January 2004 - Inkscape Devel

RE: Win32 Preferences
by bulia byak 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

>However, each new Win32 build puts in a new "preferences.xml" >file with each installation. When does it overwrite it - during installation? If so I think it's the installer problem, it should keep the old pref file and use it. On Linux, all my builds use the same pref file; if some new preference was added by a build, it gets merged into the old preferences.xml. Probably the problem is caused by the win build storing its preferences in the program dir (I think) instead of the home dir. I will now commit a fix which you'll need to test on windows. I'm not sure g_get_home_dir() works on windows, but if it does, it's the correct way to solve the problem. It should return the dir in your $HOME environment variable, and if there's none, I think it will return C:\. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] screenshot-ready
by bulia byak 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

>Also, it seems like the status bar text should be vertically aligned in >the center to flow with vertical alignment with the other elements at >the bottom of the document window. I now limited the height of the entire bottom bar to 20 pixels which gave a slightly better vertical alignment of things. Please check on your system. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] screenshot-ready
by bulia byak 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

>Could we supply an option for screensize as either pecentage or pixels? >It makes sense and is a good suggestion. Why not, if the size is specified with % at the end, it would refer to the screen percentage. Please submit an RFE. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/photos&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjo…

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Re: Any news on inkscape?
by Wolfram Quester 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

Hi Jordi! On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:30:41PM +0100, Jordi Mallach wrote: > Hi Wolfi, > > Any news on the inkscape packages? I'm very interested in having this > app available. > > Jordi I cc the inkscape-devel list, so they know the status of the packages also. Guido Günther did the upload of my 0.36-packages around Christmas (26. I think), so they should appear in unstable sooner or later. I thought about making two packages: One called inkscape and cvs-snapshots in inkscape-cvs. cvs-snapshots could be packaged every two or three weeks with a dummy bug open to keep them in unstable. I didn't upload a cvs-snapshot yet. Best regards, Wolfi

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remember update the ChangeLog!
by MenTaLguY 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

This is just a reminder to update the ChangeLog file whenever you commit something to CVS! This is really important! Otherwise at minimum it's hard for everyone to see what everyone else is working on. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Using gtkmm in inkscape
by bulia byak 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

> > The metric I'm watching for this is the size of the inkscape-devel > > mailing list; when it hits 200-300 I will assume we're at the sweet > > spot. Based on the volume of list traffic I think we're already pretty > > close. :-) I can understand the 200-300 as the ideal size of the developer community, but users? They don't have to be a community at all, and any attempts to limit their number seem utterly weird to me. I am not very excited to think that my work will be used by no more than 300 people in the whole world. _________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: [Inkscape-devel] screenshot-ready
by bulia byak 14 Jan '04

14 Jan '04

>Why don't you just get the size of the screen and take a percentage of >it? like make it 2/3 screen width and 2/3 screen height. > >Make it so that people on large displays don't end up having to resize >the window every time? The idea is to store the size in preferences, and therefore it must be a fixed number, not some algorithm. Users will be able to set this size for newly created documents in preferences; in saved & loaded documents it is saved with the document and restored automatically. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE 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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RE: [Inkscape-devel] screenshot-ready
by bulia byak 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

One more thing I forgot: now the default window size of a new document is 640x480 (set in preferences-skeleton.h). Can anyone argue for better values? We need to set it there because: - the default size without it is determined by the width of the menu and the height of the toolbar, and is way too small, - we need to provide a template that users could edit in their preferences.xml to set the window size they prefer. _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Using gtkmm in inkscape
by bulia byak 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

Nathan, let me respectfully disagree. >Jon, we _DON'T_ want lots of users just yet. Look what happens when you >get lots of users: they complain about features not being available; Which is valuable. We cannot invent everything. >they complain that the interface isn't exactly like their favourite program >XYZ; Which is valuable. We cannot know all existing programs inside out, so why not use this help. >they clutter mailing lists up with questions answered already in the FAQ or >user manual(which we haven't even written yet); More incentive to write it. Or would you prefer writing to a nonexisting audience? This sounds like a perversion to me :) >and you spend the whole time worrying about fixing code to compile on >borland visual gcc 2.96. First, _users_ don't usually tweak with compiling. Second, just set a standard set of requirements/platforms (what you are doing now) and don't care about everything else. And third, it's just as likely that someone will come up with, "Hey, I know you don't support it, but I managed to compile on XYZ, here's the patch." >Can we stop treating this as a commercial project whose main aim is to >maximise user base? I've been on such projects before, and they usually >die a horrible death. If a project has managed to gain a good user base, it doesn't already sound like "horrible death" to me, regardless of what lies ahead. Projects that die _without_ users look much more pitiful. _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] [Fwd: Re: [Sodipodi-list] Visual cue for multiple selection
by bulia byak 13 Jan '04

13 Jan '04

> > My only concern is what do you do when there are more than like 20 > > objects selected at once? Don't you think at a certain point the amount > > of sub-bounding boxes would be overwhelming? > >That is possible. It has never bothered me in the past, but we'll have to >see how we get on. Perhaps we could increase the transparency of the >boxes as the number of items increases, or something. See my comment here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=875727&group_id=9… In short: I'm against boxes (messy!) but individual items in a selection can and should be marked somehow, for example as Xara does that by adding a small inverted square (like a handle but smaller) at the top left corner of each object's bounding box. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE 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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