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Inkscape needs help (europe.pub)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by to c/programming@programming.dev
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The incoming version of Inkscape is a brilliantly engineered masterpiece designed to punch Adobe Illustrator in the face.

The scale of Inkscape 1.5 is hard to put into words.

  • A full port from GTK 3 to GTK 4
  • A new rendering engine
  • The Unified Font Browser becoming default,
  • Document Tabs being introduced,
  • Many long-standing issues finally being addressed,
  • New and changed dependencies across multiple target platforms.
  • UI/UX improvements

GTK 4 unlocks several possibilities, but it also exacts its own costs. This transition is definitely being felt in the amount and complexity of the work the developers have had to undertake.

Inkscape developers have been pouring their nights and weekends into 1.5 but they are currently feeling overwhelmed.

If you’re a C++ developer, particularly with graphics experience, Inkscape could use your help in pushing 1.5 forward.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/work_items

Adobe has unlimited ressources. Inkscape relies on us

🙏🙏🙏

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[–] 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (11 children)

I love the idea of inkscape but can't get into it due to a continent sized papercut:

I can't put my cursor on part of the image then scroll to zoom in or out, not even holding a button while scrolling.

The only zoom it lets me do is drag a box on the screen (which is useless for fine details, or annoying when I only want to zoom in a few %), or zoom in/out by a large fixed amount then need to pan to find where I wanted to focus on in the first place.

I sure hope the new version fixes that.

Otherwise, I'm holding out for graphite

Edit: WTF? I disabled my computer's magnifier and I finally have a normal zoom in/out in inkscape.

Why did they set the shortcut to the default shortcut for magnifier?

And how do I change inkscape's shortcut?

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