crash in hmm dunno
by David Christian Berg
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
18 years, 5 months
math operation in dialogs
by David Christian Berg
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
18 years, 5 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Clone command
by bulia byak
>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.
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18 years, 8 months
Tidbits
by Peter Linnell
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
18 years, 10 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with the GTK file selector in KDE
by bulia byak
>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).
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18 years, 10 months
[patch] Put description in .desktop file
by Mike Hearn
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
18 years, 10 months
Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32. Print seems to be broken
by bulia byak
>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.
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18 years, 10 months
autopackages of Inkscape CVS now available for pre-release testing
by Mike Hearn
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.
18 years, 10 months
