September 2005 - Inkscape Devel

Re: New Inkscape Goals?
by Alan Horkan 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

> vector transforaitons need to be added to prove inkscape is the best > illustraion package in the world ( it already is but these features are > a must ) Please don't say things like that or I'll insist you prove it... ... and smack you with a great big fish because talk like that is feeding the trolls and asking for trouble. Bad, bad, bad. We look ignorant if we do not know the flaws in Inkscape and if you make grandiose claims like that you can be damned sure there will be no shortage of people willing to point them out. Pride comes before a fall. Don't make the users angry, you wont like them when they are angry. Don't underestimate the importance of a vibrant community and good word of mouth. I have seen other projects go sour and developers discouraged from working on the software because of constant criticism brought on by unrealistic claims. Careless talk has consequences, better to undersell inkscape and let the program speak for itself. - Alan

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What is proper transform/scaling behavior?
by Eric Jonas 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Thanks again for Inkscape, it really rocks. Does anyone know what the proper behavior is for scaling objects via transform attributes? Is the stroke supposed to be scaled or not? I figured there would be just one answer, but the svg-rendering programs are all over the map here: http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/anisotropy/ I ran into this when looking at the PS & PDF output of both Inkscape and Batik; at first it appeared to be caused by people assuming SVG's transformation matrices worked the same way as ps, but then I can't quite figure out what the hell the Adobe SVG viewer is doing... So I'm curious to know what the Right behavior is, or if this is an ambiguous region in the standard... Thanks again, inkscape is amazing... ...Eric

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win32 installer snapshot available
by Adib Taraben 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hello all, I published my current version of the win32 installer on the sourceforge pages. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=9911… Also I published some screenshots how it looks like on my webspace http://www.geocities.com/theAdib/ Look at the installer 0.43 (1) ... (4) I would like to get some feedback on the modularisation/options before commiting this code to the CVS. In this snapshot I packaged only English, german, french, spain, japanese. The installer is available in english and german. To see what functionality has been added pls have a look at http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Win32_Installer Bryce, I dont know how to create a new 'product' but 'Snapshot' was already there. So I used this. Thx, Adib. ---

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RSS feed broken after the new news publishing system
by Nicu Buculei 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

It looks like the RSS feed (http://inkscape.org/inkscape.rss) is broken again after the new (translation aware) news publishing system was introduced (http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WebsiteEditing) -- nicu

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problem with dialogs
by Arpad Biro 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi, There's a dialog-related problem with current CVS. To reproduce it: 1. "File/Input Devices" -- for me it says "No extended input device", and I get two buttons: "Save" and "Close" -- 2. press the "Close" button (the one in the dialog - not the one provided by the window manager) 3. "File/Inkscape Prefs" 4. close the prefs dialog --the "Input" dialog shows up again-- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Status bar help texts visibility
by Lucas Vieites 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Hi, last June there was a thread in this list regarding the visibility of the status bar texts. Sometimes the text string is too long to be seen completely, especially on smaller screens. Has there been any more discussion on this issue? Should I file an RFE. I also made a mockup of a possible solution to this problem; a kind of "frame" that can be toggled visible/invisible when necessary by clicking a button or using a keyboard shortcut. (see: http://www.asixinformatica.com/archivos/inkscape_tooltip_mockup.png) Greetings, -- Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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Re: Message from Inkscape submission form
by Bryce Harrington 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

We like the flags, Joe, but I'll forward your comments along. Bryce On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:32:38PM +0200, Joe Desbonnet wrote: > name: Joe Desbonnet > email: joe@...1008... > > > > submitted the following: > > Flags are generally considered a bad choice of symbol to represent a language, because as you know flags represent countries, but languages often (mostly!) don\'t respect political boundaries. > > > However there is one thing worse than a flag: that\'s two or three flags mixed into one. For example you have a mixture of the Union Jack and US flag for English. I don\'t mind the Union Jack representing English, because they invented the language, but when you mix in the US flag it says \"we are politically correct, so we went to a lot of effort not to offend by adding in all the countries that speak this language\". But that creates more offence when you leave a country out. Hint: many more countries outside of US/UK speak English as a first language. > > > > > Joe. > > >

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[nicu@...398...: Message from Inkscape submission form]
by Bryce Harrington 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

----- Forwarded message from Nicu <nicu@...398...> ----- Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 14:56:06 +0200 From: Nicu <nicu@...398...> To: bryce@...260... Reply-To: nicu@...398... Subject: Message from Inkscape submission form name: Nicu email: nicu@...398... submitted the following: I think it would be better for messages posted using this form (http://www.stiefelweb.de/_other/inkscape/submit2webmaster.php) to be sent to the entire devel mailing list, as *a lot* of other people have write access and work on the website. Also, one would know when (and what) someone else has replied. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Inkscape Website Re-design Contest - Submissions
by Joshua A. Andler 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Developers, Well, there were a total of 3 entries for the website re-design contest. They are as follows: http://ciberirmandade.org/gatonegro/var/inkweb/ http://gri3fon.95mb.com/scappy/ http://www.deviantart.com/view/22467478/ I figured we could forgo a community vote given the already limited number of selections. Please review each of these and only concentrate on the visual (and usability) aspects at the moment. We can have whomever the winner is (if we decide to use one of the new designs) put more time into it after the fact. My guess is we should vote on a first choice since the selection is so limited. -Josh

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Re: Using Inkscape
by Gavin Band 27 Sep '05

27 Sep '05

Thank you - the new minimum zoom works very well. gav.

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