July 2006 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

New web hosting? (Was Re: Wiki unusable)
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

As I'm sure everyone knows, hosting our website through SourceForge kinda sucks since it's so dang slow. Particular pain points are wiki and screenshots. SF is also continuing to prompt us about disk quota limits. But the challenge to switching is that inkscape.org gobbles *tons* of bandwidth - 130G last month! Back when we had some downloadable packages from our website it jumped to nearly 400G. What sorts of solutions are there that we could consider? Are there existing providers that other FOSS projects use? Or ISPs that'd like to sponsor Inkscape? Bryce ----- Forwarded message from "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> ----- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:27:59 -0700 From: "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Wiki unusable Bryce Harrington wrote: >On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:55:06AM +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote: > >>Hello, >>the Wiki is unusable atm, 30 sec for one page! >>Can someone please have a look at this? >> > >I've noticed this too. Perhaps it is a sourceforge issue? Slow >database access or something? I did see the following error once: > >Database error > > It's much more than that though. All of our web stuff is painfully slow. As in paper cut covered in lemon juice painful. The website will occasionally not load all the way, or even more rarely it will still barf a db error. Screenshots almost never completely load for me, I'm lucky if it loads more than 1/3 of the image before firefox throws a corrupted image message to me. The wiki issues you know about. The win32 related items require wget to obtain because the connection is lost 90% of the time... and not to mention it's SLOW when it does work. I've had a few occasions where the max transfer I can get from SF is about 14k a sec and then it loses the connection as well. Something that ties into it is that I'd really like to get the website redesign done (which the winner from the contest sent me the SVG to work from the other day... woohoo!). However, I'm afraid that even adding the minimal amount of graphics it has will do us even more harm when it comes to bandwidth and performance. What should we do? -Josh ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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NEW: dropper tool option changes
by bulia byak 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Instead of the confusing toggle button, now the Controls bar for the Dropper tool has two checkboxes, "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha", which work as follows. Suppose you have an object selected and, using Dropper, click on an object which has red (#FF0000) fill and 0.5 opacity (half-transparent). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is off, the selected object will get the fill color #800000 (i.e. faded-out red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0 (opaque). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is on but "Set alpha" is off, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0. - If both "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha" are on, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 0.5 (half-transparent). If you Shift+click instead of click, the same changes will be made to stroke color and stroke opacity, correspondingly. Note that in no situation can Dropper change the master opacity of the selected object(s), although it can pick it just as it does any other kind of opacity. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Versions of gtk/gtkmm used by distros?
by Bryce Harrington 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

----- Forwarded message from Denis Leroy <denis@...1381...> ----- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:56:40 -0700 From: Denis Leroy <denis@...1381...> To: gtkmm-list@...1382... Subject: Re: Versions of gtk/gtkmm used by distros? Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi, > > For Inkscape we're considering changing our required gtk/gtkmm > requirements from 2.4 to something newer (e.g. 2.8). > > Could someone point me at a listing of which distros ship with which > version of gtk? We're attempting to gauge how many users would be > affected by this change. Speaking for Fedora : Fedora Core 3 (unmaintained) : 2.4.11 Fedora Core 4 : 2.6.5 Fedora Core 5 : 2.8.3 Fedora Core 6 test 1 : 2.8.5 -denis _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@...45... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list ----- End forwarded message -----

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XML Style properties (filters)
by Hugo Rodrigues 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

There's something odd happening when one tries to add a 'filter' property ( e.g. filter:url(#filterid) ) to a style attribute, on a XML Editor dialog. The filter object is found (if it exists) and correctly loaded into the SPStyle object but in the end, for some reason, the 'filter' property is simply discarded and ends up not being set (try it yourselves if this sounds confusing). I've been debugging style.cpp and related methods exhaustively and can't understand why this happens, is there something that needs to be enabled somewhere else? Can someone more enlightened on this subject please provide some hints here?

