# Tips & Tricks: Inkscape

**URL:** <https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235>\
**Category:** Applications\
**Created:** [August 9, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235 "2025-08-09T15:02:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 19\
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**Author:** ![perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/perletero/32/115572_2.png) [@perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/perletero)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 11:53am UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/21 "2025-09-01T11:53:09Z")

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Forget everything you know about RGB, welcome to the world of Qt :

All rgba colors should be set between of 0-1, ex : `Qt.rgba(0.050, 0.100, 0.500, 0)` will result in something like this

 ![Copie d'écran_20250901_130135-1](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/6/663047cab990a51f7db10c4dda9b176cdcb40364.jpeg)

And blur will strongly impact the color render

 ![Copie d'écran_20250901_133436](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/e/de24e0db28084dfcd54c46f3f28564b56b9691ee.jpeg)

You can also replace rgba with hsla and hsva

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/22 "2025-09-01T12:56:41Z")

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> [@perletero](#):
>
> Forget everything you know about RGB, welcome to the world of Qt :

That’s quite the mystery. 😅

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/23 "2025-09-01T14:10:14Z")

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### 🎨 How to Make an SVG Icon Adaptive (for KDE/Plasma Themes)

If you want your SVG icon to automatically adapt to the system color scheme (e.g., in KDE/Plasma), follow these steps. You can edit the SVG file in any text editor:

* * *

#### 1. **Add a `<style>` block inside the `<defs>` element with the exact ID `current-color-scheme`**

🔔 **Note:** The ID **must** be exactly `current-color-scheme`. Other values won’t work — I’ve tested this.

```xml
<defs>
    <style id="current-color-scheme" type="text/css">
        .ColorScheme-Text { color: #ffffff; }
    </style>
</defs>

```

* * *

#### 2. **Locate the `<path>` element(s) you want to make adaptive**

Find the path elements in your SVG that you want to respond to theme changes.

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#### 3. **Add the `ColorScheme-Text` class to those `<path>` elements**

```xml
<path class="ColorScheme-Text" ... />

```

* * *

#### 4. **Set the `fill` property to `currentColor`**

Replace any hardcoded color (e.g., `#000000`) with `currentColor`, so the fill color is inherited from the class:

```xml
<path id="pathsample" class="ColorScheme-Text" style="fill: currentColor;" ... />

```

* * *

✅ That’s it! Your SVG icon should now dynamically adapt to the system’s theme colors.

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/b/1b54accb4cfa08f2e48edf5927ecd2a54bd24cfb.png)  
 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/7/3/73607d73968dd5be3a9497789de89167e8b270c2.png)

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**Author:** ![perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/perletero/32/115572_2.png) [@perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/perletero)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:33pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/24 "2025-09-01T14:33:46Z")

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Perfect tutorial 🤌

Side note :

> [@dirn](#):
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> ```auto
> <defs>
> <style id="current-color-scheme" type="text/css">
> .ColorScheme-Text { color: #ffffff; }
> </style>
> </defs>
> 
> ```

You can set multiple .ColorScheme in this block to use different colors. Available classes are :

```auto
ColorScheme-Text
ColorScheme-Background
ColorScheme-Highlight
ColorScheme-ViewText
ColorScheme-ViewBackground
ColorScheme-ViewHover
ColorScheme-ViewFocus
ColorScheme-ButtonText
ColorScheme-ButtonBackground
ColorScheme-ButtonHover
ColorScheme-ButtonFocus

```

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/25 "2025-09-01T14:45:57Z")

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> [@perletero](#):
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> You can set multiple .ColorScheme in this block to use different colors. Available classes are :
> 
> ```auto
> ColorScheme-Text
> ColorScheme-Background
> ColorScheme-Highlight
> ColorScheme-ViewText
> ColorScheme-ViewBackground
> ColorScheme-ViewHover
> ColorScheme-ViewFocus
> ColorScheme-ButtonText
> ColorScheme-ButtonBackground
> ColorScheme-ButtonHover
> ColorScheme-ButtonFocus
> 
> ```

Thanks @perletero

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 12:28pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/26 "2025-09-12T12:28:05Z")

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> [@Share Your Desktop \[2025\]](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/share-your-desktop-2025/69504/1544):
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> So my “perfect” Kvantum theme, with the “matching colors” is the purpurday kvantum edited in a …text editor.

