New UI Customization in Inkscape is Ridiculous 🤯 | Change Theme & Icon Sizes

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In this tutorial, I show you how to customize your Inkscape 1.2 User Interface (UI) using the new Preferences options. In the Edit, Preferences menu you'll now find amazing options for resizing your icons, showing or hiding certain Toolbar icons, and customizing your theme colors including icon colors.

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[benzflynn]

4:45 The font that is scaled is the font on the toolbars of Inkscape itself

[Designglot]

3:36 It's because you didn't apply your font size change. The change not working instantly but when you click the “apply” button, it works fine. 👌

[casachezdoom]

3:32 If you click apply after sliding the scale you will see the text size changing pretty much everywhere in Inkscape

[johnp]

This video is still a winner even with the oversight on the apply button for the text size change.

[sorcerereye]

"Ridiculous" (bad titled) but *Marvelous!!*
I like the dark themes but in low contrast (for icons and _font, _ sp.), it's practically impossible in other programs (except VSCodium, for example). Now in Inkscape that's a reality 😍

[DmitryGubkinGhostStudio]

1.2 is a really strong update, the only problem with inkscape is slow page rendering when transforming objects, scrolling, etc.

[dianthaluvz]

Do you know how to change the simplified icons into the detailed ones or the old ones like in 1.1 pleasee?

[polygons]

I believe the title wanted to be "ridiculously good" (still can be edited), as in extremely good (amazingly good, incredibly good...). As it reads now, I was a bit shocked as it totally gave me the impression that it was going to be a very negative video about the hard work these people make... A lot of YT (we're a so varied bunch!) people don't "read"/understand the emoticons (specially at certain resolutions, or at the speed they check stuff....) so, won't translate the "mind blowing" thingy...

[francootaola]

What really is missing is being able to create a custom button for a particular menu option. For example I use clipping tool all the time and there is no shortcut in the keyboard and the button is deep dans le object menu... Would be nice to have easy/fast accès to it.

[sharpeye]

How can I change object's zoom arrow markers to other markers?

[shsawmyint]

You said in your video. You don't understand font scale.
You have to click apply button after setting font scale number. Then you can see changes.

[kargandarr]

I prefer the older 0.92 version of the icons but I cannot get that icons.svg file to be accessible in the inkscape theme tab in order to use them. Why the frell did they make this software so that it is a pain in the a** to change the views from one mode to another and I cannot get it to go to the default mode like it had before 1.0? The longer they screw with it the harder they make it to use.

[AM-jwlo]

They didn't allow the icon size in dialog box to be set, and its not a 4k monitor problem, the icons are tiny. you can't see what they are unless you get up close to the screen.

[MaximilianoNoriega]

Hey Mike, isn't this part of the longer video you uploaded previously? It was great by the way.

[Maxume]

Wait, is there a part of the video that got cut off? All I see is fanfare over some mediocre choices in a very hardcoded UI. CorelDraw had infinitely more toolbar customization in version 6 already and that was literally 27 years ago. Call me old fashioned but UI customization should involve a little more than adding or removing a small number of buttons from a singular toolbar and changing the UI's colour.

[tanalee]

Using 1.2. For some reason, I have no "Use dark theme" option in

[j.s]

I want all my work space white, i mean delete that page. Can i do that?

[redel]

for anyone wondering what is ridiculous: the fact that you can change the size of the icon but not the size of poiter, so on a 4k monitor it is ridiculously small

[DieTabbi]

Nice. But the changing and customiziation is not not well thought out. Look at the left panel. You make the icons bigger, cause they are really tiny, but the space which they need is not changing. The icons disapear into left nirvana. There a lot more nconsistencies like this.

[martin-zima]

"Really more customizable than in any program"!? -- Not convinced about that statement TBH... I came to this video because I wanted to add "undo" and "redo" button to the toolbar (the one that goes along the top of the page horizontally), but as far as I can tell you can only edit the 15 or so icons down the left hand side 😔