July 2004 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

RFEs
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

In order to make my mind on the functionalities and the software, i've spent a few moments on the RFEs. -> Read them, sorted, grouped (etc etc) It's far from perfect, but if it can help someone as it has helped, here it is. It can maybe help some of you removing the redundancy within the list of open RFEs ( especially layers, node editing...) My idea, in the long term, is to identify let's say 20 main categories, sort/group the RFEs in those categories and attribute a score to each category according to the number of RFEs it contains and their priority. A kind of "voice of the user". Plus doing the same things with bugs. So feel free to submit me any idea of categorisation (knowing that sorting this kind of items will never be perfect) Regards, Matiphas * Build/Compile/Dependancies/Code/Design [ 840075 ] BUILD: Mac OS X release [ 979876 ] Better ID handling on object copy [ 926588 ] Disable autogeneration of ID [ 979481 ] unique X11 window names [ 972981 ] New File Chooser (file open save as dialog) [ 968647 ] gnome/gtk commandline options [ 968644 ] X display cmdline options [ 967753 ] Comments/Suggestions from USERS magazine (Argentina) [ 956520 ] remove unaccessible files from "recent" list [ 956476 ] Add a build date to the config.in ? [ 933684 ] merge identical patterns/gradients/markers [ 933555 ] Win32 Installer "no GTK" option. [ 902254 ] [win32] Install to Program Files [ 902252 ] [win32] Install shortcut into menu for Inkscape [ 892670 ] "veto" callback system for SPRepr change notifications [ 874493 ] qtgtk support. [ 864252 ] EASY: detect running inkscape process before starting a new [ 859134 ] Ugly Gtk triangle border [ 986052 ] -e option must overwrite without asking <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Content [ 862701 ] PALETTE: Object Library [ 966771 ] Stock gradients [ 956035 ] A set of templates [ 927912 ] library of objects [ 991044 ] Default options / Template <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Desktop integration [ 989220 ] How can i export to illustrator? Copy/paste [ 856082 ] Viewer component [ 856083 ] Editor component (Bonobo) [ 981785 ] gimp & inkscape [ 862655 ] GIMP: Integration with INKSCAPE [ 862692 ] GIMP: Import gradients [ 909735 ] Support for copy/paste with system clipboard [ 950969 ] INPUT: Wacom Tablet + Pressure Sensitivity [ 984964 ] Wacom support [ 965568 ] Drag images from nautilus to inkscape window to import it [ 974117 ] Image Cropping [ 978465 ] cmdline options for initial settings [ 981785 ] gimp & inkscape <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Ideas of extensions and plugins [ 862657 ] PLUGIN Support [ 984081 ] Auto-updated, visible timestamps in drawings [ 982795 ] Autojoin tool [ 967843 ] Add Bone System [ 967312 ] Add a blend Tool [ 938707 ] please provide a plugin for image/svg-xml [ 925198 ] detect/bundle Frontline [ 897638 ] Node fillet / chamfer tools [ 880120 ] NEW TOOL: Cloud Tool [ 862752 ] TOOL: rounding object, or filter [ 862750 ] Standard shapes + Algorithmic Shapes + Math Formulas [ 862723 ] OBJECTS: bevel for object properties [ 989884 ] Mesh - CAD like [ 862751 ] TOOL: Tangential circles/curves and lines [ 864292 ] Measure tool [ 844329 ] Dimensions <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Fonts [ 863323 ] FONTS: embedded SVG font support [ 932954 ] SVG Fonts [ 980840 ] Add support fot math fonts (greek symbols) <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Import/Export (maybe handled as extension/plugin in the future ?) [ 993210 ] Exporting to .jpeg [ 840345 ] EXPORT DIALOG: NEED EPS, PDF, SWF, etc [ 847365 ] Import SVG embedded in other XML [ 863383 ] EXPORT: xfig format [ 864110 ] IMPORT: OpenOffice.org Draw import [ 864260 ] IMPORT/EXPORT: PDF [ 865058 ] EXPORTING: Ability to export 16-bit PNGs and OTHER PNG adds [ 899574 ] Inkscape should embed bitmaps for gradients in PS [ 922750 ] Inkscape ignores file extentions when exporting a file [ 942328 ] relative image paths instead of absolute [ 957916 ] Import/Export Encapsulated PostScript format [ 977339 ] default export image name for not-saved drawings [ 