June 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Re: [Inkscape-devel] UI translation status
by Arpad Biro 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, > Could you tell me how you generate these translation stats? I think > they'd be worthwhile to include in the Inkscape status reports They are generated by a Bash script. Sending it attached. Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Win32 freeze bug: windows users please test a patch
by Carl Hetherington 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, The following hack seems (for me) to improve matters wrt the win32 freeze-at-border bug. It triggers a few problems elsewhere (failed assertions etc.) but I think they're fixable. Could Win32 people try it and see how they get on? Thanks Carl Index: src/display/sp-canvas.cpp =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/inkscape/inkscape/src/display/sp-canvas.cpp,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 sp-canvas.cpp --- src/display/sp-canvas.cpp 29 Apr 2004 04:59:16 -0000 1.8 +++ src/display/sp-canvas.cpp 24 Jun 2004 12:28:16 -0000 @@ -1540,6 +1540,9 @@ sp_canvas_crossing (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventCrossing *event) { SPCanvas *canvas = SP_CANVAS (widget); + if (canvas->grabbed_item) { + sp_canvas_item_ungrab(canvas->grabbed_item, GDK_CURRENT_TIME); + } if (event->window != SP_CANVAS_WINDOW (canvas)) return FALSE;

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who is involved in Inkscape.org site maintenance?
by Artemio 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hello, Inkscapers! I wanted to ask you, who except Bryce is involved in changing things on the Inkscape.org site? It's that I plan uploading some new pages that I'm about to complete, and wanted to be sure I won't intereset with other's changes. I always update the page to the most recent one from CVS, then modify and commit, but during the modification time someone can change it too ;-) I hope you know what I mean. Artemio.

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Partial German translation
by Colin Marquardt 24 Jun '04

24 Jun '04

Hi, here is an (incomplete) de.po for an older Inkscape CVS snapshot from June 6th. The status is 652 translated messages, 154 fuzzy translations, 129 untranslated messages. If you look through the file, there are some strings marked up with "!!!" where (sometimes) the original string makes it hard to translate (plural forms etc.). When I get some time, I will file proper bugreports about them, unless someone wants to look at it before that :) Cheers, Colin

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Win32 drag-to-border freeze bug
by Carl Hetherington 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi, I had a play around with this bug today. I'll give some speculative thoughts in case they jog the brains of anyone else who has looked into it. I think it might be related to the fact that no LEAVE_NOTIFY (or whatever it is) is received when you move the pointer out of the window with a mouse button held down (ie in a drag). I think this might in turn be related to the fact that the masking of events is changed during drags. The particular bit I was playing with was dragging a rectangle to the edge of the window. This produces a "freeze" which I think is what people are seeing a lot (mouse pointer gets stuck on the `move' icon, no toolbar buttons or menus work). I then added the LEAVE_NOTIFY_MASK to the mask that is applied to events during a drag, and made the leave notification simulate a button release. This kind of fixed the problem, in that the freeze stops happening, but causes others. Anyway I'll take another look tomorrow and see if I can come up with a proper fix. If anyone has any thoughts I'd be interested. Cheers Carl

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Crash bug in Spiral code
by Bob Jamison 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi all. User 'tom' on Jabber showed us this crashing bug: 1) Hold down <left mouse button> on a new spiral 2) Hit <spacebar> ...crash. It looks like sp_spiral_write() is being called on the same object twice while trying to duplicate the spiral, and the second time is on a bad object. I added some code at line 144 to check for NULLs, and it avoids the crash. The symptom is fixed, but the root cause needs to be fixed, in that the <space> being hit while the <LMB> is down is not being processed correctly. Should the mouse be disabled? Or should there be some code to make sure the call is done only once? Sounds like maybe Bulia would know how to handle this one. Thanks. Bob

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Pango testing - help needed!
by bulia byak 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

