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.

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.

God I love Inkscape. One of my top pieces of software. I use it for scientific publications too

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

I’m not programmer but I’m music producer. I could create one song for them so they can make a video looking to reach more people. Also I can create some SFX for them, like for the UI, the splash screen, etc.

But I also feel insecure whether they’ll welcome this or if I’ll only add burden to them.

Any advice? I really want to start contributing to FOSS projects but at the same time I don’t really feel prepared.

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 resources. Inkscape relies on us

I definitely don’t fit that criteria, but, we could always stand to pitch a few bucks towards our favorite open source projects to help them thrive! Even in these trying times, we could all skip 1 or 2 takeout coffees for this! :)

Edit: This header picture tho… adventurer has like 6 swords sticking up through him? This isn’t slop, right? :( I’m looking really closely but I can’t tell anymore.

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.

We have GTK4?

im no developer but am a casual Inkscape user, love it. What’s the best way to chip in a few $ to help?

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately I cannot help with the C++ part, but maybe I can improve something with the ci/cd/cs pipeline. Also I hope 1.5 is going to run smooth on linux with GTK4

• A full port from GTK 3 to GTK 4

Uh oh. Will it work outside of Gnome? Menubar toggle-able?

Then again, the software itself isn’t made by Gnome (unlike Gtk, and SimpleScan, Pavucontrol), so that’s likely the case.

I think Inkscape’s UI could def also gain some good improvements even just with little technical know-how! I’ve been trying to make a UI style for it from scratch purely through GTK’s CSS layer (no touching internal code or recompiling at all) and I’m pretty impressed of what’s possible. (see here)

If anyone is even just familiar with CSS, you could certainly make good contributions to the UI layer. Or help out in my repo i posted above, I need to port the style to Inkscape 1.5 / GTK4 (aswell as cover some missing stuff e.g. right-to-left) but I don’t find a lot of time to do it.

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

Inkscape is one of the go-to best-in-class FOSS applications.

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