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

🙏🙏🙏

  • neversaydie@programming.dev
    70·
    2 months ago

    Unfortunately I’m neither good with C++ nor with graphics, but Inkscape is a great piece of software, all the best to them

  • spartanatreyu@programming.dev
    104·
    2 months ago

    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?

    • Nindelofocho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 months ago

      That is weird ive always zoomed with i think ctrl+scrollwheel its almost my main way of navigation: zoom out from cursor move cursor where I want to zoom and then scroll back in

    • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
      5·
      2 months ago

      Not sure I understood your problem well and I don’t have Inkscape in front of me right now, but I am pretty sure Ctrl+scrollwheel does zoom?!

    • Slashme@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I primarily zoom in incscape in two ways:

      1. Using the mouse - it zooms to mouse position, so control-scroll is brilliant - even for navigating: scroll out until you see where you want to go, put the mouse there and scroll in.

      2. Using the keyboard (this is incredibly powerful):

      • 3: Fit selected object in the window
      • 4: Fit all objects in the window
      • 5: Fit the page in the window
      • 6: Fit page width.
      • 1 and 2: I seldom use these, but they’re for 50% zoom and 100% zoom.
        • and -: They zoom in and out.

      So often, I’ll click on an object, then press 3 to fit in in the window, and then hit - a few times to see the context better. Perfect.

  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
    31·
    2 months ago

    Every time I had to use inkscape I had the urge to throw my computer into the trash compactor

    I really hope they can improve the usability. But I’m probably also not their target audience when I need to use it once a year

  • shawarma@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    2 months ago

    i’ve got c++ and graphics experience but i don’t think i’ve ever used inkscape. i’ll dig through the list and see if there’s a way for me to be useful here.

    also is there a way to see what issues are actually blocking 1.5? this is a list of 2000 things.

  • CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    43·
    2 months ago

    I realize this is a FOSS post, but does anyone also use Affinity?

    It’s been my go-to for vectors and layouts. Not sure if there are other things that Inkscape does better.

  • pikl@lemmy.world
    115·
    2 months ago

    Inkscape sucks, there’s no helping it until somebody decides the fill tool is important enough to work on. Affinity is the replacement everyone was waiting for. Just get the registration bypass and block their domains like everyone has done with adobe for the past 20+ years.