July 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

SEGV & SIGABRT handlers
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

Kees, Do you feel that the handlers for SEGV and SIGABRT reliably auto-save and put up crash dialogs? This is an item on the roadmap for 0.40, but I think you probably already took care of it. If so, we can cross that item off the list. Bryce

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svg align icons
by Aubanel MONNIER 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

just to let you know I attached new svg align icons to the patch tracker.

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gtkmm and sigc++ version
by Aubanel MONNIER 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

Hi list, while trying to resolve some basinc problems I had with tentatives of gtkmmification, I jumped on the #c++ channel on irc.gnome.org, and founs very nice people explaining that we should not rely on a deprecated version of gtkmm and sigc++. So with their help I made the port to gtkmm2.4 (nothing to do, configure.in was ready) and libsigc++2.0, which took a bit more time. This does not fix my problem, but it works. So if anyone is interested, I can semd a patch. Let me know what the procedure is. Thx, obi.

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Proposal for 0.39 freeze
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

It feels like things are getting close to being ready for a freeze, and to start preparing for the release. There's a lot of work still going on, and we don't want to interrupt things abruptly, so it may be worthwhile to settle on some loose target dates. How does the following plan sound? 1. 'Feature chill' - June 28. No new features should be started, work should be wrapping up on existing features and code cleanup. Unfinished features should be hidden. Focus should be on bug fixing. 2. 'Feature freeze' - Sometime in first week of July. Only bug fixing should occur after this point. Focus should be on closing critical bugs and bugs in new features. 3. 'Hard freeze' - When all major bugs have been closed that we intend to close, we go into a short hard freeze period for a few days where no changes are allowed except under strict change control. We do final QA, verify on as many platforms as possible, create the packages and verify they work well, and make sure no last minute bugs slipped in. 4. 'Release' Bryce

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Update on release process
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

There are still a few remaining Must-Fix items prior to going into the Hard Freeze, so we'll be giving it a bit more time. Hopefully by the end of the weekend we'll be ready. Tomorrow morning, I will send out a proposal for how to conduct the Hard Freeze segment of the release process. Bryce

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Check ReleaseNotes
by Bryce Harrington 11 Jul '04

11 Jul '04

Just as a reminder, everyone who has done work on the codebase between 0.38.1 and now, please go review the ReleaseNotes and doublecheck that those changes are accounted for. Minor bug fixes, optimizations, etc. can be omitted, but it's worthwhile to include anything major, both for educating users about the new stuff, and for testing/troubleshooting purposes. http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes Thanks, Bryce

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libccc: criawips' cairo-based canvas (using gtkcairo)
by Sven Herzberg 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

Hi all, I just started to play around with gtkcairo because I got stuck with some limitations of the gnome-canvas that I hope to be able to solve when developing a cairo based canvas. My current aims are: * get a high level canvas using cairo * get rid of issues like we have in gnome-canvas (e.g. text cannot zoom) * have a gnome-canvas-like api * use gobject interfaces for some things and lots of signals to make extending more easy (e.g. 'zoom canged' signal would have helped to fix the GnomeCanvasText things) I'm playing around within the criawips CVS repository on cvs.gnome.org. There's neither something that works yet nor much stuff, I just want to tell you about my plan to be able to get feedback before I introduce some issues that you had with something similar. The code is located in the criawips/src directory and consists of the cc-* files. Regards, Sven PS: I hate cross-postings, please continue this thread within criawips-devel@...448... and DO NOT reply to other lists. Thank you -- Sven Herzberg <herzi@...449...> · GNOME Deutschland <www.gnome-de.org> Jabber <herzi@...450...> · ICQ <177176642> GnuPG Fingerprint: <F020 B158 2696 6D6A 2870 F53C 0565 FD6B B1C3 0AFE>

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export to bitmap: very bad behaviour
by Artemio 10 Jul '04

10 Jul '04

Hello all! I noticed several changes in the recent snapshot (20040706) that make my work much slower. 1. The exported image name defaults to drawing.svg.png instead of drawing.png. What is this for? Generally, you'll want shorted and simpler names, just drawing.png. Currently I have to delete the .svg portion each time. 2. The behaviour of the export dialogue is inconvenient. One thing it should be able to do IMHO is to detect whether a selection is active and automatically set the export mode to selection. 3. Also, compared to a snapshot of 20040628, Inkscape forgot how to update the export x/y/size on the fly. For example, I have three drawings on a single canvas and I want them exported to drawing[123].png. Previously, I could fire up the export dialogue, and hit export three times while selecting different drawings and changing 1 to 2 and then 2 to 3 in the target file name. In the current snapshot, if I change a selection while the export dialogue is up, the selection range is not updated. So if I want to do what I explained, I have to select a drawing, then hit "selection", then adjust the file name and hit export. This adds one exrta action which makes you work longer. I think the export x/y range should update on the fly. Just my 2 cents ;-) Artemio.

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Working locally
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

As my home internet connection is not up at the moment, I was wondering if there was a way for easily downloading the complete list of RFEs and Bugs in order to be able to read/sort it locally... Anyone having already done this ?

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Updated spanish po
by Lucas Vieites 09 Jul '04

09 Jul '04

Hi, attaching updated spanish po. Will there be a 'translation freeze' before the 0.39 release so we can have translation at 100%? And now for something completely different: I found at least two strings containing "sodipodi" in the po file. Is this correct? msgid "Could not create sodipodi-svg-doc factory" msgid "Export document to plain SVG file (no sodipodi or inkscape namespaces)" -- Lucas 'Basurero' Vieites Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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