April 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

svn co not working...
by Andrew Wilson 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

Hello, trying to get a copy of the source vi SVN, as per these instructions: http://www.inkscape.org/svn.php?lang=en Following is output from % /usr/local/bin/svn co https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape ... A inkscape/src/gc-finalized.h A inkscape/src/gradient-chemistry.cpp svn: REPORT request failed on '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/vcc/default' svn: REPORT of '/svnroot/inkscape/!svn/vcc/default': Could not read response body: Secure connection truncated (https://svn.sourceforge.net) --- snip -- Other people have reported problems like this but only when extracting a specific revision of the tree with the '-r' option. Thanks.

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More SOC ideas
by John Taber 19 Apr '06

19 Apr '06

A couple more ideas: 1) 3D stuff 2) Animation - maybe a nice timeline gui

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animation
by Martin Owens 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

would it not make sense if animation was to ever be attempted that inkscape be used as a base and animation features be placed on top? using each key frame as a layer and storing only the changes between each layer should be easy anough to have as an add on. It would be very nice to have within inkscape but I think the projects main aims of being SVG compient come first. -- #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::# #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::#

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[Fwd: SourceForge.net Support: Over-quota notice for project: inkscape]
by Bryce Harrington 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Looks like we're over the 100M quota quite a bit (over 2G). drwxrwsr-x 13 gouldtj 50M inkscape drwxr-sr-x 13 acspike 6.4M inkscape_project drwxrwsr-x 3 gouldtj 12K inkscape_project_old drwxrwxrwx 16 ishmal 96M inkscape_web -rw-rw-r-- 1 kidproto 9.4M inkscape-wiki-2006-01-21.tar.gz drwxrwsr-x 3 bryce 140K lib -rw-r--r-- 1 acspike 2.2M mediawiki-1.5.6.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 acspike 32M oldweb.tar.gz drwxr-sr-x 3 acspike 128M old_wiki drwxrwsr-x 3 bryce 56K share -rw-r--r-- 1 acspike 39M usemod.xml drwxrwsrwx 3 bryce 28K var drwxrwxr-x 16 acspike 1.4G web_extra drwxrwsr-x 4 bryce 300K wiki drwxrwsrwx 6 bryce 89M wiki_db ACSpike and Ted - could you please make sure all of your files in the inkscape directory have group write permissions set? Doxygen and the snapshots seem to be taking up the bulk of the space in web_extra: 80M drwxrwsr-x 2 keescook web_extra/cvs-snap 1.1M drwxrwsr-x 3 nemies web_extra/debs 310M drwxrwxrwx 3 ishmal web_extra/doxygen 224M drwxr-sr-x 2 irisson web_extra/macosx-snap 31M drwxrwsr-x 2 nemies web_extra/osx 42M drwxrwsr-x 3 nemies web_extra/rpms 1.5M drwxrwsr-x 2 bryce web_extra/svg_rendertest_example 84M drwxrwsr-x 2 keescook web_extra/svn-snap 4.0K drwxrwxr-x 2 acspike web_extra/test 9.1M drwxrwsr-x 12 acspike web_extra/wiki 8.7M drwxrwxr-x 12 acspike web_extra/wiki-old 6.4M drwxrwsrwx 2 bryce web_extra/wiki_uploads 442M drwxrwxrwx 2 ishmal web_extra/win32 175M drwxrwsr-x 2 keescook web_extra/win32-snap The inkscape_web repository is at 96M by itself (50% of which is screenshots). I've cleared out what I could, bringing us down to 1.9G. ACSpike and Ted, could you also please spend a few minutes today or tomorrow clearing out what you can as well? After that, I'll post a request for an increased quota - there's _no way_ we will ever be able to fit into only 100M. I'll ask for a couple gigs, but I think we'll be lucky to get one gig. It looks like most of SF's disks are running at 85-90% capacity already. Bryce ----- Forwarded message from noreply@...34... ----- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 07:22:00 -0700 From: noreply@...34... To: buliabyak@...58..., joncruz@...58..., bryce@...58..., mental@...58... Subject: SourceForge.net Support: Over-quota notice for project: inkscape Greetings, This is an automated quota-overage notice. Do not respond to this email, instead follow the instructions below if you have questions or concerns regarding this mailing. You are receiving this message as your SourceForge.net project, inkscape, is currently over its quota in its project group directory located on the SourceForge.net shell server. Your project has a 100000 k soft quota and your project is currently using 2181760 k of disk. This new quota system allows us to track quotas granted to projects. Follow the instructions below to request a quota increase for your project to stop future mailings like this one from being sent to your project. The following command can be run at any time on the project shell server to check your project's disk usage: du -skx /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/ Please take action to reduce your project's disk usage as soon as reasonably possible, but no later than 2006-04-19. For your quick reference, you may access your user home directory using any SSH client: Host: shell.sourceforge.net Home Directory: /home/groups/i/in/inkscape/ Should you have problems accessing your user account, please refer to the site document "Coping with User Account Problems": https://www.sf.net/docs/C02 For further details on the usage and access of the project shell server, refer to the site document "Project Shell, Web and Database Services": https://www.sf.net/docs/E07 If you wish to request an increased quota for your project, or have further questions or concerns regarding this matter, submit a Support Request to the Alexandria project on SourceForge.net. However, please review your project's current disk usage, and prune out unneeded data now, before requesting the increased quota. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=add&group_id=1&atid=200001 Thank you, SourceForge.net Support ----- End forwarded message -----

