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I love Inkscape, and all I wish for it is to take hints from modern design tools like Sketch and Figma, so it would stop look and feel like it is still in 2005.

Sketch has so many small life-improving tidbits, that combined they make me 50 times more productive when drawing anything, than in Inkscape.

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> so it would stop look and feel like it is still in 2005

Please don't do this, or if you do, leave an option for those of us long-term users who are used to the existing UI.

Between the Office Ribbon, Metro/Modern/WinRT/UWP/WinUI 3, Material design, I've up to my ears in flat, wasted space UIs designed to look as empty as possible in the name of 'cleanliness' and I'd hate to have my primary vector editor fall victim to the 2010s UI dark ages.

I wasn't talking about visual gimmicks at all, but about capabilities to point the line to center of a pixel, mask layers, grouping, repeat-modes, automatic rulers, etc. Things you don't even see but without which it is damn hard to live without.

Do you think the team is opposed, unaware, or starved for development resources?

Inkscape isn't "it". It's "us".

I did a lot of tasks in inkscape for a while and switched to Google slides oddly enough. Of course it's a significantly smaller subset of features, but once you get good with it, it's very powerful. That said, I would be happy to switch back for a lot of things now that native macOS support is on the table. I think the big advantages I saw in slides is the collaboration and iteration (you just make another slide and hack) instead of cluttering a workspace and then having to collaborate or be a gate keeper on a local file. Super excited to give this a whirl though!

I just downloaded 1.0, and it's so much better now on mac. With a few tweaks it looks quite nice: turn off border and shadow of default document, change default color palette to something less... 1997, maybe switch icons to "tango" - and it looks pretty clean.

The performance is janky, but I think that's a "known issue" since switching away from quartz - but I'm excited for Inkscape again!

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