840030 ] CorelDraw Importer/Viewer (.cdr files) <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Object editing [ 969466 ] navigation through object in object properties menu [ 984961 ] Apply transformation to duplicate - Freehand/Calligraphic [ 965516 ] Abilty to draw splines [ 862725 ] CALLIGRAPHIC TOOL: units must be added (editable properties) [ 863375 ] CALLIGRAPHY TOOL: Tool Angle [ 902216 ] Freehand tool needs to work smoother [ 952134 ] A tool and a key [ 856085 ] curve editing and right click menu - Gradient [ 862708 ] GRADIENTS: improvements, and a bit more [ 979870 ] Gradient editor window does not show the gradients name [ 971415 ] gradient features [ 927490 ] non linear (exponential) gradient [ 897207 ] Gradient edit in-picture [ 863329 ] Gradient Angle and Aspect Ratio [ 986762 ] gradient and opacity - Marker [ 990860 ] Markers reference points should be moved [ 952769 ] MARKERS: Can't change marker color with line color [ 970270 ] UI: Browsing markers is too slow/inefficient [ 942486 ] make size of markers settable - Node [ 994975 ] Node transform [ 862691 ] NODE EDITING: Dragging curve segment [ 862753 ] DIALOG: Node Orientation [ 863731 ] NODE EDITING: Display start/end node [ 865050 ] NODE EDITING: properties, align nodes vert./horiz. [ 880110 ] TOOLS/NODE EDITING: Add/subtract nodes + scissor tool [ 898437 ] closed/unclosed state of path unclear [ 902731 ] Average nodes (node alignment) (w/screenshot) [ 903328 ] Snap to node/segment [ 907478 ] RFE: snap to nodes of existing objects [ 910817 ] NODE EDITING: Scaling, Mirroring, Rotation of Node Groups [ 933700 ] speed up node editing [ 949457 ] Node editing with mouse + layers [ 957936 ] selecting nodes as proper objects [ 976167 ] UI improvements and Node aligning [ 839065 ] Node Editing: Selecting nodes by clicking on path segments - Pattern [ 870837 ] pattern fills [ 980050 ] Repeat options in Fill and stroke dialogue for pattern fill - Shape [ 979490 ] "Whole object fill only" option [ 862731 ] TRANSFORMATION PREF: apply to several objects independently [ 863734 ] GUIDES: Copy+mirror with guides [ 863735 ] GUIDES: Snapping for 'shape editing nodes' [ 896514 ] Paint Brush / Eraser tool ala flash [ 926611 ] Circles and ellipses [ 936996 ] Group circles [ 954808 ] clockwise rotation of objects [ 957009 ] Splitting overlapping objects [ 856086 ] drag and copy - Text [ 986611 ] subscript, superscript [ 863325 ] TEXT bounding box and auto-wrap [ 863327 ] TEXT: Convert text to correctly-filled curve objects [ 865040 ] TEXT: Text on Path, in shape [ 952894 ] Text Effects like in Illustrator [ 966367 ] "Run length" text layout setting [ 857374 ] TEXT: Need support for text spacing properties <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Printing (maybe handled as extension/plugin in the future ?) [ 921531 ] Printing prints squares for gradients [ 965791 ] CUPS printing [ 967795 ] Multi-page printing <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * SVG [ 949754 ] SVG Interactivity [ 862741 ] XML: put metadata in a metadata element; make valid [ 862744 ] SVG: animation [ 863380 ] Implementation of SVG Filters, specifically BLUR [ 864870 ] SCRIPTING: Sodipodi Script! or ECMAScript Support [ 864875 ] MASKING, or CLIPPING (CLIPPING PATH) NEEDED [ 865060 ] SVG: Implement support for data: URLs [ 893812 ] hyperlinking [ 899194 ] these svg dont render correctly (work in Abode SVG Viewer) [ 908792 ] NEW TOOL: Cloning/Spraypaint of Objects [ 909368 ] Less verbose markup, dont write unnecessary styles [ 944377 ] Inkscape .svg > plain .svg conversion tool [ 846335 ] allign coordinate systems - Styles [ 982095 ] CSS Support [ 862705 ] PALETTE: Object style chooser for primary toolbar [ 955788 ] Support Cascading Style Sheets [ 856716 ] STYLES: Giving styles a name and palette <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * UI [ 994180 ] window size [ 863737 ] Snap indicator+ snap/guides dialog/palette [ 864868 ] UI: magnifying tool cursor, stock icons [ 865046 ] Inkscape REMOTE [ 899001 ] Use stock icons from Gnome [ 902217 ] Simpler process for theming icons [ 950128 ] A window for editing dash arrays [ 950537 ] Zoom out with right mouse button [ 959819 ] Tabbed interface for multiple documents [ 965592 ] fit drawing to page/fit page to drawing [ 981243 ] Allow to select units for displaying coordinates [ 992070 ] Interface Quirk [ 993367 ] UI for SVG accessibility features [ 862715 ] Initial value for "apply to:" in object style dialog - Dialog/Toolbars [ 995066 ] UI improvement [ 862662 ] Tear-off + dockable Menus (like gimp2) [ 874729 ] dialogs are too big [ 897187 ] Persistent/Custom Toolbars [ 978586 ] Abilily to choose font size for menu and dialogue [ 981544 ] [Win32] : dialogs always on top [ 992082 ] Tabbed Browsing Anyone? [ 838693 ] saving toolbars positions - Guide/Grid/Ruler [ 964668 ] Setting Zero Points on rulers [ 874731 ] GUIDES: Placement, Transformation [ 896820 ] "Lock guides" option [ 900270 ] isometric GRID type [ 903432 ] Snap selection to grid command [ 903437 ] Guides snap to grid [ 933675 ] double click on ruler opens guides dialog [ 933707 ] multi color grid [ 948307 ] guidelines rotate&clone [ 963828 ] gridlock instead of the cursor [ 859982 ] Inverted ruler co-ordinate system [ 928027 ] advanced snap features [ 933706 ] press alt to not snap - Lock [ 902729 ] Make insensitive/lock/unlock [ 979276 ] A "Unlock all" option [ 984633 ] A way to unlock a locked object - Palette/Color [ 994177 ] CMYK 0 - 100 not 0 - 255 [ 859147 ] Color Palettes [ 864545 ] HOWTO for Color Picker [ 865053 ] COLOR Preview (EASY ADD) [ 898822 ] wishlist: Palette Tool [ 903531 ] Makeshift palette [ 924655 ] user-defined named colors in fill/stroke dialog [ 969371 ] Named colors combo [ 973774 ] ability to copy color from dropper to clipboard [ 979214 ] a pot of painting tool [ 982981 ] Extended Color options [ 988419 ] Color picker doesn't bring color into gradient editor [ 989939 ] color components should be independent [ 856080 ] PALETTE: custom color swatches - Preferences [ 973295 ] storing main window size [ 932676 ] Save Preferences [ 937137 ] Set document defaults in preferences. [ 953325 ] pixel units [ 857373 ] PREFERENCES: New document setup prefs - Preview [ 985323 ] wireframe preview [ 862746 ] Document window icon [ 848230 ] editable viewBox, SVGs without width="" or [ 864290 ] Navigation window [ 955196 ] preveiw in file open/save dialogues [ 984071 ] preview window [ 839695 ] PRINTING: Need Preview - Selection/Group/Layer [ 991425 ] ADD LAYER MANAGEMENT, PLEASE! [ 856710 ] GROUPS: Enter and leaving groups [ 857357 ] LAYERS: Various ideas combined [ 897628 ] group extending for boolean operations [ 927908 ] REQ: display start.x,y end.x,y width height length angle [ 967363 ] Gray out unavailable commands [ 971537 ] visually distinct selection in focused/unfocused windows [ 971544 ] sets (named selections) [ 979866 ] "Extract from group" command [ 851464 ] Inconsitency in object style for multiple selects vs. groups [ 962564 ] lasso, polygon lasso selection tools - Shortcuts [ 989881 ] Customisable Shortcuts [ 877745 ] Keyboard shortcut to repeat last operation [ 902736 ] Shortcuts in button tooltips [ 914856 ] UI: Left-handed users [ 974180 ] Keyboard Mapping [ 863386 ] USABILITY (EASY) Tool options by double clicking tool button - Text [ 994189 ] text highlighting [ 864095 ] FONTS: Specifiy font size in mm, cm, m, in, ... [ 876892 ] no baseline-shift attribute [ 926591 ] Adding a text editor to inkscape [ 959816 ] Dropper tool for font attributes [ 962175 ] Add text search and replace feature [ 965421 ] A GUI to modify letter spacing [ 977533 ] text and font dialog redesign [ 979871 ] Text Editor lacks scrolled view [ 979875 ] Text editor: proposal new button "import text" [ 860118 ] TEXT: Text-tool properties toolbar - XML [ 847504 ] Ability to use external XML editors [ 899722 ] XML Editor changes [ 862720 ] XML EDITOR: RealTime Sync of Working and XML [ 960371 ] Syntax highlighting <--************************************************************************* ***************************--> * Others [ 848530 ] Wiki does not handle zero-space situation [ 865043 ] Illustrator Pathfinder [ 900436 ] Shape masking of objects and groups. [ 902711 ] PDF reference card [ 903342 ] Toggle visibility of object handles (View menu) [ 957129 ] Progressbar while opening files [ 956030 ] Welcome screen [ 956039 ] Make it faster [ 902519 ] Timed saves for backup

