Is there an Inkscape user who has and uses a drawing tablet device available to test some fixes for 1.5?

What we need is some testing on the smoothness of the drawing, it should be better than 1.4 and hopefully not break.

Downloads are here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7427 to get them you click on the green checkmark and click your OS, and download the AppImage, 7z (windows) or dmg.

Comment on the linked page if you can. Here is ok too.

Thanks!

#inkscape #wacom #gtk4#gtk

Is there an Inkscape user who has and uses a drawing tablet device available to test some fixes for 1.5?

What we need is some testing on the smoothness of the drawing, it should be better than 1.4 and hopefully not break.

Downloads are here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7427 to get them you click on the green checkmark and click your OS, and download the AppImage, 7z (windows) or dmg.

Comment on the linked page if you can. Here is ok too.

Thanks!

#inkscape #wacom #gtk4#gtk

Kdenlivers and graphic artists in #Berlin

If you'd like to switch from #Windows to #Linux today is your chance to do so.

Join us at the End of 10 - Akademy Edition install fest!

Date: TODAY, Thursday, Sept. 11
Time: 4PM - 8PM
Location: TU - Berlin (room 3005)
Map: https://osm.org/go/0MZu16s5r

More info:
https://akademy.kde.org/2025/eo10-akademy/

#EndOf10#kdenlive#kde#krita#inkscape#gimp #videoediting

@kde

Kdenlivers and graphic artists in #Berlin

If you'd like to switch from #Windows to #Linux today is your chance to do so.

Join us at the End of 10 - Akademy Edition install fest!

Date: TODAY, Thursday, Sept. 11
Time: 4PM - 8PM
Location: TU - Berlin (room 3005)
Map: https://osm.org/go/0MZu16s5r

More info:
https://akademy.kde.org/2025/eo10-akademy/

#EndOf10#kdenlive#kde#krita#inkscape#gimp #videoediting

@kde

I'm ankle deep in rewriting the Inkscape engine and I'm at that stage where I have successfully disassembled the engine and here it lies around me in little pieces. I keep all the little nubbins in a teapot as is traditional but I enter the long dark teatime of the soul where you wonder if it will ever work again. 😅

@enriquericos https://mastoart.social/@enriquericos/115174860386862556

So, I've not made a video this week as it seemed a bit repetitive to say "still working on it". 😬

#inkscape

I'm ankle deep in rewriting the Inkscape engine and I'm at that stage where I have successfully disassembled the engine and here it lies around me in little pieces. I keep all the little nubbins in a teapot as is traditional but I enter the long dark teatime of the soul where you wonder if it will ever work again. 😅

@enriquericos https://mastoart.social/@enriquericos/115174860386862556

So, I've not made a video this week as it seemed a bit repetitive to say "still working on it". 😬

#inkscape

I have been pushing for #Inkscape to remove/decommission it's Twitter account. But I didn't want to do it unilaterally, bossing people about, but through reasoned policy that can be applied to other captured banana-pants social media platforms.

So I've drafted a policy, which I'm interested in having more people look at as it's going to be one of those gnarly things that's important to get right:

https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org/thread/JPXDI5CUQKURR3WHIPTVMVGSSQ6BVZA2/

What do you think? Worth while approach for a #foss project?

I have been pushing for #Inkscape to remove/decommission it's Twitter account. But I didn't want to do it unilaterally, bossing people about, but through reasoned policy that can be applied to other captured banana-pants social media platforms.

So I've drafted a policy, which I'm interested in having more people look at as it's going to be one of those gnarly things that's important to get right:

https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.org/thread/JPXDI5CUQKURR3WHIPTVMVGSSQ6BVZA2/

What do you think? Worth while approach for a #foss project?

I'm torn about reviewing GSoC this year, there's so much evidence of #ai being used which moves the workload from students to mentors.

Inkscape doesn't have any paid developers who can be charged with taking this work fairly. Only by them volunteering. Do they really consent to this increased workload?

These tools increase confidence, but don't actually increase capability, speed or quality of outcomes. If you need confidence it might be useful, but it's extra work for others.

#inkscape

We have a new person doing the Inkscape challenges this month and I was wondering if you guys would throw them a bit of attention for their first one? Draw a boat using #inkscape 🚣

https://inkscape.org/forums/competitions/inkscape-challenge-august-2025/

#competition#foss #vectorArt #svg #drawing

We have a new person doing the Inkscape challenges this month and I was wondering if you guys would throw them a bit of attention for their first one? Draw a boat using #inkscape 🚣

https://inkscape.org/forums/competitions/inkscape-challenge-august-2025/

#competition#foss #vectorArt #svg #drawing

I think there is a Dunning–Kruger like effect whereby the complexity of rewriting an open source project from scratch is vastly underestimated the less you know about the scope of the work.

You could make 80% of #inkscape in a couple of months of javascripting. But this is 80% of Inkscape's surface. Not actual depth.

Rewrite it all in #Qt? #React? #JS? #Rust? These are ideas aren't bad. But they are vast projects that would cost millions of dollars.

Related to: https://mastodon.uno/@maxdid/114691504835360868

Really impressed by this #inkscape tutorial. Making #GameAssets for #AmongUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGURtu1hTg

Nice work Martin VDA.

Every time I get into doing some code, I get sucked into refactoring another part of Inkscape's ancient past.

The problem is; I have an artists eye for code design and ugly, overly complex, under-tested and worse than all of those asymmetric code makes me all itchy.

Tonight's refactoring: No, version strings should not be parsed and saved by some weird third party function.

#inkscape #programming#codeQuality

I don't think getting consistency with SVG's filters is going to be a problem. None of the implementations for em and ex are consistent. Percent is broken in a couple too, including Inkscape.

@federicomena Let me know if you want the SVG test file.

#inkscape #svg #w3c#firefox #browser #standards #vector

I think there is a Dunning–Kruger like effect whereby the complexity of rewriting an open source project from scratch is vastly underestimated the less you know about the scope of the work.

You could make 80% of #inkscape in a couple of months of javascripting. But this is 80% of Inkscape's surface. Not actual depth.

Rewrite it all in #Qt? #React? #JS? #Rust? These are ideas aren't bad. But they are vast projects that would cost millions of dollars.

Related to: https://mastodon.uno/@maxdid/114691504835360868

Really impressed by this #inkscape tutorial. Making #GameAssets for #AmongUs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuGURtu1hTg

Nice work Martin VDA.

Every time I get into doing some code, I get sucked into refactoring another part of Inkscape's ancient past.

The problem is; I have an artists eye for code design and ugly, overly complex, under-tested and worse than all of those asymmetric code makes me all itchy.

Tonight's refactoring: No, version strings should not be parsed and saved by some weird third party function.

#inkscape #programming#codeQuality