Re: Inkscape can be extremely frustrating

Brynn/CR:

I agree with you 100%.  I can still remember when I first used it; it was
so frustrating!  It did not preform like you think it would.  I also was
just trying
to use the eraser, but it did not erase part of the image like I thought it
would.
If I had a lot of extra money, I would probably just start using Adobe's
Illustrator.
Ken

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:48 AM C R <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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