Good question. How did you get it in that state? Welcome screen and about screen at the same time?

I’d guess there’s a menu item to open the about screen, and that macOS’s global menus thus allow you to execute various commands before it would be possible to on any other platform.

Exactly!

The problem is foxes, Inkscape does try and distil what is good about modern UI. The critique doesn't fit because it ignores the very real and material efforts in Inkscape's UX team to do exactly what you are saying.

And the improvements in this release reflect a lot of that work.

There's a keyboard shortcut configuration for Illustrator users. Modifiers too, I hear the difference between ctrl and shift really hurts moving between programs.

Not a problem since 1.1

I briefly tested that with 1.1.2, at least r for rotate doesn't do anything.

Are the serious refinements in this new version, along the lines of the refinements you have in mind?

Did you know, Inkscape used to have live sharing of documents.

It was removed because no one wanted to maintain it.

It's not impossible to imagine it being added back in though. Maybe with updated technology.

Noone wanted to use it in the first place :)

Have you considered paying for Inkscape instead ;-)

This is the opposite of reality for SVG.

Inkscape is the only tool pushing the SVG standard forward right now. Mesh gradients, SVG2.0 text flow, and much more besides. None of it supported by Adobe, Chrome, Firefox or librsvg. Only found in Inkscape and it's not like Inkscape broke the standards, we went to the w3c and got involved in setting the spec and then implemented it.

If you have broken svg files, report them to https://inkscape.org/report

Except if you use Linux are care about freedom :-P

ahaha "muh freedom!"

Please provide a link to the message in question. It sounds serious.

The main problem with your story is that there is no "main dev from inkscape". There's a rag tag group of fairly junior developers and amazing support volunteers.

But, I could see how the story could get twisted over time. I'm pretty sure I've never shared my bank account details and I'm the worst bastard at Inkscape for asking users to contribute, all users, in any way they can. This is because contributions are lifeblood, not users. Adobe is great because 90% of their users are contributors where as 0.01% of Inkscape users ever contribute.

So consider contributing your passion about Inkscape at chat.inkscape.org there's a ux team and everything.

"Please provide a link to the message in question. It sounds serious."

I did not follow development of inkcape and the message I mean, was from around 10+ years ago .. in an interview with whom it sounded like the main dev at the time(don't remember the name). And the statement was a bit hyperbole as well, to get across the point, "you want a lot of things, so send a lot of money, so I can hire lots of people to make them happen, otherwise be patient"

So no worries, no one today is (afaik) abusing inkscape ..