April 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

layer manager
by Daniel Genrich 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello! I only wanted to ask if there is more code than this ~50 lines in SVN for layer-manager.cpp since i wanted to code on the layer manager. Greetings. Genscher

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./configure fails on Mac OS X 10.4.6
by Andrew Wilson 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

As of today, ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_HERE On Mac OS X 10.4.6 reports: --- snip --- checking for pkg-config... /sw/bin/pkg-config checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape --- snip - no more lines of output from configure --- This is for a fresh FINK install as per: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX ./configure ends without reporting a summary. I'm trying 'make' now but I'm not sure if it's proceeding with a previous 'good' configuration or a partialy written 'bad' one...

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[Fwd: [CREATE] Announcing next year's Libre Graphics Meeting]
by Bryce Harrington 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

Hi all, The decision for next year's Libre Graphics Meeting has been finalized for Montreal in 2007. Of course, it's still a year away, but I'd like to encourage everyone to think about making plans to attend. We had a *great* time this year in Europe, and it was a good opportunity to share notes with all the other graphic app developers. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from David Neary <dneary@...8...> ----- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 21:54:10 +0200 From: David Neary <dneary@...8...> To: create@...330... Subject: [CREATE] Announcing next year's Libre Graphics Meeting Hi all, So, dates have come and gone, propositions were received, and Louis Desjardin's proposal to have Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 in Montreal has received unanimous support. So there you have it - next year's LGM will be in Canada. Thanks to Louis for taking this on, I had a great time organising the first one, along with everyone else who helped, and I look forward to seeing you all next year. Louis, take it away! Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary bolsh@...85... Lyon, France _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@...626... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create ----- End forwarded message -----

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windows builds broken
by bulia byak 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

The recent builds at http://mrchapp2.homelinux.net/~inkscape/ crash on startup. I'm not sure whom personally to contact about it, but this needs to be fixed ASAP, as it's linked from our download page. I tried other people's builds today and they work fine, so it's something with the build environment. This bug: http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1472859 suggests that all that is needed is make clean. Please, can we do a make clean always on these autobuilds, or at least once a day? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 0.44 release planning
by Bryce Harrington 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 01:15:57PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Another thing I'm wondering about is how much bug fixing work will be > needed. For 0.43 I think we actually spent _too_ much time in bug fix > mode, to the point that it almost burnt out a few people (which may be > the cause for the long period between releases). Yet at the same time, > much development has gone on, and we may have a lot of defects to > eliminate. We'll have to find a fair balance there... Hmm, actually it looks like the bug tracker is in quite good shape. In November last year, around the time of the 0.43 release, we had around 250-300 bugs (out of 1736 total), and today we're at 339 (out of 2068). Looks like Bulia and others have been doing well keeping on top of the tracker. That puts us in a good spot going into the release. :-) How do people feel about the overall robustness of inkscape presently? I assume there are still some issues in recently implemented features, but beyond that do you feel there is a lot of stabilization work needed, or just a little? Bryce

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Moved file: src/object-ui.cpp, src/object-ui.h moved to src/ui/context-menu.cpp, src/ui/context-menu.h
by Joshua Blocher 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

2006-04-23 verbalshadow <verbalshadow@...400...> * src/object-ui.cpp, src/object-ui.h: moved to src/ui/context-menu.cpp, src/ui/context-menu.h to make it easier to find This may require you to ./autogen.sh $ ./configure again. I had to on my system. verbalshadow Joshua L. Blocher

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Re: [Inkscape-tester] manual kerning
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Apr '06

24 Apr '06

On 4/24/06, Aaron and Sarah Spike wrote: > Alexandre Prokoudine wrote: > > 2. Draw a rectangular frame > > I think drawing a rectangle frame create "flow text", which you can't > kern. Try just a simple click instead of a click and drag. Oops, I didn't know about this limitation. Thank you for pointing it out, Aaron. Alexandre

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Example
by Jesus Jerez 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

Hello I do not speak English, so they excuse me :) I made a proposal for the logo of the project of the reproducer xmms2, this is wiki: http://wiki.xmms2.xmms.se/index.php/Logo to much people it has liked. the archives are under the GPL:) I used inkscape 0,43 under gnu/linux gentoo, gnome 2.12 Download: http://jhuss.com/xmms2.tar.gz (png & svg) it sent this thinking about that they like, and are an example but of which is possible to be done with inkscape. it animates to me to send this when I read the FAQ http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#Contributing_to_Inkscape I adore inkscape. success with the project!

