February 2006 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Updated fr.po file, plus some few remarks
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

> matiphas@...8... wrote: > > I've just uploaded an updated fr.po file. > > Only a few strings (for Fret Find) are not yet translated : i will update > them > > as soon as I can find someone able to provide me the necessary explanations > for > > this vocabulary. > > That someone is me. Maybe we should take a shot at changing the strings > a little. Hum, in fact I was meaning the French vocabulary. The issue being this vocabulary is quite specialized (luthiers, string instrument manufacturers...) and I'd like not to commit to many mistakes. It's not a problem : I've already faced this with the typographic (remember, kerning...) vocabulary. And the issues have been solved with the help of some Inkscape developppers a good dictionnary... and some French typographs that have been kind enough to provide some "live explanations". -> I'll have to follow the same process here for this vocabulary. Not really an issue then, looks more like me justifying the fact I've not finished the job yet. > > Just a few remarks : > > - i would suggest that Licenses should be translatable > > Might be a bad idea because the license is a legal type document. Let me precise then : - first a lot of those licenses are translated in some other languages Examples : - the CC licenses are officialy translated, - the GPL is on the process of getting some official translations (not finished yet). - proprietary and public domain are explicit licenses by themselve Other point : let's say I'm a German (or French) artist. I want to specify a licence in the metadata of my creations. Up to now, with Inkscape, I'm stuck with the American licences and they may not cover my needs. This implies the need for a "custom licence" button I think... > > - it may also be a good idea to embed directly in inkscape some > documentation > > about the effects (in a tab linked to each effect dialog?) > > Excellent suggestion. Much needed. Other point : some strings are not translatable at the moment. Even if they are correctly marked in the code (Document properties, Document metadata....) they have not been embedded in the po files. Non exhaustive list : File menu : Document properties, Document metadata, Edit menu : Tile Clones View menu/show-hide : Panels Effects menu : Blur Edge, Enhance Path, Extract One Image, Render The complete Document Properties dialog ... And yet another one : I've decided in French to translate 'Summer's night' by 'Perspective', which is less poetic, but much more explicit. Regards (sorry for the verbose mail), Matiphas

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Config-time ALL_LINGUAS patch
by Jim Osborn 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

I've encountered this feature in a few other packages, and offer it as a humble suggestion. A trivial patch to configure.ac: --- orig/configure.ac Fri Nov 18 23:55:49 2005 +++ configure.ac Wed Feb 1 09:55:31 2006 @@ -74,7 +74,11 @@ AC_SUBST(GETTEXT_PACKAGE) AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(GETTEXT_PACKAGE,"$GETTEXT_PACKAGE",[Translation domain used]) dnl Add the languages which your application supports here. -ALL_LINGUAS="am az be ca cs da de el es es_MX et eu fr ga gl hu it ja mk nb nl nn pa pl pt pt_BR ru sk sl sr sr@...428... sv tr uk zh_CN" +if test "x$ALL_LINGUAS" != "x"; then + ALL_LINGUAS=$ALL_LINGUAS +else + ALL_LINGUAS="am az be ca cs da de el es es_MX et eu fr ga gl hu it ja mk nb nl nn pa pl pt pt_BR ru sk sl sr sr@...428... sv tr uk zh_CN" +fi AM_GLIB_GNU_GETTEXT AC_PATH_PROG(PKG_CONFIG, pkg-config, no)

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new cursors problem
by bulia byak 08 Feb '06

08 Feb '06

The new cursors recently committed by Scislac don't work for me on win2k. They are shown as a white square and a stream of warnings goes on the console like: (inkscape-console.exe:368): Gdk-WARNING **: gdkdrawable-win32.c:1323: LineTo fai led Does anyone know a fix for this? If not, sadly but this patch will have to be backed out. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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icon prerendering debug output
by bulia byak 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Can we PLEASE turn these off already? Haven't the authors collected all the data they needed from it, by now? It's SO annoying. As a general rule, please avoid adding debug output unless you have a genuine purpose of collecting information from all developers and svn users, and even in that case, please don't forget to remove it soon enough. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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connector layout
by Tim Dwyer 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Hi All, I recently added the "rectangle overlap removal" algorithm to inkscape and received so much useful feedback (advice, testing and so on) throughout the process that I'm now quite keen to start another project. The connector stuff that was introduced in 0.43 is a really powerful concept and makes inkscape much more of a "diagramming" tool. Between the connector routing and the overlap removal stuff we have the basics of some nice automatic diagram layout. I'd like to continue this by incorporating some "graph layout" algorithms to adjust the positions of objects at the end of connectors to achieve things like minimal crossing of connectors and to better show coupling and cohesion in the network (graph) defined by the connectors. I'd appreciate any feedback people have on this idea. Also, I'd really like to use the boost 'graph' libraries to get this happening quickly. Boost already has some basic layout algorithms which we can use right away, but I'll also need the underlying graph data-structures and algorithms in boost to implement new algorithms. What are the logistics of adding boost to the inkscape dependency tree? I've noticed similar requests for boost in the inkscape-devel archives... it seems like I'm not the only one who would benefit. Looking forward to your comments, Cheers Tim

