September 2006 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Announcing: 'tabs' in the UI for effects.
by Johan Engelen 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

I did not foresee a big discussion on this topic, as the 'tabs' came as a natural solution to me. Some comments to what has been mailed: > Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 23:06:38 +0100 (BST) > From: Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> > > If you are going to introduce the extra complexity and > inconsistency and inflict tabs in what should be a clear and > simple user interface why not just go the whole hog and use > python+glade to create the extension user interfaces? In fact, I first wanted to make my own UI, because the funcplot extension really needs to be able to read the SVG and change the UI depending on the contents of the SVG. (if you select a function plot, you should be able to change its formula; now you have to recreate a rectangle and apply a new formula) Because I want the extension to work on all Inkscape distributions I did not advance into Python libs there are not supported by the current distro. (if this is desired, then inkscape should come with a separate installer for Python, and not include it in itself) > I worry about any effect that has so many options that it > requires seperate tabs. I like options :). The funcplot extention should have a "config" tab where you can specify wether it has to delete the rectangle or not, what the stepsize is to calculate the numerical derivative, wether to actually do anything with the derivative or just make a sharp cornered 'curve', etc :) I usually want to make things as versatile as possible, which maybe is bad indeed. (certainly eats up a lot of time) > Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 03:55:10 -0300 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> > > I see absolutely no problem with tabs for effects UI. If you wish you > can consider them just semantic groupings that Inkscape chooses to > show as tabs. My thoughts exactly. At first I intended to make "frames". To group parameters in a framed box. But for sake of "tinyness", I made tabs so the UI window can be kept small. > Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:58:41 -0700 > From: "Jon A. Cruz" <jon@...18...> > > At first I was thinking that we might want to shift it away from the > containment of items inside of pages, and instead go with attributes > on things to mark them as belonging to the same groups. Then > as I was > looking to tuning things up, I realized that the way things are in > funcplot.inx at the moment could be one good way to present paged UI > in an abstract manner. So things could go a few different ways > internally. I did only a little thinking myself before I came up with the XML as it is now, but I don't know wether it is correct use of XML or not. I hope it is. One side effect of the way it is now, is that the notebook is really a parameter: you can read back which page was being displayed when the user clicked OK. This has to do with the way I made the implementation and was not really intended. Probably that does invite bad and unclear design. Note that the XML syntax for notebooks springs from ease of implementation and having control over positioning. (you can position a notebook halfway for example, with parameters above and below it. Clearly ugly :)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 4, Issue 17
by Johan Engelen 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Re: Announcing: 'tabs' in the UI for effects. (bulia byak) > Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 22:22:46 -0300 > From: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> > > On 9/14/06, Johan Engelen <johane@...1482...> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > For those of you creating Effect extensions... you can now create a > > so-called 'notebook' parameter: this way you can arrange parameters > > (or help > > text) on seperate tabpages. > > (0.44+SVN) > > > > I have included an example of how this works. See the > Function Plotter > > effect and funcplot.inx. > > Looks very good, thanks! But when I click OK on the Function > Plotter effect, Inkscape crashes with: > > (snip) > > I did "make install" before running. > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org I've found what caused the crash: do not use empty default values for string parameters in the inx file. Will have to fix this later. For now, I changed the funcplot.inx file to have non-empty default values. Have a nice weekend, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] still can't compile a working copy from trunk nor .44.1
by pbhj 18 Sep '06

