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.