November 2025 - Inkscape Board of Directors

Developer Meeting: Nov 26th 2025
by Martin Owens 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Hey everyone, New time for this week's developer meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mikekov, Vaibhav, ltlnx, René The meeting time had changed but the website has issues sending out reminders to everyone. A reminder here that you can subscribe the the ical for the developer team's calender here: https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar.ics add this as a remote calendar in your calendar software and you should get up to date reminders. Martin looked into why the website wasn't behaving and found the crontab on the new machine wasn't migrated. Sent an email to Ben who was contracted to do that work for the migration. Mikekov, Vaibhav and Martin talk about spin button we have a long talk about user experience. Screen sharing was done and we worked out the share of work between Mikekov and Martin who are trying to unify the widget experence. Mikekov has been working on the font selector which uses a preview and icon view which are going away. These are being replaced with ListView and GridView widgets. We also can hide certain styles to collapase families of fonts together. This also resolves some cut off preview problems. Viabhav, not doing too much, tried to replicate the extensions gallery crash. Not replcated on he's local linux machine. Had a discussion with Jabier about LPE archetchture, and wants to write an article about it to clarify the architecture. We talked about the problems in the lpe system and fixing issues with the defs. litnx has been pusing 1.4.x fixes, including the welcome dialog. Martin asked if he could take care of the backports. René has been busy with the prepartions for the 1.4.3 release with updates to the dependencies. Lots of deps because it's been a while. Currently investigating the macOS tofu problem, there are some problems with kerning which might be caused by a dep which might not be fixable. We talked about the release schedule and getting everything ready. The conservative updates to the deps might be a better way to update the macOS and Martin suggests René make an assessment about the work they might have to do vs. the benefit of updating the deps for the point release. René wants to revive the tests for the windows CI. Pbs asked if we could use clang, this was tested but doesn't look like it would work. Thanks everyone for coming everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Nov 18th 2025
by Martin Owens 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Hey Devs! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Mike, Philip, Tav, Willy Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ (TIME HAS CHANGED!) Mike has been working on making the newer spin button widget used in the rest of the project. Migrating over the UnitTracker and various widget fixes. Willy is trying to fix 1.4.x: text tool pop-over Spinbutton changes, pop-over closes. and Command bar collapsing issue. Pbs talked about animation and live preview, some time was spent discussing the preview functionality and what we can do to allow changes to be previewed without modifying the document or abusing the rendering engine with extra changes at unexpected times. This discussion was quite long. RPATH issues in our build systems are ongoing. Tav has been working on macOS bugs and crashes where jpeg files are not accessable from finder, this involved learning a lot of how macOS works for depevelopers. and color font support and getting the tests all smoothed out. Talking about the late meeting situation, looks like the best time is 2 hours after the early meeting. Which is about 3 hours earlier than currently set. 6pm France, Noon in Boston, 1am Asia etc. Pbs and Martin talked about the filters engine work and the need for clearing up the premultiplicating situation in bilinear interpolation for various different spaces. Martin has been working on harmonising spin button user experience. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Nov 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Dear Developer Team, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Tav, Charlotte, Martin, Mikekov, Jonathan Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Tav has been adding color fonts to Inkscape so we support all the various different formats. SVG, OpenType COLRv1, COLRv0 and Google Font thing. He's made some color fonts with the same glyph to test the font support going forwards. There's a couple of failing tests for some clipping and some pepper and carrot text tests. This test is useful for visually inspecting possible problems before committing the changes with slight differences. There's a slight problem with strokes not being rendered in Firefox which makes it hard to compare the SVG Font format. Martin talked about Conical gradients, which are needed for some css and COLORv1 Object to Path. Marc, not much, some updates for weblate and the translations stuff. Tav asked about how easy it is to add a new file, and Marc explained that it's all automatic now so is even easier. There's a security fix in librsvg which is a security problem, we're hoping that the new version will be able to fix it, but we don't know for sure if it will fix it. Marc has time to work on the 1.4.3 release and Martin points to the milestone page on GitLab https://gitlab.com/groups/Inkscape/-/milestones/19 for everyone to work from. Charlotte has been looking into the the bug for windows flashing back and forth in windows. But it's tricky because windows development is so much slower than on Linux even with a powerful CPU. She's also added a merge request and was concerned she has the ability to push directly to master but this isn't the case. Jonathan is still around and interested in working on funding projects but time is tight right now with his PhD. Martin talked about the website and taking payments, is in talk with Ben about putting together the second round of funded work to add that Stripe integration to the website. Martin has been working on widgets in the fill and stroke dialog and has been working on the harmonising the generic widgets so our programs looks more cohesive. And also has been working on some UX testing workflows with RDP and desktop sharing, but the technologies aren't great for disposable desktop sharing. Will share if it's figured out. Mikekov has been working on some UI improvements here and there, the next target is the spin button, we have developed our own based on Tav's work and now we need to remove all the older generic Gtk spin buttons with our more functionality such as unit support. We talked a bit about the design of this widget and all the possible ways of integrating units into the actual box itself. Next meeting we will decide the new meeting time for these later developer meetings. Thanks everyone who was able to come.

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Developer Meeting, Nov 2nd 2025
by Martin Owens 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

Hey Everyone, Sunday meeting this week, Monday next week, big thanks to everyone who came today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Willy(ltlnx), Marc, Philip(pbs), Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ There was a discussion about live path effects and merge requests. We reviewed a merge request which was stuck in review and got it un blocked by the consensus of the team. We talked about some of the difficulties with live path effects and getting things fixed while waiting to get lpe structures refactored. We talked about the release for 1.4.3 and some of the outstanding issues, the file opening in macOS and the language change crashes in windows. A review of a bunch of different issues depending on their priority on the milestone mostly between Itlnx and Pbs. We talked about a Gio security bug which can cause a security issue, but it's an upstream issue and it's only breaking on Windows. We tried to think up ways of testing the issue given out limited access to windows machines and experts who can help debug it. Marc will report a bug upstream to Gio / security gnome org. Marc has moved the translation work their own po files and communicated with the developer and translation mailing lists. Thanks Marc! Martin has paused working on the engine waiting for reviews, they're working to get a new paint order widget which is a restackable widget that allow values based on their order and is poking Gtk with the specific UX they want. Willy was working on the default canvas colors in the preferences and has been looking at some of the difficulties in Gtk4 widgets for color selection. Tav has been working on getting his merge requests merged and reviewing his color font work again. Martin will do the developer survey results next week. Thanks everyone for joining on this Sunday Evening/Morning. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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