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inkscape shirts for team members
by MenTaLguY 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

As a few of us will be going to the Desktop Developer's Conference in a couple weeks, I put together some shirts on CafePress. Some people have suggested I post about it on the developers' list, so I added some more products and here it is: http://www.cafepress.com/ink_mental All the shirts are being sold at-cost (relative to Cafe Press' base price), so neither Inkscape nor I benefit financially from sale of the shirts. It's just something cool if you work on Inkscape and want one. -mental

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WEBFORM Viral alert
by Jean-Louis HERSE 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Jean-Louis HERSE email: jl.h@...1392... submitted the following: Norton AntiVirus detects Trojan.Zlob in the following files : o36vtykf.exe in the Temp directory of Windows and 94EAAE87d01 in the cache directory of Firefox when downloading InkScape v0.44. So, it is impossible to download it. Sorry ! Jean-Louis HERSE La Rochelle FRANCE

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PDF printing with Cairo
by Miklós Erdélyi 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi, I attached the patch which can be used to try out PDF printing with Cairo. It's still in the early stages of development, with rudimentary text support, image support, and gradient support. In order to use native non-alpha gradients in PDF a patch for Cairo has to be applied (otherwise the result will be just fallback images when using gradients) which can be found there: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-June/007300.html [note that this patch introduces a bug: fallback images will be mistransformed]. First the patch.bin has to be applied to the inkscape source tree, then the pdf-cairo.* files have to be copied to src/extension/internal. Then do the usual build process starting with invoking autogen. Please feel free to test this and report any of your findings on this list. Best regards, miklos

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Vector Math Poster Contest
by Ralf Stephan 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hello, folks might want to know that Ed Pegg (of mathpuzzle) is holding a Vector Math Poster Contest: http://www.mathpuzzle.com/VectorMathPoster.htm ralf

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WEBFORM URGENT - Trojan in inkscape executable?
by Dirk Rensink 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Dirk Rensink email: dirk.rensink@...1391... submitted the following: Hello together, I downloaded the Inkscape 0.44 Windows executable last week and installed it without any problems. Today I switched on my computer and after some minutes I got a warning message from my antivirus software (Norton Antivirus 2006) that it found the trojan Trojan.Zlob in the 0.44-exe and that it was deleted. After checking the Norotn virus database I found none of the registry entries and none of the files the trojan creates. Now I cannot even download the exe any more since Norton insists in finding this trojan. Although I suspect that this is a false alarm: Could you please check the Windows executables? Are there any other users which report the same infection with other antivirus software? I will now initiate a complete system scan and will let you know the results. Thanks for your response. Best regards, Dirk Rensink

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OS X dev builds again
by jiho 04 Jul '06

04 Jul '06

Hi all, Thank you very much for 0.44 which is brilliant. Now that I am back from no-internet-land I restarted the process of producing dev builds of Inkscape for OS X. A new build is there: http://inkscape.modevia.com/macosx-snap/Inkscape_20060629.dmg I changed the background image color to match the green color of the new website (which is great too... even if I think that blue fitted better to Inkscape that green ;-) ) and thought about how to represent the installation procedure in an international manner (see thread http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15481499 ). In the end I stayed with my initial approach (i.e. a link to / Applications on which Inkscape Icon can be dragged) because: - the only text present is "internationalized" by the system itself - I read somewhere that even if OS X app bundles can be executed from anywhere on the disk, they are registered and really integrated into the system only if they are in /Applications (there is a startup job which looks into /Applications and registers new ones). Therefore, / Applications is really the place where to put them - it eases very much the installation procedure (= 1 drag and drop) The next problem of the user is to find out where is Inkscape once he dragged it onto the "Applications" link which I don't think is much of a problem because: - there is a link to /Applications with the same icon that in the .dmg on the left of every Finder window by default - it is a common procedure to put applications in /Applications :-) - starting from OS X Tiger a spotlight search will show Inkscape and, actually, all people I have seen using Tiger never navigate to Applications again but use Spotlight as a launcher - this is something that is likely to be even "more true" in the long run with spotlight taking more and more importance in the way the Finder operates (in 10.5 Leopard, the navigation in the Finder is going to be largely based on spotlight searches) I hope this is OK with everybody. As the .info.txt file mentions, this build is without Inkboard support because loudmouth is still not in Fink. Michael can you upload your Fink package somewhere so that I (and maybe other OS X compilers) can use it? Do you think it can go in the wiki page? Thank you in advance. JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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