front page edit
by bulia byak
In the spirit of "patch first, ask later", I have edited the intro
paragraphs at inkscape.org: added new features, removed mention of
GTKmm (it's on hold, and in any case this is a too narrow technical
aspect to deserve a front page mention), added more emphasis on
usability and general availability (it's not for "open source
community", it's for everyone!) and did a general copyedit. Feel free
to change :)
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18 years, 3 months
Build results for inkscape-20050826-1520
by Bryce Harrington
= Analysis Report for inkscape =
Platform Unpack Config Build Install WRNS ERRS
------------------------------------------------------------------------
debian x86 0 0 0 0 5 0
Test Status Score Info
------------------------------------------------------------------------
sut-1 ??
== Errors ==
none
== Warnings ==
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 `
=
18 years, 3 months
wiki update
by Jon Phillips
UPDATE!
So, sf.net is completely unsecure now for the web server to write data.
So, I have a solution to move the wiki to fd.o and make it work there
temporarily.
Unfortunately, we are coming to the limits of using sf.net. We need to
start thinking about where to move our project, as it is getting quite
large and sf.net is too slow, not reliable for real world web-based
needs, and we want svn.
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ChangingCvsProviders
I will ping the list once the wiki change has happened.
Jon
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18 years, 3 months
Announcing librsvg 2.11 aka 'Actual codename censored'
by Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller
The librsvg team is happy to announce librsvg 2.11
librsvg is a SVG rendering library maintained by Dom Lachowicz and Caleb
Moore and used among other places in the GNOME desktop.
This release of librsvg is the result of 6 months of development. Caleb
Moore spent a lot of time reorganizing the code to enable adding DOM
support to librsvg. This code reorganisation had a lot of other positive
side effects too, like improved stability and consistency, and last but
not least improved rendering speed.
There is also a great host of rendering fixes by Caleb to things like
gradient positioning, patterns, namespaces, inheritance, marker
rendering and text rendering. Also in this release is better clip paths
handling and handling of out of order references and other file
references.
Dom Lachowicz have worked on full support for conditionals and made vfs
support work better in addition to merging patches and bugfixing.
In addition to this we have a host of smaller changes including:
1. rsvg cannot handle a relative path (309234) - Josselin Mouette
2. librsvg tries to open files twice (309220) - Josselin Mouette
3. rsvg behavior keeps aspec ratio when only width or height (309233)
Josselin Mouette
4. C89 compiler fix (308472) - Behdad Esfahbod
5. Various bugfixes - 303086, 302905, 170164, 304045, 171281, 273989,
308810, 309885 - Caleb Moore and Dom Lachowicz
6. crasher bug fix (169051) - Ed Catmur
7. Windows port - Tor Lillquist
8. leak fixes (306494) - Ryan Lortie
A big thanks goes to the contributors to this release.
More information on the librsvg homepage:
http://librsvg.sf.net
You can download librsvg from:
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/librsvg/2.11/
18 years, 3 months
0.42.2 Announcement
by Ted Gould
Now that there are binaries for 0.42.2 do we want to make a more genearl
announcement of it? Should we hide 0.42 in Sourceforge?
--Ted
18 years, 3 months
Clip Art Browser
by Jon Phillips
Hello Greg,
I have tested your browser outside of inkscape.
1.) The first time the app loads, there should be all image loaded, or
some kind of random image, or some kind of text that says search for
what you need...basically, users need help.
2.) When dragging in clip art, could it land in Inkscape where it is
dropped? Is this an Inkscape or a Clip Art Browser issue?
3.) Where are the titles for all the clip art?
4.) Could the right pane collapse, or be collapsed at the beginning?
5.) Is there a way to add a light preferences menu, or a button to this.
I wonder if it is wise to put a menu or some kind of icon bar in this
app. I'm leaning towards icon menu rather than a menu because it will be
used inside apps for the most part.
6.) When doing a search, the app goes non-responsive for long periods of
time which is bad IMO.
7.) Could you add some kind of link to the image or to the open clip art
library that says "get more clip art"
8.) When running the Clip Art Browser, Inkscape is blocked and appears
frozen so then it is not possible to do drag and drop...not good! This
should be fixed. The Clip Art Browser should be spawned, the pid
recorded, etc, so that Inkscape controls that process, but so that
Inkscape can continue...
