December 2007 - Inkscape Devel

NEW: Angled guidelines
by unknown＠example.com 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hello all, * Angled Guidelines Now, Inkscape also provides angled guidelines! Double click on a guide to set its angle. Regards, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Problem with Native File Dialogs for Windows
by joel＠...1709... 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

bulia buliak wrote: > Perhaps you could use the cairo renderer for the previews, since we > already include cairo, so you'll only need to include some bits from > rsvg (or whatever the cairo-based svg viewer is called). This can be > done in a different thread and I suspect would be generally faster > than Inkscape renderer anway. I think it would be faster, and I would absolutely *love* to use cairo - and indeed that was my initial plan, but last I looked, I didn't see rsvg in the bundle, and I didn't want to add the extra as a dependancy. But I see that it is there now - I shall give it a try! Molumen wrote: > Just curious: will there be a "toggle preview on/off" possibility as in the current file dialog? There should be no problem adding that sort of refinement. I could even append it as a button on right-hand end of the toolbar there. Johan wrote: > Just so you know, your work is really really very much appreciated!!!!!!! Hey thanks mate - that's really encouraging! Maybe this whole mission is good for me - character building.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango Icons
by joel＠...1709... 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

>> is there any way to change the standard GTK + icons on the windows >> build to the tango style also? >> > Hi Ryan! > You mean stuff like open, new, save etc? > Those are coming in gtk 2.12. Will be released in September. > - Andreas Andreas: That's wonderful wonderful news, I'm so glad to hear it. It's going to massively improve a lot of gtk apps for windows users. But for the rest of the inkscape icons - like the drawing tools etc, the windows users will want the tango icons for these as well, simply because they're very much more in keeping with the Windows style. So I agree with ryan; i think we should change these over as soon as we can. ---------------------------------------- From: Andreas Nilsson <nisses.mail@...563...> Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 10:54 AM To: ryan lerch <ryanlerch@...400...> Subject: SPAM-LOW: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango Icons ryan lerch wrote: > is there any way to change the standard GTK + icons on the windows > build to the tango style also? > Hi Ryan! You mean stuff like open, new, save etc? Those are coming in gtk 2.12. Will be released in September. - Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Problem with Native File Dialogs for Windows
by joel＠...1709... 24 Dec '07

24 Dec '07

Hi All, It's been a very long time now, and I'm so close; but I've got one last (possibly fatal) problem with my native file dialogs for windows project. I've been having problems with rendering the preview image in the side bar (last time I spoke to this community, the consensus was that preview was a requisite for the feature to be included). Basically my problem is that inkscape only seems to support loading, and rendering an SVG in the main UI thread - anything else causes it to die. But also only the main thread can handle Windows messages. So I can get the SVG to render into my preview pane, but during rendering, because the rendering occurs in the main thread, the UI locks up until the rendering is complete. Given that calling sp_document_new to load the file blocks for 100-600ms, and rendering takes 200-1500ms for practical SVGs, the code that I have can hardly be called an upgrade! I'm just wondering, is there *any* way at all that the preview document can be loaded, or the document rendered without making a blocking call? or is there any way that this could happen in worker thread? Because as you can see from the screenshot (attached) almost everything else is working perfectly, and the whole thing is looking resonably slick. Also it'd be great to be able to get this feature in, because last time I counted (in the old sourceforge tracker), it would close no less than 8 bugs in the tracker. Any suggestions? Joel

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Global snapping toggle
by Diederik van Lierop 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Hi, More than once it has been requested to implement an easily accessible toggle for snapping, be it either through a key-binding, menu-item or icon in the toolbar. This is very easy to implement now we have such a toggle (which is currently only accessible through the document properties dialog). If we add a menu item, we could put it in the view-menu below "Grid" and "Guides". Should I add it? And is there maybe a better place which I overlooked? We don't really need an icon then, or do we? Diederik

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Difference Between Print and Print Direct
by Joel Holdsworth 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Hi Everyone, I was just in the process of fixing a small problem with the parenting of the Print dialog to stop it sinking beneath the document window, and I noticed something that I don't quite understand. What's supposed to be the difference between "Print" and "Print Direct"? - because right now, in terms of code, the menu options do *extactly* the same thing - that is show the print dialog, and allow you to print. Is Print Direct about to become a useful feature, or has something odd crept in here? Thanks Joel Holdsworth

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BUG HUNT
by Bryce Harrington 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

Almost as exciting as the about screen contest is our other release tradition: The Bug Hunt! Starting today, our goal will be to fix 500 "points" worth of bugs. High priority bugs are worth 9 points, Med are 6, and Low 3. We also now have 'Critical' bugs. We'll give 12 for those. In the past we've found the Bug Hunt to be a fun way to work towards getting attention on bugs that have otherwise been languishing in the tracker. We only give points for true bug fixes - not bugs simply closed due to being dupes, invalid, worksforme, or whatnot. Previously we would count fixes to the website, translations, docs, and so on, but this time let's award points only for true code-level bug fixes. While our Frost goal is to close 500 points worth of *any* bug, when we get to Freeze our goal will be to have 0 Critical bugs, so efforts put into closing Crits will be doubly good! Good luck everyone; I'll post the first scoreboard tomorrow. Bryce P.S., my patch to add "open" bugs to the bug graphs was accepted and is now available in the live bug plots: http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/project-graphs/inkscape/plots/inkscape-mont… Let's see if we can nudge the slope of this line down even steeper!

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Problems trying to Compile Inkscape on tiger PPC
by Juan Miguel Ramirez 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

I have been trying to compile Inkscape on tiger ppc last night without success. I have been following the steps described on: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX When I tried to install al dependencies using sudo port install cairo +pdf boehmgc gtkmm intltool libxslt lcms popt poppler boost gnome-vfs Freezes when appears: ---> Building dbus-glib with target all there is no error but it's have been there stopped for hours, If I take a look with the activity inspector I can see that process is consuming 0% of processor. any advice?

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Tango icon theme, take 2
by Michael Grosberg 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

It's nearly finished as far as I can tell, still missing some 3D box icons but I don't know what they should look like. Major changes since last version: *all icons are done *changed look of raise/lower icons *"tweak" tool uses "smudge" icon from art libre set *transform icons taken from art libre set *align icons taken from art libre set (or extrapolated from their style) problems: ink pressure/tilt settings don't show (but the old ones do for some reason) some icons are taken from the desktop's icon theme and so the layer icons should match the ones in the layer dialog but don't match on all platforms same goes for paste icons like paste in place that don't always match the look of the generic paste icon. download link: http://grosberg.michael.googlepages.com/home

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Call for Freeze Exceptions
by the Adib 22 Dec '07

22 Dec '07

On Dec 22, 2007 1:06 AM, