August 2005 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Linux World this week in SF - Who's in?
by Jon Phillips 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

Who is going to be at Linux World in SF this week? I'm continuing my overload spree of conferences: http://www.linuxworldexpo.com Anyone interested in Inkscape and/or the Open Clip Art Library lets meet up at some point. I'm mainly going tomorrow and then am hitting up the Gentoo dev. conference on friday. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA Mission District USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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autogen.sh fails because it can't find README
by Seth Brutzman 09 Aug '05

09 Aug '05

This could be on GNU/Linux only, but I went ahead and built again today, and autogen.sh stopped cold with the complaint that it couldn't find README. I noticed that CVS is packing README.txt now instead, so I simply renamed it to README and all was good. Still, where the heck did this come from? autogen needs README? And why is it getting packed as a *.txt now? (Sorry, windows users. I haven't saved with a *.txt extension for a while now.) Just thought I'd call attention to this for future reference. --seth

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any remaining showstoppers for 0.42.1?
by MenTaLguY 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

If not, I'm going to merge the translations/tutorials from HEAD and tag it. -mental

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Open Clip Art Library Release 0.16 Announcement :: http://www.openclipart.org
by Jon Phillips 08 Aug '05

08 Aug '05

Aug 8, 2005 UTC - Release 0.16 of the Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) is now available on-line for download as an individual package consisting of 4442 images submitted by over 443 artists from around the world. This releases squishes a major bug that replaced valid keywords in the clip art files with some strange HASH memory location text. Most of the clip art in the library and this release is now repaired. Bryce Harrington and Jon Phillips both presented at the 2005 Desktop Developers Conference in Ottawa. Harrington's presentation promoted Inkscape (www.inkscape.org) while Phillips' presentation introduced the Open Clip Art Library to the freedesktop community. Both presentations were well received and sparked several debates. Also added this month is a new clipart-announce mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart-announce). The Open Clip Art Library encourages everyone to sign up for this list in order to ONLY receive messages about Open Clip Art Library release announcements. This list is especially well-suited for packagers and others that might not want to receive all the developer discussions from the primary project mailing list (http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart). As always, see what the librarians and artists are working on at http://planet.openclipart.org. Artist and librarians (developer) for the project who would like to be included in this blog should contact (http://openclipart.org/contact.php) the project admins in order to be added. For the month of August the project invites submissions of clip art themed for the coming fall season. The Open Clip Art Library. Drawing Together. Use the following URLs to download the latest release of the Open Clip Art Library: http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.bz2 http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.tar.gz http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full.zip http://openclipart.org/downloads/0.16/openclipart-0.16-full-win32.exe The Open Clip Art Library (http://www.openclipart.org/) aims to create an archive of user contributed clip art that may be freely used. All graphics submitted to the project are placed into the Public Domain according to the Creative Commons Public Domain Declaration.

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sp_selection_copy_impl fix
by Nicklas Lindgren 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi again, It appears that sp_selection_copy_impl does not respect the const-ness of its first parameter. I've made a patch for this. This fixes bug 1253235 (Moving multiple objects up/down a layer duplicates them). The patch can be found at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nili/inkscape/ . --Nicklas

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Build report #245
by Bryce Harrington 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

= Analysis Report for inkscape-20050806-0700 = Platform Unpack Config Build Install WRNS ERRS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ debian x86 0 0 0 0 6 0 == Errors == none == Warnings == interface.cpp:585: warning: `void sp_ui_menu_append(GtkMenu*, Inkscape::Verb**, display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: invalid access to non-static data member display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used display/sp-canvas.cpp:127: warning: invalid access to non-static data member ` display/sp-canvas.cpp:127: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp:226: warning: enumeration value `

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Color related tool
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Here is an interesting tool I stumbled across called Color Schemer for dealing with color (obviously) that I think would be nifty for us to implement something similar within inkscape. Here are a couple screenshots in action: http://www.colorschemer.com/images/v3screenmain.png http://www.colorschemer.com/images/studioscreenharm.png http://www.colorschemer.com/images/studioscreenmixer.gif There is an online version too, which has the basic functionality and we can probably view source to get some ideas from. http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html My thought is that since we now have swatches, a "utility" like this would rock for knocking together good harmonious swatch sets with great ease. Just my .02 -Josh

