November 2003 - Inkscape Devel

bugs bugs bugs
by bulia byak 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

I just put Inscape to a little real-world usability test by drawing several diagrams. While there are many small interface improvements I could think up for myself, the biggest problem were bugs. More specifically, two kinds of bugs: the undo bugs and save bugs. You run into them very often. I don't think we can release 0.36 with them. I urge everyone to please go to the tracker and fix as many as you can. Some of them must be pretty simple. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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keys svg file
by Jonathan Phillips 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

Oops...sent without attachment...Here are the SVG keys. jon -- Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...>

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key bindings and documentation
by Nathan Hurst 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

Would someone with two artistic neurons to rub together put together an SVG of a keyboard key with a place to put the letter symbol and some control, shift etc keys? This would make bulia's keybindings page look very professional! just a thought, njh

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key graphics
by Jonathan Phillips 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

I'm creating the key graphics. I'm sending this so that work is not duplicated. thx, jon -- Jon Phillips UCSD Graduate Researcher Computational Media PO BOX 948667 La Jolla, Ca 92037 858.361.2811 www.protofunk.org jon@...15...

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drag tolerance
by bulia byak 26 Nov '03

26 Nov '03

To complement teh cursor tolerance that affects grabbing, I added another option, drag tolerance. Currently it only affects mouse drags in selector. Any mouse drag which is smaller than the tolerance (in screen pixels) is ignored and is interpreted as a click. To me, this makes it much easier to select objects with mouse and especially tablet, as well as switching handles from scale to rotation, by eliminating the small accidental object drags that are very annoying. The default value for this option is 4 pixels. Please test the latest CVS and report if you like the change, and if so, what value is the best for you. There's no UI for changing the value yet but you can edit it in preferences.xml: <group id="dragtolerance" value="4.0"/> and then restart Inkscape. By the way I also wrote most of the HandlingPreferences tutorial on Wiki. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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0.36 release notes
by bulia byak 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

I started a ReleaseNotes document on Wiki. Let's use it to describe all our achievments and failings in this version in a way accessible both to an average non-technical user and to a potential contributor who hasn't followed our discussions and wants to get a scoop quickly. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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0.36 release soon?
by Bryce Harrington 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Hi all, Looking at the planned tasks for this release it seems we're quite close. Plus, a lot of work has been done, so I think the codebase is getting ripe for a release within a week or two. For those working on things to go into 0.36, could you reply and let us know your status? Thanks, Bryce

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bonobo
by Robert Crosbie 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Are the inkscape bonobo libraties being used? They don't seem to get compiled. Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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nudge distance, cursor tolerance
by bulia byak 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

1. Nudge distance is now stored in preferences. Default is 1 mm, let me know if you think this value needs to be changed. This affects arrows and shift-arrows in selector and node edit. No GUI to change that value yet, but you can edit your preferences.xml to test. 2. Cursor tolerance (from display options) is now stored in preferences too. I changed default from 1.0 to 2.0, but perhaps it should be made even bigger. This affects how close you need to be to an object to grab it; bigger values make the tools much more usable, especially with a tablet. Please test and report what value works best for you (I like it at 8.0), then we'll take the average and make it the default :) -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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SF out of disk space
by Bryce Harrington 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

bash-2.05b$ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on pr-fs-groups-i:/home/groups/i 54G 51G 0 100% /home/groups/i I noticed this because I was updating the DevelopmentRoadmap and got a "Bad page version" error. Also it deleted the DevelopmentRoadmap and its change history. There's a backup version but I'm unsure how old it is. Bryce

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