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cannot compile
by bulia byak 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

I finally installed all the new libs and tried to compile CVS: Makefile:2804: *** missing separator. Stop. The line 2804 is: @am__fastdepCXX_TRUE@ if $(CXXCOMPILE) -MT $@ -MD -MP -MF "$(DEPDIR)/$*.Tpo" \ any ideas?

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align comments
by bulia byak 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

I finally tried the new align dialog. I realize it's a work in progress but still here are some comments: - BUG: when I open the align dialog, then switch to another non-Inkscape window and then back to Inkscape, the dialog disappears. Even when I switch focus to the editing window, the dialog disappears (not only sinks but disappears completely). This does not happen with e.g. Fill&Stroke dialog, and it must be fixed as soon as possible. - merging the two tabs into one makes sense, but then remove the lone "Align" tab - the new title "Docker" tells me nothing - Align and Distribute is what it does, so that is the title it should use; also don't lose the shortcut listed in the dialog title, as in all other dialogs - the anchor menu must have an appropriate label, e.g. "Relative to:" - the anchor meny only applies to alignment, not distribution, and therefore must be inside the Align frame - the old behavior corresponds to Selection, and therefore Selection must be the first and the default selected item in the anchor menu; it's also the most intuitive - the Last/First Selected items may be confusing, because in many cases the order or selection is undefined (e.g. when you do a rubberband around several objects), so please remove them and add Top/Bottom Object (referring to z-order) instead - in the node mode, none of the anchor menu items make sense (nodes have no bigger/smaller, no z-order, etc) so the menu must be removed, instead it should always align within the bounding box of the selected nodes It looks very promising, so I look forward to your further work on this! :)

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Re: freehand smoothing?
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 23 Jul '04

