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by cmrdporcupine 1518 days ago
So, I've had inkscape (1.0.2-4 on up to date debian testing) crash on me so many times in the last week, in ways that cost me several minutes of work each time. So I've stopped using it for anything.

I appreciate the exhausting amount of work that goes into something like Inkscape, but holy crap. Segfaulting on me. Or leaving a foregrounded window open with no content in it that I can't close and that blocks the rest of the program until I kill -9 it. Very frustrating when I was trying to get real work done.

2 comments

You're using an old version. there were 3 release after that (1.1, 1.1.1, and 1.1.2).

The 1.2 release is expected in a few days (and it has many features with a ton of bug fixes).

This is not a reason to crash. Last i looked, fvwm 1.24 runed just fine.
I have tried Inkscape a few times over the years, but the extreme instability kept me from adopting it for regular use.
Nowadays Inkscape is really getting better. I rarely encounter any crashes (on Linux or Windows).