• @woelkchen
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      11 months ago

      Inkscape gang

      One would think if they are capable to write a special Figma plugin, they’d be also capable to write an Inkscape plugin.

      Btw, the Figma plugin seems to be closed source as well. I only found https://invent.kde.org/mdelafuente/icon-jetpack and with the exception of the readme file, it’s completely empty.

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        111 months ago

        That doesn’t sound right, how can they have other designers contribute then? Maybe that’s just a placeholder project for now?

        Speaking of the plugin, I don’t know how hard it really is to develop one and what KDE needs, I can only guess they went with Figma because the available designers are most familiar with it rather than Inkscape, though I also noticed from that readme that this plugin should support Penpot as well, so they’re probably leaving it up as future possibility to shift to that

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          311 months ago

          That doesn’t sound right, how can they have other designers contribute then? Maybe that’s just a placeholder project for now?

          🤷 I merely searched for Jetpack on KDE Invent.

          I can only guess they went with Figma because the available designers are most familiar with it rather than Inkscape

          Building a complete Plasma desktop with icons and such should not depend on any proprietary software for reasons KDE’s own Vision document states. If people want to make a 3rd party icon set hosted on GitHub or wherever, fine, but IMO the building blocks of “core” KDE software should be 100% FOSS.