June 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Mozilla SVG Blog and Call for Opinions
by Jon Phillips 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Looks like the MOZ-SVG is calling for opinions in regards to issues posted on the MOZ-SVG blog...probably a good thing to weigh in on as developers and users: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/tor/ 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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Spanish translation & string correction
by Lucas Vieites 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, I'm attaching the updated spanish po file. I found the following string and I think there might be an error there: gradient-drag.cpp: 654: "%s for: %s%s; drag with Ctrl to snap angle, with Ctrl +Alt to preserve angle, with Ctrl+Alt to scale around center" It says Ctrl+Alt twice for different actions Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña Dept. Desarrollo <lucas@...212...> Asix Informática <http://www.asixinformatica.com/> Blog <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog> Tel/Fax: +34 986 54 26 98

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Change layer name "(root)" to "(Background)"?
by Colin Marquardt 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, the layer name "(root)" is not translatable until now - I filed the following patch for it: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1219305&group_id=9… As it says there, should we maybe change the "(root)" to "(Background)"? Gimp 2.2 uses this word, so unless calling this the "root" is vector graphics parlance, I think we should switch. This also comes from my inability to find a nice translation for "root" that doesn't look strange in that context. :) Cheers, Colin -- < This line left intentionally blank to confuse you. >

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Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Change layer name "(root)" to "(Background)"?
by Joshua Blocher 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua Blocher <verbalshadow@...400...> Date: Jun 13, 2005 11:48 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Change layer name "(root)" to "(Background)"? To: "mental@...3..." <mental@...3...> So call it the Jar... wait that's taken how about.... Nexus the center of the whole SVG regardless of postion in the layers. Makes sense to me. Josh Blocher verbalshadow On 6/13/05, mental@...3... <mental@...3...> wrote: > > Quoting Colin Marquardt <colin@...384... >: > > > Hmm... would "Background (root)" be too long for the layer name? > > It's not really a layer, it's the container for the top-level > layers... > > -mental > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net <http://SF.Net> email is sponsored by: NEC IT Guy Games. How > far can you shotput > a projector? How fast can you ride your desk chair down the office luge > track? > If you want to score the big prize, get to know the little guy. > Play to win an NEC 61" plasma display: http://www.necitguy.com/?r > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Patch for -same strings, different contexts-
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Hi, Maybe found a solution for the 'same string, different context' issue. It is based on http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-I18N.html , and has a very small impact on the code. It works (compile and run) on my computer (compiled under Unbuntu, gcc3.3, following the indications of the wiki), and behaves OK in French and in English. The patch is attached there : http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1203796&group_id=9… It only requires developpers to use the Q_("context|translatable_string) when translatable_string is something that can have different meanings in different context, or if the string is very short. If this solution is ok for you, I can : - add some comments for translators on the already modified strings (only X,Y,W,L in src/select-toolbar.cpp and H,S,V in /src/dialogs/clonetiler.cpp - implement this solutions in some other cases (of short/ambiguous strings) Regards, Matiphas

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Some elegant Element Renaming in Inkscape (0.41)?
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Jay Vaughan wrote: >> One last thing to try, if you are willing. >> Copy the entire contents of the share/extensions directory into >> ~/.inkscape/extensions . > > okay, that worked, and is a better solution than trying to do a compile > anyway .. ;) > > will hack at this a bit more tomorrow. I will have to ask Mike about this. Seems that the extensions directories don't work with binreloc. Aaron Spike

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Can't Copy with Win32 Build
by Aaron Spike 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

So I have everything building just fine on my windows box at home, but at work I get the following error. C:\inkscape>make -f Makefile.mingw copy config.h.mingw config.h process_begin: CreateProcess((null), copy config.h.mingw config.h, ...) failed. make (e=2): The system cannot find the file specified. make: *** [config.h] Error 2 This is with a fresh checkout. And same steps as at home. I can fix it by copying these files by hand. Does anyone have a clue why it happens? Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Some elegant Element Renaming in Inkscape (0.41)?
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Jay Vaughan wrote: >> >> Yes, inkex.py and a number of examples are in the share/extensions >> directory in CVS. > > okay, downloading it now .. i'm assuming i can just put these in > /usr/share/inkscape/extensions when i'm ready to hack around? Well yes, but you will want to be using a recent CVS build. Here are some pages to get you going: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape/doc/extension_syste… http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ExtensionArchitectureProposals http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ScriptingHOWTO http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/ Also check the list archives. Aaron Spike

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Some elegant Element Renaming in Inkscape (0.41)?
by Jay Vaughan 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

hi all, i am a very happy user of inkscape for all my SVG needs, and have been using it for the last few releases very happily. thank you for all your hard work, you make wonderful things possible! one thing that i haven't been able to work out how to do, is properly name my objects. i use SVG as a design language, and elements in my SVG document need to be named certain things .. this "rect123" business doesn't really cut it. usually, i just hand-rename things, but lately i've found that there are some objects for which this method just doesn't work. how difficult would it be to add a feature in inkscape where you can select multiple elements, and then type in a 'name template', and have that applied to all objects? for example, i've got "circ1823", "rect123" and "object23" all selected; i want to group these together and give them a common name scheme that looks like this "object-01", "object-02", "object-03" .. i remember in some editing apps (was it Canvas or illustrator, i forget) you could multi-select a group of objects, hit 'Rename', and enter C-like expressions for renaming, like "myobject-%d" where %d would be replaced by the # of the object in the list of the selection. another thing that would be handy is 're-order group', where a group is selected, and you can re-order the name of the elements ("id=" tag) automatically.. is that feasible? should i look at making an extension to do this renaming automatically, would that be the easiest way, or maybe there's a secret hidden feature of inkscape already that allows you to do renaming such as this? -- ; Jay Vaughan

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moving autopackage into cvs
by unknown＠example.com 13 Jun '05

13 Jun '05

Now that I have finally built an autopackage, I think it would be best to move the autopackage configuration into cvs and work on it from there. By default autopackage expects to find /cvsroot/inkscape/autopackage. But it should also work with /cvsroot/inkscape/packaging/autopackage if makeinstaller is run with the path as an additional parameter. Are there any opinions as to whether or not I should add this and where it should go? Mike walked me through some changes to configure.ac, in order to get the autopackage to build. http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/autopackage.diff As I understand some of those changes are just temporary tweaks. Could someone please comment on the significance of these changes? Is there a way to merge this with CVS without breaking anything? Aaron Spike

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