December 2004 - Inkscape Devel

proposed change to icons
by Ben Crowell 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, and next to them you can see the lower and raise icons in the original style, with the greenish-yellow color. My idea here was to tone down the colors a little, and also use transparency to create more of a visual impression of the object rotating. It's meant to look like the new Gimp 2.0 icons, which IMO are very professional looking.

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Help needed with UI work in Gtkmm codebase
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

If anyone's interested in contributing some time to the new Inkscape UI work, we can use some help with setting up the menus. It's extremely straightforward work, there's just a lot of it to do. Basically, for each menu item we need to write code to establish things like handlers, signals, descriptions, etc. I've coded up a examples for several menu items, so you'd just copy and extend that for all of the menu items. If you're interested in working on this drop me a line and I'll fill you in. The task writeup is in the PLAN document in the 'experimental' module in CVS, under bryce/inkscape_gtkmm/. Bryce

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Volunteer needed for bug prioritizing
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

One of the first tasks needed in the lead-up to the 0.41 release is to go through the new bugs in the bug tracker and prioritize them. This is a straightforward task, and takes one evening to do. I usually tackle this myself but since I've been rather busy with gtkmm lately, I'd love to encourage someone else to take it on. The new bugs are the ones that are listed at Priority '5'. The task is read them and then change their priority to 3/6/9 depending on if they are low/med/high. High priority bugs are those that cause data loss or application crash. In addition, if the bug reports are too terse I try to add a note requesting more info. If it looks easy to reproduce and I have some extra time, I sometimes give it a shot and comment if I see the problem too. That's pretty much it. If you'd like to help with this task let me know, and I'll set your admin privs for the bug tracker so you can do this. Thanks, Bryce

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Newsforge Inkscape article (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:16:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jiaxiang <jwasheville@...36...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Subject: Newsforge Inkscape article Good day, Bryce. Did you catch this article about Inkscape on Newsforge.com? http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1638201 -Joshua __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] proposed change to icons
by bulia byak 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

There's no need to argue. Ben, you can continue working on the new icon set, and when you are ready we will ship your icons.svg alongside the old one, so people can choose whichever they like. Trent, the same for you: you are welcome to develop a set of icons that work best for your black background, and we'll ship them also. When there's at least one complete set besides the old one, we can make a preference with a UI to choose one of them on load. As for me, I prefer the crisp, bright, and laconic style and, when I create new icons in my set, I will continue developing that style. Everyone can use what they like.

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proposed change to icons
by Ben Crowell 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

On inkscape-devel, I've proposed some changes to some of Bulia's icons. Some people seemed to like the new versions better, and some didn't. We didn't seem to have a statistically significant sample of opinions, so I'm reposting now to both inkscape-devel and inkscape-user. I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, and next to them you can see the lower and raise icons in the original style, with the greenish-yellow color. My idea here was to tone down the colors a little, and also use transparency to create more of a visual impression of the object rotating. It's meant to look like the new Gimp 2.0 icons, which IMO are very professional looking. The svg from which the icons were constructed is here: http://www.lightandmatter.com/icons.svg Please give an on-list opinion in binary, 0=don't change, 1=change. (The icons can be tweaked more later, of course, if there is a consensus for it.)

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save as format
by bulia byak 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

Recently save and save as started to default to Plain SVG instead of Inkscape SVG. Very annoying. Those who touched this code recently, could you please look into it?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: units, misc
by Ben Crowell 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

>> What I would like to see is that when I load a document that I've >> explicitly set dimensions to - such as a woodworking project set to >> inches, or a game map set to km, or my website layout set to px, that >> they show up that way, but by default if I start a new drawing or open >> one that has not had any units specified for it, that it defaults to my >> preference (cm or whatever). >This is exactly how the current system works. Except for the last part >- it always defaults to pt if no units specified, but this can be >changed. I think it should be changed. I agree with Bryce -- it should be possible to set a per-user pref that would automatically be applied to new documents.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: units, misc
by Ben Crowell 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

IMO it would be more useful to be able to set the default units on a per-user basis, rather than on a per-document basis. The method of storing the preference in a standard piece of stationery requires extra steps from the user. Personally I just want millimeters, always, and never anything but millimeters :-)

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NEW: units, misc
by Ben Crowell 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

First of all, as an American, let me just apologize to the rest of the world for being the only country in the world stupid enough not to have embraced the metric system. Anyhow, I'd like to propose doing what Adobe Illustrator does (or what I think I remember it does). Every user has a preference for the unit he likes to use by default. When he creates a new document, everything in that document is by default measured in those units, but he can change that on a per-documet basis.

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