January 2005 - Inkscape Devel

W32 build and Gtk::Socket
by Bob Jamison 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Now that Ted has added the #ifdefs (yeah, I hate those, too) to prefsdialog.* the build is working again. Thanks, Ted! The Gtk::Socket docs say that it is implemented with X's XEMBED protocol, which of course will work on neither W32 nor native OSX. Kak zhal! Maybe Mozilla's source tree has a cross-platform way of mounting one process's gui in that of another. Gnome's Corba v.3 way (activation like ActiveX) of doing it is cross-platform, but of course that would lead to infinite dependencies. I couldn't reply to the mail thread here, since this work email account is not receiving all of the messages that my home account does. Anyway, the cvs build for this morning is: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/Inkscape0501130741… Bob

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localized plural forms
by Kees Cook 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

I just added a patch to fix up localized plural forms. Translators and programmers should probably read up on using ngettext. We should make sure no more plural strings sneak in. :) http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC150 http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TranslationInformation -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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pixmap replacements
by Kees Cook 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

I finally got around to importing Andreas Nilsson's new icons (I tweaked them a little and added some more that I made), and fixing the code to load them. It's great! :) Andreas, can you re-examine the XML editor icons -- I sent some comments about them a while back. As far as David's whole-replacements, I've got a fall-back icon path preference thingy in the works, so hopefully we'll be able to give a list of files to go searching for icons through. :) Here's the list of pixmaps still needing to be replaced: add_xml_element_node.xpm \ add_xml_text_node.xpm \ delete_xml_attribute.xpm \ delete_xml_node.xpm \ duplicate_xml_node.xpm \ set.xpm \ writing_mode_lr.xpm \ writing_mode_tb.xpm -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Inkscape Project Status
by Bryce Harrington 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Statistics Jan 1 Jan 15 ========== ===== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 598 570 (95.8%) (96.0%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 45 72 (99.8%) (99.6%) Total SF Page Views 2,213,324 2,283,160 Total SF Downloads 110,182 114,695 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 14,291 14,634 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 149 151 Lines of Code in src/: 321,883 323,251 Code lines 227,114 227,965 Comment line 56,048 56,308 Blank 45,398 45,664 Lines of Docs in doc/: 17,901 17,901 Lines of content in website: 9,234 9,328 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 21,030 20,931 Bugs open/total: 135/829 145/858 Features open/total: 340/514 353/530 Patches open/total: 5/145 6/148 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 9,450 9,625 Inkscape-devel membership: 132 131 Inkscape-announce membership: 147 155 Inkscape-user membership: 172 177 Num Translations: 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 43.7 42.0

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Entry submitted to the Free Software Directory
by Felix Rabe 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

Hi, I just found this page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/for-windows.html>. It lists - not Inkscape, no, BUT - Sodipodi. I reckon this comes from Inkscape not being listed in the Free Software Directory <http://directory.fsf.org/>. I've just submitted a request to add an entry for Inkscape. I listed Bryce Harrington <you_know_your_email@...643... ;o)> as the maintainer and developer. The keyword list brings me to the suggestion of not just mentioning "open source editor", but also "free software editor" in the HTML keywords. Just a suggestion... Greetings, Felix

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[Fwd: Announcing liboil-0.3.0 - Library of Optimized Inner Loops]
by Ted Gould 13 Jan '05

13 Jan '05

Hmm, does someone who knows more about the renderer think this would help out Inkscape? Seems better than the MMX flag. --Ted -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: David Schleef <ds@...641...> > To: gnome-multimedia@...45... > Subject: Announcing liboil-0.3.0 - Library of Optimized Inner Loops > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:06:35 -0800 > Announcing liboil-0.3.0 - Library of Optimized Inner Loops > > Liboil is a library of simple functions that are optimized for > various CPUs. These functions are generally loops implementing > simple algorithms, such as converting an array of N integers to > floating-point numbers or multiplying and summing an array of > N numbers. Such functions are candidates for significant > optimization using various techniques, especially by using extended > instructions provided by modern CPUs (Altivec, MMX, SSE, etc.). > > This release represents a significant milestone in the liboil > project. The sections of the ABI that are most interesting to > developers are now considered to be stable, and will be stable > throughout the 0.3.x and 0.4.x series. > > As of this release, I'm actively encouraging other open-source > projects to begin using liboil. I'm happy to do much of work > converting projects to use liboil, and especially, adding function > classes and implementations to liboil that may be needed. > > > Web Page: http://www.schleef.org/liboil/ > > Liboil's license is Two-clause BSD. > > > > dave...

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line-height
by David Christian Berg 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Since this came up in some thread, that there was a problem about knowing the line height in flowtext, I tried to dig up what ever I could find about it. If I understand correctly, the line-height in SVG is supposed to be defined via the line-height css attribute just like as in html. The property index at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/propidx.html links to http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/visudet.html#propdef-line-height . I might be getting something totally wrong (probably I am, because I'm not sure, how you could have missed this), but to me it seems, that this is actually, how the line-height is defined for svg as well. I'll do some more research on this, if needed. I'd really like to see flow-text in 0.41, you see. David

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object manager
by Alexandre Prokoudine 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

Hi, I remember some other approach by Bulia except this one: http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ObjectManager Is it the most recent mockup to start with? Anything changed since then? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: pdf2svg, xmlns bug
by MenTaLguY 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 20:43, bulia byak wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:24:16 +1100, Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...405...> wrote: > > I noticed Inkscape refuses to read their example SVGs; it appears > > Inkscape *needs* the xmlns attribute in the <svg> tag. Without an xmlns > > attribute, Inkscape brings up an error dialog ("Failed to load the > > requested file foo.svg"), but prints nothing to stdout or stderr. > Mental, this seems to be a rather urgent problem. I'm not likely to be > working on it in the near future, so if you can fix it, please do. I think the quick and dirty fix I just commited should do the trick. Everyone please test. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: pdf2svg, xmlns bug
by MenTaLguY 12 Jan '05

12 Jan '05

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 20:43, bulia byak wrote: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:24:16 +1100, Trent Buck <fubarbaz@...405...> wrote: > > I noticed Inkscape refuses to read their example SVGs; it appears > > Inkscape *needs* the xmlns attribute in the <svg> tag. Without an xmlns > > attribute, Inkscape brings up an error dialog ("Failed to load the > > requested file foo.svg"), but prints nothing to stdout or stderr. > > Mental, this seems to be a rather urgent problem. I'm not likely to be > working on it in the near future, so if you can fix it, please do. I can try, but with present work demands I can't promise quick progress. I would like to see it fixed before the release; a high-priority bug ought to be filed if one has not been already. -mental

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