9.) The name of the program, Clip Art Browser needs to be made
consistent throughout the code
10.) You need to make the clip art indexer take an argument as to where
the clipart folder is, and then it needs to also take an argument for
where to install the index.dat it generates...if this arg. is not passed
in, then generate that file in the same dir. as where the script is run.
11.) There should be some kind of information in the GUI as to how many
images are at the apps disposal.
12.) Some kind of browse by category would be nice.
13.) Some kind of browse alphabetically would be nice too... :)
I've attached a Makefile which should go into the main directory for
your app. Now ppl. can do make install and uninstall.
Also, now it will be quite easy to do more testing, as users have a way
to get this in and out of their extensions dir easily.
Should Greg's program be a new project on the main Inkscape page, or
should it be moved into the extensions directory?
Now that I have made a makefile I'm in favor of making it its own
project. Also, it is usable by other apps, so it can be standalone.
Jon
PS: Ted, it would be great to allow for folders inside the extensions
dir to help organize new messes created by extensions with lots of
folders. :)
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18 years, 3 months
Re: Clip Art Browser
by Ted Gould
On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:49 -0400, Greg Steffensen wrote:
> This sounds like a good idea, and requires minimal changes to the
> code. But I'm theoretically working on this for Inkscape, as far as
> Google is concerned. Would a stronger separation from Inkscape be
> tolerable?
I'm not your mentor, nor am I one of the people spearheading SoC, so my
opinion doesn't really matter :) But, IMHO, I think it would be okay.
The goal was the functionality, whether it is implemented as an Inkscape
extension or not is a detail.
--Ted
18 years, 3 months
vacuum defs not working properly
by David Christian Berg
Hey guys,
there still are problems sometimes with vacuum defs and I finally
managed to reproduce it!
I've two files, gnome-fs-network.svg and and gnome-fs-client.svg
attached.
When you import the gnome-fs-client.svg into the gnome-fs-network.svg (I
use drag and drop for this) delete it again and vacuum defs, no defs
will be deleted.
Save the file and close it. When you open it again and do "vacuum defs"
it'll clean up quite a few definitions definitions.
I thought there was a bug filed about this already, but can't find it
right now. Does anybody have any clue, or should I go ahead filing a new
one?
David
18 years, 3 months
Website re-design contest on deviantART!
by Joshua A. Andler
Hey all!
The inkscape deviantART community is holding a contest for a makeover to
the Inkscape website (http://www.inkscape.org). All of the details
(which I will post below as well) can can be found at:
http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/6322909/
---begin dA announcement---
Hey there fellow Inkscapers!
Many of us have seen Inkscape evolve from back in the days of Sodi Podi
into the powerful program that we currently know it as. Unfortunately
the website has not quite followed along at the same pace. ;) Which
brings us to the next official inkscapers contest, a makeover for the
website!
Basics:
*The goal is to show off what inkscape can do when put to use in the
area of Web Design.
*You will need to make a new Header, Footer, and CSS to replace the
existing ones.
*Upload a preview image & 7z/zip/tar file of your submission to your
gallery or scraps on deviantART and post a link below.
Rules:
*All submissions must be standards compliant (XHTML 1.0 Transitional &
CSS) and render the same across all browsers (within reason of course).
*Any images that you create for it need to be done 100% in Inkscape. We
will require any original SVG files to use in case something needs to be
tweaked down the road, and also to allow us to potentially serve up SVGs
for the browsers that support it.
*It must be a very clean and professional design.
*It must include the Inkscape logo in the site header.
*Any submissions using copyrighted materials (unless appropriately
licensed for our use) or offensive/inappropriate content will
automatically be disqualified.
*Have fun!
Deadline:
*September 15, 2005
Prize:
*Having your design be our new look and feel for the website... and of
course credit for your work.
Judging:
*Preliminary judging will be done by the Inkscape community on
deviantART, when we have an official “Top 3”, the judging will then be
turned over to the inkscape developers for final judging. Please note
that when it is turned over to the developers for voting, once they have
chosen the winner, they may have requests for modifications.
Relevant links:
*Inkscape Website – http://www.inkscape.org/ (where you can go and grab
the current source)
*Inkscape downloads page –
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438
Submissions:
*Please upload a preview image & 7z/zip/tar package of your submission
to your gallery or scraps on deviantART and post a link below.
Good luck to all who enter!
---end dA announcement---
-Josh (aka ScislaC on dA)
PS: For those unaware of what deviantART (dA) is, dA is the largest
community art site on the net. To find out more go to
http://www.deviantart.com/
18 years, 3 months
