June 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

RE: [Inkscape-devel] 0.39 Release?
by bulia byak 26 Jun '04

26 Jun '04

>By the way, Alan has produced a collection of stock gradients, that >we're going to try to package as part of openclipart (as opposed to >bulking up the Inkscape tarball.) These will get installed to a >directory somewhere in the /usr/share/. Is it possible to inform >Inkscape of the location and identity of these gradients? Yes but not in a short term. The plan is: - switch marker menus to a new table-like widget that is updated on the fly and more responsive - add the same widget and the ability to use stock items to patterns, gradients, symbols etc. >I spent some time testing it and playing with it. It works very well >when compared with the usual RPM issues of finding/downloading various >dependencies. I think it will help us a lot, especially given the new >dependencies we've introduced recently, since it takes care of that for >the user fairly seemlessly. Good, then could you please publish a short version of my plea for help with Pango testing on the site, adding a link to the daily autopackage. >An issue is that we can publish a beta release for testing, get lots of >testing input, but meanwhile developers will be adding bug fixes or even >new code to the release branch. Ideally, betatesters would update >frequently and re-test, but realistically I think we'll get at most one >or two cycles of testing out of people. Branching out a separate beta branch before the release is something we'll definitely need to do for 1.0, but for 0.39 it's perhaps more trouble than it's worth. It only makes sense for really long testing periods. But what I think we can and should do is to allow several days of testing of a final release candidate with TOTAL freeze on CVS, and requiring a certain nunder of people to OK it before it is released. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the MSN Premium 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: Use of "SORBS"...
by Kees Cook 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Luckily, it looks like my postmaster email reached the one dude I know at SF, and it looks like they'll change their sorbs lists! :) ----- Forwarded message from ----- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:01:30 -0700 To: Kees Cook <kees@...62...> Cc: postmaster@...34... From: Ari Gordon-Schlosberg Subject: Re: Use of "SORBS"... [Kees Cook <kees@...62...>] > Hello! I see you've started using SORBS, but I'd like to warn that > their "spamtrap" RBL is poorly maintained, and will cause legit > sourceforge users some serious grief. I would recommend using only > their "dialup" RBL, which is not redundant with other zombie-scanning > RBLs. Thanks, Kees, We're re-evaluating that decision at the moment and I think we're just going to use a few of their specific lists. Good to hear from you. -- Ari Gordon-Schlosberg, OSDN NetOps http://sourceforge.net/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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SIGBUS
by Carl Hetherington 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi, I find I have to remove the signal(SIGBUS, inkscape_segv_handler) from inkscape.cpp in order to compile on Windows. My MinGW doesn't seem to know anything about SIGBUS. Does it work for anyone else? Thanks Carl

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g_markup_printf_escaped
by Carl Hetherington 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi, I'm afraid this function (used in the new RDF stuff) doesn't seem to be included in the glib that we are using for the Win32 builds. Is there an alternative? Thanks Carl

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gradient not updating for the drawing
by Artemio 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hello! I am using snapshot 20040622. If I go to the gradient editor, and edit the gradient colours, they do not apply to the drawing. Sometimes, the changes suddenly are applied, but it the moments when I switch from HSV to RGB, or at some random moment at all. But more usually I have to switch to whole fill and back to gradient fill to apply the gradient to a drawing. Artemio.

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Pattern manipulation
by John Cliff 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Hi guys, Have commited the stuff I was working on to give control knots for manipulating pattern fills. Knots are currently provided for translation, rotation and scaling. Theres a circular node at the pattern 0,0 with 2 diamonds, one to the right, and on below (in the pattern co-ord system). To move the pattern, drag the circle, to rotate, drag the diamond to the right, to scale the one below. I'm putting thought into how best to do skew and non uniform scale, however need to discuss that with people, both from UI and maths point of views, so dont intend trying to get those done for 0.39. Cheers John __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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test for sorbs
by herve couvelard 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

Xcuse me for that. hervé

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Pattern Fill idea
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jun '04

25 Jun '04

The pattern fill capability is *great*! I have one suggestion, but have no idea if this is easy or hard... As an option it would be extremely useful to be able to specify "whole object fills only" that would only print the tiled object if it can be done in a non-clipped fashion. For example.... http://www.bryceharrington.com/army_ants.png See in the polygon on the lower right, that only whole shapes are shown. Objects that would be partial fills are excluded. Bryce

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a few recent items
by bulia byak 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

* The rotation/skew axis crosshair in selector remains where you put it for as long as you have the object(s) selected; to reset it to the center, deselect and reselect. Also the crosshair is only displayed in rotate mode, not in scale mode - this makes it easier to drag small objects. * You can reverse the direction of selected path(s) either via Path > Reverse or by pressing 'r' in node tool (useful for markers and combining paths). * In the Fill and Stroke dialog, Stroke Width can use the % unit for relative stroke width changes. When several objects are selected, using the percent unit changes the stroke width of each one relative to its previous value (unlike absolute units which assign an average width to all objects). _________________________________________________________________ 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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Testing NLS on win32
by Bob Jamison 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

After some coercion, I added ENABLE_NLS to the makefiles and main.cpp. After a couple of hours we got the build to link properly, then we got the 'dist' to build the LC_MESSAGE dirs properly. What I mean is, I -think- everything is proper. We need people to check this out in whatever their favorite Locale may be; DE, Ethiopian, Klingon, whatever. Let us know how it is working. Bob

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