I'm finding it a bit hard to set styles, because when I'm doing a drawing, I have in my mind the set of styles I want to use (thicknesses, line styles, and so on), but Inkscape doesn't let me put these styles in a palette so that I can switch to any given style at any given time. Instead, I need to manually tune the "Fill and strokes" values every time, which is not only uncomfortable, but you are not going to remember the settings some minutes later.
How do you do this?
I'm finding Inkscape a very good software, but the way styles are set makes me need to whisper "be patient" three times whenever I need to set a style 😅
You can copy an object to the clipboard (Ctrl-C) then use Edit > Paste Style (Ctrl-Shift-V) to apply that object's styles to another object, or objects.
If you need to do this a lot, you can create a 'palette' of temporary objects outside your page boundary, or on another layer, to use as the sources to copy from. That way they're easy to avoid or hide when exporting the file or using it in another program.
I pretty much never use the shapes options when drawing paths. But I also wouldn't expect it to work in that case, as that would require copying the underlying path effect (and its parameters), rather than just copying the style information. Most users don't fully grasp the difference between a shaped path and a non-shaped path (understandably so, as the Inkscape UI tries to hide the difference), so I can see that Paste Style may not do what they expect in those cases.
Based on the OP's description, however, I don't think they're using the shape options, so Paste Style might be sufficient to at least help, if not completely resolve the problem.
Thanks. I really think the style selection UI needs an improvement, because the workflow of applying the style after you draw is not intuitive. When I'm drawing a stroke, the thickness comes to my mind before my hand starts drawing. This "let's draw, I'll make it thicker later" paradigm is not convenient, IMHO.
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I'm finding it a bit hard to set styles, because when I'm doing a drawing, I have in my mind the set of styles I want to use (thicknesses, line styles, and so on), but Inkscape doesn't let me put these styles in a palette so that I can switch to any given style at any given time. Instead, I need to manually tune the "Fill and strokes" values every time, which is not only uncomfortable, but you are not going to remember the settings some minutes later.
How do you do this?
I'm finding Inkscape a very good software, but the way styles are set makes me need to whisper "be patient" three times whenever I need to set a style 😅
You can copy an object to the clipboard (Ctrl-C) then use Edit > Paste Style (Ctrl-Shift-V) to apply that object's styles to another object, or objects.
If you need to do this a lot, you can create a 'palette' of temporary objects outside your page boundary, or on another layer, to use as the sources to copy from. That way they're easy to avoid or hide when exporting the file or using it in another program.
From my experience that doesn´t work with stroke:Shapes. For you?
I pretty much never use the shapes options when drawing paths. But I also wouldn't expect it to work in that case, as that would require copying the underlying path effect (and its parameters), rather than just copying the style information. Most users don't fully grasp the difference between a shaped path and a non-shaped path (understandably so, as the Inkscape UI tries to hide the difference), so I can see that Paste Style may not do what they expect in those cases.
Based on the OP's description, however, I don't think they're using the shape options, so Paste Style might be sufficient to at least help, if not completely resolve the problem.
Thanks. I really think the style selection UI needs an improvement, because the workflow of applying the style after you draw is not intuitive. When I'm drawing a stroke, the thickness comes to my mind before my hand starts drawing. This "let's draw, I'll make it thicker later" paradigm is not convenient, IMHO.