January 2007 - Inkscape Devel

Inkscape 0.45 About Screen Contest
by Joshua A. Andler 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

The contest begins today and the deadline is December 31st. As with the past few contests we've had, it is being done on DeviantART. You can find out more about it at: http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/journal/11071733/ Good Luck! -Josh

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Inkscape and transient windows (on top dialogs)
by unknown＠example.com 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Short introduction for the maillinglist: There is a discussion ongoing about transient dialogs (dialogs on top) in win32 builds of Inkscape. They do not work for current builds, but can be made to work with (afaik) only one drawback: when Inkscape's mainwindow is minimized while having a dialog on top, the mainwindow cannot simply be restored by clicking the taskbar button as this will give focus to the dialog that was opened. The dialog is not minimized when Inkscape is minimized which causes the problem. The mainwindow is restored by rightclicking the taskbar button and clicking on "Restore". The ongoing discussion is about how to solve this in a way that respects current standards. This mail is about a temporary solution that would greatly greatly greatly (I cannot stress enough) enhance Inkscape's useability. Bulia Byak wrote: > Johan wrote: > > The rightclick-'restore' procedure is not really annoying > > if known, but is very confusing for users and therefore I > > think a complete fix is needed before I can commit the > > #ifndef WIN32 removal. > > Yes, definitely. At the moment, the "dialogs on top" option does not work on win32 anyway, so we might as well remove it from win32 builds. However, I have a better idea: (Note this is for win32 builds only!!!) We could concatenate the options "Dialogs are hidden in taskbar" and "Dialogs on top" into one option "Dialogs on top (experimental)" (checkbox). If unchecked, Inkscape will use the old options "dialogs NOT hidden in taskbar" and "Dialogs on top: none", if checked Inkscape will use "dialogs hidden in taskbar" and "dialogs on top:normal". The "(experimental)" is added so that users know that it is likely to work dissatisfactory, and an explanatory text should be added on how to restore the main window when Inkscape was minimized (i.e. the 'rightclick-restore' procedure). Regards, Johan

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First win32 build of the year
by Bob Jamison 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

Nothing important. It just looks good to have "070101". http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/Inkscape0701011510.7z bob

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Bug Hunt for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 02 Jan '07

02 Jan '07

About a third of the way there now: 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 96 Bryce

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Bug Hunt for 0.45
by Bryce Harrington 01 Jan '07

01 Jan '07

More bugs fixed! About a quarter of the way there. Please remember to set the assignee to yourself (or whomever fixed it) when you close bugs, so we know who to give credit to. 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 87 It would be great if we could get 0.45 released before the end of January, so if you have some time, please help investigate open bugs! Bryce

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