Why should we care about investing effort to UI improvement?įirst of all, of course, because we like Inkscape and are passionate about the project, hence it deserves our attention and energy by definition.īut there are also a few more rational points to make about how the user could benefit from UI improvements.

On Windows, the Inkscape one is located in /etc/gtk-2.0.Inkscape provides the user with a graphically and feature rich environment for creating visual artwork. In GTK, a theme is defined in a gtkrc file. In brief, you can now just install SVG (or PNG) files with the appropriate names into your /share/icons/ folder. Instead, the application looks them up by name from the system, in the 'normal' way, as described by the Freedesktop standard. a Tango Icon Set for Inkscape can be sent in the /share/icons/ directory, you can rename it.įrom Inkscape 0.93 onwards, Inkscape's icons are no longer taken from the icons.svg file.Default one from the Inkscape repository.It can be overwritten or modified by the user (be sure of what you do).Īlternatively, a custom icons/icons.svg file can be loaded from the user Inkscape preferences directory (it will override existing icons from the shared icons file, and fall back to icons from the shared icons file if some are missing in the custom one). Icons are all in an icons.svg file located in /share/icons/. You can find a list of the available keymaps either in the Inkscape preferences, in the dropdown, or in the

In order to share the same shortcuts as other softwares, following configuration files are shipped with Inkscape (look at the /share/keys/ folder):

You can also manually edit the file /share/keys/default.xml, or manually add a custom keys/default.xml in the user Inkscape preferences directory to define new shortcuts or remap (override) shortcuts from the shared keymap file. The shortcuts that you change will be saved in the file default.xml in your user Inkscape preferences' 'keys' directory. In Edit > Preferences > Interface > Keyboard Shortcuts, you can either select one of the predefined keymaps, or you can define your own keyboard shortcuts and save them.

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