Re: [Inkscape-user] Inkscape can be extremely frustrating

30 Aug 2018

      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 <cajhne@...155...> wrote:
...
The problem is there is no agreed upon solution. But I think Inkscape
should never draw an invisible object anyway.
Particularly,

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.

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, <kmb999@...155...> 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 <brynn@...3089...> 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: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net
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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