April 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Grid-related patches
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

>One strange behavior still exists, and this just might be "by design". >In "Dialogs / Document Preferences / Grid" if I switch "Snap units" from >"px" to anything else (or back), the "Snap distance" stays the same. If >I change "Snap units" from anything not "px" to anything else not "px", >unit conversion is performed. Is this just a "feature" of the pixel >unit? Looks like bug to me. Whatever these px units are, they cannot be screen pixels, and therefore must have a constant coefficient for unit conversions. The only units without such a coefficient are "unit units", percent, em, and ex. _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN Premium. 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] Feedback on 0.38 Release
by bulia byak 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

>Is there any way to set Letter as the default paper size? I also want to >get rid of the 'pt' units -- It would certainly be better to recall >those settings instead of changing them on every session of Inkscape. We need to support arbitrary new document templates. It's been in our plans for some time. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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More 0.38 release pickups
by Bryce Harrington 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

http://www.linuxlinks.com/portal/news/article.php?story=20040412052124104 (no comments) http://www.hup.hu/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5782 (Hungarian) (no comments) http://www.linux.org.ru/view-message.jsp?msgid=527971&scroll=section&back= (Russian) (lots of comments, no clue what they say) http://linuxclub.by/index.php?p=159 (Russian) (no comments) http://linuxfr.org/2004/04/14/15993.html "one true massacre of bugs" (French) (lots of comments) Babelfish: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?url=http%3A//linuxfr.org/2004/0… Bryce

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Linuxartist pickup
by Bryce Harrington 16 Apr '04

16 Apr '04

http://www.linuxartist.org/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=281

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Plan for Inkscape 0.39
by Bryce Harrington 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Inkscape 0.39 Development ------------------------- With 0.38.1 now out the door, focus can turn to the next coming release. This development cycle will be more like the 0.36 release, in that the objective is to implement a lot of cool new features. Any and all new features are most welcome, but the primary thing to get implemented is to convert our font system to Pango. For the 0.38 release we measured our progress by counting bugs closed. For this release we track progress by tasks getting marked completed. When the tasks are completed, 0.39 can be cut. So if you'd like to lend a hand to this release, please review the following task list for something you'd like to sign up for. Sign up for the task in Wik (or just let me know off-list): http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap Milestone 5 - Pango Architectural Change - Inkscape 0.39 ======================================================== * Adopt Pango for handling fonts * Redo text editing and text style handling * Develop GTKMM mockup/ideas for the Preferences dialog * Consider trimming ChangeLog (currently ~370 KB) * Create new cursor icons [rejon] * Finish moving tool options to 2ndary palette + move arc tool options to 2ndary palette (code in src/toolbox.cpp) [rejon] + Remove tool options dialogue and code from project [bulia] * Incorporate (or reject) all patches posted to patch tracker * Change the SEGV and SIGABRT handlers to reliably autosave and put up a crash dialog * Write an extensions/plugin enhancement proposal(s) and post to mailing list for review * Add Pango as an optional dependency for Inkscape & test on our various target platforms * Modify widgets/font-selector.cpp to use Pango font new/ref/deref function as a compile-time option * Modify dialogs/text-edit.cpp to use Pango font new/ref/deref function as a compile-time option * Modify display/nr-arena-glyphs to use Pango font functions as a compile-time option * Create replacements for sp-text.cpp and sp-chars.cpp that uses Pango instead of libnrtype as compile time option * Test removal of libnrtype from Inkscape's Makefile & see what it breaks * Make Pango a required dependency for Inkscape & remove compile-time option scaffolding * Straighten out global vs. user resource files (create /etc/inkscape/ with appropriate files) * Implement preliminary support for iso & hex grid [njh] * Fix svg:use support, create the Clone command [bb] * Implement "scale stroke" switch * Ensure when copying, that 'image/png' and/or 'image/svg' get on the system clipboard * Review & plan out replacement of sp-file.* + Implement backup functionalty for documents and preferences.xml, ideally with versioning like in Emacs * Replace calls to arikkei string/tokenizing routines in libnrtype/ with standard glib functions & remove libarikkei * Improve freehand curve smoothness [pjrm, paraprax] Inkscape Experimental * Implement tests of Inkscape against the W3C test suite (0.37 loads 95% correctly without animations) [bryce]

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opacity change?
by Kees Cook 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Did the default object opacity change? I swear elipses were a little see-through yesterday, but this morning's build they're not. Am I crazy? -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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gtkmm
by MenTaLguY 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

Just a quick note that, in preparation for the XML and layers dialog work, I've added a ./configure test for gtkmm (2.0+). We've been talking about it long enough, and now that the bug fix release is finally out the door I think it should make life enormously easier for the next round of feature work. -mental

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Feedback on 0.38 Release
by Bryce Harrington 15 Apr '04

15 Apr '04

One of the artists at work dragged me into his cube with questions after downloading and installing Inkscape 0.38. In between his gushing over the features that were in there, he made some good observations about things that'd help usability: * Default font for text was too small when at the (default) full-size page view. * The context menu for text should include a link to the Text and Font dialog. * Changing font color should be easier to access via the context menu and/or the text and font properties dialog. * The zoom mouse cursor shows a '+' when zooming in. It should show a '-' when you're zooming out (shift-mouse click) * It would be handy to have a way to select objects "under" the object on top. E.g., a modifier to the left mouse click that would cause it to select the next object down in the stack for each click. * When you select 2+ objects and right click, having access to some of the 'Align' and/or 'Boolean' commands could be helpful. * When you're editing a multi-stop gradient and then close the dialog and do 'undo's, it appears to undo each individual edit to the gradient rather than just undoing the entire editing transaction. He also had a bunch of suggestions for features, most all of which are already captured in RFE's, but here's a couple that I think are new: * There should be a way to not only convert a text object into a node object, but also to convert the individual letters in the text object to separate text or node objects. * Pasting text from open office to inkscape or vice versa. * Paste style is very cool and works as expected. Some sort of 'paste size' might also be useful, if you want to force a range of shapes to have exactly the same dimensions. Let me know if these sound ok, and I'll add RFE's for them later this week. Bryce

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Translation comments
by bulia byak 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

> "gradientUnits" --> "coordinate base" I propose: Coordinates: user space / object And add a tooltip for those who know SVG: "Whether the gradient vector is defined in the coordinates of the user space (gradientUnits=\"userSpaceOnUse\") or relative to the object's bounding box (gradientUnits=\"objectBoundingBox\")" > "gradientSpread" --> "repetition mode" I propose: Repeat: none / direct / reflected Tooltip: "Whether to fill with flat color beyond the ends of the gradient vector (spreadMethod=\"pad\"), or repeat the gradient in the same direction (spreadMethod=\"repeat\"), or repeat the gradient in alternating directions (spreadMethod=\"reflect\")" If you have no objections, could you please commit these fixes? _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 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] The messed up icon issue
by Kees Cook 14 Apr '04

14 Apr '04

On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:02:58PM +0200, Lucas Vieites wrote: > Well, I'm sorry but it seems I'm out to confuse you. How can I gather > all the output from ./configure & make & make install? Just in case that > could be helpful. > I am running Suse 9.0 with Ximian Gnome and notthing really weird. Wow. Okay, then I sure hope we can figure this out, because that's a pretty common platform. :) Try this script: #!/bin/bash ( ./autogen.sh && \ ./configure && \ make distclean && \ ./configure && \ make && \ make install && \ which inkscape ) 2>&1 >/tmp/inkscape.out And then send the "inkscape.out" file to me (rather than to the whole list: it'll be a big file). Also, check the icon behavior after this build, just for fun. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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