May 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Google SoC
by Ted Gould 06 May '06

06 May '06

Hey all, If your a mentor you really should go to: http://code.google.com/soc/inkscape/open.html and comment on the proposals that are there. Also, there aren't that many proposals for Inkscape submitted... I was hoping for more. I realize it isn't the weekend yet (we are talking about college students :) but remember the earlier you get it in, mentors can provide feedback about the proposal. Remember the Google people have to decide to fund it also, so we want to make the proposals good. --Ted

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Inkscape 0.44 Status
by Bryce Harrington 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi All, Here is the current status list. 7 of the 24 items are done or on hold. In order to make feature freeze by May 15th, we should try to increase this number... Jon, Mental, and Bob, you each have 3 or more items open - could you identify which ones are the priorities, and specify one or two that could be left for the next release? Bryce Current Feature Work ICC Preview =========== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes CMYK support ============ Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes ArtLibre named icon and cursor loading ====================================== Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes Palette editing and per-file color sets ======================================= Jon Cruz is working on this. Plans to have feature to a finished point for the release. * Update Release Notes Tablet Bugs =========== MentalGuy is working on this. Says for the release he wants to get these resolved. Something drops tablet motion events on the floor while the button is held down. This occurs for some tools, but not with others. The bugs are quite annoying but weird. They don't affect all tablet users. 4/29 - Still underway Brush size adjustment on zoom toggle for calligraphic pen - DONE ========================================================= MentalGuy is working on this and plans to have it to a finished point for the release. 5/1 - Mental reports this has been completed Layer dialog ============ This is an important feature for the release, and on MentalGuy's todo list. However, work has been stuck getting Inkscape::LayerManager to compile due to a subtle detail with sigc::mem_fun(), and it's uncertain if there is sufficient time to unstick it and finish the feature prior to the release. Additional people's help may be needed here. [Beyond the memory issue, are there other aspects to the layer dialog that others could help with, such as UI work or coding helper features or whatever? --bh] * Update Release Notes 4/29 - Still under way Fit Canvas to Selection - DONE ======================= This is a feature ACSpike has been working on, and plans to complete for the release. The patch is here: http://www.ekips.org/comp/inkscape/inx/current.diff ODG Format Support ================== Ishmal is working on this currently. Help is needed from someone who knows inkscape gradients, such as mental or bulia. He needs to know how to read gradient info from an SPGradient object. DOM Support =========== Ishmal has been working on this. The newest code is all imported and builds. [Is there anything else needing to be done prior to release?] SIOX Support ============ Ishmal has this over half done. The code is all imported and building, and the selection mechanism is now done. Getting Inkscape and SIOX intercommunication working, but this can be built as a filter to potrace, which simplifies things. The transformation issues reported previously have been sorted out, using a "confidence matrix". Extensions ========== Ted is focusing on cleaning up extension parameters and felt he'd have this wrapped up by the end of the month. The plan is to have longer text (tool tips) available, and a few more widgets. More spacing in the autogui will be added to make it look nicer. * Ted reports there is an unverified bug in the ordering of the effects in the menu, to be investigated. The Extension Editor is further off, and not being planned for this release. 