Dear all,.

It is one of my biggest gripes that whenever I close a file Iḿ working on the program closes and I have to start it up again, waiting for my 200+ fonts to load, having everything initialise etc. It's utter bollocks. Why not just close the file and display a grey field until you start a new or open an existing file? Have it ready for a new bout of creativity? You want to close it? Press Alt+f4 or click the cross in the top right corner (it's not a win10 installer is it?).

And yes,.. tabbed files would be very welcome, so those of us that do more than just dabble around with it to check for bugs can just open a whole project in a single instance of Inkscape and start dragging and dropping objects from one file to another. Oh that implies multiple open files displayed at the same time. That would enable us to easily access files with symbols or reusable objects or check their content, make template files more accessible, easily collate a whole project into a multi page document and so forth.

There is a plethora of use cases for that. Not to mention avoiding having multiple instances of the same application cluttering your task bar not showing what file it is due to lack of space. Click this one? Rats!! Wrong one.. This one then? Argh... Next,.. etc. If you like me tend to work with about 10 open instances of Inkscape while working on a new project, it can be useful to spread them around multiple desktops, but it would be nice if you could have it tabbed and multiple instances at your hearts desire. Would also be easier on the screen estate.

Cheers,

Jelle