January 2007 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] textual problems in release 0.45 branch
by Arpad Biro 22 Jan '07

22 Jan '07

Hi, > > "Text Outline File" -- what's a "text outline"? > > I think this means: "Textual file describing outline" What do you mean by "outline"? (Do you mean "draft"?) Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________________________________________ The fish are biting. Get more visitors on your site using Yahoo! Search Marketing. http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/arp/sponsoredsearch_v2.php

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sp_repr_new deprecated
by MenTaLguY 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Whoa. What? Yeah. Here's the deal: the new-style (Inkscape::)XML::* APIs were originally created with the intent to allow alternate internal document representations. For instance, one document might have a simple in-memory document based on in-memory XML::SimpleNodes, while another might have nodes backed by a remote database (with its own wrapper XML::Node subclasses). This ability would be beneficial for things like inkboard, as well as properly implementing DOM. The problem is that the continuing use of sp_repr_new prevents us taking advantage of this ability. As long as nodes are created independently of the document they'll ultimately be added to, all documents have to be using the same node classes so that nodes are interchangeable. So, the plan is to begin creating all nodes via XML::Document::createElement, XML::Document::createTextNode, and XML::Document::createComment. In theory you should be able to get the right XML::Document * from the parent node you intend to attach the new node to (via XML::Node::document), but because of the behavior required by sp_repr_new, not all parents are guaranteed to have a valid document, preventing us from doing things the simple way. So, right now, you've got several places you can potentially get the required XML::Document * from, in order of roughly decreasing preference: SPDocument *, using sp_document_repr_doc() SPObject *, via the SPDocument * you get from SP_OBJECT_DOCUMENT SPDesktop * (SPView *), via the SPDocument * from ->doc() SPEventContext *, via the SPDocument * from SP_EVENT_CONTEXT_DOCUMENT Thankfully, it won't be this bad forever. Once sp_repr_new is gone and some other changes are made, we'll be able to get document pointers in more convenient ways. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] textual problems in release 0.45 branch
by Arpad Biro 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi, > Would it hurt anything for me to commit the updated po's right now, or > should we only do it at the point of string freeze? The PO files were updated a few hours ago, but of course they can be updated at any time -- provided we "svn update" before that. Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________________________________________ Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. http://farechase.yahoo.com/promo-generic-14795097

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UI string that needs to be split
by Arpad Biro 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi, > > same string, different meaning (should be split) > > ------------------------------------------------ > > > > "Clone" (as selection describer: noun -- in undo history: verb) > > I don't know how to split it, please submit a patch Taking a look at previously split strings, this is the difference between a normal and a split string (both from clonetiler.cpp): radio = gtk_radio_button_new_with_label (gtk_radio_button_group (GTK_RADIO_BUTTON (radio)), _("B")); //TRANSLATORS: only translate "string" in "context|string". // For more details, see http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-I18N.html#Q-:CAPS radio = gtk_radio_button_new_with_label (gtk_radio_button_group (GTK_RADIO_BUTTON (radio)), Q_("clonetiler|H")); So my guess is we need Q_("noun|Clone") instead of _("Clone") where used as selection describer, and the same for "verb|Clone" where used as a verb. Arpad Biro ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com

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Inkscape 0.45-pre1 Released
by Bryce Harrington 21 Jan '07

21 Jan '07

Hi all, Our first official preview release of Inkscape 0.45 is now available for download: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Note that I've just posted the source package; hopefully soon packagers will begin uploading packages for specific platforms. This release is intended for beta testers. There will be no further functional change between this and the 0.45 final release. Expected changes after this include translations, bug fixes, and packaging cleanup. Please give it a try, and if you spot issues please make sure they are listed in our bug tracker. Thanks! Bryce

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delete page clutter
by Esteban Barahona 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

I want a simple feature negative request... it's to delete the fake.page it's just useless clutter... it takes valuable white space when it's needed the most.

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PDF for 0.45 [done]
by MenTaLguY 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

I've finished re-enabling the legacy PDF support, and disabling the cairo output extensions. -mental

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0.45-release-branch problems:
by Tavmjong Bah 20 Jan '07

20 Jan '07

Hi, Here are some problems I see with an hour old 0.45-release-branch install (Fedora Core 6): 1. Installation fails with error: make[2]: *** No rule to make target `about.bg.svg', needed by `all-am'. Stop. See same problem with trunk. 2. Page format: Banner 468x60 is actually 60.0 x 468.0 px 3. Could not set custom page size (perhaps because of installation problem). 3. Envelope (aka Summer's Night) effect seems broken (also broken in SVN and 0.44). The generated path is not inside the target quadrilateral. I seem to remember that the y-axis was flipped internally at some point... could this have broken it? The effect also generates error messages of the following type: ** (inkscape:20971): WARNING **: Unimplemented style property SP_PROP_ENABLE_BACKGROUND: value: accumulate ** (inkscape:20971): WARNING **: Unimplemented style property SP_PROP_ENABLE_BACKGROUND: value: accumulate ** (inkscape:20971): WARNING **: Format autodetect failed. The file is being opened as SVG. 4. Perspective effect: The orientation of the output image is rotated 90 degrees from what I would have expected. Take two quadrilaterals with the first nodes in the paths at the upper left. When one quadrilateral is embed in the other, the embed quadrilateral's first node is at the upper right. The new path is also not closed. Perspective effect generates same error messages as Envelope effect. Tav

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[Fwd: BoF Accepted] SCALE
by jtaber 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

The Inkscape BOF is on Sat 10th 19:00. Come one, come all. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: BoF Accepted Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:37:15 -0800 From: Gareth J. Greenaway <g@...1153...> Organization: Southern California Linux Expo To: jtaber <jtaber@...480...> John, I just wanted to let you know that SCALE accepted your BoF submission. The schedule for BoFs is now online at: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale5x/events/bof.php Thanks and we'll see you at SCALE! Gareth -- Gareth J. Greenaway | g@...1153... Voice - 877-831-2569 x130 Southern California Linux Expo http://www.socallinuxexpo.org

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Patch for 0.45: Tangoified icon
by Josef 'cornelius' Vybíral 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

Hi fellow developers, there is one "patch" in the tracker[1] I would like to know if it can be included in upcoming 0.45 version. It is tangoified icon by Andreas Nilsson for Inkscape, based on a cleaned version of the official logo. The reworked icon looks really nice imho and it would be good to have it in. It can make Inkscape fit the currently redrawn gnome-icon-theme (and not only this one, but it fits well among other icons on other desktops like MS Windows or MacOS X). Besides the good look, I see another advantage also that it can be more easily recognisable on light as well as on dark backgrounds then the actual one. So, what do you think? Sincerely Josef Vybíral a.k.a. cornelius [1] http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1590179&group_id=9… -- Josef Vybíral a.k.a. cornelius ------------------------------ web: http://cornelius.gimp.cz mail: cornelius@...1135... jabber: cornelius@...1136...

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