Thank you for all your work on Inkscape!

I've used it as part of my scientific work, for many figures in my articles.

Sometimes just to be able to easily arrange and annotate, not really using any of the advanced features.
But having a script that can automatically export to the format I need when the underlying input images change, has just been too easy to set up

But coming up with the initial one is always tricky for me. I want to give them something halfway coherent to review.

The shape tool raw now is fairly basic - I think they just want it to have all the Inkscape features, haha!

Do you not have a design team or volunteers who can help with that work? It's incredibly helpful to be able to lean on other people sometimes for this kind of work.

As for make it like inkscape... I mean we do put effort into our UI (and UX testing) but its not always the bees knees, a new idea might be just as useful to us as to you if you do it.

I've been working on a shape tool which has been fun, and now I'm at the "design a UI" phase which I dread.
(Most of the feedback has been "Make it look like Inkscape!", of course)

If you'd like swappsies

I actually find UI development to be quite stressful, so I think our ideas of "breaks" are a bit different.