January 2004 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Win32 cross-compiled build
by bulia byak 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

>Currently my autoexec.bat is empty. Can you give a little more detail on >what I should set? >I also have seen comments to the effect that Win2000 does not use >autoexec.bat though it can be forced to do so. Don't know if that is >relevant. I'm wading in deep waters here. AFAIK, on 2000/xp you are supposed to set environment variables via GUI somewhere in the system settings. Search your "start" button, or google for "environment variable windows 2000". _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/features&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] secondary toolbar
by bulia byak 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

>On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 04:26, bulia byak wrote: > > >It would be nice if there was a recursive version of > > >gtk_widget_modify_font(), but as far as I know there isn't. Perhaps we > > >should write a function to do that. > > > > Thanks! I added a recursive sp_set_font_size() to >widgets/swp-utilities.cpp, > > works fine for the menu and all spinbuttons. > >Actually, if you haven't already done so, maybe you can just call it on >the box widget for that part of the toolbar once you've added the >widgets? Tried that. Unfortunately it then only affects the visible menu item ("pt"); all the other items in the menu remain large, unless I cater to each one specifically. _________________________________________________________________ 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] Win32 cross-compiled build
by Bob Jamison 09 Jan '04

09 Jan '04

vellum wrote: >Hi Bob, > >This build seemed to open up OK. So far it seems to work well with no >obvious problems. > >I checked the build though and the Inkscape screen says build031231. This is >confusing to say the least. Is it 031231 or 040106? > >Text zoom to 25600% seems good and I notice the width has been >increased-thanks. >text shapes etc seem good > >Will play more soon. > >vellum > > > > Yes, I should fix the date. Since I created the makefiles for a non-automated PC world, I have the date hardcoded. I guess now that I can automate the builds, something like DTG = `date +%y%m%d.%H%M` VERSION = "0.37cvs${DTG}" might work. This would make "0.37cvs040107.1556" Is that OK? This is in case more than one build happens to occur in a day. And it remains sortable. Bob

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GUADEC 2004 Call for Papers
by David Neary 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

GUADEC 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS The Fifth European Gnome Users and Developers Conference June 28-30, 2004, Kristiansand, Norway http://guadec.org/ Abstract submission deadline: February 16th, 2004 The European Gnome Users and Developers Conference (GUADEC) invite you to participate in the Fifth Conference on June 28-30, 2004, Kristiansand, Norway The GNOME User and Developer European Conference (GUADEC) will bring together developers, GNOME Foundation leaders and individual, business and government GNOME and open source software users. The conference is a unique forum for highlighting the capabilities and direction of GNOME, the user environment for desktops, networked servers and portable Internet devices. GUADEC will also feature discussions of the future direction of open source development. We're looking for people to give - Talks, Tutorials, Posters, Panels, Planning Sessions / BOFS Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: GNOME core: Latest developments on the GNOME desktop, core GNOME applications, related libraries, security, Mobility and Wireless Access etc. Free Software in the Information Society: Development of policies and cases related to Patents, Open Standards, Migration strategies and experiences (e.g. Office documents), Software in Public sector such as schools and hospitals, Information Society progress including developing countries. Graphics: Development and deployment of applications in particular: Multimedia, Games, Film, GIMP Freestyle: Interesting Free Software issues not covered in the other tracks and open for a less formal forms of presentation REFEREED PAPERS TRACK GUADEC seeks original papers describing research in all areas based on GNOME or related to Open Source. Papers should not have been published or be in submission at another conference or journal. Accepted papers will appear on the Web site and we plan to publish them in conference proceedings. For papers to appear in the proceedings, we need to be strict on the submission format. Format details available on the above web site. We encourage you to submit the 'source' for the paper as well (eg. HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, MagicPoint, etc). Any featured software in papers must be available under a licence compatible with the Open Source Definition (http://www.opensource.org/osd.html). Any papers that are accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms will be rejected. All successful papers must be eligible for republication on-line and on distribution media given to conference attendees. The GNOME Foundation requires publication rights to accepted papers, including the publication of the audio proceedings as well as publication and reproduction rights to any video filmed during the presentations. These rights are non-exclusive. Copyright ownership is retained by the author. You may be asked to sign an agreement to these conditions upon arrival at the conference. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors of papers are invited to submit abstracts (150 - 400 words) in plain text, due February 16th 2004 Final papers (1500 - 4000 words) or maximum 5 pages, photo and biography, due May 15th 2004. Please send your submission to guadec-papers@...45... See http://2004.guadec.org/ for further details and information on Posters, Panels, and Planning Sessions / BOFS Kristiansand is situated on the Norwegian south coast, offering a city beach and a vivid summer town life. The most visited attraction in Norway, the zoo (Dyreparken), is located nearby Kristiansand. Here the animals are kept in large outdoor space instead of cages. Perhaps we can even find some gnu's there. For those who prefer an excursion to a waterfall and Salmon River this can be also arranged. Other options include concerts, visit to islands, etc. General questions about GUADEC may be sent to info@...133... -- David Neary, E-Mail: dneary@...8... Tél: 04 72 33 95 35 Port: 06 03 98 39 80