5/1 - Ted reports the feature is not yet working, but feels it shouldn't be a problem to get it fixed in the next couple weeks. Snapping ======== Ralf is coming up to speed on this issue. Hopefully Carl can also shed light on things. On 4/26 Carl said he hopes to have a look at it over the coming week. * Need to fix the freeze when dragging multiple selected objects: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1429049&group_id=9… * Update Release Notes Rendering Performance Speedup - DONE ============================= Andrius has a very interesting rendering speedup patch. The feature is complete and accepted for the release. There is one known issue to address with scrolling, but Andrius feels this can be fixed. 4/30 - Andrius reports this is now done, and no other issues are known. Screenshots =========== Scislac has taken this task on, and plans to have it done for the release. Two screenshots are done currently, and one more is in the works. There will be a call for more screenshots on the Deviant Art site. Tutorials ========= Calligraphy is mostly done, and a few of the other updates to the other tutorials have been drafted but that stuff definitely needs more work. Should be possible to have them done by the end of April. Man page should be current. Bulia will update keys.xml shortly. Note: The sooner these can be finalized, the sooner translators can get going on them. 5/1 - ScislaC says a lot of progress was made over the weekend, but has run into some errors regenerating the svgs & html Calligraphic interface tweak - DONE ============================ Bulia is working on this change requested by MentalGuy, and feels they are minor and should have no trouble completing for the release. Windows font handling bugfixes - DONE ============================== Richard (cyreve) has completed these bug fixes and updated the release notes. * Update ReleaseNotes Python Extensions on Windows ============================ !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!! Bulia reports that extensions that rely on PyXML still do not work on Windows. Due to the number of python extensions, this would be a major missing feature for Windows users. Text/Fonts UI ============= deadchip (aka Milosz Derezynski <internalerror at gmail dot com>) has written a font lister Gtkmm class, to enable re-use of the font list. He is planning to write a font picker dialog, and rewrite the current font picker to use the font _listing_ class. This enables using normal Gtk components (ListStore, etc.) for accessing the font info. He plans to have this work done by May 1st, or May 15th at the latest. Windows "dialogs on top" Patch for GTK ====================================== !!! No owner has been identified for this task !!! This is not exactly an Inkscape-specific problem, since the code changes wouldn't be to Inkscape, but it would be nice to have it finally fixed. This 0.44 release effort may be a good vehicle to tie it to, but we won't hold up the release if it doesn't get done. Scislac had contacted the author previously. * Send a reminder email to the author to find status on this Undo/Redo Dialog - HOLD ================ Gustav Broberg (broberg at kth dot se) is planning to try to get the changes Mental suggested prior to the Feature Freeze. We have a patch for this. Also needed is undo annotations. 4/30 - Gustav reports that due to more changes required than expected, this feature will be postponed until the next release. New File Chooser in Export - DONE ========================== We have a patch for this, but there were some thoughts of embedding it in the export dialog directly. In the spirit of "patch first, discuss later", the best approach may be to stick in the current patch for 0.44, see what folks think, and do the embedding later. Test Harness ============ Bryce is working on getting 'make test' working in the test harness. He plans to have this working by the feature freeze date. Additional Release Tasks ======================== The following tasks will need to be done for the release, but are not required to be done prior to the Feature Freeze: * Identify the list of must-fix bugs. To keep the freeze phase from dragging out, we will need to be very choosy in what we allow to be must-fix bugs. * Set up a ReleaseChecklist wiki page or similar to keep track of The List. * Designate 2 release maintainers. * Keep and update the above list and encourage people to achieve completion of the items. * Notify translators to complete translation work * Wiki updates + Update Roadmap + Review/Update FAQ + Update InkscapeFeatures * PR / marketing efforts + Plan efforts + Draft press release + Finalize press release + Send out press release [rejon] + DeviantArt PR [ScislaC] * Packaging

