January 2007 - Inkscape Devel

Bug Hunt for Inkscape 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Wow, we're within sight of the end - over 80% of the way there. Bulia closed the first "over a year old" bug. I wonder who'll close the bug that puts us over the 300pt mark? 1537876 6 tutorials in Russian not available nodoby 1628254 9 Localized tutorials do not load nobody 1628295 6 Bottom of the web site page cwebb 1505549 9 drag and delete line crash Inkscape 0.45devel bbyak 1628173 6 Gradient tool not working for flowed text bbyak 1580903 9 crash adjusting slider when spinbutton has focus bbyak 1538282 9 crash when switching to selection tool bbyak 1332888 12 Clones: moving two adjoining objects in chain moves bbyak 1593499 6 Tablet cursor drift when dragging bezier gustav_b 1624880 9 download page ishmal 1588594 9 Link broken - Daniel's Thrice Daily builds bryce 1628085 3 PNG file not created/not recognized by WINXP johanengelen 1598192 6 Download Page Instructions Need Updating bryce 1617112 9 Blur is applied after transform, not before bbyak 1488128 9 Aligning (Snapping) to Grid or Guides does not work nobody 1349761 9 Inkboard: inkscape crashes when trying to connect dwyip 1507710 9 crash after leaving an isolated node handle nobody 1605927 9 Path combine (and other ops) lose transform johanengelen 1610103 6 font-size px missing after font family change johanengelen 1590980 9 CRASH: Markers to Stroke Paint bbyak 1625278 9 Crash when trying to load a SVG file bryce 1501553 3 Can't rotate with transform dialog box bryce 1520625 6 Linked clone as clip path does not update nobody 1516933 9 text stroke crash inkscape nobody 1575685 6 web redirects inkscape.org/faq/ kidproto 1565162 3 Gradient stop color not updated in list nobody 1595030 6 Stroke width after Union changed in a strange way nobody 1620066 6 Lost dialog for exporting and color nobody 1598337 9 Crash when trying to delete invisible layer cyreve 1561416 6 EPS export broken theadib 1597605 6 Fontnames containing spaces are incorrectly written theadib 1572450 3 Dialogs pop up off screen nobody 1604391 3 MouseWheel NodeSelection > Undo = Floating Node nobody 1513218 6 Win32: ask if old menus.xml should be kept when... theadib 1612814 3 Guides ans Gridlines vanish on corresp. alpha... nobody 1576258 3 Color artifact in SVN gaussian blur nobody ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 246 Bryce

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Extension Question: Multi-line text box for user input?
by Dustin Vaselaar 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Hello, I'm looking at making a custom extension for Inkscape and would like to know if there is a way to have the user input window for the extension contain a multi-line text box for user input? Basically, I would like a text box that can pass a more complex variable, complete with line-ends. I've looked through the extension documentation, however I can't see a way of creating more that a simple one line user input text box. FYI: I wasn't quite sure if this was the correct mailing list for posting this type of question, if I should be asking a different list please let me know. -Dustin

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Dialog decoration inconsistency
by unknown＠example.com 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

There is an inconsistency between decorations of dialogs due to old-C-style dialogs and new C++-style ones. Decorations are the minimize, maximize and close buttons. The old dialogs (eg. Fill&Stroke) have all 3, the new dialogs (eg. Transform) only have the close button. What is the desired decoration style? I vote for only the close button, and perhaps a button to 'collapse' it (minimizing on the spot). - Johan

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docs category in bugs tracker
by Alexandre Prokoudine 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi, Bugs tracker now has a new category: "Documentation". Please use it, if you see mistakes in text, tutorials not loading etc. Alexandre

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Bug Stats for 0.45 release
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Bug fixing activity is really picking up lately. Thanks everyone that's helping on this! We've knocked the total number of critical bugs down to 27. 1593499 6 Tablet cursor drift when dragging bezier gustav_b 1624880 9 download page ishmal 1588594 9 Link broken - Daniel's Thrice Daily builds bryce 1628085 3 PNG file not created/not recognized by WINXP johanengelen 1598192 6 Download Page Instructions Need Updating bryce 1617112 9 Blur is applied after transform, not before bbyak 1488128 9 Aligning (Snapping) to Grid or Guides does not work nobody 1349761 9 Inkboard: inkscape crashes when trying to connect dwyip 1507710 9 crash after leaving an isolated node handle nobody 1605927 9 Path combine (and other ops) lose transform johanengelen 1610103 6 font-size px missing after font family change johanengelen 1590980 9 CRASH: Markers to Stroke Paint bbyak 1625278 9 Crash when trying to load a SVG file bryce 1501553 3 Can't rotate with transform dialog box bryce 1520625 6 Linked clone as clip path does not update nobody 1516933 9 text stroke crash inkscape nobody 1575685 6 web redirects inkscape.org/faq/ kidproto 1565162 3 Gradient stop color not updated in list nobody 1595030 6 Stroke width after Union changed in a strange way nobody 1620066 6 Lost dialog for exporting and color nobody 1598337 9 Crash when trying to delete invisible layer cyreve 1561416 6 EPS export broken theadib 1597605 6 Fontnames containing spaces are incorrectly written theadib 1572450 3 Dialogs pop up off screen nobody 1604391 3 MouseWheel NodeSelection > Undo = Floating Node nobody 1513218 6 Win32: ask if old menus.xml should be kept when... theadib 1612814 3 Guides ans Gridlines vanish on corresp. alpha... nobody 1576258 3 Color artifact in SVN gaussian blur nobody ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 180 It's nice to see that most of the critical bugs left are older ones (over 6 months). Also, a few of those may already be fixed, but just need confirmation. Please take a few minutes to go through the level-9 bugs for your platform and see if you can get the same results or not. Bryce

