Hello fediverse penguins!
Being in Linux for 2+ years, I have found alternative solutions for the apps I used on windows. But I can’t find something like Photoshop.
I started using Krita, which is amazing and does lots of things I do, but the text editor when I try to resize text, it just ruins it and gets blurry sometimes. Then I found inkscape, which was good for, text and everything else worked fine, but not much of photo editor.
So what next? any recommendations ?
I also use kdenlive for video editing, and rawtherapee for DSLR photos editing.
But their hands are shaking too much, so they aim, but at the wrong things. I wish any of them could find some UX designers. I forgot about the text editing in Krita, that was horrible indeed.
I like the UI of Krita. Gimp is… Uh… Gimp. But Krita is certainly a modern drawing program.
Gimp’s latest version is much cleaner and a way smoother experience. I’m actually really excited about it. :)
Totally agreed on Krita. It’s a joy to use. My drawing and painting could certainly be better, but I definitely don’t feel like the software is what’s holding me back!
Last time I used it, it wasn’t ready for a Retina HiDPI screen (MacBooks since 2013), but I might want to double-check that. I remember the icons were pixelated. And I’m very sure it did not work on Wayland, which generates a bunch of weird bugs / issues for a multi-monitor setup. I never work with just one display. So, I can use it when I have to, but most times I prefer Gimp. Haven’t been opening Krita for over a year or so. Text editing is a gimp too. Apart from that, the interface wasn’t that bad as it is with Gimp, that’s for sure. Overall, I believe that’s actually a pretty nice program, Krita.
Well, I use an XP Pen display tablet, so effectively a second monitor. I’ve used both Krita on Ubuntu using X11 (in 2024 and before) and since the start of 2025 been using Bazzite which uses Wayland.
Can’t say I’ve run into any display specific issues. Pen tracking gave me some trouble, but it was some setting in KDE and Open Tablet Driver I had to play with to fix that.
My issue was that when run through XWayland, Krita would work only on the primary display (no concept of that in Wayland) with 0,0 coordinates. So, if I’m on a laptop, it would work only on the primary (laptop) screen, but not the external one. I have a script that reorganises my workspaces and makes the external display the primary one, then runs Krita. But it would never work on any other display, if I wanted to use that too, for some multi monitor setup.
I may want to try that again, perhaps that was some bug that was fixed. But I’m surely not going to use X instead of Wayland for Krita.
Interesting. I’ve never experienced this. Back when Wayland wasn’t even considered as a main display server yet there were problems with resolution scaling and desktop sizes, but… Straight up not working?
Hmm… But what do you mean with it doesn’t work? How doesn’t/didn’t it work? What prevented you from, say, opening Krita and just dragging the window to the monitor you want?
The window is unresponsive to clicks, so the mouse never works. You can drag it to the main laptop’s screen, but my laptop is small and the external screen is big, so it’s not useful to have such an app opened on a tiny screen. There are workarounds, but having a native Wayland app is just much more useful than hacking around. Last time I checked (was quite a long time ago, up to a year ago) the development wasn’t too focused on Wayland. I hope they’d do at some point, as overall Krita is good.
I made/maintain a UI-style from scratch for Inkscape, if anyone is interested. It addresses various UI issues
https://gitlab.com/sxwpb/ink-sx-ui
That looks much better, I’m going to try it, thanks for sharing!
nice, feel free to give any feedback if you have any problems with it.
Hey, I tried it. Is it only themes in the settings, or should I do something else. The interface became a bit more aesthetically appealing, so a nice work on that regard. But my pain point is the panels and their very weird behaviour (like you do resize and they are too much all the time). I expect you cannot address that with a theme.
I’m going to keep it, so I may comment more some days / weeks later, if you will.
Yes, this is “surface level” styling as a theme. It targets Inkscape-specific widgets as much as possible, which improves things considerably. It does not change Inkscape beyond the styling level
If you could explain your panel issue in more detail (I don’t understand what you meant exactly) and if there isn’t already, it would be good to submit it as a issue to Inkscape directly