nixos-config VS inkscape

balsoft: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config

Examples: - https://github.com/gmarmstrong/dotfiles/blob/master/nixpkgs/home.nix - https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/profiles/applications-setup.nix - https://github.com/gytis-ivaskevicius/nixfiles/blob/master/home-manager/common.nix - https://github.com/xtruder/nix-profiles/blob/master/home-manager/roles/desktop/work.nix

I am not in a state to write a detailed recommendation list for all the things you've mentioned, but: - There is indeed an official Matrix room: #nix:nixos.org . I believe this is the most popular Nix community out there. - As for multiple hosts, there are different approaches out there. Typically you will write NixOS "modules" (which are like pieces of configuration) and then merge (combine) them together, along with some machine-specific overrides, to get configurations for all your machines. I do something similar for my config. Here are the modules: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/tree/master/profiles which configure different pieces of my system, then those modules are combined into "roles" (e.g. here's a desktop role: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/roles/desktop.nix) and then those roles are imported from actual machine configs with some overrides (e.g. here's the config for the box I'm writing this from: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/machines/AMD-Workstation/default.nix)

Hey, inkscape build seems to be broken, but I have made a new working derivation that uses resvg instead: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/workspace/gtk.nix#L32

I use a custom pass-based hack: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/secrets.nix and https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/secrets-envsubst.nix. My actual GPG key is on my yubi.

Adding self to local registry is done here: https://github.com/balsoft/nixos-config/blob/master/modules/nix.nix#L6

Ok, just checked with that nix version and my nixos-config, and I can build my configuration without .git in it.

The contents are rendered through gtk/cairo which not only goes through https://www.xquartz.org/ but also doesn't use GPU rendering (it was experimental 3 years ago, maybe better now). The main issue seems to be that neither Inkscape nor gtk people have much low level Darwin experts or time available to invest in debugging the whole rendering stack. See for example https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/1614 and all the other referenced issues for all the gory details.

There's a year old issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/3227 with no visible progress and a medium priority label. I hope it gets more dev focus soon.

Here's a bug report related to this. Also here's a video of this bug with the oldest version of Inkscape that I still have lying around (0.94.2 i.e. 2019, but it's likely the bug is even older than that), and a similar thread on here from more than two years ago.

Yes. Only in specific circumstances, though. It's not really that big of a deal.

Arc handles can't be snapped and it's a known issue. It seems like you're using guides, though, so you can just double click the guide to get its angle and manually enter it as the 'Start' or 'End' angle in the toolbar.

This is a known issue. It seems like it's related to a new setting that was added in recent versions. In the preferences under 'Behavior → Selecting' disable 'Paste above selection instead of layer-top' to get the old, non-buggy behavior back.

See the ASCII table at https://www.rapidtables.com/code/text/ascii-table.html. Have seen it happen in Inkscape on Windows, too: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4071

Inkscape bug: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4043