November 2007 - Inkscape Devel

filter UI merge
by MenTaLguY 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

I've just merged the first code drop from Nick into SVN; I was hoping to avoid any regressions, but at this point I think it's more important to start merging now since Niko and Nick are starting to touch the same code and I want to avoid too much divergence. Things that work: - blend modes can now easily be selected for objects, just like blur - background accumulation buffer is enabled as-needed - the filter UI dialog has very very basic filter editing capabilities Regressions: - Niko's work in r15171 (non-destructive filter update) needs to be re-integrated with the new filter metawidget, which replaces the old blur slider - the blur slider in the filter metawidget needs to be made percentage like the slider it replaced Todo: - add filter metawidget to layers dialog too, for layers - fix flakiness for "Filter" "blend mode" - flesh out filters dialog, parameter editing/connections, etc. I think we'll need to work out who wants to work on what with the metawidget at this point, depending on what you guys are each most comfortable spending time doing, and on your respective current states of progress. -mental

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Translation plans for 0.46 release
by Bryce Harrington 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi all, Quick question regarding translations - who will be serving as the translation team lead for this release? We'll need a plan laid out for the translation work this time. (I.e., when to send out notices, statistics tools to run, places to recruit translators, and so on). We've got plenty of time at this point, so just want to kick things off early so the translation team has plenty of work for doing pre-requisite work they'll want. Bryce

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A developer seeks some work
by Andre Twupack 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi Inkscapers! My name is André Twupack and I have been using Inkscape for two years now. I have used it mainly as a utility to create/edit SVG-based circuit diagrams to test a Batik-based software I have developed. From my working background I'm a Java developer with in-depth knowledge about XML/SVG and I'm also having some experience in C/C++ although not on a professional level. During the last two years I have provided a few minor patches but now I would like to become more involved in the development of Inkscape. Therefore I'm posting here to find one of the members of the development team who needs some help or can assign me a task. As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help. I hope with my work I can help to make Inkscape even better as it already is. André

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InkScape On Leopard : Solution
by Cédric sonique 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi, I'm a InkScape user on Mac OS X.5 (leopard). I found a solution to launch Inkscape under Leopard. You will found the "script" file which is in : Inkscape.app/Contents/Ressources/script. I change some lines : comment line 17 and 18 17 #open-x11 /tmp/getdisplay.sh || 18 #open -a XDarwin /tmp/getdisplay.sh || Leave line 19 : echo ":0"> /tmp/display.$UID Add this line : open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app Thank you for your works ! I hope this is will help someone ! Cédric - sonique _________________________________________________________________ Découvrez le blog Messenger Le Meilleur du Web : toutes les vidéos qui buzzent le plus sur Internet ! http://meilleurduweb.spaces.live.com/

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specular lighting
by Steren Giannini 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hello all, Since I had a close look to filter effect, I noticed something : When zooming, the specular lighting filter is very ugly (here a screenshot http://lesgeorges.org/subdomains/pannini/media/specular_lighting.png But that's not an inkscape issue, there is the same problem is Batik. Apparently (as far as I understood) this filter is raster-based and the FilterRes values are responsible for the quality. I just wanted to know what do you think of this. (here is the svg example : http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/images/filters/filters01.svg) Thanks for your response Steren <http://lesgeorges.org/subdomains/pannini/media/specular_lighting.png>

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patches
by john cliff 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi Guys, There are 2 patches in the tracker currently from me which I'd quite like to get reviewed/checked in if possible. One adds selection to marker funcitonality, the other adds stock patterns to the fill/stroke dialog. If any of you can find the time to take a look I'd appreciate it, my SVN s bust and I'm so rusty anyways that I'd feel more comfortable with at least a second set of eyes having had a look over it. Cheers John

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Tango Icons
by jiho 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

sorry this was meant to be sent on the list. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> Date: Nov 1, 2007 12:19 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fwd: Tango Icons To: Michael Grosberg <preacher_public@...19...> On 11/1/07, Michael Grosberg <preacher_public@...19...> wrote: > Joshua Blocher <verbalshadow@...360...> writes: > > On 10/31/07, microUgly <drworm@...360...> wrote: > > > Joshua A. Andler wrote: > > > > I see people saying they want the change, but I haven't seen > > > > people offering their time (and additional tweak time) to get things to > > > > a place that everyone will be happy with. > > Is there a need for artists to work on this? I'm willing to contribute my time > (For people who don't remember, I contributed the traced Lamborghini Gallardo > for the 0.45 screenshots). If there's a need, Who do I contact about this? Yes, to make this discussion actually productive, there is a need for artists (and if you can make the icons as good as the gallardo, this is promissing!). The concensus seems to be around redrawing current icons in Tango style, keeping as much of the current design as possible and trying not to be too far from the Tango ArtLibre set at the same time. Doing that correctly is challenging but what's life without challenge ;) Concretely: - I first need to add a tango-icons.svg file to the SVN repository so that people can work on the same file, possibly at the same time. I will include old icons, and the ArtLibre set in the file so that everything is at hand to design the new ones. When we are finished, we will only keep the new ones. - People willing to contribute should familiarize themselves with the Tango icon style guidelines http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Theme_Guidelines and get a feeling of what the result can be by looking at the ArtLibre set: http://tango.freedesktop.org/ArtLibreSet - The wiki page should be updated with the icons while we design them http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TangoifiedIcons to get a feeling of where we are heading. I'll try to commit this today or tomorrow and then people can start drawing. Given that some icons are likely to be re-drawn several time to satisfy everyone, I think we should draw them quickly without too much detail and refine them afterwards rather than try to nail every detail in one shot. As for the more code-related stuff, as Jon said icons names should be changed to meet the Tango icon naming guidelines and icon loading code may beed to be made more generic but I see this as quite orthogonal to icon design ATM, so both projects can be donce independently for now. Ok let's get started. -- JiHO http://jo.irisson.free.fr

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Clone tiler icons
by jiho 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hello everyone, I am right in thinking that most of the clone tiler icons are now unused? There were come icons such as clone_tiler_per_row_color, clone_tiler_per_row scale and so on, while, in the interface, I just see the two simple clone_tiler_per_row and clone_tiler_per_column. Thanks in advance for your help. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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bug? 'embed all images' can't find png files in local directory
by Tom Davidson 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi all, I am running into problems with the embedimages extension. Inkscape displays the linked image (which is in the same directory as the svg file) just fine, but then complains that it can't find the file when I ask it to embed the image. So there is some kind of mismatch in the two algorithms being used to follow links. I have posted this in the tracker (with test files, error message, etc) as bug # 1824893 ( http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1824893&group_id=9… ). Any help would be much appreciated! -Tom

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text fix: thanks!
by MenTaLguY 02 Nov '07

02 Nov '07

Hi Gail, After hounding you about the text bug with inserting new lines that was driving me nuts earlier this year, I realized I never said a thing when it was fixed... thanks for fixing it! -mental

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