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woelkchen ,
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Not a fan that it’s using proprietary software.

hansl ,

Why? Software license does not affect the work’s license. It’s still CC0.

woelkchen ,
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Why?

KDE has always aimed to put people in control. We don’t want to hand over control to anybody else: not to some service providers […] We believe that freedom is a prerequisite for true control. Some may feel in control of a proprietary application as long as it obeys their commands, but without the freedom to make changes and share them, they are entirely reliant on the vendor’s benevolence for this apparent ‘control’.

community.kde.org/KDE/Vision

QuazarOmega ,

Inkscape gang

woelkchen ,
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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.

QuazarOmega ,

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

woelkchen ,
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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.

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