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WIN32 locale setting infiltrates Inkscape UI
by momo 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi, Not sure if this is closely related to bug [ 1250581 ] "WIN32: Inkscape uses locale settings for determining UI lang" so I post it to the list. On an ENGLISH WinXP system with Russian locale set I get russian buttons in Inkscape dialogs (all the rest of Inkscape's UI is in English as it should). I post a screenshot of the bug attached to this mail. Is this an Inkscape bug, or a GTK one? Thanks! Molumen

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Bug confirmation needed
by Bryce Harrington 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

Hi all, I've added two new categories 'NEEDS CONFIRMATION' and 'NEEDS CONFIRMATION ON SVN HEAD' to our bug tracker, and have begun marking a few bugs that need this. If you have a recent inkscape installation and are on either Win32 or OSX, you can help greatly by seeing if you can recreate these bugs. Please go to this page: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604306 Search on Category = NEEDS CONFIRMATION ON SVN HEAD, and set the Group to the platform you're on. Also look in Groups 'Any' or 'All Platforms'. Try to recreate the problem, and then please write in the comment section if you could or could not reproduce the problem. Some of these are very, very old bugs, so just having people confirm that the bugs are no longer present would be extremely helpful in enabling us to focus on bugs that really need our attention. Thanks! Bryce

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Tutorials
by Daniel Pope 04 Jan '07

04 Jan '07

I notice in general that the tutorials in the SVN package do not correspond at all well to the current Inkscape feature set. We don't really have a tutorial for the more complicated features (cloning, clipping, masking, blurring) and tutorial-tips.svg explicitly mentions that we don't support blur yet. Attached is an SVG highlighting some of the effects that can be achieved using Inkscape 0.45. Perhaps something along these lines would be a useful thing to bundle? Dan

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Bug Hunt for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

1488128 9 Aligning (Snapping) to Grid or Guides does not work nobody 1349761 9 Inkboard: inkscape crashes when trying to connect dwyip 1507710 9 crash after leaving an isolated node handle nobody 1605927 9 Path combine (and other ops) lose transform johanengelen 1610103 6 font-size px missing after font family change johanengelen 1590980 9 CRASH: Markers to Stroke Paint bbyak 1625278 9 Crash when trying to load a SVG file bryce 1501553 3 Can't rotate with transform dialog box bryce 1520625 6 Linked clone as clip path does not update nobody 1516933 9 text stroke crash inkscape nobody 1575685 6 web redirects inkscape.org/faq/ kidproto 1565162 3 Gradient stop color not updated in list nobody 1595030 6 Stroke width after Union changed in a strange way nobody 1620066 6 Lost dialog for exporting and color nobody 1598337 9 Crash when trying to delete invisible layer cyreve 1561416 6 EPS export broken theadib 1597605 6 Fontnames containing spaces are incorrectly written theadib 1572450 3 Dialogs pop up off screen nobody 1604391 3 MouseWheel NodeSelection > Undo = Floating Node nobody 1513218 6 Win32: ask if old menus.xml should be kept when... theadib 1612814 3 Guides ans Gridlines vanish on corresp. alpha... nobody 1576258 3 Color artifact in SVN gaussian blur nobody ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Total 138 (Goal: 300) We're almost halfway there! I notice that due in part to our bug activity, Inkscape has gone up to rank #20 on SourceForge's most active list. Still, there are 30 level-9 critical bugs still open. I don't see any that are absolute release killers, but the fewer of those left in inkscape when we release, the better. Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape - hyperlinking xlink
by Jon Phillips 03 Jan '07

03 Jan '07

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 17:31 +1100, Phil Rhoades wrote: > Jon, > > > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 17:14 -0800, Jon Phillips wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 03:14 +1100, Phil Rhoades wrote: > > > Jon, > > > > > > > > > > Date: 2006-12-15 12:02 > > > > Sender: kidproto > > > > Logged In: YES > > > > user_id=914868 > > > > Originator: YES > > > > > > > Phil, please contact me and/or on the inkscape-devel mailing list > > > > about this. I'm jon@...235... (jon phillips). > > > > > > > Great! > > > > > > > > > Have you got any idea what this might take in time/cost? > > > > > > Regards, > > > > > > Phil. > > > > > > Could you give me a bit of background? I can help put you in touch with > > inkscape developers who could put the work with the $$$... > > > Your comment: "it would be killer to be able to click on an area and it > zooms/pans you to another part of the document...or to another > document." pretty much sums up what I want. The actual application I > have in mind is something resembling a "mind map" or "concept map" for > organising my various projects, which are all related to Life Extension > of some sort (ie Biomedical/Scientific Research and Commercial). I have > looked around at available software but I particularly want to use > Inkscape and Ruby on Rails so it looks like I need to do it myself . . I > could generate the svg from the DB but it would not be as nice, flexible > and easy as drawing the relationships in Inkscape and linking objects to > the data pages. Yes, I agree. This hyperlinking is what you want. It is useful for a lot of things...would you like to work on this? > > > linking is already in the codebase, but there are some specifics which > > need to be enabled for what you want... > > > I tried manually putting in the xlinks in the svg but it causes > namespace problems - in any case, I would immediately lose anything that > was added manually if I wanted to use Inkscape to re-edit the svg. It > seems like such a useful addition to Inkscape that I thought it might be > worth paying for . . depending on the cost. I'm cc'ing the inkscape-devel list to see if others have played with this. Yes, someone in Inkscape would be interested in coding and/or working for pay ;) > The first (easier) step would be just to link to an external page which > would do what I want immediately but your extended idea of zooming and > panning within the svg would be an attractive second stage. > > Is this what you need? Yes, sounds great! Jon > Regards, > > Phil. -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897...

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