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Deviousness `anmari has been spreading her infectious positivity throughout our community for over 6 years. Throughout this time Ana has been at the core of all things devious, passionately developing an eclectic gallery, helping organise devmeets, participating in chat events and also recently completed dedicating her time as a Community Volunteer. We are absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for May 2013 to `anmari, congratulations! Read More
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the only thing i really hate about inkscape is that you can't visually keep track and organize objects. it'd be great if they'd let you move around objects in the layers (shift+ctrl+L) box. the few things i do with inkscape tends to end up having a lot of layers of similar size and shape in the same area.
it gets frustrating trying to select the right object or just knowing what object i've got selected sometimes.
other than that it's a fantastic program.
Or, for easier selection of overlapped objects, you can use Alt + Click. It may help a bit
here are some small screen shots of adobe illustrator's layer panel. [link] [link]
you can see paths and objects and select them from the layers panel. the thumbnails wouldn't be needed as long as inkscape highlighted the actual path or object when it was clicked or hovered over in the layer's tab.
that is the only feature it has that makes me prefer Illustrator over Inkscape. don't get me wrong i really like Inkscape and i still use it anyway. It does everything i want/need it to (and more) except for that. so to me inkscape is that one feature away from being perfect. if i could code i'd have long ago at least tried to add that feature myself and sent it in to try to get it put in for everyone.
being able to select objects in the leyer menu makes editing and arranging things like the third tree in [link] a LOT easier.
the alt click thing should help me out some