> Weird keybindings, e.g. pressing Ctrl +/- does not zoom/unzoom

if you prefer illustrator shorcut inksape offers it in welcome screen but maybe it would not hurt to also add that binding defoult is just +- without modifiers

> The golden path feels buggy. When launching the window is for some reason cropped to the top 1/8th of the screen and needs to be resized, and the artboard is tiny.

this is not true for new installs.

> Exported SVGs are needlessly verbose. This looks like it has gotten better but is still there. For example, exporting an SVG with two gradients actually puts four gradients in the file (combining with inheritance).

Inkscape extends SVG a lot so it can add more features. for exports just one of optimised svg export options inskcape offers

it can be set up not to do that and it si set up by default not to do that. If its possible (for some elements in specific scenaris it is not)

imho this is sothing inskcape is lacking a lot and lots of needed features are hidden way too much. manly that if you want to create curve and tehn straight line you need to press Shifl+L

I made my proposal for improwing this wholl workflow still waiting for interested developer to implement it https://gitlab.com/inkscape/ux/-/issues/5

you dont need to do mental math you can chang your bbox calcuations to use geometry preferences- tools - bbox geometry

Thank you, I'll try that. It's all but intuitive to have to touch bbox preferences just to edit the center of an object :-/

ytou can do that with boolean operations in path menu or with new shape buuilder tool

You are correct. Sorry, it's been a while.

What I was actually needing at the time was an arbitrary box/lasso select. Does that exist?

Yes .. ish we have touch to select hold alth while dragging

yeha it seems like upstrem bug . Inscape is porting to 1.4 so hopefully this will be addresed there

you still cannot create color pallets easily/user-friendly , we did not implemented this yet.

you can expect some performance gains but not really 12x it does not scale lineri .

you can edit SOME keyboard shortcuts in preference - Interface -keyboard .

Some (a lot) of actions are still not migrated to actions so you cannot change shortcuts easily. But this is ongoing process.

I love Inkscape so much, thank you and all of the team for this release :)

its been there for a very long time

We are slowly working also on that

How does on get involved to help with the UI challenges/improvements?

take this as a first iteration we need to fix and polish this dialog in next releases. Hover state on row should help with maching rows icons