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recent commits: purged includes
by Ralf Stephan 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

ello, in the last days, of about 5500 include lines, over 2200 were removed by a simple program that, for every include, tried to compile the source without it. After a first run, problems were identified and handled by removing overgenerous includes from the most important headers. Also, the problem of non-indented ifdefed includes turned up and needed manual intervention. For this reason, it is possible that compilation in some cases barfs because of overzealous removing. Another annoying tidbit is the removal of non-indented includes of config.h. The about two dozen cases will be rewritten the next days and should not affect compilation in most cases. Finally, some includes were removed of the respective header belonging to the source file. This does not affect compilation at all but might annoy some people writing in the source later on. Please bear with the side effects. I firmly believe that they are worth it all. A log file of the removal is available on request. All in all, a 1.5 GHz computer with 2.5" hard disk needed 12 hours full work for it. Thanks for your patience, ralf

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PyXML on MacOSX 10.3
by Manuel Kostka 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

hi i have some trouble getting this to work.. when i want to build setup.py i get the following error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 127, in ? config_h_vars = parse_config_h(open(config_h)) IOError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/include/python2.3/pyconfig.h' i have no idea how to go on from that... am I missing something else? there is no /include-Folder @ ../System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/ and i don't have pyconfig.h in the python2.3 - folder (which is @ ..Versions/2.3/lib/) ..if this info is of any help.. thanks for any help manuel

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Help: Suitable cast to satisfy the below problem.
by Jeremy Teo 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Hello, I'm trying to hack Inkscape 0.4.3 to compile on Solaris 10 x86, with Sun Studio 11. Right now i'm stuck at the following: CC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I/opt/csw/include/freetype2 -I/opt/csw/include -D_REENTRANT -DORBIT2=1 -I/opt/csw/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/opt/csw/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/opt/csw/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/opt/csw/include/libbonobo-2.0 -I/opt/csw/include/gconf/2 -I/opt/csw/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/csw/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/opt/csw/include/orbit-2.0 -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/include/freetype2 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -D_REENTRANT -I/opt/csw/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/opt/csw/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/opt/csw/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/opt/csw/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/opt/csw/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/opt/csw/include/gtk-2.0 -I/opt/csw/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/opt/csw/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/opt/csw/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/opt/csw/include/glib-2.0 -I/opt/csw/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/opt/csw/include/pango-1.0 -I/opt/csw/include/cairo -I/opt/csw/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/opt/csw/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/opt/csw/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/opt/csw/include/atk-1.0 -I/opt/csw/include/libxml2 -I/opt/csw/include -I/opt/csw/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -I/opt/csw/include -g -c -o sp-item.o sp-item.cpp "display/nr-arena-item.h", line 112: Warning: arena hides NRArenaItem::arena. "sp-item.cpp", line 263: Warning: repr hides SPObject::repr. "sp-item.cpp", line 273: Warning: repr hides SPObject::repr. "sp-item.cpp", line 284: Error: Could not find a match for Inkscape::Util::reverse_list<Inkscape::Util::InputIterator>(SPObject*, SPItem*) needed in SPItem::lowerOne(). "sp-item.cpp", line 290: Warning: repr hides SPObject::repr. "sp-item.cpp", line 303: Error: Could not find a match for Inkscape::Util::reverse_list<Inkscape::Util::InputIterator>(SPObject*, SPItem*) needed in SPItem::lowerToBottom(). "sp-item.cpp", line 310: Warning: repr hides SPObject::repr. 2 Error(s) and 5 Warning(s) detected. I suspect I need to correctly cast "reverse_list<SPObject::SiblingIterator>( SP_OBJECT_PARENT(this)->firstChild(), this)," (line 284 of sp-item.cpp) so that it resolves to "reverse_list(InputIterator start, InputIterator end)" in reverse-list.h. Am I right about this? If so, could someone enlighten me on how to cast it correctly? (I'm no C++ expert). Many thanks in advance. :) -- Regards, Jeremy

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SCALE Booth
by Ted Gould 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Okay, we have a booth, now what do we want to do with it? First off, who's coming? I've got me, John Taber and Jon Cruz. Jon Phillips? Bryce, I know how you love LAX! Josh, I know how much a Southwest flight from Phoenix is, come for a day! I was wondering if we couldn't do something like "mini-tutorials" at the booth. The idea would be that they would be like 5 minutes, people standing, and cover just a single feature of Inkscape. Then, we could make a flier covering that same feature -- which would give us interesting give aways for the rest of the time. If we did one each hour, we'd need roughly 16 of them. We could make a schedule, it might generate traffic. What do people think? Maybe the same 8 twice (two day conference)? I was also thinking that we need some artwork, perhaps the About screens? They say Inkscape on them, yet still show off features? Brainstorming people, argue, attack, kill my ideas! Go! :) --Ted

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SCALE Fliers
by Ted Gould 06 Feb '06

06 Feb '06

Back to what I was trying to do... I made up some fliers for handouts/mini-tutorials at the Inkscape booth. I've got four of them. They are at: http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/inkscape/inkscape_marketing/trunk/fli… I would love it if people could look at them, suggest improvements, or even write some of their own if they're so inclined. Thanks, Ted

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