As you know, we recently switched our text system to a new library called Pango. Now that some of the worst bugs and regressions are fixed (definitely not all), and we need your help in testing it thoroughly. 1. Here are the confirmed Pango niceties so far (i.e. what is tested and works): - Text is much smoother. No more ugly autohinting gaps between letters in small sizes. Letters move smoothly when you change letterspacing by Alt+< and Alt+>. - Auto kerning pairs (from the font) now work. For example "AV" will now be kerned together automatically in most decent fonts. - On Windows, non-ASCII text works (tested with Cyrillic). Localized font face names (such as "italic" translated into a local language for Windows fonts such as Arial) are no longer a problem. 2. Here is what SHOULD work now but is not yet tested because we don't speak these languages. This is where we need your help: - Right-To-Left text (Hebrew, Arabic) and BIDI (bidirectional mixed text) seems to work but I'm not sure. - Contextual letterforms that depend on the position in a word and script-specific ligatures (Devanagari) should work. - Chinese and Japanese need testing, especially for how good vertical text works (it is enabled by a button in the Text and Font dialog). 3. And finally the things that don't work (yet): - Symbol fonts seem to have problems, at least the symbol.ttf from Windows. Any help or insights is appreciated. - Fuzzy font matching that worked in 0.38 is not reenabled yet. (No warnings on font substitutions, etc.) Only Italic and Bold faces within a family work so far. This is being worked on. So, grab the latest CVS and play with text as much as you can. We're interested to hear any reports, positive as well as negative. Thanks! _________________________________________________________________ Free yourself from those irritating pop-up ads with MSn Premium. Get 2months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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UI translation status
by Arpad Biro 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi, It seems we have only a few weeks left until the next release, so here's the current status of the Inkscape UI translations: am.po 12 % az.po 7 % be.po 26 % ca.po 82 % cs.po 27 % da.po 14 % de.po 27 % el.po 5 % es_MX.po 59 % es.po 99 % et.po 0 % fr.po 51 % ga.po 1 % gl.po 11 % hu.po 100 % it.po 12 % ja.po 43 % mk.po 0 % nl.po 25 % no.po 24 % pl.po 23 % pt_BR.po 1 % pt.po 29 % ru.po 56 % sk.po 29 % sl.po 82 % sr@...311... 28 % sr.po 89 % sv.po 29 % tr.po 25 % uk.po 16 % zh_CN.po 16 % Average 33 % Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Spanish translation
by Lucas Vieites 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

After a long time without updates, here's the spanish translation, updated to yesterdays cvs. -- Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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joining development
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 23 Jun '04

23 Jun '04

Hi again Inkscape development team, As I really appreciate the tool you're developping, I'd really like to contribute, as soon as my home internet connection is up again. So I guess I'll try to submit tons of bug reports and at least the same amount of RFE (subliminal message : as I'm sometime hobbying with mapmaking, I'm really waiting for the layer features....), but I feel that something is missing in your website/wiki : a clear contribution wishlist. Your web site clearly mentions you welcome new code, patchs, bug reports, RFE, translations, articles (etc); you also exhibit a clear roadmap, but in fact there's something missing for people like me (that would really appreciate to help, but are poor coders/graphists...) : some contribution guidelines. Some clearly stated multifunctional (ie not only technical) needs, for example on a dedicated wiki page... I'd really like to face a list of small/modest but valuable tasks for the improvement of the software, on which current team can't focus due to lack of time. Regards, Matiphas PS I had thought of something like this (can be presented as an array ?): List of needs : * Docs (in text/html/svg/openoffice formats): - user manual in English, plus translations : (French, German, Spanish, Russion, Slovak, Italian...) - FAQ in English, plus translations : (French, German, Spanish, Russion, Slovak, Italian...) - tutorials - update of internationalization of the following languages.... * Tests - System/Subsystem requirement document - Test plan / test items plus traceability matrix linked to the specifications - Tests (results) on the following architectures (Linux, BSD, Win, MacOS, Solaris...) etc etc

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