January 2005 - Inkscape Devel

Re: Inkscape CVS Autopackage
by Aaron Spike 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Mike Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:16 -0600, Aaron and Sarah Spike wrote: >>Sorry to bother you. I just wanted to know if the Inkscape CVS >>autopackage built on December 20, 2004 was the latest. I'm trying to >>find the nightly builds mentioned on the Inkscape download page. > > The latest nightly is now available here (they need to update the page): > > http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.40+cvs.x86.package Great. I'm going to send a copy of this to the inkscape-devel list. Thanks, Aaron Spike

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Re: Inkscape CVS Autopackage
by Aaron and Sarah Spike 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Mike Hearn wrote: > On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 10:16 -0600, Aaron and Sarah Spike wrote: >>Sorry to bother you. I just wanted to know if the Inkscape CVS >>autopackage built on December 20, 2004 was the latest. I'm trying to >>find the nightly builds mentioned on the Inkscape download page. > > The latest nightly is now available here (they need to update the page): > > http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.40+cvs.x86.package Great. I'm going to send a copy of this to the inkscape-devel list. Thanks, Aaron Spike

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Small icons in menus
by Andreas Nilsson 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

It seems the svg icons in the menus are a bit small, and I'm wondering what is the cause of this. While the bitmap gtk-stock items renders in 16x16, the icons from icons.svg only renders in 14x14 pixels or smaller. Have a look at this screenshot: http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/small_icons.png - Andreas

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CFV: Gtkmm - Implement preferences class
by Bryce Harrington 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

Here is a task needed for the gtkmm codebase. Requires good knowledge of C++, ok knowledge of XML, and at least passing knowledge of the Inkscape codebase. Preferences =========== Design an Inkscape::Preferences class that wrappers an SPRepr. It must provide the following public interface as a minimum: gboolean save(const gchar *filename); gboolean load(const gchar *filename); SPRepr* getRepr(const gchar *key); Look in inkscape.* for the C-versions of the above routines. * Hook up the preferences functions in ui/dialog/dialog.cpp To learn more, check out the gtkmm codebase like this: $ cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape login (hit enter for password) $ cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape co experimental/bryce/inkscape_gtkmm $ cd experimental/bryce/inkscape_gtkmm $ make $ ./inkscape Also look in the PLAN file for more todo's and projects' in the gtkmm codebase. Bryce

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icons, icons, icons
by David Christian Berg 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

This message is held back, because I was to big. You can now find the attached icons at http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~dcb/icons.svg So whoever ist list admin, just delete the previously posted message, please. Hey guys! After getting so much positive feedback on the draw tool icons I've created, I set out to redesign some other icons to go with them. The set is far from being complete, but it's a good start, and I still have some leftovers from an older theme I've created, that will allow me to easily go ahead with this theme. I'd be really thrilled if my icons would be included as standard theme. Point is right now I'm Design Coordinator of ESTIEM ("European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management" an Europe-wide organization with abouts 40000 members -- must have mentioned it before). Their publishing and such has so far not been very professional and having worked in PR and layout since a few years (only voluntarily, though) I'm really glad to be able to provide my fellow Designers with a professional tool, that they can legally get for FREE! So while Inkscape's functions are fantastic (ok, there are many, many things that have to improve, but still) I never really liked the icons. They are so grey, that only hardcore Gnome people will like them (don't get me wrong, I'm using Gnome myself!). About the node editing being red (Josh was kinda disturbed by that): I created them to look like the draw icon so that one easily recognizes, what toolbar one is in. Hope you like them! David

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repr refactoring
by MenTaLguY 18 Jan '05

18 Jan '05

I just did something that should have been done a long time ago -- made all of SPRepr's data fields private. This shouldn't have affected anything, but it turns out a lot of code still was poking at the fields directly. I replaced direct accesses with calls to the appropriate accessors. In the process I moved most of the "real" functionality into SPRepr member functions; the sp_repr_* functions remain as thin wrappers for the moment. For reference: old-style direct access .... becomes: repr->parent repr->parent() or sp_repr_parent(repr) repr->next repr->next() or sp_repr_next(repr) repr->children repr->firstChild() or sp_repr_children() repr->doc repr->document() Long-term, SPRepr will become a public interface (abstract) class in repr.h, the current SPRepr will become SPReprImpl or similar, and the wrapper sp_repr_* functions will become inline, then go away entirely. -mental

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trivial patch for clonetiler.cpp
by Alexandre Prokoudine 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Hi, Here is a trivial patch for dialogs/clonetiler.cpp adding keyboard accessibility to tabs and three buttons (Reset, Remove, Create) in "Clone tiles" dialog. Please review and apply. Alexandre

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join/cap icons
by bulia byak 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

1 Some of the icons have blurred fringes at the edges of the square, which happens because another icon is too close in icons.svg and its edge's antialiasing gets into the neighboring icon. Watch out for this. 2 I don't like the thick white "midline" in these icons. What does it represent? Why white? If you want to show the midline axis, just a single solid black stroke, solid or dashed, is enough. The white is too salient and confusing. 3 I also don't like the highlights on the icons. Hey, this is just strokes! They are not supposed to be highlighted or shaded in any way. It's just silly. I have to spend extra milliseconds every time I try to figure out the join shape, dazzled by all the highlights and the white thing in it. 3 The butt cap icon is wrong: the white midline (of whatever this is) must not and can not extend beyond the stroke itself. Never.

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calligraphic icon
by bulia byak 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

I have decided I should not interfere with icon work, as I tend to be too critical sometimes. However the newest calligraphic icon on the toolbar is so ugly I wanted to speak up. The idea to replace pencil with a pen is OK, but that pen is too out of sync with the rest of the icons. It seems too heavy and black because of the stroke, thus almost obscuring the calligraphic line it's drawing, and the entire icon looks dirty and noisy. Whoever did it, please try to make it cleaner.

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basically OT: Roadmap Question
by David Christian Berg 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

Maybe it's not quite nice to pose this question, but I just need some info to consider my plans. >From April 11th to 16th, the ESTIEM Spring Council Meeting will take place in Lyon, France. As the design coordinator I will be leading a PR working group. While a lot of time will be needed to work on the ESTIEM webpage, esp. it's content, I am thinking about introducing the working group to Inkscape, since so far vectors have badly been neglected for ESTIEM design tasks. Before having many people complain about some lacking functions, I'd like to know, where you think Inkscape will stand at that point of time. Any chance of my main issues being addressed by then? - On canvas text editing, including flowtext - Working ai/ps/eps(/pdf <- that'd be just great!) output, including transparency and gradients - Ability to add a node anywhere on a line -- via right-click - Real clipping paths for images (and svg objects) I'm not saying Inkscape was unusable without these functions. I think it's a wonderful piece of software, as you know, but it takes quite some personal effort to work with it, sometimes. So while I myself use Inkscape for basically everything graphical I'm doing, it will be hard to convince people without this special open source spirit. David

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