Re: Inkscape can be extremely frustrating

We are working hard to make it better and easier and more intuitive to use.
You can certainly help our efforts by donation to the project - every
little bit helps.

In the meantime it's probably easier to learn Inkscape's quirks and just
work around them for now. I've been using Inkscape as a professional
designer for over 7 years now, and once you get the hang of it, it's not so
bad. A lot of bugs have been fixed since I first started using it, and lots
of new features added. Mostly I'm grateful for devs who have helped and
continue to help solve problems, and help where I can, and for community
members who help users and make videos on how to use Inkscape.

Your feedback also helps, so thanks for bringing it to our attention!

-C

On Thu, 30 Aug 2018, 10:27 K B, <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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