I love the few vector tools we have and hope they become not clunky - and text tools hopefully get boost. They work for their intended purpose / not really a full vector app but to help add for type of 2d art that needed it.
They have room for illustration that are not vector based but can be help by having vector.
ie. webtoons/manga/ anime/ illustrations / comics
And I say this as an avid inkscape user [atleast the pre 1.0 inkscape / i hate the new inkscape with its wide sidebar] . I use that software a lot to create layouts, posters, pamphlets, announcement, logos for some mini events with friends, banners. The workflow is completely different than krita.
If you have tried making webtoon that needs bubbles having the vector library to store bunch of them for drag and drop is life saver. and that something i donât utilize in inkscape.
Also trying to add them bubbles in inkscape by importing the resulting png from krita, then realizing you need to edit a part, or want to change something and doing it over again, even with a file link in krita - is a headached. [done that]
There is bound to be an overlap with a vector program, because some of those functionality is needed in some type of art that krita is made for [with the presence of manga layouts, comic manager, storyboard docker, autosplice import - I assume krita also cater to webtoon/manga/comic artist as well]
Despite the presence of vector tools, krita and inkscape differ in usage.
Honestly considering krita has pixel layers and vector layers it only makes sense to have tools for both at least for the basics. It is not like inkscape or any other program has the monopoly over a given set of tools.
If you take a look at PS and AI on the other side they are basically the same program but trying not to be the same really hard so they can sell the same thing twice. I think they should have been merged as they only have a couple of tools and functions that set them apart as they are identical when you compare the whole range of tools they have. This is also valid for lightroom and the other PS clones. AI UI is weird just make it look more different but it has little justification for it. Even AE is more PS than AI with vector layers and similar tools.
Krita does not have that issue and evolves more organic. Having both pixel and vector makes more sense to me. I think what differs here is use case more than the tools. The vector tools I want in Krita are totally different from inkscape as in drawing vectors like a brush and animating them not stuff like vectorization or those complex edits.
Regarding UIs, blenders UI is literally the best ever. It has alot of thought put into it and heavy consistency the others can only dream of, to the point you can guess shortcuts to tools you never used before. Not to mention a maleability that fits any user and screen size. I am really glad Krita 5 took it as an example for the timeline to save space on monitors. Krista suffers a lot with massive buttons that wonât budge when moving the dockers but is getting much more lean. I am super happy with Kritaâs new UI. Considering Kritaâs UI does not hide menus at random and NOT open them again until you restart it I feel more at ease in Krita for vector work.
Either way if Krita happen to replace inkscape I wonât cry. Inkscape has tons of issues that they do not seem willing to fix and I donât understand how no one sees it. I guess they are like Gimp in that regard but Gimp is worse. I hate Adobe so much but AI is the best vector app still hands down. Many times I think about making the vectors in blender and import them into inkscape as blender uses vectors far better in 2d. Just really boring to set up to exclude one axis and that is my one and only deterrent to not replace inkscape already.
I see. You got me there.
And while I was reading your response I actually thought how Blender is being multiple tools at the same time (sculpting, modeling, video editing, compositin, you name it).
It is just in Krita everything is blend together (maybe that what bumped me there).