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0.44 status
by bulia byak 23 Apr '06

23 Apr '06

In preparation for 0.44, I'd like to share what I know about the status of various developments, as well as ask people to submit their updates. Ideally I'd like to see EVERY developer to respond to this email with their status updates. But first, some food for thought. Judging by SF statistics, 0.43 is the first Inkscape version where we failed to double the number of downloads. Up to 0.42, the approximate doubling rule held (if we count 0.42 and 0.42.2 as one version), but 0.43 got only a bit more downloads than 0.42: 347000 vs . 300000, even though this release was longer. May be a stats glitch, but may be an indication that 0.44 needs to be marketed more aggressively. Here are the items I'm aware of, in no particular order: 1. Snapping. I sent a call for Carl and Mathieu some time ago but got no response. Even if we leave this in its current status, we must do at least two things: fix the freezing when dragging multiple selected objects (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&group_id=9…) and write the release notes for the new stuff. In the absense of the main authors, help is welcome from anyone who has an idea of the changes since the last release (Ralf?). 2. Andrius has a very interesting rendering speedup patch. It can't be committed yet since it has a problem with scrolling, but the author says he can fix this. In that case it definitely should be in 0.44, even though it's a bit risky. But we have time to test it still. 3. Scislac has taken on collecting/making screenshots and updating the tutorials. I don't know of the current status of this. 4. Layer dialog: Mental has promised to commit it before the release. Looks like it's the biggest remaining feature item, and its completion will determine the date of the release. Any status update will therefore be especially appreciated. 5. Jon Cruz seems to be in the middle of a hacking bout, but again I don't know exactly what's done and what is planned. Filling out the release notes would help a lot. Jon, please do it NOW. 6. Aaron has finalized quite a number of useful features, the remaining one being the "crop canvas" thing which just needs to be hooked up. After that (I think) he was going to work on the path effects branch - which means he will, at least, have something to hack on while we all will be painfully frozen :) 7. I need to do one interface tweak in Calligraphic (requested by Mental) and maybe one other small thing. Both pretty small. 8. Richard (cyreve), can you please fill in the Release Notes on the bugfixes you did to the Windows font handling? 9. Last I tested, extensions still don't work on Windows for lack of PyXML. It would be a pity to not enable them because of this. Ishmal, can you look into it? 10. Bob (ishmal), what is the status of the SIOX tracing and ODG export, as well as DOM? Will any of them be usable for 0.44? 11. One small but useful thing that seems to be almost there is help text for extensions, to be shown on extension params dialogs. Ted, what is the status of this? 12. On Jabber, someone called "deadchip" started work on text dialog and toolbar and even showed some code. If you are reading us, can you please say hi and give us an update/estimate? This is a very important missing piece in Inkscape UI. 13. Does anyone know the status of the Windows "dialogs on top" patch for GTK? Scislac, as you contacted the author, can you please write him again? Not exactly our problem, but would be nice to have it finally fixed. 14. Bugs to be fixed: apart from the drag freezing in snapper, I know of some weird tablet event bugs that Mental is debugging. Anyone willing to nominate bugs for mustfix status please follow up. Anyone having something to add to this list is very welcome. Also of interest is this old mail of mine: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=13934323 Some things listed there are done, some are as far ahead as they were then. But overall, we made good progress. Lastly and MOST IMPORTANTLY, we need to designate one or two release maintainers willing to keep and update this list and push people to fulfill their obligations. The release time is the time when anarchy is suspended and a dictatorship is temporarily installed. The maintainers need to be aggressive and tireless: send daily reminders, make noise on jabber, urge and ask and plead and beg to get things done. Every item in this list needs to be followed up until it's resolved somehow, and every new issue that emerges needs to be added to this list. That is the only way to get the release out of the door fast and to avoid the endless and meaningless freeze that so frustrated us last time. (as you might guess, I can't be a maintainer this time - too much work lately...) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape communication
by cedric GEMY 22 Apr '06

22 Apr '06

I kow this is not the most important stuff, but browsing the helpWanted section of the wiki i've seen that there was a project or a wish of project about Inkscape communication. Where are you with that ? Cedric

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