23 Jul '04

Ainsi parlait Bulia Byak :" People keep complaining about the unsmooth freehand drawing in Inkscape and point out Sodipodi"s smooth drawing as its advantage over us: http://linuxfr.org/2004/07/20/16864.html (see comment "Sodipodi meilleur que Inkscape ?") " ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For info/tracking, RFE for this is [ 902216 ] Freehand tool needs to work smoother

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] RFEs
by Gazal, Geraud (MED) 22 Jul '04

22 Jul '04

> On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:41:02PM +0200, Gazal, Geraud (MED) wrote: > > -> Read them, sorted, grouped (etc etc) > > This is great! Thank you, I will try tackling some of the > build/compile > issues. Cool It has also been a tool helping finding some redundancies : Some things that could be closed or explicited IMHO * [ 942328 ] relative image paths instead of absolute Can be closed. I think the issue with the path is now fixed. Example under win2k and Mandrake10 : a create a "project" directory, copy there the bitmaps needed, create there the SVG file(s) b work (!) (ie import some bitmaps) c create zip/tgz of the project directory, and send it somewhere else (mail/move) d unzip/untgz and open the svg file -> OK, the bitmaps are correctly linked/loaded in Inkscape * [ 922750 ] Inkscape ignores file extentions when exporting a file and [ 993210 ] Exporting to .jpeg The extension problems comes from the fact that Inkscape only bitmap-export to png. Maybe the use of a filter/pipe based on imageMagick or similar would allow to close this * [ 863323 ] FONTS: embedded SVG font support and [ 932954 ] SVG Fonts are quite similar * [ 952134 ] A tool and a key Seems Bulia has explicited all the necessary workarounds * [ 984633 ] A way to unlock a locked object [ 979276 ] A "Unlock all" option [ 902729 ] Make insensitive/lock/unlock Those three are quite close. Depending on the way Inkscape will handle layers, I think they might be closed with this new feature (if the layer UI allows user to (un)lock, set (un)printable, set(in)visible... each layer) And some others such as in "node editing", but they are hard to sort/reorganize... Regards, Matiphas

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Current libs in Win32 build
by bulia byak 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

> In addition to setting up the 0.40 win32 build today, > I also built the RELEASE_0_39_BRANCH with > the existing libs and put them in the 'builds' dir on the server. Thanks but it still includes the gtk-wimp. I cannot OK that because it is known to annoy people (me including) with endless warnings, see my earlier post. Please repackage without gtk-wimp (unless you know a solution to the warnings problem, of course).

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Autobuilds working again
by Bob Jamison 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Now that things have begun to settle down, it appears that the autobuilds are beginning to work once again. The cross-compiler and gtk2.4/gtkmm2.4 libs here: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape appear to be compiling Inkscape and linking it properly. You may notice the larger .zip file sizes. This is a result of the unstripped gtkmm .dll files in the distro. I experimented with linking the dll with the static gtkmm libs, then dynlinking the .exe's with that. The static libs for gtkmm/glibmm, unstripped, are > 120MB!!! So that is not an option for now. Maybe we can think of something else. Stripping is not an option, either. Why cripple the testers' ability to use GDB, the very reason to supply these binaries? However, this -is- development work, so hopefully our testing compatriots can bear with us for a while. Bob

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download page
by Kees Cook 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

On here: http://inkscape.org/download.php Can we please not list autopackage first? Only a very few set of people will have the right libraries needed to make autopackage work. People should use it only if they have none specific for their distro and they feel like gambling. :) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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W32 test with GTK2.4/gtkmm2.4
by Bob Jamison 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

I did a test build with the new libs, inkscape.dll, and inkview. However, I still do not have a Win32 box on which to test it. The file is at http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds : Inkscape24Test.zip It needs to be tested mostly because we need to make sure that the .zip has all of the necessary files in it. The new DLL package is gtk24.zip on the http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape page. If any files are missing, that is where\ they would be. so.. someone might give it a try, and see if this thing is working! Hopefully we are making some progress. :) Bob

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tagline
by bulia byak 21 Jul '04

21 Jul '04

Inkscape. Draw Freely.

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