Inkscape#

Install#

Use the ppa to install Inkscape (see Installing Inkscape - Inkscape Wiki). If you install the snap package the file browser (save dialog) won’t be integrated with your system and therefore won’t let you save a new file in e.g. a recently opened directory or create a new file in the same directory the file you are currently working with is saved in.

See CONTRIBUTING.md · Inkscape · GitLab to potentially add this to your monorepo and build it yourself. Why have the source to be able to read it? You’d like to understand the preferences.xml file better (the dotf changes seem random). Change into the source directory, run ctags, and per Preferences subsystem find the Preferences class in preferences.h.

See also “Feature requests” in draw.md. You could implement these yourself, but why not get some feedback from others first?

Configuration#

Based on following How to use the xdg-mime command:

$ ls /usr/share/applications | grep -i inkscape
org.inkscape.Inkscape.desktop

So run the command:

xdg-mime default org.inkscape.Inkscape.desktop image/svg+xml

Search first#

Has anyone already drawn what you are intending to draw? If you’re working in the open source world, with well-defined concepts, then you may already be able to find the visualization you’re looking for online. Do an image search. How many people have wasted time reproducing something similar to the following drawing?