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Redesigned Inkscape Preferences dialog and release notes
by David Yip 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

Just a quick question: Has the redesigned Inkscape Preferences dialog not yet been written up / given a stub in the release notes for 0.44, or am I just not seeing the writeup? - David

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] [Fwd: Invitation to Participate in Summer of Code 2006]
by Charles Moir 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

> From: bulia byak > Sent: 15 April 2006 02:06 ... > Doing these things via bitmaps may be acceptable as temporary > workarounds (one of which I myself use, see > doc/inkscape-shadow.README), but in the long run we should > really concentrate on doing things the Right Way, which means > the Vector Way. > I know that, for example, Xara can use Photoshop plugins to > process bitmaps, and it's good for eyecandy, but it never > appealed to me because of its lack of genericity and overall > clumsiness. No, Xara does bitmap processing the Right Way, which means all bitmap effects can be applied to vector graphics in a completely transparent way. And that includes Photoshop plug-ins and built-in bitmap effects, and Xara bitmap plug-ins. You can still fully edit your vector graphics and the system automatically, and transparently re-renders the bitmap effects. What's more the effects that can be resolution independent, so they are more like real vector effects - such as shadow, blur, feather etc. (Some Photoshop effects don't allow this because of their API) . And you can apply multiple successive bitmap effects, and have full control over the order, and can edit or delete any effect in the effects stack. All these bitmap effect are applied and updated as you edit the underlying vectors. It took us more than a year to implement all this. Clumsy it is not - it's been described as the best implementation of Live Effects that exists in any vector graphic product out there. As far as I know we're the only package than can apply resolution independent bitmap effects on the fly. (This whole Live Effects system is new in Xara Xtreme and replaced all the old bitmap processing and all the old Photoshop plug-in interface code of Xara X, which is probably what you know Bulia) Checkout the Live Effects tool next time you're near a Xara Xtreme (XaraLX doesn't have this ported yet, but now we've seen native Photoshop plug-ins working on Linux (at the Libre event) it looks as if we should be able to port it all. I believe the source code for all this is now public and GPL, just not ported or got working on XaraLX. Now if you wanted a suggestion for some Google sponsored code that would benefit everyone, it would be a cross-platform open API to allow vector graphics products, such as our two products, to apply bitmap effects transparently to vector graphics. The Photoshop plug-in API is not just closed, it's over-complex, outdated and been superseded by an entirely closed new API from Adobe. This would then allow us to call GIMP effects or ImageMagick effects or any third party effect plug-ins (the Photoshop plug-in system, although now outdated, was hugely successful. There are said to be more than 3000 different Photoshop plug-ins out there.) Adobe has gone the closed, proprietary API for their plug-ins now. There is a gaping hole for a simple bitmap effects plug-in system that would work for both bitmap graphics programs and vector graphics ones. Just my two penny's worth. Charles

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Chase service
by Chase Online Banking 18 Apr '06

18 Apr '06

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export dialog patch
by Osei Poku 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi All, I have attached a patch that uses GtkFileChooserDialog instead of GtkFileSelection when you click browse in the export dialog. I realize after reading the roadmap that the export dialog is due for an upgrade to gtkmm. However, I figured that it wouldn't hurt to have this in anyway until then. Otherwise, thanks for a great piece of software. -- Osei Poku Graduate Student, Dept. of ECE, CMU

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Inkscape Summer of Code 2006 - Mentor signup
by Bryce Harrington 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi all, The next step for us is to get mentors registered. If you are willing to serve as a mentor, please go to the following link to sign up. http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html This lets you specify T-shirt size and other such important info. ;-) Thanks, Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Leslie Hawthorn <lhawthorn@...819...> ----- Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 18:01:06 -0700 From: Leslie Hawthorn <lhawthorn@...819...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> Reply-To: lhawthorn@...819... Subject: Re: Invitation to Participate in Summer of Code 2006 Bryce Harrington wrote: >Hi Leslie, > >My Google account is 'bryceharrington', and we would be honored to >participate in the 2006 Summer of Code. :-) > >Bryce > Hi Bryce, We've enabled your access for the SoC site using bryceharrington@...400... for your Google Account information. Please take a moment to update your personal information and your organization's information at http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html; you can login subsequently at http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_home.html. If you already have project ideas available to publish, that's great; if not, you can update them later. We've left the mentor sign up URL off the main SoC page to discourage spam mentor applications, so please let your fellow mentors know that they can sign up at http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_step1.html. As the organization's administrator, you will need to accept each mentor application and decide which mentors to grant administrator status to. Once your mentors are signed up they can use http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_home.html to interact with student applications once they start to arrive. You'll also be invited to join the Summer Administrators 2006 Google Group; we'll invite your fellow mentors to the group periodically once they sign up with your organization. Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Open Source Program Coordinator Google Inc. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Shorcuts do not work anymore
by Lucas Vieites 17 Apr '06

17 Apr '06

Hi, Last week I saw a few messages regarding the keyboard shortcuts and right now I have done an update from svn and new compilation to find out that the shortcuts no longer work, and they don't appear on the menus either. Does this have anything to do with the latest additions? the shortcuts.xml file or something? Thanks for you help -- ¡No olvide visitar nuestra tienda On-line! <http://www.asixinformatica.com/tienda> =================================================== Lucas Vieites Fariña <lucas@...212...> Web: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/users/lucas/> Blog: <http://www.asixinformatica.com/blog/>

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