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Flash Export
by unknown＠example.com 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hello everyone. I've been playing with Inkscape for a while now, keep up the good work. I am interested in Flash export functionality for Inkscape. Are any developers working on this? I would be interested in helping out. Brian

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Warning in /extension/patheffect.cpp
by Ben Fowler 05 May '06

05 May '06

Around line 50: 42 Inkscape::XML::Node * defs; 43 44 for (int i = 0; patheffects[i] != NULL && i < 128; i++) { 45 gchar * patheffect = patheffects[i]; 46 47 // This is weird, they should all be references... but anyway 48 if (patheffect[0] != '#') continue; 49 50 Inkscape::XML::Node * prefs = sp_repr_lookup_child(defs, "id", &(patheffect[1])); 51 if (prefs == NULL) { 52 53 continue; 54 } I get a warning about use of uninitialised variable 'defs', and I guess I didn't have my shredded wheat today, because I can't seem to work out whether this warning counts for anything. Should defs be initialised to NULL? Ben

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Last call for feedback on my SoC proposal
by Justin Wikinator 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear respected Inkscape developers: I am extremely interested in gaining a position with the Summer of Code with Inkscape, and I am doing everything in my power to be successful in doing so. With this in mind, I hope you will take a look at my proposal for improving the Python effects libraries and give me some feedback before I submit the link to it to Google on May 8th. My proposal resides here on the wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ImprovingPythonEffectsAPI. If you like what you see, I'd appreciate help in convincing Google that this is a worthwhile endeavor. Sincerely, Justin

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SoC and automatic kerning
by juraj sukop 05 May '06

05 May '06

Dear Inkscapers, I greatly welcomed that Summer of Code is going to happen this year again, since I would like to participate this time. I would like to develop a tool for automatic kerning -- this should adjust the position of the letters in a text to correct the spacing irregularities, to ease the reading flow and to improve readability. This is also called optical kerning. To me, this is very helpful feature and I can imagine it could be of use for other open source software as well. Unfortunately, this is not listed on your Project Ideas page. What do you think? Would such a thing make sense for Inkscape and in the same time applicable for Summer of Code? Thanks a lot for any feedback and good night! Juraj Sukop

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URGENT.
by Okpu Akuchi 05 May '06

05 May '06

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LaTeX formula effect
by Tavmjong Bah 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, I've done some experimenting to see if I couldn't get the LaTeX formula effect to work on Linux. I have a version that works with skconvert. While a development version of skencil is available for Windows, it is not clear that skconvert is. Perhaps we need two different versions of the effect depending on platform. I've attached the eqtexsvg.py file that uses skconvert. I also looked at a few other alternatives: 1. pstoedit with ImageMagick According to the docs, conversion to SVG without the shareware plug-in is possible if pstoedit is compiled with ImageMagick-c++. I tried this. An ImageMagick window pops up and the program hangs without drawing anything. Closing the window gives an error: "Non-conforming drawing primitive definition `fill-rule'". 2. Going directly from dvi to SVG via dvisvg http://dvisvg.sourceforge.net/ dvisvg does produce an Inkscape readable SVG file (after eliminating an illegal character) but there are a couple of problems. It uses SVG fonts which it creates but does not embedded them in the resulting SVG file. Some of the glyphs are of the wrong style and use of Greek symbols produces illegal characters (pi => ^Y). It also has tspan nodes inside of tspan nodes which seems a bit strange. Too buggy to use. Tav

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Inkscape more Mac friendly (was Re: [Inkscape-devel] [SoC] Native OSX GUI ?)
by Ben Fowler 05 May '06

05 May '06

On 05/05/06, Jon A. Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: > On May 4, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Ben Fowler wrote: > >[ snip ] > > Personally, I've always felt that the proper way for Inkscape to be more mac > friendly would be to get GTK+ native on OS X,... If that is a majority view, then we can indeed go down those lines, and (triple negative coming up), I will have to withdraw my comment about the OP's not being off-target. Ben

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color profiles on win32
by Bob Jamison 05 May '06

05 May '06

Hi, all, I heard that although littleCMS is linking with Inkscape on win32, the problem with absolute vs. relative paths was giving it trouble. I think that it's fixed now, using w3c URI's to resolve paths. Here is the color profile test. http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/Test/20030813/htmlframe/full-color-prof-01-f… Notice that the brighter color squares in the PNG are what should be displayed in the SVG because a color profile has been applied to the href'd image. Here is a dump of Inkscape/w32 with the same test: http://inkscape.org/win32/icctest.png yaay! I uploaded the test files again, as I forgot the .icm file the first time: http://inkscape.org/win32/w3c-color-prof-test.zip I just committed the fix. Can someone test this on Linux to make sure that I didn't break it? Thanks. Bob

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