April 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

crash in hmm dunno
by David Christian Berg 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

I have the latest debian package, but dunno what that is... can't you put something in the about dialog, so that I know... I never remember this terminal stuff. Anyways, I get a crash when I try to copy a text with a gradient fill. That is strange on the one hand and annoying on the other. I hope it's an easy to fix or fixed already. David

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math operation in dialogs
by David Christian Berg 13 Oct '04

13 Oct '04

just wondering if I should file a bug, or if it's so simple that I don't need to. Especially in the guides and the positioning dialog it would be helpful to be able to put mathimatical stuff in there. Imagine you have a guide at 45.6 and want one 7 mm further to the right, you'd just type 45.6+7 and there you go... even more important is something like dividing by 2 or 3, I need that quite often. Btw: Since my laptop was for repair, I used CorelDraw, and I think for basic vector editing and layouting inkscape is by now better than Corel. That is something! Which also brings me to one other thing I'm missing: Baseline Grid. Even for simple flyers and brochures it's nice (or rather necessary) to have. CorelDraw just pissed me of for not having it! I got my laptop back, with working ethernet card, Yeah!! Take care! David

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Clone command
by bulia byak 04 Jul '04

04 Jul '04

>Bulia...this is an awesome feature. I wish the keyboard shortcut was >easier to do with one hand. Most keys are already taken. Feel free to propose another shortcut. >Also, I think there should be another feature that should be added >called EXPAND, which allows for selected cloned objects to be made into >complete copies of the referenced image. Better "Unlink clone". Also a command to look up a clone's original. >Also, markers applied to the original do not apply to the clones. Yes. Please file a bug. _________________________________________________________________ http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Tidbits
by Peter Linnell 30 Apr '04

30 Apr '04

Hi all, Just some quick notes (hopefully) of interest: I have sucessfully compiled the last few days of cvs with the final release of GCC 3.4. The code clean-up by mental and others has resulted in much faster compiling and far fewer warnings - even with -Wall switched on. CGG 3.4 seems faster compiling c++ code, but is much more strict about c++ code. I have updated the wiki wrt Interoperability. Discussed on jabber is: Possibility of harmonizing some keyboard short cuts. Color sets - Scribus now has four. Cheers, Peter

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with the GTK file selector in KDE
by bulia byak 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

>OK, the difference between the 2004-04-10 05:00 (good) and the >2004-04-10 06:00 (bad) versions are in inkscape.cpp and in main.cpp. >Downgrading inkscape.cpp in the 06 tree to the 05 version does not >solve the problem, but downgrading main.cpp DOES. I just replaced all atof() and strtod() with g_ascii_strtod() which is locale independent. Please try the CVS and see if this fixes your problem (Arpad, you have the developer access and thus can check the up-to-the-minute CVS, others will have to wait until tomorrow because anon CVS lags behind). _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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[patch] Put description in .desktop file
by Mike Hearn 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Hi, Yes there is no specific standard for this, but the general consensus seems to be "Name Description" for non-core desktop apps. Index: inkscape.desktop.in =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/inkscape.desktop.in,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 inkscape.desktop.in --- inkscape.desktop.in 16 Nov 2003 23:16:13 -0000 1.2 +++ inkscape.desktop.in 28 Apr 2004 21:17:28 -0000 @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ [Desktop Entry] -_Name=Inkscape +_Name=Inkscape SVG Vector Illustrator _Comment=SVG Vector Illustrator Encoding=UTF-8

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Tutorials translated to french
by Cédric GEMY 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

I've just translated Bulia's tutorials to french. they are available at http://www.le-radar.com/mm/sodipodi/xml/tutorial-basic_fr.svg http://www.le-radar.com/mm/sodipodi/xml/tutorial-advanced_fr.svg May be these could be put on CVS by right owner. AND, Since de manual I made was writtent for Sodipodi and that it is a quite old now (because Inkscape is improving very fast), I aim to update it in the following weeks. I also would like to improve english translation of this future manual. Help would be welcome. I'll tell more about the way I see that in the next days. May be People with Ideas can telle there wishes before the beginning of the update work period. Cheers Cedric

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32. Print seems to be broken
by bulia byak 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

