Dear Devs,
Another week and another great developer meeting:
Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Tav, Martin, PBS, ftOmara, MikeKov, Rafal, Ishaan Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/
PBS asks Martin abou the page manager, we talked about manager objects, selected pages, and the intention of the manager and it's relationship to sp-page objects. The manager is designed to encapsulate the state of the selected page so most calls shouldn't need to know the selected page directly.
PBS has been working on the GSoC project to recolor artwork project. There is a live preview mode which needs to be sorted out. the conflict between the SPObject, xml tree and the display tree. A big discussion erupts between many developers have input into how the functionality could be done.
We talked about the way the xml tree and sp object tree works together. This created a debate about about abstractions and various other internal core elements for Inkscape.
The general consenus is that we'd like the preview functionality split out into it's own merge request. Martin will ask Adam about the design implication of having the preview change in multiple places or just in one place at a time.
Mikekov has been doing some UI beautifucation projects. And we talked about the missing event problems in macOS that might be something we need to get that reported upstream.
Martin has continued to work on the rendering engine work. A long term project to improve the capabilities of the rendering engine color support.
Ishaan reports that the all four people are going to India FOSS event. There's concerns about how long the process has taken with the SFC as friction continues between us voting to pay for events or materials and people getting reimbursed or getting travel booked in time.
Best Regards, Martin Owens