"Lock" vs "Sensitive"/"Insensitive"
by Peter Moulder
Recently, the "Sensitive" item in the Object Properties dialog box was
changed to "Lock". Presumably this is for consistency with the
corresponding layer operation.
The word `Lock' doesn't communicate very well that one can't even select
the objects with the mouse (e.g. to view properties), whereas it wrongly
communicates that the objects can't be changed.
(Insensitive objects can freely be changed once they're selected
somehow, e.g. because they're still selected from when the user changed
their item properties, or using Select All, or the Find dialog box, or
selecting from the XML editor. I think it would be wrong for the Lock
checkbox to deselect things, as that would give different behaviour for
clicking Hide then Lock from Lock then Hide, for example, or whatever
other changes to the objects one wants to make at the same time.)
We have another padlock icon in the toolbars, but it doesn't mean "The
selected object/s are insensitive", it means that the Width and Height
spin buttons change in unison to maintain constant aspect ratio.
I intend to change the word Lock back to either Sensitive or Insensitive
(or Canvas-selectable?) and change the tooltip for the layer padlock
icon to mention the word sensitive. Maybe "Make the selected objects
insensitive, i.e. prevent the selected objects from being selectable
with clicks or drags in the canvas."
pjrm.
18 years, 6 months
Glue : SVG Support ? Inkscape Sypport ?
by NAGY Endre
>>On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 02:00:31PM +1100, Peter Moulder wrote:
>> See the inkscape:connection-start="#ID" and
>> inkscape:connection-end="#ID" attributes in the appended example file,
>> and note the two xmlns lines in the <svg> element's attributes.
>
>Aack! I didn't see this go in! So cool! Between text-follows-path and
>this, Inkscape has everything I ever wanted now! Wooo! :)
I think its FAB as well
My one problem is that my inkscape:connection-start's and inkscape:connection-end's
are small SVG circles. If I try and select these shapes to drag, I invariably
end up selecting the path rather than the circle. The paths themselves do not exhibit
the connection behaviour.
Is there an inkscape namespace element that can specify that a path (or geometry) is not
selectable. Alternatively can I define a "selection priority" or a "selection boundary",
if you see what I mean
Regards
Endre
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18 years, 6 months
slower than sodipodi
by Johan Forsberg
Hello people,
I've recently noticed a pretty big difference in speed between
sodipodi (0.34) and inkscape (0.40 pre, but also earlier versions)...
simply rendering the same svg is at least twice as fast in sodipodi as
in inkscape (I haven't made any benchmarks, but the difference is not
only noticeable but really large). Actually I've found myself using
sodipodi instead of inkscape in some very complex cases even though I
find inkscape's interface much nicer and feature filled, because it
was simply too slow.
I realise by now inkscape is probably a much more complex program than
sodipodi but I can't really see why the actual rendering should be
slower. Is there a technical explanation for this or is something
strange with my system?
/Johan
18 years, 6 months
mingw's gcc3.4.2 now current
by Bob Jamison
If you check this site:
http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml
...you can see that the gcc3.4.x source/binaries, which
have been "Candidate" for a very long time, have been
moved to "Current." So I guess the switch to 3.4.x on Win32,
which was highly recommended earlier, is now mandatory.
I suppose that Win32 will stay with the 3.4.x series for a nice
long period now, until the MinGW guys create their gcc4.0 patch.
It will likely not be before April, so it looks like this stuff
will be stable for a while now.
On another note, I have started reassembling the gtk libs.
It is a very slow process. ;)
Bob
18 years, 6 months
svg and music/symbol fonts
by Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Hi there,
I'm implementing SVG output for LilyPond, but I cannot get Inkscape to
display LilyPond's custom feta music font.
As the font does not have a unicode mapping and uses a
custom/fontSpecific encoding I would expect Inkscape to map the
characters onto the unicode PUA. Alas, that does seem not happen.
This is what Sodipodi does (but Sodipodi has other font problems).
Can I instruct Inkscape to map this font to the 0xe000 area, and how?
Possibly by fixing the fonts.cache-1 listing, or adding an SVG text
style attribute?
Attached is a small LilyPond svg output and the LilyPond-feta 20 font.
Greetings,
Jan.
--
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <janneke@...570...> | GNU LilyPond - The music typesetter
http://www.xs4all.nl/~jantien | http://www.lilypond.org
18 years, 6 months
[Announcing] SFMOMA: The Open-Source Paradigm, Thursday, November 18, 2004
by Jon Phillips
Hey all, I wanted to alert you to a panel I'm on next week in San
Francisco. Needless to say it is going to be major PR in the art world
for Inkscape and Open Clip Art Library. If anyone is in the area, it
would be a great event to attend. I'm also excited because the number 2
person at creativecommons (under lessig) is on the panel.
