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It's a GTK+ X11 application on MacOS X. Last time I tried it, it was completely unusable--copy-paste totally non-functional (would paste vector selections as bitmaps).

On Linux, it's vastly more usable, and quite polished for a GTK+ application.

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Ther's a faq item about this issue: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#copypaste-rasterizes-obje...

There is no such thing as a polished GTK app. GTK widgets are really bad designed take for instance the `open` or `save` dialogues, only somebody how does not care about usability could come with that. Any application (no exceptions) made in GTK+ can be done better, faster in Qt through a much more polished and robust API. it's ashamed that inkscape is tied with such bad widget toolkit.

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