February 2005 - Inkscape Devel

win32 compiles
by Kees Cook 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

So, I changed Makefile.mingw.common to be created by "configure". This may cause some confusion for others trying to build from CVS. I set up the "make dist" to include the built file, so building win32 from a tarball should work easily. Also, JonCruz, I saw on the channel you said you didn't have win32 compiling set up, and weren't sure about one of your checkins. Here's the results! :) inkscape.cpp: In function `gchar* profile_path(const char*)': inkscape.cpp:1322: error: 'struct IMalloc' has no member named 'lpVtbl' inkscape.cpp:1323: error: 'struct IMalloc' has no member named 'lpVtbl' Let me know, I can test any changes. -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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Inkscape at the world gathering of the SVG community ?
by Ruud Steltenpool 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

Hello Inkscape developers, I hereby invite you to SVG Open 2005, the international conference on Scalable Vector Graphics. At this event the SVG community from around the world gathers: the W3C SVG WorkGroup and people from very diverse backgrounds putting SVG to use, including implementors from most popular viewers and editors. Obviously, as Inkscape is deservingly becoming more and more popular, it would be very interesting for the SVG community if Inkscape would take part. Preferably also actively taking part through presenting a paper, organizing a panel discussion or teaching a course or a workshop. For this proposals, being just short abstracts, should be in before March 1st. I believe SVG Open will also bring a lot of useful input for Inkscape, both in getting to know about the latest SVG developments, useful ideas and other feedback, as also in growing its user, promotion and developer workforce. And of course getting to know about the latest SVG All information is at http://www.svgopen.org/2005 Hope to welcome you in August, Regards, Ruud Steltenpool organisation SVG Open 2005

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removing trivial inline functions
by Robert Crosbie 12 Feb '05

12 Feb '05

I submitted some patches that remove some of the trivial inline functions as stated in the InkscapeJanitors wiki section. For some reason one was submitted multiple times. It seems that after submitting a patch, if I refresh the screen, it submits the patch again. :/ Anyway, I hope I'm on the right track with the patches. I do have or had cvs access, but I've been away from c++ for a long time and figured I'd go the patch route so that a second set of eyes on the patches. inkscape compiled and seemed to work properly for me after the changes. cheers, -- Rob. http://woodpendant.com

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NEW: move to layer commands
by bulia byak 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

New layer commands added to CVS: "Move selection to layer above" (Shift+PgUp) and "Move selection to layer below" (Shift+PgDn) will move the selection into the layer above or below the current layer (and make that layer current). P.S. Bryce or someone with an access to the wiki, please lock this page: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes041

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FW: [Inkscape-devel] icons...
by Joshua A. Andler 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

> On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 08:05:22PM +0100, David Christian Berg wrote: > > Hey guys, for all of you who care: > > There is a more recent version of my icon theme available at > > home.tu-clausthal.de/~dcb/icons.svg > > > > It's not complete, but I've made quite some changes, meaning added a few > > new icons. > > Cool! > > Say, would anyone be willing to write up a quick webpage for the > inkscape site kind of like the "screenshots" area, but for icon themes? > It could include a "how to" on where to put them, and then links to > various known icon themes. > > -- > Kees Cook @outflux.net Great idea! I might be able to do it tonight, but if not, I believe I'm free tomorrow morning to do it. -Josh

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icons...
by David Christian Berg 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Hey guys, for all of you who care: There is a more recent version of my icon theme available at home.tu-clausthal.de/~dcb/icons.svg It's not complete, but I've made quite some changes, meaning added a few new icons. Enjoy! David

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Re: "pixel preview" mode
by Jakub Steiner 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

On Wed, 2005-02-09 at 21:11 -0800, Jon A. Cruz wrote: > I've tossed up a screenshot mockup of what I'm thinking a "pixel > preview" mode could look like > > http://www.joncruz.org/pixel_preview.png > > Ignore the topmost part, there are some slight issues with the bounding > box detection, so the top of the point got chopped. (BTW, I used the > "Make a Bitmap Copy" to get this simulation.) > > Anyway, I was thinking it would be nice to have a mode where a the > preview would show a version of the image at some set DPI, and as you > zoom in the 'pixels' would enlarge as well. This could help when doing > small work (like with icons) and with targeting different profiles, such > as SVG Basic and SVG Tiny. We could even tie it in to some 'skin' for > specific SVG Tiny devices, where switching to a different skin would > also change the preview DPI to a proper value. > > Any thoughts? Comments? I think I'd prefer to either have the objects drawn at the display resolution or target document resolution, not both. As pixel preview would get a shortcut to toggle, it would be easy to switch between the two. Having both at the same time would only create visual noise. As for Bulia's comment. We certainly don't need it because Illustrator has it. Let me explain its usefulness. While having a "true" 1:1 view is what appears to be enough to be able pixel-position objects, not everyone has eyes of a teenager and an LCD ;) It is way easier to pixel position artwork when you see the pixels as huge blocks, instead of staring at the 16x16 artwork at 1:1 at 5cm distance from the display ;) Oh and btw I noticed the SDI makes it really hard to have a second view of the artwork since it has all the menus, all the toolbars, and need to be quite a large window. cheers -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...659...> Novell, Inc.

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Inkscape 0.41 Release PR and Packaging Plans
by Bryce Harrington 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

Hi all, With the 0.41 Hard Freeze finished and the release package posted, it's time to move into the final phase of the release, where we post packages and submit PR to blogs and the news media. Kees has been kind enough to take responsibility for producing the Windows and static rpm packages. Since these are often the most frequent downloads, I'm comfortable doing the announcement sooner than usual, however I'd like to provide packagers at least a full day to create platform specific packages. If you are comfortable creating packages, you can help us greatly right now by downloading the release and creating a package for your system. For example, we need packages for old and new versions of SuSE, Fedora Core, Mandrake, Slackware, and (especially) Mac OSX. Information on creating packages is available here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CreatingDists If you have access to upload to the file tracker directly, please do so. If not, feel free to send me or another admin the package and we'll ensure it gets posted. For PR, I have written the following announcement. Please review/revise. It will be released tomorrow night my time: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseAnnounce041 Bryce

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text properties
by Jakub Steiner 11 Feb '05

11 Feb '05

I wonder what's the deal with having an apply button on the text property window? It behaves like an instant apply dialog, yet it requires the eeky button click. cheers -- Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...659...> Novell, Inc.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Selection in text editing
by Aewyn 10 Feb '05

10 Feb '05

Thank you answers, meanwhile I found a workaround :) My text edit dialog always open, attached to the main window, so it shows the current text always. It's okay, now. But (a new request follows ;) the dialogs disappear when the main window lose the focus. Now, inkscape gets a whole virtual desktop, so it is not a problem, but it would be very kind to get an option to off this feature (in future, not too important one). Thanks, Aewyn

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