Re: Inkscape can be extremely frustrating

The problem is there is no agreed upon solution. But I think Inkscape
should never draw an invisible object anyway.

Particularly,

1. If both fill and stroke are set to none, Inkscape should resort to the
Inkscape default setting of the bezier tool, which is black and white
without dashed lines. Drawing an invisible shape is an error.

2. If the user modifies the line width, and the line is set to "none",
Inkscape should set the colour of the line to the Inkscape default : black.

I think this is a better solution than setting the default behaviour of
Inkscape to a bad workflow - users should not be getting used to having to
change the colour of the line and stroke each and every time they draw
something. It is not intuitive because when you draw in real life you pick
up a pen which is the colour you want and draw with it until you are done,
then choose another colour when you want a different one.


-C

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, 07:59 K B, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi, Brynn:
> Thank you for the Link about the Bug fix.  Since Inkscape is free, maybe
> the creators
> are not very motivated to fix everything about  it ?
>
> If it were a high price program like Adobe Illustrator, there would have
> enough money to
> pay programmers to fix it and make it better.
>
> Ken
>
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 10:47 PM brynn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Some developers may remember a message I posted to the mailing lists some
>> time
>> ago, maybe a year or 2 ago, asking to have at least some of the tools set
>> for
>> Own Style (by default) rather than Last Used, to prevent this kind of
>> utter
>> confusion among new users.
>>
>> At first, on the mailing list, some developers sort of hijacked it into
>> their
>> own different project.
>>
>> But ultimately (in a bug report) one developer suggested a reasonable
>> solution.
>> See this bug report:  https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1704777
>>
>> If anyone else (developers) could chime in on that solution, perhaps we
>> could
>> get it coded into one of the next new versions, and prevent this type of
>> headache for new users?
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> brynn
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: K B
>> Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 10:30 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape can be extremely frustrating
>>
>>
>> All I want to do to begin with is draw a simple Line Circle. (white
>> background
>> with white inside the circle).
>>
>> But instead it draws a dashed-rectangle with (4) little squares.  Two
>> squares
>> are on the rectangle and the other two are outside.  So, I go into: Edit,
>> Preferences and the Circle it not even listed under Shapes!   Crazy.
>>
>> Does anybody know what I should do?
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Ken
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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