October 2004 - Inkscape Devel

one gradient for multiple objects
by David Christian Berg 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

When you want multiple objects to have the same userpace gradient you have to group them now (was already this way in the build I had from cvs in mid october). That sucks, since maybe you don't want to group them because there are objects between them (z-order wise). Now, I think the problem is that for each object there is a new gradient created on switching to gradient from solid. Therefore right after the switch you have two objects with two different gradients selected and hence can't edit the gradient(s).

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windows builds?
by bulia byak 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Sorry to be pushy, but the crash on save Windows bug is very bad, and I want to check asap if JonCruz fixed it or not. Right now I don't have time to set up windows builds on my machine, so I rely on http://inkscape.org/win32-snap/. However the latest build there is from 29 oct. Is there a newer one somewhere?

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0.40pre1
by Ted Gould 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Okay, I've made a tarball for 0.40pre1 so that people can make packages for testing. This is not feature complete for 0.40, but it would be nice if everyone could use this to find more bugs. We want to continue our tradition of having quality releases! Also, we'd like to find any packaging bugs that may have shown up. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Thanks everyone for their help! --Ted

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can't undo delete layer
by David Christian Berg 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

just got myself the newest cvs to find some bugs. I noticed, that undoing deleting a layer is not possible. I'd call that a mayor bug! Also the fontsize of "(root)" in the combobox in the statusbar is decreased when you have a layer selected. Strange, I'd say.

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Some Usage Notes
by Michael Wheeler 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

I recently used Inkscape for a little bit of my "real work", and I took a few notes to share. I was using the Sept 24th build on Win 2000, which I know is a bit old. I'll grab the latest build as soon as I get a chance and start taking notes with that. Anyway, take these for what they're worth... Text on a path is very cool. It would be nice to be able to drag the starting point of the text along the curve. Alt+Click does not seem to work to select under in the select tool. Middle mouse pan and zoom is great and should be in every application! Maybe Shift+MM Drag could work like dragging a box with the zoom tool. It would make the middle mouse button more complete as the document navigation button. I wouldn't ever have to switch to the zoom tool. I'll make an RFE. The open file dialog freezes for a while right after I make my first click in the file area (even if it's a directory, or other item that needs no preview) Editing paths becomes very slow, almost to the point of becoming unusable, at high zoom levels, or with modestly complex paths. Text Dialog takes a long time to pop up. The font used for menus is smaller than that used by other applications. Keep up the good work! Michael Wheeler http://www.planet-zero.net

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static prerelease builds?
by bulia byak 30 Oct '04

30 Oct '04

It's very nice to see the overwhelming response to the bug review call. Thanks everyone. Now, the other thing we need to do is, of course, finding more bugs to fix :) With the recent bugfixes, I think the time to test it in earnest has come. So I would like to ask if anyone is capable of providing periodic builds of Inkscape to be uploaded to SF as a testing/prerelease series, the same as Ted did for 0.39. However the important thing about the 0.40 testing builds is that they must be linked statically. With all the new libraries we now use, and with all the reported incompatibilities of their versions, it is critically important that at least Boehm and libsigc++ are static, and maybe also gtkmm and others. This will make it so much easier for people to try out the builds. We will have to provide static builds of the final release, so why not start testing the static build process right now. Any volunteers?

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Bug summary 10/28
by Bryce Harrington 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Bug ID Pts Title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1029755 3 png resolution not imported 1039109 9 various problems with text after refactoring 980065 6 Garbled display in "pattern" fill dialog 1048802 6 2 find dialogs 1029530 (dup) WIN CVS: crash on file | import 1051350 (dup) Crash when open a file 990659 6 ill2svg fails without Image/Magick 1054270 9 Win32: Aligning objects causes crash 1048614 6 export: "selection" not toggled with text 931496 6 image URL not updating 998672 (dup) printing broken on Windows XP 1001279 6 Version: 0.39-suse91.0 rpm needs libpopt.so.0 1012089 6 CVS snapshots no longer available 996493 (dup) .39 Inkscape freezes 992962 3 Build Warning: Extensions warnings 992986 3 Build Warning: deprecated functions 992987 3 Build Warning: missing constructors 992985 3 Build Warning: unused variables/functions 1004134 6 'Changed' flag cleared when save not successful 1041643 3 Files fail to open on Gnome 2.8 1048151 6 Union destroy objects in some cases 984096 9 Assertion failures with calligraphy tool 1045067 3 --without-gui crashes if home dir not writable 1038932 6 Export silently fails when file cannot be created 984854 9 crashes with non-existent gradient in gradient editor 1000350 9 --print option can attempt to open dialogs and segfault 1041757 (dup) undefined symbol: gdk_threads_lock 993294 9 RDF improperly exported with plain SVG 1024915 9 glib-2.5.2: crashes on clicking fill and stroke dialog ======================================================================== Total: 144 Goal: 150pts (96% towards goal)

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Relative paths
by Jon A. Cruz 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

I've hit two issues 1) There appears to be a bug in sp_relative_path_from_path that chokes when you go up above the current directory. Like if you try to reference and image you'd expect to end up "../../other/thing.png" 2) Image paths currently are 'fixed' to be relative when you save svg. For problem #1 I know what to do. However, for problem #2 I'd want to confirm desired behavior. I was thinking that the proper thing would be to fixup to relative paths whenever a file is first imported. Does this sound reasonable?

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No Snap for transforming
by David Christian Berg 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

Hi guys, esp. Bulia, Pressing Alt while moving allows you not to snap to grid... but with my build it doesn't work for other transformation. Is that still the case? If so I'll file a bug for you hunt... probably an easy to fix :) David

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Inkscape 0.40 release planning
by Bryce Harrington 29 Oct '04

29 Oct '04

At the beginning of this month we kicked around the idea of doing an interim release, because even though we're not 100% done with the goals, there's a lot of new features and the time feels right for a new release. :-) We considered either calling it 0.39.5 and keeping with the roadmap as is, or calling it 0.40 and bumping the roadmap a bit. I believe there was a rough concensus for the latter at the time - this still true? In any case, the two tasks facing us right now are the same: 1. Finish up current work 2. Fix bugs (esp. the more noticeable ones) Like we've done in past releases, I'll begin posting critical bug summaries daily from now until the release so we can track our progress. How do we want to track it? * Fix X % of the critical bugs (e.g. fix 50% of crits)? * Reduce the bug list to a threshhold (e.g. 100?)? * Identify N specific bugs to fix? I browsed through the bug list yesterday, and we seem to be in fairly good shape (thanks most likely to the continuing attention the bug list receives). There are fewer crash bugs listed than we've had in the past, and most of those occur only in special situations (such as Win32-only), but some of the remaining bugs are particularly hard ones to fix. In any case, let me know what you think we should set as the goal for this release, and I'll start posting our progress on that by the 26th. Bryce

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