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I wish they would copy-paste Blender's UI, shortcuts, and some of the logic. Things like edit mode in Blender versus node edit in Inkscape, so I don't accidenta

I wish they would copy-paste Blender's UI, shortcuts, and some of the logic. Things like edit mode in Blender versus node edit in Inkscape, so I don't accidentally click on another path. There are several operations that don't have hotkeys, like layer/path visibility... They've sorta moved in the UI direction with modifiers in the dev build. As it's currently tooled it can't be set up to align with Blender, really at all, which is really annoying. The box zoom for example frequently trips me up, but that's inconveniently my muscle-memory for panning.

jwagenet 4y ago
I wish they would copy-paste Illustrator’s ui and shortcuts, or have an Illustrator mode. This applies to Gimp v Photoshop too. Many people are coming from Adobe layouts and shortcuts. For example, I find using path tools much slower in Inkscape and gimp, and not just because the shortcuts are different.
- jerojero 4y ago
  Pretty sure this is not possible due to patenting issues. It's not that they wouldn't want to do things in a similar way, it's that they can't.
  - kyleee 4y ago
    Sounds like it would be ideal to implement as a plugin, that way third parties could maintain it and remain at an arm’s length from the main software entity
  - jwagenet 4y ago
    I’m skeptical that shortcuts and button layouts are patentable. I understand that the underlying behavior may be. All major mechanical cad platforms basically have the same tool ribbons and sketching functionality.
whizzter 4y ago
Please no, whilst Blender has gotten better recently... A: It's still far from as intuitive as other 3d programs B: Blender is a full featured 3d suite with animation,etc so modes makes sense, Inkscape is more of a single-use tool. Been a while since I used Inkscape but from memory accidental selection does ring a bell, might be more focused ways to make usage smoother (many tools will go back to a selection via an undo, does Inkscape do this?).
- brnaftr361 4y ago
  I started on Blender so it's all very second nature. And given the FOSS domain Inkscape exists in it makes sense to me to bring some level of parity or at least a lower-level control mapping schema so people who use Blender can select a full-fledged keymap/profile that behaves as expected. But I would disagree that Blender's nature is particularly distinct from Inkscape. More or less the workflow is transitioned from 3D-exclusive to 2.1D. Inkscape is still very much about dragging verts, modifiers, moving, scaling, flipping, rotating... There are obvious non-parallel features like animation but there are also a lot of parallels and I don't think that mapping exclusive edit mode to 'tab', translate to 'g', setting 'MW' to zoom (this is a very convoluted process but can be done)... or at least opening up all that stuff so the user can define it to the extent necessary to reach parity with their favored applications.
- pmoriarty 4y ago
  Blender is such a mess and a nightmare. It's hard to believe it used to be even worse.

jwagenet 4y ago

I wish they would copy-paste Illustrator’s ui and shortcuts, or have an Illustrator mode. This applies to Gimp v Photoshop too. Many people are coming from Adobe layouts and shortcuts. For example, I find using path tools much slower in Inkscape and gimp, and not just because the shortcuts are different.

jerojero 4y ago
Pretty sure this is not possible due to patenting issues. It's not that they wouldn't want to do things in a similar way, it's that they can't.
- kyleee 4y ago
  Sounds like it would be ideal to implement as a plugin, that way third parties could maintain it and remain at an arm’s length from the main software entity
- jwagenet 4y ago
  I’m skeptical that shortcuts and button layouts are patentable. I understand that the underlying behavior may be. All major mechanical cad platforms basically have the same tool ribbons and sketching functionality.

whizzter 4y ago

Please no, whilst Blender has gotten better recently... A: It's still far from as intuitive as other 3d programs B: Blender is a full featured 3d suite with animation,etc so modes makes sense, Inkscape is more of a single-use tool. Been a while since I used Inkscape but from memory accidental selection does ring a bell, might be more focused ways to make usage smoother (many tools will go back to a selection via an undo, does Inkscape do this?).

brnaftr361 4y ago
I started on Blender so it's all very second nature. And given the FOSS domain Inkscape exists in it makes sense to me to bring some level of parity or at least a lower-level control mapping schema so people who use Blender can select a full-fledged keymap/profile that behaves as expected. But I would disagree that Blender's nature is particularly distinct from Inkscape. More or less the workflow is transitioned from 3D-exclusive to 2.1D. Inkscape is still very much about dragging verts, modifiers, moving, scaling, flipping, rotating... There are obvious non-parallel features like animation but there are also a lot of parallels and I don't think that mapping exclusive edit mode to 'tab', translate to 'g', setting 'MW' to zoom (this is a very convoluted process but can be done)... or at least opening up all that stuff so the user can define it to the extent necessary to reach parity with their favored applications.
pmoriarty 4y ago
Blender is such a mess and a nightmare. It's hard to believe it used to be even worse.