November 2003 - Inkscape Devel

KDE file dialogues
by James Ots 17 Nov '03

17 Nov '03

Hi, I think it would be really nice if the KDE file dialogues could be put back into inkscape as a compile-time option, like in sodipodi. I can cope with the rest of inkscape being gtk (I don't like it, but I can cope!), but KDE's file dialogues are just too nice to go without. -- Cheers James Ots www.jamesots.com

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A dozen patches
by Bryce Harrington 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

There's a dozen patches in the patch tracker waiting for reviewing and integration. Half are old ones I pulled from the Sodipodi mailing list archives and will need reviewing. If everyone with CVS commit rights could take one or two, we should be able to clear the queue out no prob. Thanks, Bryce

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layers
by MenTaLguY 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Last night, I hammered out the most important part of implementing layers -- with latest CVS, you can use the XML editor to set the inkscape:groupmode attribute of a group to "layer", and be able to edit its children directly. There's still a lot of UI and refinement work to do, however; I've outlined it on the Wiki here: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DocumentLayers -mental

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dialog titles
by bulia byak 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

I removed duplication of dialog titles - now they are taken from the corresponding verb and are thus the same as the commands that open them. While at it, I also added the dialog's shortcut automatically added in parentheses. Press ctrl-shift-f to see an example. I think this is good for usability, as the user gets a clue at once what to press to bring the focus to a dialog, and next time he's likely to remember to use the shortcut to open it. Any comments? -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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Proposal for an alternate object properties palette ( floater, widg-a-log, translette )
by T Ingham 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Hello again all, This memo will serve to be the genus for what I would eventually like to propose. I'm hoping for plenty of feedback from everyone to make this tool as useful as possible. The core concept is quite simple really, enumerate and visually explain all editable parameters of a given shape on the canvas in a single floating palette. 1. Problem Although much work is being done to promote existing dialogs to the status of sane players on the workspace front, there are still pitfalls in having all manner of oversized and disproportionate dialogs open on the screen. Namely is simple visual clutter. Having several windows open at once can cause both new users to become lost quickly, and more seasoned users wasting time fidgeting with dialogs to position them according to their wishes. 2. Accessibility concerns Using many dialogs, users that cannot or do not use the mouse are asked to traverse 3 tiers of information to edit shape data outside the canvas. First they must achieve focus on a dialog ( ctrl+# ) , second they must select ( in some cases ) a tab containing the subset of data they wish to manipulate ( tab key? ) and third they must gain focus on the cell or control that allows them to make the edit ( tab key? ). 3. Solution Provide an additional ( or alternative depending on how you lean ) palette for editing shape properties that contains an hierarchical list of property groups and properties. This window would behave exactly as other palettes ( esc to focus canvas, enter to affect change ), but would centralize object properties in one dialog minimizing the memory cost to the user for keyboard shortcuts to open dialogs ( they would only need one, and we could make it an easy one, cmd+i // get info // ) Once the dialog has focus, the user could then use the arrow keys to locate the property they wish to edit and affect the change desired. While it may seem that we will lose the specificity of multiple dialogs, this interface would provide us with a more open method of combining property sets, and in the future it could be used as the basis for generating custom property dialogs per user utilizing xml documents to store dialog layout information. 4. A few key points It appears that currently, you cannot enter a numerical value in the float fields of the color dialog, is this intended behavior? Users would be able to close tree paths in this new properties palette that they might not use often, this allows the user to immediately improve their productivity when performing these types of edits. Thanks for your time as always, I hope this stirs the pot a bit. -Thomas

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Inkscape stock support
by Robert Crosbie 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Ok, If everything went well with my first commit, I have just added some initial GtkIconFactory support. So far I have only converted the stroke_style dialog to register and lookup icons in the stock icons. There were two new files added. src/inkscape-stock.h - define new stock icons here src/inkscape-stock.c - add new stock icons to the list There were three files modified: src/Makefile.am - added inkscape-stock.[ch] src/main.c - initializes the stock icons dialogs/stroke-style.c - now calls gtk_image_new_from_stock. I basicaly followed the way gaim and gimp were using GtkIconFactory. I'll be adding more support and converting other dialogs later. Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ >From Beethoven to the Rolling Stones, your favorite music is always playing on MSN Radio Plus. No ads, no talk. Trial month FREE! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio

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indent options
by Robert Crosbie 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

I was just wondering what indenting convention we were using for inkscape. If I had some new code to submit, what indent command should I run on it to make sure it looks like all the other code? Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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preferences broken?
by bulia byak 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Maybe it's just me, but the .inkscape/preferences file is never saved. On my machine it is dated Nov 13; since then, nobody touched it. I figured that it's because the inkscape_dispose function is not run upon exit. Where is it supposed to be called? I tried this: void inkscape_exit (Inkscape *inkscape) { g_object_run_dispose (inkscape); // added gtk_main_quit (); } but this resulted in lots of failed asserts, so it's perhaps the wrong place. Someone please fix this! -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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[PATCH] trivial: renamed "desactivate" to "deactivate"
by Kees Cook 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Trivial patch attached... -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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[PATCH] fix for GDK_SCROLL event blindness
by Kees Cook 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Attached is the fix for mouse wheel support. This is against anon CVS, and I know you just did a big code merge, so hopefully this will be easy to apply since it's so small. :) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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