>Hmmm, any more info on this. Can you get a stack trace or something >similar? There has been a few changes, notably the adding of extension >properties into the print subsystem. I think that is the biggest change >there, so I'm a touch concerned. Let me suggest a few guidelines for users on how to report bugs: If the bug you report to the list is not fixed promptly, this may mean developers cannot reproduce it, or cannot understand your description, or are simply too busy with other things. Be persistent. As the original reporter, you are the person most interested in fixing it, so if your first report had no effect, you must not let it drop. There are many things you can do to push your bug closer to fixing: 1. Submit the bug to the tracker. Don't wait for someone else to do it. It's important, otherwise your report will be quickly forgotten. (But check the tracker first, your bug may be already there.) 2. Submit complete information: version, platform, locale, steps to reproduce, sample file(s), screenshots. 3. If this is a crash, it's important to submit a backtrace. Use gdb to get a backtrace by running gdb <path to inkscape executable> and then from within gdb run <parameters> When the program crashes, type at the gdb prompt bt and send us the output. All of this can be done on Windows too, the Windows binary of gdb is available from http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml. 4. If you really want the bug to be fixed, try to find out the exact point in time when the bug appeared. At the very least, test old Inkscape versions. To get a narrower and more useful estimate, use backdated CVS checkouts (the -D switch) to find the most recent date on which the CVS was is OK, and also the first date on which it is broken. Then we can make a diff between these two dates to figure out the reason. If you manage to find the day of breakage and if that day's diff is big (which is possible, given the rate of checkins we're having on average), try to narrow it down to a few hours. For example: cvs -d:ext:<your sf login>@cvs.sf.net:/cvsroot/inkscape checkout -D"2004-04-04 12:00" inkscape will give you the CVS as it was on that date at midday. I think this should work with anonymous CVS access too. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with the GTK file selector in KDE
by Arpad Biro 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Hi, > I just replaced all atof() and strtod() with g_ascii_strtod() which > is locale independent. Please try the CVS and see if this fixes your > problem I built and tested. Most of the problems are gone, but a few of them remains. I attached 3 screenshots showing the problems I've seen with current CVS. Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover

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autopackages of Inkscape CVS now available for pre-release testing
by Mike Hearn 29 Apr '04

29 Apr '04

Hi, In January I said to you guys "go ahead and use GTKmm, don't worry about dependencies, that's our job" and promptly disappeared for a few months. Hopefully you accept my apologies - we've made a lot of improvements to autopackage in the meantime with the result that it's now capable of making a competent attempt at installing Inkscape and related dependencies. Firstly a recap: autopackage is a framework for building Linux binary packages that will install on any reasonably sane/modern Linux distribution[1] to any prefix, whilst taking care of all the fiddly bits like getting the menu integration right, dependency resolution and presenting a nice GUI feedback window while the program is being installed and its dependencies downloaded. You can read more about it on its website: http://www.autopackage.org/ I've packaged Inkscape, GTKmm and libsigc++ but not popt, libart, gtk2 or libxml2. I think most distros should have these things already. The long term plan is for autopackage to be able to drive apt/yum/urpmi and so on to be able to fetch dependencies not available in .package form from the distros native package repositories if possible. For now that doesn't work, so the user has to resolve those dependencies themselves. The Inkscape package is built from CVS nightly. It is available here: http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.39cvs.package It can be installed like this: $ wget http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.39cvs.package $ su # bash ./inkscape-0.39cvs.package In other words, just run it. Currently you should do this from a terminal window, though support from running it directly from file managers is nearly ready (it mostly-sorta works now). You will be prompted to download the autopackage support code. This should only happen once (until we do a new release of course). You don't have to run it as root. If you don't, it'll install itself to ~/.local - menus and such should still work theoretically, let us know if they don't. There is currently no way to uninstall graphically. You must run "package remove inkscape gtkmm libsigc++" as whichever user you installed as to uninstall the packages (assuming all of them were installed by autopackage). You can remove autopackage itself by running "package remove autopackage-gtk autopackage" as whichever user installed the support code. "package list" shows what you currently have installed. The summary screen at the end of the install will tell you what autopackage actually put on your system. Upgrading just involves downloading and running the new package, but our upgrade support is currently pretty weak. It'll just uninstall the old package and install the new one :) There is no way to do this automatically at the moment, you just have to wget the new .package file from my web server. It is keyed to a testing pre-release of autopackage 0.5, which isn't out yet but will be soon. So, report any bugs you find now :) If you like you can link to this package from your website. If you do, please put the usual disclaimer about autopackage being beta software etc on it. thanks -mike [1] for Inkscape that means any gcc 3.2 system with GTK2, as we need the 3.2 std lib DSO and we haven't packaged GTK2.

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