18 Sep '06

Just thought I'd offer an update on my progress on trying to compile from SVN: pandfi@...1446...:/usr/local/svn/inkscape/trunk$ svn info Path: . URL: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk Repository Root: https://svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape Repository UUID: 79ec4920-5e0a-0410-a93a-b0c7084bcf59 Revision: 13075 Node Kind: directory Schedule: normal Last Changed Author: johanengelen Last Changed Rev: 13073 Last Changed Date: 2006-09-15 10:46:06 +0100 (Fri, 15 Sep 2006) Properties Last Updated: 2006-08-31 22:35:25 +0100 (Thu, 31 Aug 2006) Can now compile without any errors using: "./configure --enable-lcms --prefix=/home/pandfi/inkscape-svn/" I then make && make install. Everything went smoothly. Still get "segmentation fault". Using gdb the output is: pandfi@...1446...:~$ gdb ~/inkscape-svn/bin/inkscape GNU gdb 6.5 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /home/pandfi/inkscape-svn/bin/inkscape [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1228736288 (LWP 15332)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1228736288 (LWP 15332)] 0xb7136d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (gdb) where #0 0xb7136d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #1 0xb712fab1 in std::ios_base::_M_init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #2 0xb712dd94 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #3 0x0853266a in global constructors keyed to _ZN8Inkscape5Debug6Logger8_enabledE () at /usr/lib/gcc/i486-slackware-linux/3.4.6/../../../../include/c++/3.4.6/fstream:632 #4 0x08532a85 in __do_global_ctors_aux () #5 0x08183605 in _init () #6 0x0853298b in __libc_csu_init () #7 0xb6fafdbf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #8 0x0818b7a1 in _start () at ../sysdeps/i386/elf/start.S:119 (gdb) The latest released version 0.44.1 doesn't work for me either ... (but I have 0.44 installed and working fine) ... I get this from gdb: pandfi@...1446...:~$ gdb inkscape GNU gdb 6.5 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i486-slackware-linux"...(no debugging symbols found) Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run Starting program: /usr/local/bin/inkscape (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1230436032 (LWP 10872)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1230436032 (LWP 10872)] 0xb7a42d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (gdb) where #0 0xb7a42d7b in std::locale::operator= () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #1 0xb7a3bab1 in std::ios_base::_M_init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #2 0xb7a39d94 in std::basic_ios<char, std::char_traits<char> >::init () from /usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++.so.5 #3 0x085172ba in Inkscape::Debug::Logger::init () #4 0x085176d5 in __libc_csu_fini () #5 0x08183f65 in _init () #6 0x085175db in __libc_csu_init () #7 0xb6b94dbf in __libc_start_main () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6 #8 0x0818bf71 in _start () (gdb) If I'm reading this right I have a problem between inkscape and libstdc++ (standard C++?). In fact it looks to be a locale issue? Any help greatfully received, thanks. I'm using cxxlibs-6.0.3-i486-1 and gcc-g++-3.4.6-i486-1 (these appear to be originators for libstdc++). Cheers pbhj PS: see http://pbhj.alicious.com/hardinfo1.html up to date info on my system.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Board Seat - Nominations
by Bryce Harrington 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi all, Aaron Spike has been nominated for the Inkscape Board. No other nominations have been made, thus this means Aaron wins the election by default, and there is no need for an election. Thanks everyone! Congrats Aaron! Bryce

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Inkscape Board Seat - Nominations
by Bryce Harrington 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Please nominate someone for the Inkscape Board! Or second someone already nominated! One slot is open on the new Inkscape Board, and we would like to invite you to nominate someone to run for election. Anyone listed in the 0.44.1 AUTHORS file may be nominated. As well, nominations will be accepted from anyone listed in this file. All nominations must also be seconded. Don't nominate or second yourself. Some background: Inkscape is joining the Software Freedom Conservancy, and as a condition of our participation, we will be forming an Inkscape Board to oversee financial matters related to the money held and managed for us by SFC. Please see the relevant threads on the mailing list, or http://www.inkscape.org/conservancy for details. Please post your nominations here to this thread at this time. Nominations will be accepted until midnight Saturday night, Pacific Coast time. Bryce

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a package for linux ppc
by Albert 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Would any developer be so kind as to release an inkscape 0.44.1 for linux ppc? Otherwise: which is the exact list of dependencies of inkscape so I can compile it myself? Thanks! Albert

