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You can be salty if you want but the majority of the word has moved on from archaic desktop apps.
Generally these 'archaic' desktop apps have much better UIs than all the flat mobile-focused UIs that are popular these days with their oodles of wasted screen space, messy menus and unnecessary extra clicks needed for basic operations.
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Knowing how to collaborate well with LaTeX makes you about as "good" an employee as knowing how to collaborate well with Inkscape. The point is that even in places where about half the employees know how to collaborate with these tools, it is not done because you need the other employees to function.
I meant good as in good faith, but I see your point. I started using Corel Draw ~97, and after trying many design programs of all them seem about the same complexity-wise. Now, many people tried Gimp (which is far from Photoshop) and they wrongly think that Inkscape is another Gimp.
> Layers and objects dialog merged
> Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to
Is it my birthday? Holy moly, those are like three of my biggest dream changes to Inkscape. I think I might need to start donating.
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I feel the same about GDocs. And GSheets is just insane . I have mixed feelings about Google but they knock it out of the park with their drive tools.
gsheets is hilariously slow compared to excel, once you start getting into larger files.
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Hm, I don't think online tools are that far ahead. If I look at the horrible experience, which is Google docs or MS Office 365, especially their word processing parts, they lack behind soooo much compared to a tool like Libreoffice. You cannot even properly use styles and, if I got a few $currency for every silly bug I encountered in those online half-assed tools, I would probably work half time only. If that experie…
> If I look at the horrible experience, which is Google docs or MS Office 365, especially their word processing parts, they lack behind soooo much compared to a tool like Libreoffice. You cannot even properly use styles… As a reasonably serious user of Office 365 and someone who's desperately wanted to like LibreOffice, I'm not sure what you could mean by "properly use styles". I'm guessing this is specifically a cri…
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I meant good as in good faith, but I see your point. I started using Corel Draw ~97, and after trying many design programs of all them seem about the same complexity-wise. Now, many people tried Gimp (which is far from Photoshop) and they wrongly think that Inkscape is another Gimp.
Amusing you use Gimp as an example, as I've always found its (UI) critiques to be "Not Photoshop" critiques :-)
I do like gimp as a bit of a Swiss army knife program, it can do a lot of utility jobs like resizing, outlining, etc which can be hard in some of the more intuitive modern apps, but most of my work now is done on an app like Procreate and then I'll move to gimp for the final edits.
> Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages , which are managed by the new Page tool > Layers and objects dialog merged > Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to Is it my birthday? Holy moly, those are like three of my biggest dream changes to Inkscape. I think I might need to start donating.
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You can be salty if you want but the majority of the word has moved on from archaic desktop apps.
> salty I don't think that means what you think it means.
imean i really like inkscape but it seems obvious to me that being able to organize a focused, coherent, and powerful interface is a rare and subtle skill, and most people with it would not also happen to find themselves successfully herding the cats required for effective implementation in an OSS project
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G Docs is fine but very basic. Great for sharing and collaboration, not great for exercising precise control over the document.
I don’t know what precise control you need over the document in the use case served by Google docs.
It’s not capable of creating precise or maintainable documents (e.g. no styles as others have mentioned), which is a very common need that it’s adjacent enough to that lots of people use it for and then it fails.
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Hm, I don't think online tools are that far ahead. If I look at the horrible experience, which is Google docs or MS Office 365, especially their word processing parts, they lack behind soooo much compared to a tool like Libreoffice. You cannot even properly use styles and, if I got a few $currency for every silly bug I encountered in those online half-assed tools, I would probably work half time only. If that experie…
> If I look at the horrible experience, which is Google docs or MS Office 365, especially their word processing parts, they lack behind soooo much compared to a tool like Libreoffice. You cannot even properly use styles… As a reasonably serious user of Office 365 and someone who's desperately wanted to like LibreOffice, I'm not sure what you could mean by "properly use styles". I'm guessing this is specifically a cri…
However, it's far, far better than any browser-based one I've used.