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Key In: Shortcut references from Macromedia Fireworks
by Alan Horkan 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Before my trial version of Macromedia Fireworks expired I exported HTML pages for the various keybinding sets it supported (with the unfortunately exception of Photoshop) and then today I hastily munged them together into one great big table for comparison purposes. (Kevin Wixon seems to have access to Illustrator so I'd appreciate any comments he might have.) The link is temporary and I may move it or the information contained within to somewhere else more suitable so if the information is of interest please save a copy. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/shortcuts/keys.html Essentially I think it could be quite useful to identify the basic keybindings the various applications have in common. I should warn that I think I see at least one error in the list and as these were all generated from Fireworks what it claims are the Illustrator keybindings may not be entirely accurate (I dont recally Illustrator having a menu item for "Insert Hotspot" for example). I'm amused to see differences even between Fireworks and Freehand. It might also be worth noting some of the items they do not give keybindings to so when we next try to find a suitable keybinding we will have some idea of which items are not really important enough to need keybindings. Here are some other menu references I have mentioned before but lost track of. will try and find time to put in the wiki this time but if anyone is willing to help (and even remind me occasionally to try and do it) I'd appreciate it. I think my notes are a little too messy to directly cut and paste into the Wiki. Top level menus only of various applications: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/menus.txt Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for Mac OS menus (keybindings not included): http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/illustrator-menus.txt Freehand MX keybindings: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/freehand/FreeHandMX_keybindings.t… All this keybinding lark has gotten me side tracked from coming up with a proposal on the menu reorganistion, sorry about that. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Inkscape menu reorganistation, Illustrator related analysis.
by Alan Horkan 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Top level menus in Inkscape: File, Edit, View, Layer, Object, Path, Text, Effects, Help. Top level menus in Adobe Illustrator 10: File, Edit, Object, Type, Select, Filter, Effect, View, Window, Help. Text seems like nearly a better choice than Type (Illustrator came out of Adobes type business and Photoshop came later). Might want to consider changing Effects to Effect which fits in better with the usual naming conventions of top level menus. I should have noticed it before, I will file a request for this minor tweak. The effects menu is already full of functionality and I would be tempted to put in submenus soon and provide struture for plugin developers to work to but I might be getting ahead of myself here. (If I recally correctly the Filter menu is essentially the Photoshop filters embedded for use inside Illustrator.) Inkscape doesn't currently have Select menu. Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, the GNU Image Manipulation program, Fireworks all have it. (There are probably some intersting counter examples of applications that dont have it but I'll leave that to someone else). I think in the long term a Select menu is a good idea but initially it may look a little odd with only 4 or 5 items so maybe I should rush to change it just yet. The windows menu... There was a mailing list post earlier in the week which I read (with some difficulty). The message: Subject: Scribus+Inkscape UI discussion http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/10967 The article on the scribus user interface: http://www.le-radar.com/?articles/scribusUI I mention it because the author thought it might be good to have a standard "Windows" menu. I've asked the GIMP developers to change their consider changing their Dialogs menu to a Windows menu (there is a little more to it than mere relabelling but not a whole lot). Getting rid of the dialogs menu forced a big User Interface shake up, reintroducing a very similar Windows menu to Inkscape might be counterproductive in the short term. Those were the relatively easy things I've been pondering. The Object and Path menus are a little more difficult. I think they should probably be merged, Paths are essentially Objects. Some functionality such as "Inset" would be great if they worked on all objects, not just paths which is not a superficial change. Based on the Inset tool in Freehand a popup dialog with more flexible options might be appropriate. Some items will need to be moved submenus (probably the various Arrange and Transform options first) to allow this but it is more complicated than that. So that is what I'm thinking so far and I realise some of it might not be immediately practical but with a bit more time I think out a bit more coherent of a plan. Hopefully developers can identify some parts of inkscape they think may need to be expanded or consilidated so there is room for the interface to grow without becoming overwhelming. Too much caffeine, better go home and go for run if I'm ever going to get to sleep. (Which means I wont be responding to this message until tommorow.) Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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My Menus.xml
by Joshua Blocher 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

These are my personnel adjustments to the menus. The main philosophy behind the adjustments is if menu item already has "face time" in the UI then its ok to bury the Item in a clearly labeled submenu. Not all of the adjusts fall in to this category. Some just felt right. Others didn't seem to really belong in the menu they were in. All menus are now under 15 items, except the Effects menu which I renamed to Scripts Joshua Blocher verbalshadow

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