@fog , thanks to your little secret, it got me wondering whether Inkscape has a Find & Replace feature.

When working on my Kvantum theme, I’ve been using the same method as you, replacing colors manually in a text editor.

Even when I need to add CSS styling while working with icons, I stick to the text editor.

Turns out Inkscape _does_ have a Find & Replace feature. Now I know. Thanks! 😄

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/4/5473a351cb61d86a86d2bc8ff7dd799857edc390.png)  
 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/b/3/b3035640eff3be4a83cfa940122dd6e8b66f57af.png)

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/a/1ab08a47d5b51e6d269f13b855bcd941e4cef5e0.png)

Changing colors in SVGs isn’t really an issue when using a text editor. What’s more challenging for me is drawing vectors. I’m not great with numbers. Former math student here… with a very “ **E** ”xcellent result 😜

P.S. I didn’t want to spam the other thread, so I’m replying here 🙂

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**Author:** ![fog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/fog/32/129125_2.png) [@fog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/fog)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/27 "2025-09-12T13:33:05Z")

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I am in a “modern environment” like kde, the last 6 months, before I was using mainly command line utilities. I was an openbox junkie with my own openbox themes.  
To modify the various gtk themes to my “openbox colors” I was using for some time [geany](https://www.geany.org/) 's find and replace feature in session (with all the css etc. files open).

But before this, for many years, the [rpl -R command](https://linux.die.net/man/1/rpl) was my (THE) way. Simple, fast, all the files and subdirs in a folder, without Ctrl+S at the end. I was SPEED 😛

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:38pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/28 "2025-09-12T13:38:00Z")

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> [@fog](#):
>
> for many years, the [rpl -R command](https://linux.die.net/man/1/rpl) was my (THE) way. Simple, fast, all the files and subdirs in a folder, without Ctrl+S at the end. I was SPEED 😛

I tip my hat to this! Not a command-line junkie myself. 😅

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**Author:** ![fog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/fog/32/129125_2.png) [@fog](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/fog)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/29 "2025-09-12T13:56:49Z")

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Imagine this:  
The year is 2011, you have the [any color you like](https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1012516) monochromatic theme or 2019 with the fantastic [DarK icons](https://gitlab.com/sixsixfive/DarK-icons/-/tree/master). A few thousands svg icons. You want to change the colors without config utilities. You don’t want to open 4000 files:  
rpl -R #oldboringcolor #newsupercolor /here  
Done.

PS. You don’t have to be “something”, only to be happy and have fun with your own choices 😉

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2025, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/30 "2025-09-12T14:08:24Z")

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> [@fog](#):
>
> You don’t want to open 4000 files

Yeah, doing it individually isn’t feasible 🙂

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/31 "2025-09-23T16:26:39Z")

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I just discovered that Inkscape includes an XML Editor. You can access it via **Edit → XML Editor** , or use the shortcut **Shift + Ctrl + X**.

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/f/6f629cebfb2b2275a639283a0bd88d9a008811e0.png)

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/32 "2025-10-18T21:13:39Z")

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> [@perletero](#):
>
> Forget everything you know about RGB, welcome to the world of Qt :
> 
> All rgba colors should be set between of 0-1, ex : `Qt.rgba(0.050, 0.100, 0.500, 0)` will result in something like this

Looks like the new feature in **Plasma 6.6** will make things a lot easier for us, @perletero! 😍

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/3/d3a25f767b9fde65e7d1c53bb9dd3b1a5cb2e0f1.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/perletero/32/115572_2.png) [@perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/perletero)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/33 "2025-10-18T21:21:17Z")

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Nice, this will make things easier, and you won’t have to change it every time there is an update…

