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A comment on Inkscape 1.4.4.

Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by darknavi on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:22PM (#48043188)
I have my first contribution to Inkscape in this release I think. It's quite a minor feature though, so I don't see it in the changelog. It allows the user to set their default saved file name. I was tired of drawing.svg :)
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by bizzyskillet on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:39PM (#48043346)
Nice! :)
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by enneff on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:22PM (#48043793)
Haha thank you! This had been mildly bothering me for a while actually.
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by NewsaHackO on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @08:32PM (#48043892)
Good job!
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by throwaway85825 on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @09:53PM (#48044475)
That's how it starts.
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by lagniappe on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @11:19PM (#48045056)
Thank you :)
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by JayDustheadz on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @11:44PM (#48045163)
Nicely done, thank you! It's "small" features like this that make software really nice and pleasant to use. Don't stop there!
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by therealdrag0 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:00AM (#48045255)
What default would you change it to,
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by darknavi on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:25AM (#48045717)
I normally change mine to `project.svg` but that's just my preference.
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by __mharrison__ on Thursday May 07, 2026 @12:19AM (#48045345)
Congrats from another contributor.

I made a slicing plugin years ago that lets you create a layer that defines named rectangles. Each area under the rectangle is saved as an image.

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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by chrismorgan on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:11AM (#48045630)
Just updated to 1.4.4 and it still looks to be drawing.svg.
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by darknavi on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:24AM (#48045713)
It allows the user to change the default from drawning.svg, but that is still the default out of the box.

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7801

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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by sprucevoid on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:05AM (#48046723)
Thank you for creating this. Every small improvement counts :) I clicked through to add a request for a datestamp naming but happily someone had already posted that request https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/7801#n...
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by chrismorgan on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:41AM (#48048701)
Ah, I see I misread. Got it now; thanks.
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Re:Inkscape 1.4.4 by JKCalhoun on Thursday May 07, 2026 @09:35AM (#48049261)
If it just defaults to the last filename I used for a new document, I would be happy.

(Best of both worlds if I don't have to discover a setting somewhere to get this behavior.)

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