March 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

NEW: gradient tool
by bulia byak 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

New in CVS: The Gradient tool (Ctrl+F1 or the g key) is a new convenient way to create, edit, and manage gradients: o Simply drag anywhere on canvas to create a gradient on selected objects. Existing gradients can be edited by dragging their handles (as in any tool that has on-canvas gradient editing enabled). o The tool's controls bar lets you choose the type of the newly created gradients (linear or radial) and whether they will be applied to the objects' fill or stroke. o For the gradient(s) of selected object(s), you can choose one of the gradient definitions in the document from the drop-down list in the controls bar. The Fork button creates a copy of the selected gradient definition and applies it to the selected objects, which is useful when you have several objects sharing one gradient definition but want to change that. The Edit... button opens the gradient dialog where you can edit the gradient definition (add/move/delete stops and change colors and opacities of stops). o The selected (blue) on-canvas gradient handle can be moved by arrow keys with all the regular modifiers (Alt ro move by 1 screen pixel, Shift to move by 10 times the distance). The Tab and Shift+Tab keys let you move selection from one handle to the next or previous. This functionality is largely equivalent to that of the Fill&Stroke dialog, but is much more convenient. Still TODO: - toggle buttons for spread (none/reflect/repeat) - button/dialog to rename selected gradient definition - X/Y spinbuttons for the position of the selected handle - the ability to assign color to the selected handle, so it's possible to edit at least two-stop gradients without opening the gradient editor - additional draggable handles for multi-stop gradients Also today I eliminated the old gradient position widget in Fill&Stroke as redundant. I'm thinking about removing the remaining gradient controls there too ("vector" list, Add/Edit, spread) because they are a duplication of what is available in the gradient tool, and have no added advantages in the dialog. All these changes were rather disruptive, so please test everything thoroughly. Of course any feedback on the usability, terminology (e.g. I had to invent the term "gradient definition" for that color strip with stops that can be applied to objects' gradients; Sodipodi termed them "vectors" which is incredibly misleading), or anything else is welcome.

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mozilla futures
by Jon Phillips 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

You guys might have a look through these slides to see about mozilla + svg developments: http://www.mozilla.org/events/dev-day-feb-2004/mozilla-futures/ As you all know, mozilla svg is in the mozilla trunk now. Jon -- Jon Phillips USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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Inkscape crash while drawing a gradient
by Jean-François Lemaire 06 Mar '05

06 Mar '05

I just made Inkscape CVS crash while "drawing" a gradient. Here is the output from the terminal: (inkscape:21590): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type `(null)' in cast to `GObject' (inkscape:21590): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: file gobject.c: line 1642 (g_object_get_data): assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed ** ERROR **: file desktop-handles.cpp: line 31 (SPSelection* sp_desktop_selection(SPDesktop*)): assertion failed: (desktop != NULL) aborting... Emergency save activated! Cheers, Jef

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Hacking on icon stuff
by Jon A. Cruz 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Just wanted to let people know I'm in the middle of hacking on icon loading. My immediate goal was to get rid of the ugly rescaling and blurring of the stock icons. But in doing that I should also be able to get rid of all hardcoding of sizes. So... all the SP_ICON_SIZE_* defines are about to dissapear, and their use should be replaced with the logical GTK_ICON_SIZE_* defines in many places. In many other places, hardcoded sizes should just dissappear.

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Some icons for the layer menu
by Jean-François Lemaire 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Hello, I just finished drawing some simple icons for the layer menu; it looks too empty to my taste. I don't know if they will be of any use, but anyway, where can I post them for the world to see? The SVG is 47K. Cheers, Jef

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Potrace 1.6, first try
by Bob Jamison 05 Mar '05

05 Mar '05

Peter Selinger recently released v1.6 of his tracing engine. I think that it is fairly well interfaced with our stuff, though I did have some problems with CVS. I -think- that the build is working fine again now, but in case any turn up missing while I am gone, I left a copy of the subtree here: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/inkscape/files/trace.tgz Just replace the missing files, not the whole thing. By the way, the tracing is MUCH faster now. Bob

