The incoming version of Inkscape is a brilliantly engineered masterpiece designed to punch Adobe Illustrator in the face.

The scale of Inkscape 1.5 is hard to put into words.

  • A full port from GTK 3 to GTK 4
  • A new rendering engine
  • The Unified Font Browser becoming default,
  • Document Tabs being introduced,
  • Many long-standing issues finally being addressed,
  • New and changed dependencies across multiple target platforms.
  • UI/UX improvements

GTK 4 unlocks several possibilities, but it also exacts its own costs. This transition is definitely being felt in the amount and complexity of the work the developers have had to undertake.

Inkscape developers have been pouring their nights and weekends into 1.5 but they are currently feeling overwhelmed.

If you’re a C++ developer, particularly with graphics experience, Inkscape could use your help in pushing 1.5 forward.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/work_items

Adobe has unlimited ressources. Inkscape relies on us

🙏🙏🙏

  • Kangae_Hishiryo@scribe.disroot.org
    161·
    18 hours ago

    I’m not programmer but I’m music producer. I could create one song for them so they can make a video looking to reach more people. Also I can create some SFX for them, like for the UI, the splash screen, etc.

    But I also feel insecure whether they’ll welcome this or if I’ll only add burden to them.

    Any advice? I really want to start contributing to FOSS projects but at the same time I don’t really feel prepared.

    • hooferboof@lemmy.world
      9·
      16 hours ago

      Its hard to be totally prepared until you already have enough experience to know, if you show up and put in work and stick with it youd be shocked how quickly you become one of the “experts” propping the whole thing up 😉

    • crypt0cler1c@infosec.pubEnglish
      4·
      13 hours ago

      It’s open source just send it over or add it to the repository make a pull request. Worst case scenario, it gets ignored and you just did some practice.