I use Inkscape regularly and I'm very happy with what seems like an increase in development! Good job!
Inkscape 1.3
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Re: Inkscape 1.3
#22Yes! 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.
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#23Some of these features look useful, but their example animations make me feel inadequate.
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?
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#24Inkscape really is one of my favorite piece of software.
The new features are almost all things that I have wished Inkscape had dozens of times.
Font collections (the font menu is slow when you have to go through half of it to find the font you want), pinned colors (I often had a text file opened with hex color code to copy-paste them), margin management (I often had a transparent rectangle at the content size to use for placement), shape builder tool (so many steps to do this work using path difference and path union operations), lasso node selection (all this zoom in and zoom out to select dots one by one when a rectangle selection cannot do it), …
Congrats to the team!
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#25Looks 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 window.
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#26guess I missed publishing of 1.2 haha. it let me feel good to get double update one time.
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#27Yes! 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…
you still cannot create color pallets easily/user-friendly , we did not implemented this yet. you can expect some performance gains but not really 12x it does not scale lineri . you can edit SOME keyboard shortcuts in preference - Interface -keyboard . Some (a lot) of actions are still not migrated to actions so you cannot change shortcuts easily. But this is ongoing process.
I love Inkscape so much, thank you and all of the team for this release :)
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#28calligraphy pen remains unusable, after being made worse in pretty much every regard in 1.x. it's slow, quality of strokes is terrible, and it's been that way ever since 1.0 betas with zero improvement https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1473#note_1128... welp, still using 0.92.5, where the pen is actually responsive and creates good results.
yeha it seems like upstrem bug . Inscape is porting to 1.4 so hopefully this will be addresed there
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#29Yes! 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…
Inkscape also has an experimental OpenGL backend that seems fairly stable. When I tested it, it seemed pretty stable and glitchless. I hope it will replace the Cairo backend soon, since OpenGL will give Inkscape even MORE performance!
Re: Inkscape 1.3
#30Looks 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!