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**Author:** ![Noodly](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/noodly/32/131136_2.png) [@Noodly](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Noodly)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/34 "2025-11-25T16:57:33Z")

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Thanks mate, I now know how to trace an image and create an SVG from it. Here’s what I did:  
I started with this image which is small resolution and poor quality:

 ![Original](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/a/d/adc4bc1945f3a7cabbeb2762845ccc0acc5ac3e7.jpeg)

First of all I removed the background using Gimp:

 ![Screenshot_20251125_025310](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/3/d/3da5f5f926cdea244ceaf6f4751e362face4caa1.png)

You can probably do this in Inkscape but I’m more familiar with Gimp for this kind of operation.  
The image now has a transparent background and looks like this:  
[![](https://i.postimg.cc/c6ykXSpR/Original-clear.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/c6ykXSpR/Original-clear.png)

I want to make it a smooth and noise free scaleable SVG so I open the image in Inkscape using the following settings…

 ![Screenshot_20251125_164235](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/a/d/ad78c8f4e7ab3c72a9fa52bd7b7cf187684f33fa.png)

 ![Screenshot_20251125_164329](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/d/eded70a6bae2c96a67554088bbe9305f54696645.jpeg)

Time to trace bitmap…

 ![Screenshot_20251125_164455](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/9/9942dea6a3570569335f13fe622b55fcdd309767.png)  
 ![Screenshot_20251125_164652](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/3/1/31b7cb17dde957c87b620e9b5c8c0eca1efccf7c.jpeg)

Adjust the settings to achieve the result you want…

 ![Screenshot_20251125_164743](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/7/e7f8756fb414799172a037f0ad4675f7a6922e46.png)

Click “Apply”

Now it’s time to export the image as a SVG…

 ![Screenshot_20251125_164926](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/0/f03cf45b92d1b5cee4419e3caecafefc46d9c565.png)

I used the following export settings…

 ![Screenshot_20251125_165118](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/3/d3c0b223850e6fcd953cd61cb15b9437e939148c.png)

I now have a lovely clear transparent SVG.  
[![](https://i.postimg.cc/yddtkSbd/SFA_Out_Spaced.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/yddtkSbd/SFA_Out_Spaced.png)

The end result…  
[![](https://i.postimg.cc/50qtxBJW/Screenshot-20251125-165843.png) ](https://i.postimg.cc/50qtxBJW/Screenshot-20251125-165843.png)

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/35 "2025-11-25T17:06:21Z")

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Thanks a lot for the tutorial 🖖

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**Author:** ![Noodly](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/noodly/32/131136_2.png) [@Noodly](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/Noodly)\
**Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/36 "2025-11-25T17:07:20Z")

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My pleasure mate, thanks for showing me how to do it. 🧙

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**Author:** ![dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/dirn/32/126414_2.png) [@dirn](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/dirn)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/37 "2026-02-24T16:24:27Z")

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@perletero application dashboard background follows color scheme now 🙂

 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/9/695bc5fc869f367e5fb8b62fc64f8ac0db39ce3f.jpeg)  
 ![image](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/6/0/6077b7c21cbe517f0368ac34a706e73f193d3e4d.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![swh](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/swh/32/95303_2.png) [@swh](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/swh)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 4:32pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/38 "2026-02-24T16:32:25Z")

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Thanks for pointing to. Application Dashboard **AND** Plasma Drawer 🎉

 ![Screen_24_02_26_17:30-1](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/8/d/8db80a0f25d9faaa17458f4561b441b9c0a948a3.jpeg)

 ![Screen_24_02_26_17:30](https://forum.endeavouros.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/4/c4291a4da14bc258bae110c5722d78f08be5545d.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/user_avatar/forum.endeavouros.com/perletero/32/115572_2.png) [@perletero](https://forum.endeavouros.com/u/perletero)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2026, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.endeavouros.com/t/tips-tricks-inkscape/74235/39 "2026-02-24T17:03:06Z")

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Finally, won’t have to fiddle with obscure settings anymore 😁

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