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Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by AdamBelis »

ixxie wrote: post #50

Looks like a great release - kudos to the team. I grew up with Illustrator and use Inkscape exclusively since a few years. Overall I am quite happy with the features, the UI and the UX. My main pain point is drawing vector curves. I cannot seem to get the intuition on how to rapidly draw curves, and it seems I need to switch tools to remove anchors and modify curvature. In Illustrator I used one tool and a few keyboa…

imho this is sothing inskcape is lacking a lot and lots of needed features are hidden way too much. manly that if you want to create curve and tehn straight line you need to press Shifl+L

I made my proposal for improwing this wholl workflow still waiting for interested developer to implement it https://gitlab.com/inkscape/ux/-/issues/5

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by jldugger »

globular-toast wrote: post #32
jldugger wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

They're not randomly placed but I have no idea how one would do that. Or why -- you have a pen tool and bezier curves.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by cuddlyogre »

AdamBelis wrote: post #69
cuddlyogre wrote: post #62

I like this application. The major thing it is missing is a tool that lets you cut shapes arbitrarily. I know there is something akin to masking, but it leaves the original shape data in the file. As an example. Say I wanted cut a semicircle out of a square. If I'm missing something that already exists, let me know.

ytou can do that with boolean operations in path menu or with new shape buuilder tool

You are correct. Sorry, it's been a while.

What I was actually needing at the time was an arbitrary box/lasso select. Does that exist?

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by hgs3 »

Is there a way to extrude an edge in Inkscape? I'm constantly having to create new shapes, align them with my existing shape by manually positioning the node coordinates, and then union them. I wish I could select an edge on my path and "extrude" it like I could with an edge or face in Blender.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by filcuk »

city41 wrote: post #55
_s_a_m_ wrote: post #36

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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.

I bit the bullet and put many hours into it and came away finding it fine. I almost entirely use key commands, just I like I did with Illustrator. Maybe that's why I find it acceptable. I no longer wish I was using Illustrator.

As a casual Inkscape user, I'm always infuriated by the outdated open/export file dialogs on Windows, that don't remember the last location and won't let me enter the file path. I've resorted to copying files I want to edit to the Downloads folder for easier access.

Other than that, it's been really handy on many occasions.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by myfonj »

sprucevoid wrote: post #41
myfonj wrote: post #31

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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 In…

The command palette in the Windows version of Inkscape is inexplicably slow very often, not only on first run. 5 seconds to open slow. Is it spending time making fancy command predictions? Does it request and rebuild a list of existing commands each time? It is also missing some commands, like the Shape Builder tool. I'd rather have a stupid static list of all possible commands that opens instantly and filters super…

Yes, there is a huge space for improvements there, besides sup-par speed, strange filtering and ordering, unintuitive focus management … but at least it is there and has chance to evolve. I'm quite convinced, that even five seconds delay of (each) command palette invocation is most of the times better than mindlessly sifting through menus and keyboard settings. And as always, the "happy path" is to to use it just once and memorise the direct shortcut of desired command, so next time there will be not use for the palette.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by HKH2 »

gorlilla wrote: post #56
HKH2 wrote: post #53

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Not GP, but when I want to export etc., I want a dialog box to open and then disappear, not add to the clutter of tabs on the right.

I very much prefer the export dialog for raster export where it is in the drawer because that is literally where i carry out a huge part of my workflow (fill/stroke, alignments, doc properties, it's all in one place. Saving to various formats is still done through transient dialogs including format specific settings just like you are describing. But letting me intetact with the document alongside the export settings…

Thanks for your perspective.

Yeah it's a decent piece of software once you get used to the idiosyncrasies, just like Gimp.

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by josiahpeters »

AdamBelis wrote: post #9
Hamcha wrote: post #7

As an Affinity Designer user, it's insane too see how close we went from only Illustrator having Shape Builder to both Designer and Inkscape releasing it so close together. It's super handy and happy to see it as an option everywhere now. Honestly if they focused on cleaning up the UI I could see myself trying out Inkscape more seriously!

We are slowly working also on that

How does on get involved to help with the UI challenges/improvements?

Re: Inkscape 1.3

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Post by sprucevoid »

myfonj wrote: post #77
sprucevoid wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The command palette in the Windows version of Inkscape is inexplicably slow very often, not only on first run. 5 seconds to open slow. Is it spending time making fancy command predictions? Does it request and rebuild a list of existing commands each time? It is also missing some commands, like the Shape Builder tool. I'd rather have a stupid static list of all possible commands that opens instantly and filters super…

Yes, there is a huge space for improvements there, besides sup-par speed, strange filtering and ordering, unintuitive focus management … but at least it is there and has chance to evolve. I'm quite convinced, that even five seconds delay of (each) command palette invocation is most of the times better than mindlessly sifting through menus and keyboard settings. And as always, the "happy path" is to to use it just onc…

There's a year old issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/3227 with no visible progress and a medium priority label. I hope it gets more dev focus soon.
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