September 2005 - Inkscape Devel

Hi all
by Bob Jamison 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

I'm on a temporary sabbatical (refugee from Rita in west Texas). Just wanted to say hi. Hopefully I'll be back to normal in a few days. Bob

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Bugs making it hard to translate tutorials
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

Hi! While i translated the basic tutorial i came across some things. Some are caused by KDE, some might be bugs, some are caused by my german keyboard layout. As there will be customizable keybindings, some problems might dissolve gracefully... :) There should be default keybindings for different keyboardlayouts then. Well, here are the trouble makers: :) - There is no gradient tool if i press ctrl-f1 - the edit menu should contain the Esc key for unselcting all. - alt+klick does not work with kde, its used there. if its possible, id override the kde setting. if not, there should be a second way to do that. Maybe Alt-Gr. (meta?) - i cant use ` or shift- ` ... in fact, i need to press shift to create an ` . Hard to press Shift+` if you need shift to create ` :) so, no zooming with that key! if we will have localized defaults, id recommend our # / ' key or the ä/ö keys for german. - rotate slow with shift+[ ] does not work. i need to use alt-gr+8 or 9 for [ ]. maybe that causes trouble. oh, btw... we could scale in one direction with crtl-alt+numpad... RFE for that? :) hm... and shift to scale in two directions? okay... think that was it... Caliga

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Re: Zeichensatzproblem auf inkscape.org
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

> > Im HTTP-Header wird keine Kodierung mitgeliefert, nur in der > XML-Deklaration. Offenbar haben IE 5.5 und 6.0 damit ihre Probleme. > Mit Firefox und Opera funktioniert es durchaus. Aso... jo, hatte halt schon länger keinen IE mehr am laufen :) > Vielleicht doch mal das auskommentierte meta-Element mit der > zusätzlichen Kodierung mitschicken. Ok, gemacht... Falls es immer noch nicht stimmt, muss man wohl am Apache rumschrauben... Bitte berichten :) Danke für's melden. Caliga

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language abreviation for gettext and tutorials, ...
by Adib Taraben 24 Sep '05

24 Sep '05

The japanese has in the po directory <ja> but in the tutorials <jp> Is there an explanation ? I would like to filter all files depending on one language. All <de> or <fr> or <ja> files. Thx, Adib.

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Re: Zeichensatzproblem auf inkscape.org
by Daniel Stiefelmaier 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Hallo, Thomas! Nein, die Seite ist korrekt kodiert. Normalerweise sollte der Browser automatisch die Kodierung auf UTF-8 einstellen, dann stimmt die Darstellung. Im Quelltext werden die Umlaute natürlich nur mit einem UTF-8 fähigen Editor korrekt angezeigt. Ich bitte zu beachten, dass UTF-8 nichts mit HTML-Entities zu tun hat. (wie & auml; o.ä.) Welchen Browser verwendest du in dem die Seite falsch dargestellt wird? Caliga Thomas Meinike schrieb: > Hallo, > > bitte mal das Zeichensatzproblem auf inkscape.org (deutsche Version) > beseitigen: Die Dokumente sind angeblich UTF-8-kodiert, aber im Inhalt > werden unkodierte Umlaute verwendet. Somit wird der Text fast unlesbar. > > MfG, > Thomas Meinike

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Xara / SVG translator project
by Bryce Harrington 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

Got some good news... Eric Wilhelm, developer of the Uber-Converter and member of the Inkscape community, is being sponsored by Xara to develop a graphics converter to allow Xara and Inkscape users to more easily share documents. Xara's full press release is here: http://www.xara.com/press/pressrelease.asp This tool will benefit both Xara and Inkscape. Xara will gain support for an important graphics file format quickly becoming a standard in the Open Source community. Inkscape will gain a new file converter that will allow Inkscape users to more seamlessly convert to and from Xara. In addition, due to Uber-converter's "hub" architecture, this may enable support for several further file formats. For some background... this effort came about after Charles Moir of Xara and I had some discussions about how Xara could become more involved in the Open Source community and the Inkscape community in particular. Since Xara does not yet support SVG, a xar2svg/svg2xar effort was clearly a logical first step. With Xara providing this code under the GPL, it makes a valuable contribution to the community, too! Anyway, it's great to welcome Xara to the Inkscape community; I hope we'll be able to work together with them even more closely in the future. Bryce

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Effect submission
by unknown＠example.com 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I received a mail form one Carsten Goetze the other day asking how to submit an effect for inclusion in the inkscape distribution. Every time I tried to reply my mail was rejected by the remote server. Carsten, if you read these lists, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to get back to you immediately. Please post your effect to the patch tracker <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604308> and send a mail the the mailing lists to encourage everyone to test your work. Aaron Spike

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menus.xml
by unknown＠example.com 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

So... we're releasing 0.43 with menus.xml, or has it been removed? -mental

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Re: OS X build for inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:40:15PM +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > OS X build* for inkscape > > Bryce, > > someone once built inkscape for OS X, not so long ago. > If that person can provide build instructions, I may be able to make > regular builds, especially whilst inkscape is improving so fast. Great, thanks! Kees, can you point Jonathan towards the build instructions for OSX? Bryce

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Inkscape stats 9/15/05
by Bryce Harrington 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

We're now in feature freeze, and already past half-way towards achieving hard freeze. We've named our release wardens and I'm already hearing some discussions regarding sorting through packaging issues. We've got some work to do to get through the must-fix bugs, but given that we've had a short time since 0.42.2, I think even this will go smoothly. The number to check out this time is the number of feature requests. We dropped the total from 471 a couple months ago to under 450 now, or from a ratio of 62% to under 50%. Quite a jump! Where the project needs help right now is in closing bugs. We have our bug tracker quite well under control, but there are 258 open bugs, and it would be wonderful if we could cut that down significantly before the 0.43 release. If you can code, please check out if you can help close one or two, and help us really drive this number down. :-) Bryce Statistics Jun 1 Jul 1 Aug 1 Sep 1 Sep 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 38 35 3 23 43 Total SF Page Views 1,935,964 3,797,037 4,452,437 4,139,401 4,467,690 Total SF Downloads 254,647 283,789 378,712 448,994 474,659 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 19,149 19,809 21,261 22,422 22,766 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 183 189 208 220 224 Lines of Code in src/: 374,180 376,319 389,945 404,800 544,033 Code lines 260,236 261,600 270,423 279,621 373,738 Comment line 67,136 67,724 70,478 73,904 108,863 Blank 53,443 53,651 55,698 57,937 73,408 Lines of Docs in doc/: 27,790 27,792 28,090 28,121 27,176 Lines of content in website: 42,490 42,700 44,483 44,732 45,246 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 26,729 28,525 34,890 34,847 34,847 Bugs open/total: 215/1223 196/1312 215/1445 250/1555 258/1591 Features open/total: 453/ 728 471/ 767 440/816 466/ 874 448/ 900 Patches open/total: 11/ 230 10/ 268 8/325 6/ 332 9/ 336 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 12,040 12,372 12,915 13,423 13,936 Inkscape-devel membership: 179 188 200 217 217 Inkscape-announce membership: 202 217 236 274 278 Inkscape-user membership: 248 258 276 295 304 Inkscape-tester membership: 23 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 48.6 54.6 54.9 50.2

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