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 youβre 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
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Inkscape is one of the go-to best-in-class FOSS applications.
Right up there with VLC and GIMP.
"Right up there with VLC..."
Oh awesome! Inkscape must be great!
"...and GIMP."
oh... so is it... good?
Eyyy gimp is amazing, every software has a learning curve :P
The only learning curve gimp has is the one where you learn to hate it.
GIMP has a learning cliff.
More like "and Krita and Blender" perhaps
Yeah at least with Blender thereβs a reward at the end of the learning spike.