February 2004 - Inkscape Devel

RE: [Inkscape-devel] Inscape Status Jan 31, 2004
by bulia byak 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

>Project Status Saturday, January 31, 2004 Very nice! Would you post it to the site please? There seems to be a shortage of web site updates - this one will make up for it a bit. BTW notice how the lines of code are decreasing - a welcome result of dropping unneeded dialogs and trimming dead code. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your e-mail with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/photos&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjo…

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un-gtkmmification
by MenTaLguY 03 Feb '04

03 Feb '04

Okay, I've removed our gtkmm dependency for now. I did preserve Spark's close confirmation dialog, although I reworked it a little bit to conform to standard Gtk practice. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] fullscreen
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

>OK, sounds like something fun. I'll start coding on it tonight. Cool! :) >I also had the idea of starting on a keyboard shortcut chooser GUI, like >wmakerconf (of Windowmaker). Complete with xml preference export file etc. >to avoid keyboard shortcut overlap as Nathan mentioned. >I had the idea of programming it as a GTK widget as this might be useful to >other projects. Making shortcuts configurable is definitely in our agenda, and providing a GUI for this would be even better. However the problem is that the keys are defined in a lots of different places, and not all of them are equally easy to make configurable. See here for an overview: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KeyboardProfiles _________________________________________________________________ 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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Reminder: GUADEC 2004 Call for Papers
by David Neary 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi all, The closing date for submitting abstracts for papers to be presented at GUADEC is now only 2 weeks away. Anyone why is planning on giving a talk should send in an abstract (it doesn't have to be professional, just a short description of what you want to present) to guadec-papers@...45... as soon as possible. I have attached the original call for papers, which contains a lot more information, below. Looking forward to hearing all your great ideas, Regards, Dave, on behalf of the GUADEC planning committee. 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...

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] fullscreen
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Hi Johan, perhaps a logical next step after implementing fullscreen is making the entire window layout configurable, with different configurations stored for normal mode and fullscreen mode. Right now this is partially done for rulers and scrollbars; there's a stored preference for each, controlling whether they are shown or not. If you are interested, you could split the rulers and scrollbars options into normal and fullscreen, and then apply the same to the menu, both toolbars, and the statusbar. I think this should not be difficult; all the screen layout code is in desktop.cpp, and the functions for showing/hiding rulers/scrollbars is also there, including the hooks for storing and retrieving preference values. See also this page: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?HandlingPreferences _________________________________________________________________ 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Win32 Text Alpha value
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

>Ah... It's definitely in the 0.36 rpm build Oh, ages ago... >I played with it a little bit, and while the colors do look good with a >3/4ths alpha, I'm wondering if for users unfamiliar with what alpha is, >if that default might lead to some confusion, since their objects will >"bleed" color through each other. So maybe setting default alpha to 1 >would be the safest? I don't think so. My tutorial (has anyone read it?) points out the alpha of default shapes and uses it to introduce the alpha concept early in the process. I think it's an advantage as it shows off our capabilities at once. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 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 Text Alpha value
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

>Would changing this entry at line 37 >in preferences-skeleton.h be sufficient? > >If so, I will do it... > > >" <group id=\"tools\"" >" style=\"fill:none;fill-opacity:0.75;" No. This is not necessary, as this value affects all tools. I fixed this (a month ago) by <eventcontext id=\"text\"" style=\"fill:black;fill-opacity:1; .... This has been fixed in my builds since then. If it's still broken somewhere, preference-skeleton.h is not the culprit. _________________________________________________________________ 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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windows build anyone?
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Can anyone please compile the latest CVS for Windows so the latest additions could be tested there? I have Windows but no Windows development tools. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] RE: More whinging about shortcuts andkeybindings ;)
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

>Hmm, that gives me an idea... how do you feel about the idea of having a >more general 'viewport history' or something like that (which would >include zoom), orthagonal to the document undo history? It IS already a vewport history, that is, each list member in desktop->zooms_past stores four numbers that define the visible area _and_ zoom. However new members to this list are added only when you are zooming in or out, not when you are panning canvas at the same zoom. This is logical: you can pan very slowly, and adding a new "undo step" for each one-pixel panning will make this history unusable. However you gave me an idea: I can store past viewport not only before I do zoom, but also after that; later, when a next zoom is started, I will compare the current viewport with the last stored and, if it's the same, not store it. This way I will be adding one viewport record if there was no panning between zooms and two records if there was panning, these records storing the first and last viewports at this zoom. I think it will be a bit more convenient this way. _________________________________________________________________ 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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bug 859364
by bulia byak 02 Feb '04

02 Feb '04

Mental, I found that a slight rearrangement/optimization of code in libnrtype/nr-rasterfont.cpp fixes this bug for me. So I committed this change because, at least, it does not look as silly as an empty g_print(). I'm closing the bug, as I don't think we'll find a better solution because: - I'm weak at low-level debugging of weird problems (IANAP), and you could not reproduce it - I'm at a loss when it comes to libnr stuff. By the way this worries me a lot, because we have some other bugs (such as 871342, 871582) that are buried deep in libnr and nobody seems to be able to touch them :( - Nobody except you was interested - nobody even reported if they can reproduce the crash or not! _________________________________________________________________ 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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