February 2004 - Inkscape Devel

RE: [Inkscape-devel] 0.37rc1
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

OK, the problem is fixed. The new nodepath.cpp is committed. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] 0.37rc1
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Oops. Please hold on releasing. I found a problem in nodepath editing, investigating. >Because I fell asleep I had the unique opportunity to be awake when no >one else was, so there was actually a point where doing repeated 'cvs >update's didn't reveal new code ;) I went ahead and made "release >candidate" which is available here. From reading the backlog, I'm >guessing this isn't final - but I think it's not a bad idea to have. > >http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… > > --Ted > ><< signature.asc >> _________________________________________________________________ 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] 0.37rc1
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

>Because I fell asleep I had the unique opportunity to be awake when no >one else was, so there was actually a point where doing repeated 'cvs >update's didn't reveal new code ;) I went ahead and made "release >candidate" which is available here. From reading the backlog, I'm >guessing this isn't final - but I think it's not a bad idea to have. Great. I don't know if any code changes will be needed, but please don't forget to update the NEWS file from the release notes on Wiki - I updated them today. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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Tabs to Spaces
by Bryce Harrington 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

One of the tasks for this release was to decide on a tab vs. spaces strategy. This has been a controversial issue and has been a challenge to achieve concensus on, but it sounds like the group mostly favors changing tabs to spaces. A few people still favor tabs, so unfortunately we don't have a 100% concensus as we'd like, but I think we have a rough enough concensus favoring this that we can consider it decided. Before we do, does anyone have a major problem with replacing all the tabs in the codebase with spaces, that we should resolve beforehand? The main issue raised so far has been providing config files or modelines that cause vi and emacs to use spaces instead of tabs, so that there's no extra work for people to adhere to this as a standard. The next two questions are: Does anyone know a good method to untabify the entire codebase in one shot? Does anyone know how best to put modelines in the codebase to get vi and emacs to behave correctly? Bryce

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0.37rc1
by Ted Gould 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Well, Because I fell asleep I had the unique opportunity to be awake when no one else was, so there was actually a point where doing repeated 'cvs update's didn't reveal new code ;) I went ahead and made "release candidate" which is available here. From reading the backlog, I'm guessing this isn't final - but I think it's not a bad idea to have. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] back to work
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

>Has anyone had a chance to bang on the app for a while to make sure >there aren't other issues we've overlooked? Actually I've been using it almost daily for the last month. I submitted all problems I find to the tracker (unless I can quickly fix them myself, in which case I do that :) My personal gut feeling is that it's quite stable by now, at least on Linux. I doubt we can discoved any real show-stopper in the last day. _________________________________________________________________ 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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"dialogs on top" checkbox
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Mental, as discussed yesterday, please add a checkbox for options.transientpolicy={0|1} to the Dialogs menu today, so that we could set it to 1 in preferences-skeleton.h. I will be very disappointed if we ship the release with 0 as the default. _________________________________________________________________ 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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back to work
by Jonathan Phillips 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

Hey all, I just got back to my normal location at UC-San Diego. It is nice to be back in my 24 work zone. I'm thinking of a few things and decided that I would itemize rather than ramble-ize. 1.) PAYPAL: Do we have some form of paypal donations setup for our project. I would like to look into this. I've even been toying with the idea of getting some form of funding from UCSD to plugin to our project to "encourage" certain features to be implemented. I don't know if the "bounties" concept fits, but is interesting. 2.) NODE USABILITY: I don't know what to call it, but I will call it the extra-functionality "handle" for spirals, stars, circles and squares (rounding) is hard to see against a white background. I think we need to do something about the visibility of this. Maybe either by putting a white border around it, or making it reverse on colors. The normal nodes are hard to see sometimes as well. I think we should change the color of the nodes to be darker, or have a white outline or something to pop-them out against black and other dark colors. Just a thought...if you are all interested in this, then I will add another RFE. 3.) TIMETABLE for the next release? I know we have many many many more tasks to complete for this milestone, but now that we are after the new year, maybe we could have a target date for getting the current milestone complete. How about Sunday, February 1st? Cool... Jon -- Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...>

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Status Update for Inkscape release work
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

> > Now this function uses document->uri which I build in >sp_document_create() > > from the pathname on the command line and the current dir, using > > inkscape_rel2abs (which even does some normalization of things like .. >in > > the middle). It may probably still fail for some exotic cases, but the >basic > > operations that I tested now work OK. I would like to have this tested on Windows. Bob, could you please do a quick check that the latest CVS saves files properly on Windows, before an after a save-as into a different directory? _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] tutorial, terms
by bulia byak 09 Feb '04

09 Feb '04

By the way we need one more term for those blue arrows around a selection. Of course we can use "node handles," "shape handles," and "selection handles" but I think this is wordy and may be confusing. >I'm not happy with control and handle. The terminology I feel is most >common is that the tangent specifiers on bezier curves are called 'control >handles'. I would call everything but the 'nodes' 'control handles'. I >don't see any advantage from separating bezier control handles from >rectangle control handles. > >comments? > >njh _________________________________________________________________ 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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