February 2006 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Tangofied inkscape icon
by Andreas Nilsson 14 May '06

14 May '06

Hello everyone! Hope this is the right place to send this stuff. Here is a tangofied Inkscape-icon in the sizes scalable, 22 and 16. Been on my harddrive for quite a while now, but I figure you might have use for it. http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/temp/inkscape-icon.tar.gz - Andreas

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WEBFORM live bookmarks / rss
by pbhj 10 May '06

10 May '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: pbhj email: inkscape@...1029...%0Acc:pbhj@...19... submitted the following: RSS feed, great! No <link> in page header makes it v.hard for Firefox users to add a livemark though. <link rel=\"alternate\" type=\"application/rss+xml\" title=\"inkscape news\" href=\"/inkscape.rss\" /> Cheers pbhj

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Visual feedback while snapping
by Mathieu Dimanche 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi everyone Since it's my first attempt at trying to make things improve in a software, using cvs, and trying to understand a whole project (and written in c++... sometimes), please don't be too harsh on me and on my english level, I'm just a little frenchy :) Very used to illustrator, I miss some little things that make life easier, like moreeffective snapping. So I tried to understand the whole object tree, reading both the doxygen and the code (...when there were comments) and finally managed to have a patch made. The functionnality is a pretty little one, I just made guides highlight when moved objects snap against them. For now, this only works for dragged objects and rectangles being drawed. I post this for anyone to check if I do right, naming functions, indenting, thinking the whole problem, so please, feel free to over-comment my "work", for me to know if I can go on with these kind of updates. This is the first patch of my life, I hope I've made it well. Could you test that ? Next things I could look at could be : - Snapping modes (enable/disable) Bounding box and dots snapping. I thik it could be great too temporarily disable bounding box snapping, just to make sure only dots do it. - Providing visual feedback of which of these is used now (you grab a rectangle, its bounding box snaps a guide, the guide turns red (default highlight color), and a little text appears along the guide saying (snapping to boungbox). If you drag farther, the boundingbox will stop snapping and it's the corner dot that will do, so the text'll be "dot snapping" or something like this... maybe snapped dots could be highlited too - Making grid lines highlight when snapped, just like guides (it was much easier for guides since they are separate objects and the color/hicolor alread existed) - Trying to make more snapping objects... maybe angled guides, objects themselves, middle of objects, etc... all these could be mode enabled/disabled. What do people think ? What feature would you like most ?

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Patch: Undo History dialog
by Gustav Broberg 12 Apr '06

12 Apr '06

Hi, I have recently uploaded a patch[1] which provides an undo history dialog. It is similar to those found in e.g. GIMP[2] and Photoshop[3] (I don't know if it's in Illustrator, CorelDRAW, etc). To get an idea what it looks like without having to apply the patch, here's a screencast (in flash, sorry ;) showing it in action: http://www.csc.kth.se/~broberg/undo-history.html First of all, I'm not sure if this is a requested addition to Inkscape -- I can't recall any discussion about it on the list and I didn't find anything in the wiki. Personally, however, I do find it useful (at least occasionally), so I went ahead and implemented it. Secondly (if it's found to be of value), this patch could use some rather heavy reviewing. It's my first patch and I'm not confident enough with the code base to feel sure about what the "right" solutions are. Here are some additional concerns: * To get the type of an event I rely entirely on the current event context. This obviously not (always) a correct assumption. An example of this problem: setting an object's color while the node tool is the current context. * In order to populate the tree with icons I added a help function to widget/icon.cpp to get the internal Pixbuf of an icon. This could be solved in much a better way when the gktmmified stock icon system is in place, but for now, this was easiest way for me to solve it. * There are bugs lurking which I have not been able to reproduce. Some seem to be the result of problems with undoing of certain types of events; i.e. the bugs are in the current code. I'm looking into this... For now, here is at least one I managed to nail down and put in the tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1423038&group_id=9… 1. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1423034&group_id=9…) 2. http://docs.gimp.org/images/dialogs/dialogs-undo-history.png 3. http://homepage.cs.uri.edu/tutorials/PhotoshopEl/Help/images/wa_11.gif -- Gustav Broberg

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Wiki unusable
by Ralf Stephan 15 Mar '06

15 Mar '06

Hello, the Wiki is unusable atm, 30 sec for one page! Can someone please have a look at this? ralf

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web-site
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Mar '06

10 Mar '06

Greetings, Just for my inappropriate curoiusity :) What happened to proposed facelift of www.inkscape.org? Alexandre

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Save as XCF with layers
by Aaron Spike 02 Mar '06

02 Mar '06

I know this has been mentioned before. Some people think it would be handy to save an SVG file from Inkscape as an XCF maintaining layers. I was going to have together a quick output extension in python and an accompanying script-fu for the gimp to make this happen, but I don't think we have the appropriate export options. It would be really fun to have a single command to export all the layers at once to something like filename-0001-layername.png, but I don't know how widely applicable that would be. According to the man page, --export-id forces the object's bbox for --export-area. I think this makes what I want to do impossible. I would suggest we make canvas size ALWAYS default and add an --export-bbox option. This would mean more typing for the people who already use this functionality, but it would IMHO make more sense overall. Aaron Spike

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win32 build note
by Bob Jamison 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

Hi, guys. Those of you building on win32 will probably need to do a make clean ; make . I applied Peter's patch to Potrace 1.7, and it changes the size of a struct in curve.h, which apparently Makedep misses. bob

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Panel rework direction mockup
by Jon A. Cruz 28 Feb '06

28 Feb '06

I've been able to get more progress on the dockable stuff, and generic previews. That's the underlying code that's supporting the color palettes in the main UI. Hopefully we can get things tuned up to improve it to the point were it can be used for many things other than just the color swatches. I've done a quick mockup of where things might be going: notice what's down there next to the color swatches.

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