December 2005 - Inkscape Devel

New CVS developer account
by Carl Hetherington 16 Dec '05

16 Dec '05

Hi all, Mathieu Dimanche (mtou, sf user 1404882) is doing some good work with me on snapping and highlighting. Could whoever has the power give him access to developer CVS? Thanks Carl

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: Using clones for boxes with text in block diagram
by unknown＠example.com 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Quoting Phil Endecott <spam_from_inkscape_users@...1109...>: > Mental suggested: > > This is basically what CSS classes are for; I think we do have > > sufficient CSS support to use them now, but not good UI for CSS > > yet. > > Great, I can do CSS, and "instance of a class" is a more familiar > mental > model (HTML+CSS, C++) than "duplicate of a clone". > > So, I can set a class attribute on things using the XML editor > [is there an easier way?] and I can write a CSS stylesheet in a > text editor. Can you help me to associate the stylesheet with > the document? Yes, you're stuck with the XML editor at the moment. For now, you'll also need to embed the stylesheet in the document; use an <svg:style> element inside <svg:defs>, give it a type="text/css" attribute, and add a single text node inside it to hold the actual stylesheet. The XML editor includes a simple text editor for modifying text nodes. [ You will find "unset" fills helpful here too, to allow the class properties to "take over". ] Hopefully our CSS support is mature enough to handle this now; I haven't tried this yet, but I know peter has been working on it a lot. -mental

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WEBFORM inkscape dosn\'t work
by Zlatko 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Zlatko email: zlatko.glavac@...1108... submitted the following: Hello! I have install inkscape ant it\'s reporting error. \"Inkscape encuntered an internal error and will now close\" Why? Regards, Zlatko GlavaÄ, SLO

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NEW: Gtkmmified Document Preferences Dialog
by Ralf Stephan 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

Hello, the new Document Preferences Dialog is now default in CVS. Please report any bugs you might find, and that are not mentioned here. Changes /wrt the old versions include: - included Carl's new snapping widgets by collecting everything snapping related on ond page - Grid and Guide widgets are on the same page - metadata widgets are spread over two pages, making the dialog height smaller - fixed 1366507 - grayed out license URI has too low contrast --> no longer grayed - fixed 1366504 - proprietary license should clean license uri - fixed 1357224 - no spinbutton tooltips - fixed 1232941 - minor grid quirks - implemented 1251393 (rfe) - canvas color should ignore bkg alpha value - dramatic reduction of code size due to usage of widget objects - used widget objects should be reusable by other dialogs, too - much more readable code; thus, less comments. still todo, but will be done before 0.44: - 1370648 - save as LGPL license not possible. huh? lgpl? ==> will remove LGPL from list - color picker windows don't close/hide together with doc prefs - on activedoc changed - set better DEFAULTS for grid + snapping Also, I would appreciate help on issues that apparently affect only the Win32 version: win: "dialog expands on startup" win: "license combo very wide" best ralf

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Win 32 tablet support
by James Kilfiger 15 Dec '05

15 Dec '05

There have been a number of bugs recently reported about problems with tablets on Win32: bugs 1281512, 1335301, 1379654, 1380883. These relate to either the mouse being treated as a pen, or the X and Y axis being reversed. Similar problems are known on gimp under Win32, and the problem seems to be in gdk. I made a patch to add #ifndef NOEXTINPUT around all the template code, which lets me compile without extended tablet support (the tablet will work as mouse or pen, but there is no pressure or tilt support). So I'd like to get this into CVS, what do I do next? The patch is conservative, there are no changes to the code unless NOEXTINPUT is defined. James

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Compiling win32
by Joshua A. Andler 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Is compiling on win32 working for anyone? Mine is dying with: In file included from dialogs/../text-tag-attributes.h:7, from dialogs/../sp-text.h:20, from dialogs/text-edit.cpp:44: dialogs/../svg/svg-length.h:29: error: expected identifier before ',' token make[1]: *** [dialogs/text-edit.o] Error 1 but there is nothing visibly wrong with the file or included files...

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NEW: stroke width indicator
by bulia byak 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

In the statusbar, * The Stroke indicator also displays the stroke width of selection (averaged if there are multiple objects selected with different stroke widths), located to the right of the stroke color/transparency swatch. Left-clicking on it opens the Fill&Stroke dialog with the Stroke Style tab selected. Right-clicking on it opens a popup menu which allows you to choose the units for displaying the stroke width, as well as choose one of the presets to assign to selection. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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WEBFORM Tutorial translation
by Anna 14 Dec '05

14 Dec '05

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Anna email: anna.1704@...112... submitted the following: Hi, I\'m disposable to help to translate from french to italian some Inkscape tutorials already published in this site. If you are interested, please contact me. Regards Anna

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rpm links
by Ralf Stephan 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

As there is, again, a bug report against our rpm packages I propose - to either give a recommendation for autopackage with reason near the rpm links on the download page, - or to no longer provide rpms at all. Regards, ralf http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1374877&group_id=9…

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NSIS installer
by Daniel Díaz 13 Dec '05

13 Dec '05

Hello, all! I'm seeing a clash of intentions with packaging/win32/inkscape.nsi (as of revision 1.14) and Makefile.mingw (as of revision 1.49.) inkscape.nsi is looking for "inkscape/README", while Makefile.mingw only copies "README.*" in the dist target. I suggest changing Makefile.mingw to allow README to be copied by dropping the dot in the filename. I noticed this now that I make'd clean. If I have obsolete revisions of the involved files, please let me know. Greetings! Daniel Díaz ddiaz@...1105...

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