Please forward the following PR below:
###
On Thursday, November 18, 2004, SFMOMA (www.sfmoma.org) presents:
The Open-Source Paradigm
========================
A Panel Discussion & Reception
Moderated by Linda Jacobson, featuring new media professor Greg Niemeyer
(http://art.berkeley.edu/niemeyer/) from UC Berkeley, artist-developer
Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), and Creative Commons
(www.creativecommons.org) assistant director Neeru Paharia.
7:00 p.m. in the Phyllis Wattis Theater
Visual artists and sound artists who create with digital tools have
started to embrace the community-based, open-source software approach
that's revolutionized the computer industry. As a reaction to the
restrictions of intellectual property rights, the Open Source Initiative
provides free computer software via the Web and allows anyone to
contribute software as long as the underlying source codes are visible
and shared. Explorations of the creative applications of open-source
promise to expand its use beyond software development. This panel
discusses the conceptual basis for the open-source movement in the arts,
its history, and legal issues and presents artistic projects
incorporating open-source technology. A reception in The Schwab Room
follows the program.
$12 general; $8 SFMOMA members, students with ID, and seniors. Tickets
are available at SFMOMA (with no surcharge) or online.
This event is presented in collaboration with SMAC (San Francisco Media
Arts Council).
Please visit www.sfmoma.org for press coverage of previous SMAC/SFMOMA
event on videogames' impact on artists featuring pioneers Will Wright
and Nolan Bushnell
--
Jon Phillips
KOREA.PH.010.3140.7483
USA.PH.858.361.2811
jon@...235...
http://www.rejon.org
Inkscape (http://inkscape.org)
Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)
CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu)
Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)
18 years, 6 months
ubuntu compile
by Robert Crosbie
Hi,
I'm trying to get inkscape CVS compiling on a pretty much base ubuntu
install. I installed packages as needed to get past the autogen and
configure. Now the compile always fails with many syntax errors
compiling filedialog.
Any idea what I could be missing here?
if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/X11R6/include -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\"
-DXTHREADS -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include
-I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libxml2
-I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include
-I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include
-I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include
-I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -Wall -W
-Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual
-Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -MT dialogs/filedialog.o -MD
-MP -MF "dialogs/.deps/filedialog.Tpo" \
-c -o dialogs/filedialog.o `test -f 'dialogs/filedialog.cpp' || echo
'./'`dialogs/filedialog.cpp; \
then mv -f "dialogs/.deps/filedialog.Tpo" "dialogs/.deps/filedialog.Po"; \
else rm -f "dialogs/.deps/filedialog.Tpo"; exit 1; \
fi
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1031: error: syntax error before `;' token
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1037: error: `FileType' was not declared in this scope
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1037: error: template argument 1 is invalid
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1037: error: template argument 2 is invalid
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1037: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `fileTypes'
with no type
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1080: error: syntax error before `::' token
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1085: error: `svgPreview' was not declared in this scope
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1085: error: `fileName' was not declared in this scope
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1085: error: `dialogType' was not declared in this scope
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1086: error: `retval' was not declared in this scope
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1086: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `
set_preview_widget_active' with no type
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1094: error: syntax error before `::' token
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1099: error: `fileNameEntry' was not declared in this
scope
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1100: error: parse error before `if'
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1109: error: syntax error before `.' token
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1110: error: syntax error before `.' token
dialogs/filedialog.cpp:1111: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of `fileName'
with no type
...
Cheers,
--
Rob.
http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie
18 years, 6 months
Inkscape Status November 15, 2004
by Bryce Harrington
Statistics Nov 15 May 15 Oct 15 Nov 1 Nov 15
========== ====== ====== ====== ===== ======
Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 1028 687 684 636
(68.5%) (92.7%) (95.2%) (95.2%) (95.6%)
Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 36 124 62 14
(99.6%) (99.8%) (99.3%) (99%) (100%)
Total SF Page Views * 475,000 1,339,114 1,487,659 1,758,321
Total SF Downloads * 27,400 63,869 69,078 80,152
Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 * 11,465 11,849 12,162
Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 74 124 125 126
Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 189,116 303,783 306,602 307,747
Code lines 147,471 216,027 217,198 217,982
Comment line 16,757 52,421 53,262 53,491
Blank 25,886 41,872 42,699 42,829
Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 4,544 16,841 16,841 16,974
Lines of content in website: 1,173 6,008 7,840 8,121 8,382
Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 18,638 22,459 18,977 19,735
Bugs open/total: 9/15 57/365 135/653 104/683 102/733
Features open/total: 18/18 183/238 263/406 279/426 291/448
Patches open/total: 1/ 6 4/ 83 7/126 7/130 7/137
CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 3391 7,860 8,279 8,613
Inkscape-devel membership: 49 78 109 108 117
Inkscape-announce membership: 9 43 98 113 124
Inkscape-user membership: 71 138 144 157
Num Translations: 33 33 33
Ave Translation Ratio: 35.0% 38.5 38.4
* - Statistics unavailable
18 years, 6 months
