They finally updated the UX. Though the only thing I notice is my theme sticks better (could be a matter having gtkrc set locally)
Anything related to inkscape and gimp being powered up and having the functionality of Illustrator and Photoshop (without the bloat and background services) is very openly welcomed.
The stuff that I use something like inkspace for (Pen tool, SVGs) and Photoshop (very very basic photo editing, resizing, exporting) doesn't need a huge hulking application.
What drives the development of these apps? I'd guess Adobe making the applications heavier/bulkier over years, and pushing a cloud model where an app tries to become a bigger part of daily life than 9/10 people want it to be.
My guess is most Illustrator users like the app, but don't want a daemon running in the tray 24-7. And why invest in saving files in Adobe when there's solutions that work for all files, (and it may require a local network filesystems for sizes that big, cloud won't be practical)
On Linux, it was easy to test:
Grab it via https://inkscape.org/gallery/item/18047/Inkscape-09960d6-x86....
They finally updated the UX. Though the only thing I notice is my theme sticks better (could be a matter having gtkrc set locally)Anything related to inkscape and gimp being powered up and having the functionality of Illustrator and Photoshop (without the bloat and background services) is very openly welcomed.
The stuff that I use something like inkspace for (Pen tool, SVGs) and Photoshop (very very basic photo editing, resizing, exporting) doesn't need a huge hulking application.
That's not to mention:
- Blender for 3D: https://www.blender.org/
- Inkscape, Gimp, and Blender, are all scriptable in two ways (headless) and extensions in-app (headless, in app):
Inkspace: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Using_the_Command_L..., https://inkscape.org/develop/extensions/,
Gimp: https://www.gimp.org/tutorials/Basic_Batch/, https://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Extensions
Blender: https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/advanced/command_line..., https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/advanced/scripting/in...
What drives the development of these apps? I'd guess Adobe making the applications heavier/bulkier over years, and pushing a cloud model where an app tries to become a bigger part of daily life than 9/10 people want it to be.
My guess is most Illustrator users like the app, but don't want a daemon running in the tray 24-7. And why invest in saving files in Adobe when there's solutions that work for all files, (and it may require a local network filesystems for sizes that big, cloud won't be practical)