux...
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