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AdamBelison Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

> Weird keybindings, e.g. pressing Ctrl +/- does not zoom/unzoom

if you prefer illustrator shorcut inksape offers it in welcome screen but maybe it would not hurt to also add that binding defoult is just +- without modifiers

> The golden path feels buggy. When launching the window is for some reason cropped to the top 1/8th of the screen and needs to be resized, and the artboard is tiny.

this is not true for new installs.

> Exported SVGs are needlessly verbose. This looks like it has gotten better but is still there. For example, exporting an SVG with two gradients actually puts four gradients in the file (combining with inheritance).

Inkscape extends SVG a lot so it can add more features. for exports just one of optimised svg export options inskcape offers

AdamBelison Show HN: Hyvector – A fast and modern SVG editor

it can be set up not to do that and it si set up by default not to do that. If its possible (for some elements in specific scenaris it is not)

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

Yes .. ish we have touch to select hold alth while dragging

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

imho this is sothing inskcape is lacking a lot and lots of needed features are hidden way too much. manly that if you want to create curve and tehn straight line you need to press Shifl+L

I made my proposal for improwing this wholl workflow still waiting for interested developer to implement it https://gitlab.com/inkscape/ux/-/issues/5

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

you dont need to do mental math you can chang your bbox calcuations to use geometry preferences- tools - bbox geometry

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

ytou can do that with boolean operations in path menu or with new shape buuilder tool

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

yeha it seems like upstrem bug . Inscape is porting to 1.4 so hopefully this will be addresed there

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

you still cannot create color pallets easily/user-friendly , we did not implemented this yet.

you can expect some performance gains but not really 12x it does not scale lineri .

you can edit SOME keyboard shortcuts in preference - Interface -keyboard .

Some (a lot) of actions are still not migrated to actions so you cannot change shortcuts easily. But this is ongoing process.

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

its been there for a very long time

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.3

We are slowly working also on that

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.2

take this as a first iteration we need to fix and polish this dialog in next releases. Hover state on row should help with maching rows icons

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.2

gtk3 supports HiDPI BUT just a whole numbers no fractals (100,200,300percent)

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.2

yes you can set this in preferences/ tools and set last used style for every tool you want this. or reset your preferences we set this as defoult behaiviour from 1.1

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.2

Inkscape does how this feature. ux is not the best we should convert it to tool at some point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHOm-EQsA4

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.2

hmm this was never a feature as long i remeber (0.92) so this sounds like a bug that got randomly fixed for you :D

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.1.2

  there is  multipl ways how to skin a cat . you can single clisk to cahnge color fill. selct object an chose color from pallet down or click on  color in info bar that wil open fill and stroke panel

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.1.2

https://inkscape.org/develop/extensions/ https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/wikis/My-First-Effe... https://inkscape.gitlab.io/extensions/documentation/index.ht... https://inkscape-extensions-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

you can also come and ask question in our officia chat https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/inkscape_extensions

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.1.2

i hope you dont take this wrong way but ... what you are suggesting is if you cannot do it ""proplerly'" dont do it at all ... testing such a huge project as inkscape is a lot of work. perosnaly i do it a lot but sometimes you just cannot catch it all. "We" dont have receorses we have just developers that are sometimes work on stuff

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.1.2

grass is always greener on a other side. And rewriting to Qt would be as big as starting new projcet from scratch

AdamBelison Inkscape 1.1.2

It's easy to forget that Inkscape is run purely with volunteers, is a charity with 0 employees. I get that these problems are frustrating but maybe it would be more appropriate to wonder how is even possible that this project runs so well :D. Some technical problems are outside our power. Mainly performance regression was introduced by gtk3. Which was a big blow to the whole project because it took 5years of work. And in the end, we discovered that technology is just slow and we need to migrate once again if we want to fix it. Bugs are not ignored we just simply don't have enough manpower to fix them all