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Builds
by Bob Jamison 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

I have been more regular with Win32 builds lately in this dir: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/inkscape/builds Just look for the latest InkscapeYYMMDDhhmm.zip file. The one for this morning is: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/inkscape/builds/Inkscape0503040733.zip In the very near future, I'm going to attempt to gather and build -all- of the sources to get gtkmm/libxml/etc working on W32 without the use of other people's binaries (OPB), so that we can have a clean dependency tree of our own. Maybe supply a single source bundle and a build script to simplify the build for others. On another note, I also occasionally build a copy of firefox with svg/cairo on FC3. It seems to work on my recent Gentoo install nicely, too. It is here: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/inkscape/files/firefox-i686-linux-gtk2+xft+s… (built today). I attached the .mozconfig that made it, in case anyone wants to build their own. A good test is to look at the svg files on http://croczilla.com/svg Bob . $topsrcdir/browser/config/mozconfig mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/objdir ac_add_options --enable-svg ac_add_options --enable-svg-renderer-cairo ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo ac_add_options --disable-ldap ac_add_options --disable-calendar ac_add_options --disable-mailnews ac_add_options --enable-extensions="cookie,xml-rpc,xmlextras,pref,transformiix,universalchardet,webservices,inspector,gnomevfs,negotiateauth" ac_add_options --enable-crypto ac_add_options --disable-composer ac_add_options --enable-single-profile ac_add_options --disable-profilesharing ac_add_options --disable-shared ac_add_options --enable-static ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --enable-toolkit-gtk2 ac_add_options --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 ac_add_options --enable-xft ac_add_options --disable-freetype2 ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --disable-accessibility ac_add_options --disable-installer ac_add_options --enable-strip ac_add_options --disable-toolkit-qt #ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -march=i686" ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2" ac_add_options --enable-official-branding

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Website news section CMS
by Jonathan Leighton 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

We previously discussed the idea of using a CMS such as WordPress to handle the news part of the Inkscape website. No real conclusion was reached, so I thought I'd send out this email asking for votes/opinions for and against. If we decide to go for it then I could probably get it done this weekend. Cheers, Jon -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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Donation received
by Bryce Harrington 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

I got a donation from 'OSDN / VA Software' for Inkscape the other day, in the amount of $3.54 ($5 less PP/SF fees). I'm not sure what to do with it... I'll hold onto it for now until we either get a general fund set up, or it's needed for something for the project. The breakdown of the transaction appears below: Donated amount...........................: $5.00 PayPal fee...............................: $0.46 SourceForge.net fee......................: $1.00 TOTAL TO YOU.............................: $3.54 Comment from the donator: make inkscape even better - be blessed! Thank you The SourceForge.net Team Bryce

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Inkscape Project Status Mar 1st
by Bryce Harrington 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Well, SourceForge is still way behind in their stats, but here's the rest of the stats. Statistics Jan 15 Feb 1 Feb 15 Mar 1 ========== ====== ===== ====== ===== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 570 569 * * (96.0%) (96.0%) * * Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 59 * * * (99.6%) * * * Total SF Page Views 2,283,160 2,296,458 * * Total SF Downloads 114,695 115,645 * * Total Freshmeat URL Hits 14,634 15,108 16,448 16,885 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 151 156 169 173 Lines of Code in src/: 323,251 323,324 333,139 338,993 Code lines 227,965 227,872 234,651 238,641 Comment line 56,308 56,438 58,239 59,589 Blank 45,664 45,624 46,859 47,484 Lines of Docs in doc/: 17,901 17,918 26,848 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,328 9,486 9,776 9,979 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 20,931 23,576 24,925 25,094 Bugs open/total: 145/858 148/917 155/972 177/1019 Features open/total: 353/530 352/556 370/579 384/ 602 Patches open/total: 6/148 7/154 5/167 6/ 170 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 9,625 9,975 10,312 10,600 Inkscape-devel membership: 131 143 151 152 Inkscape-announce membership: 155 166 169 171 Inkscape-user membership: 177 181 193 201 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 42.0 44.7 47.8 45.0 * - Statistics unavailable

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