September 2005 - Inkscape Devel

Translated website
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hi Guys! :) I talked to bbyak and he told me, to ask here if it is possible to have a localized version of www.inkscape.org, like www.inkscape.org/de/ I guess, the the News are stored separatedly, so a translated page could use the original messages until they are translated, too. Maybe one of the spanish users (must be some of them :) ) is willing to translate the website, too, so it's worth the effort. :) I made a concept of how a the translated website could look like. It's here: http://inkscape.org/doc/basic/tutorial-basic.de.html Greets, Daniel

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Inkscape crashes on "Object - Transform" with "QT" theme on kde
by unknown＠example.com 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello, I set my kde to theme all gtk2 apps with its own theme which is baghira. If I run inkscape under this setup and go to Object - Transform inkscape crashes with this QPixmap: Invalid pixmap parameters QPainter::begin: Cannot paint null pixmap QPainter::setPen: Will be reset by begin() QPainter::setBrush: Will be reset by begin() Emergency save activated! Emergency save completed. Inkscape will close now. If you can reproduce this crash, please file a bug at www.inkscape.org<http://www.inkscape.org> with a detailed description of the steps leading to the crash, so we can fix it. Segmentation fault So it is the fault of my themes and such and maybe being too cutting edge but I also figured out a fix for it I put this into ~/.inkscape.theme "include "/usr/share/themes/Mist/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" style "user-font" { font_name="Arial 12" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" gtk-theme-name="Mist" gtk-font-name="Arial 12" and then run inkscape like this GTK2_RC_FILES=~/.inkscape.theme /usr/bin/inkscape So inkscape uses the Mist theme and everything works fine!

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Deleting a node with Ctrl+Alt+click
by Jean-Francois Lemaire 11 Sep '05

11 Sep '05

Hello, I've just noticed that one can delete a node from a path with the node tool by Ctrl+Alt+clicking it. This is so useful I'm surprised I don't see this mentioned in the Release Notes for 0.43. Was this already working before the /extremely useful/ recent additions to node editing? Also, I don't understand this, also in the Release Notes: "As in Selector, if you press Shift before starting to drag, you always get a node selection rubberband rectangle (even if you start on a path [but not a node!])." P.S. If double-click creates a new node, shouldn't double-clicking a node delete it? -- Jean-François Lemaire

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inkscape-tester mailing list subscription ....
by inkblotter 10 Sep '05

10 Sep '05

... takes you to inkscape-cvs list subscription instead. The other subscriptions all seem to work correctly.

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Proposal for a spanish inkscape-user-es list
by Bryce Harrington 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

There's been a proposal to create a new list for Spanish speakers. Does anyone have any comment on this before I set it up? Also, I'm thinking that for language-specific user lists we should require at least 3 people pledged to using the list before we set it up. Does that sound okay? Bryce On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 05:36:20PM +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote: > Silvana Marques wrote: > > > >I don't speak spanish but I can understand it a little. My name is > >Silvana > >and I live in S?o Paulo, Brazil. I'm interested in joining a > >spanish-wrote > >Inkscape list. > > then I guess the best thing to do is for some of the project admins > (Bryce?) to create a new list at sourceforge, named inkscape-user-es.

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Updated win32 gtkmm libs
by Bob Jamison 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Gtkmm.org announced their 2.8 release today. Since this one includes a bugfix for exporting Gtk::TreeViewColumn that we need, I built Glibmm and Gtkmm for our win32 bundle. It also includes the recent updates to Cairo 1.0 and Gtk2.8.3. It is here: http://inkscape.org/win32/gtk28-050908.7z This win32 build was made with it, if anyone would like to test it: http://inkscape.org/win32/Inkscape0509081439.zip Win32 builders probably would want to keep their older copy of the library bundle until they know that the newer one works. Bob

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cvs web link broken
by Ralf Stephan 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

Hi, the "CVS" link from the inkscape SF link bar is broken, as of now, it gives an empty page: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=93438 while the pages that should be linked to themselves are still there: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/ ralf

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About Box
by Kees Cook 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

I've implemented a gtkmm'd replacement for the About dialog, which includes the now-standard "License" and "Credits" dialogs, a-la Gnome. The "Credits" dialog includes all the authors and translators (it's easy to add a "documenters" tab too). Right now, the license and people lists are hard-coded in src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp, but I'd like it to load from "COPYING", "AUTHORS", and (the new) "TRANSLATORS" files instead. That'll come next. :) To make the TRANSLATORS file, I made a quick dump of all the translators I could find in the po/*.po files. Arpad, is this a "correct" list? I did a quick sort on it by first name, since I just wanted to get something in there. There are strange width issues with the gtkmm'ified canvas view. I'm sort of just working around it at the moment. Hopefully this can get straightened out as we move more stuff to gtkmm. Also, can someone more familiar with memory allocation in gtkmm look over my code and let me know if I did anything silly with pointers/allocation? (Oh, and I disabled the "show license" verb since that's now part of the new about dialog.) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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First commit of DOM source
by Bob Jamison 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

This morning I committed most of the DOM source to src/dom. I spent the rest of the morning removing warnings, and getting the compile to work nicely on win32. I will add the Makefile_insert when I get a chance. Until it is hooked up to the autotool tree, it should not hurt anyone's build. I included the .idl's, so that people can see how the main .h's try to follow the w3c specs. Now that it is committed, its glaring unfinished-ness will coerce me to work on it until it is done. :-) Bob

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Pen shortcut, xywh precision
by bulia byak 08 Sep '05

08 Sep '05

There are two RFEs that I want to do something about but not before I hear people's opinions: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1167787&group_id=9… I agree that Pen deservers a better F-key shortcut than Shift+F6. But I also need the freehand drawing (F6) very often and don't want to demote it. Any ideas? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1165049&group_id=9… Are there others who would like to see 0.001 precision in X/Y/W/H, or is this a too specialized need? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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