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Win32 builds
by Bob Jamison 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Now that the files have been checked into the tree, it has become very easy to build on Win32. I have put a couple of recent builds here: http://troi.lincom-asg.com/~rjamison/inkscape ...along with instructions on how to do it. Please try them out. The main thing I am looking for, is a missing DLL dependency or something like that. Even though I have tried these on other machines, I would still appreciate a 3rd party testing it. Thanks. Bob

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Tasks for 0.37 - Calling Volunteers!
by Bryce Harrington 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Of the remaining tasks for the 0.37 release, there are a few items that we need volunteers for: 1. Create new screenshots for website 2. Review/remove obsolete (#if 0) code 3. Remove the SP prefixes and put into namespaces (e.g., SPFoobar -> Inkscape::Foobar) Most of these don't require a lot of experience with the codebase or C/C++, but they do require a lot of effort, so what we'd like to do is divide up the work among many hands. If each of us puts a few cycles in, it should not take long to tag team them all to the ground. 1. Creation of new screenshots is easy. Set up your desktop to look spiffy, with something "interesting" going on with Inkscape. Perhaps most helpful is if each screenshot focused on a specific feature (especially new ones like booleans and inset/offset). We also want a very attractive one to put on the homepage. If you want to do this, make the screenshot and announce it on this list, and we'll add them to the website. You can post your screenshot to your own webserver, or email to me directly (not to the mailing list). 2. Removing of the #if 0 code should be straightforward. There are large sections of code in the codebase that have been fenced off with pre-processor macros so that they never get compiled in. Why are these chunks of code in there? By definition, they're not necessary so probably can just be deleted, and so that's the plan. However, we need them to be reviewed to make sure we're not deleting stuff that's important. If you want to look at this, I've broken out the work by subdir in the Roadmap, so go sign up there. Each item should be a couple hour's worth of work, max, I figure. 3. Currently the code uses prefixes, but since we converted to C++ we want to use proper namespaces. I.e., instead of SPFoobar we want to have Inkscape::Foobar (more or less). This can partly be done mechanically through scripts, but we also want to move things around in the process. Details about the namespaces to use are available from the SubsystemRearchitecture document in Wiki. If you're interested in working on this, contact Mental, or just go ahead and start submitting patches and we'll work things out as we go. Thanks, Bryce

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Win32 cross-compiled build
by Bob Jamison 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

I put a new build on the web page today, one that I made completely on a Linux machine. However, I was not able to find a free Windows box on which to try it out. If someone has the time, please give it a try. By "cross-compiler" , I mean the same MinGW-modified GCC that we normally use on Windows, but built on Linux instead. It is likely incredibly buggy, being the first one made this way, but hey, it's a start. If this works, we can start automated builds soon. Bob

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Naming
by Ted Gould 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

There has been some discussion about what to name the things that add functionality to Inkscape, but are not part of the core. I've always called these modules, while there was discussion on this before - it seems that it is time to change the name. I don't really care what we call stuff, I just want everyone to use the same terms. Here's what I'm proposing: extension --- a chunk of functionality that extends the functionality of Inkscape, but is not part of the core code. script --- an extension that is built using STDIO to pass SVG data and change it in some way. extension system --- The code that deals with all of the glue between extensions and the core. Complaints? Comments? Additions? Ideas? --Ted

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Planning for 0.37 Release
by Bryce Harrington 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

Hi all, Now that the holidays are over, it's probably a good time to start focusing on cutting a release. Much good work has been done due to the steady level of activity over the past month. It looks like all the "hard" tasks in the Roadmap have been successfully completed, but there's several other cleanup tasks still to be done. It's a good bit of work, but divided amongst us it won't take much time per person to achieve them. We'd identified Feb 1st as a possible release date, but I think we should release when the tasks are done. Conceivably that could be before the 1st, given how much productivity the team has brought out on prior releases. I'll post the plan shortly, and identify areas where we need volunteers. Meantime, have a look at http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap I'll also extract a "short list" of bugs that should be fixed for this release. There were quite a few critical ones, although I think a lot got fixed over the last few weeks. The bug tracker is at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306 Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] secondary toolbar
by bulia byak 08 Jan '04

08 Jan '04

>It would be nice if there was a recursive version of >gtk_widget_modify_font(), but as far as I know there isn't. Perhaps we >should write a function to do that. Thanks! I added a recursive sp_set_font_size() to widgets/swp-utilities.cpp, works fine for the menu and all spinbuttons. > > But I did not find any way to > > "undo" a GtkEditable. Does this mean I must implement this myself, by > > remembering the old text every time I enter a spinbutton and restoring >it > > when leaving by Esc? > >Yes. > >You may find that g_object_get_data() and g_object_set_data() will save >your sanity here. OK, will do. _________________________________________________________________ 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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