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Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.44.1 Unleashed :: Download Now :: Inkscape.org
by Loïc Martin 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Thanks for this new release. It's great to have such a lively development. Two questions: - I can't find linux autopackages anywhere (the latest one I have is 0902, and I wanted to see if the stable release still crashes on my machine) ; - I remember a discussion about it on the list, but I'm not sure if anybody has Inkscape running on Windows 98SE (2nd edition) or if it's even supported. If not, does anyone remember what the version where it was still working is? Thanks a lot, Loïc On 9/14/06, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote: > > Inkscape 0.44.1 Unleashed :: Download Now :: Inkscape.org > > The Inkscape community announced the release of Inkscape 0.44.1 > today. This bugfix version fixes several weeks of work by the community > in order to fix some crashes on windows, Mac OS X, and other packaging > issues which have come up from our last successfule release, 0.44 which > introduced substantial features like graphical layers, clipping and > masking support, and native PDF export with transparency. > > Here is a full list of bug fixes in this version: > > * fix a crash on Windows ("python.exe can't find msvcrt71.dll") by > providing that dll in the package; > * fix hang in page size widget * on Mac OS X, removed problems with > home folder path names > containing spaces; > * inkscape now finds libpng include headers on some systems where it > previously failed to do so > * several changes to allow compiling on glib-2.4 systems (e.g. > RHEL4); > * allow compiling on systems with incomplete boost library headers; > recognize if boost is too old > * inkscape now compiles with gcc-4.2.x. * fixed a bug where stderr > output from scripts was not shown * fixed a bug affecting the recent > files menu * resolution information is now saved in exported PNG > files * fix some ODG export bugs * fix dia import * fix several > include issues affecting building on Solaris > (there are still some more problems, at least under Solaris 8, > and similar ones on OpenBSD) > * added missing German version of the advanced tutorial and made > corrections to the calligraphy one; added missing Czech, German, > and Brazil-Portuguese tutorials to tarball; added missing German > keytable to tarball > * applied changes to the German and Spanish translations of Inkscape > strings > * interactivity improvements at high zooms * fix for specifying > CSS colors with percentages * re-enabled old PDF exporter alongside > the new one * minor fixes to new PDF exporter (a major overhaul is > still in the > works) > * fixup for invalid "s odipodi" namespace which has become > widespread in Inkscape documents > * Mac OS X packaging updates * miscellaneous build fixes > > Please visit www.inkscape.org and see what you would like to help the > project in solving. > > Download Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X packages: > > http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438 > > Community submitted screenshots: > > http://www.inkscape.org/screenshots/ > > > About Inkscape > > Inkscape is an open source drawing tool that uses the World Wide Web > Consortium's (W3C) scalable vector graphics format (SVG). Some supported > SVG features include basic shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha > blending, transforms, gradients, and grouping. In addition, Inkscape > supports Creative Commons' metadata, node-editing, layers, complex path > operations, text-on-path, text-in-shape, and SVG XML editing. It can > also import EPS, PostScript, and most bitmap formats, and exports PNG, > PS, PDF and various vector formats. > > Inkscape's main motivation is to provide the Open Source community > with a fully W3C compliant XML, SVG, and CSS2 drawing tool. Additional > work includes conversion of the codebase from C/Gtk to C++/Gtkmm, > emphasizing a lightweight core with powerful features added through an > extension mechanism, and maintaining a friendly, open, community-oriented > development process. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Website translation status
by Bryce Harrington 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

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Inkscape 0.44.1-1 Intel Mac OSX Package (Attempt!)
by Craig Marshall 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hi, With the guidance of Michael Wybrow, I've managed to create a working Intel OSX package, but I only have the one machine to test it on, and I don't know how likely these things are to not work on other machines. Anyway, I uploaded it to the sf.net incoming folder, and it's called Inkscape-0.44.1-1.INTEL.dmg, so please try it, and if it's okay feel free to use it for the files page. I used curl to transfer the file, and it didn't give any errors, so I'm guessing it arrived okay! If it doesn't work, please try: http://craigmarshall.org/Inkscape-0.44.1-1.INTEL.dmg I'm going out for my wedding anniversary dinner right now, so I won't be available to answer emails for a couple of hours at least. But I'll check them later on. Craig

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Announcing: 'tabs' in the UI for effects.
by Johan Engelen 15 Sep '06

15 Sep '06

Hello all, For those of you creating Effect extensions... you can now create a so-called 'notebook' parameter: this way you can arrange parameters (or help text) on seperate tabpages. (0.44+SVN) I have included an example of how this works. See the Function Plotter effect and funcplot.inx. Cheers, Johan

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