It seems they're going to start implementing it! They're really going to implement it! OMG!!!

What is it you ask? Well, see if you understand this:

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Well now, what does all that mean? It means that I can choose say... a line with sharp edges on both ends from a drop down, and the lines I draw with a Mouse will have sharp edges. No need for tablets, and since the output is vector, it's easy to modify direction.

Or that all I have to do is copy a chain segment, and as soon as I finish drawing one line the whole line becomes a chain (with multiple segments, of course).

I could even copy text and "draw" it along a path.

In fact, I've been making myself a bunch of line effects, and some took me quite a while:

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Now though, I'd have automated interface, so I don't have to bring up the whole LPE panel every time! Yay! Maybe I should donate some of those shapes to the Inkscape default release? Hmm...

I've also made myself a bunch of custom hair lumps, but I'm keeping these for myself:

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Example, with one type of hair lump:

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Anyway, all this is sweet. Though maybe I should get working on that text bar GUI proposal I was saying I would...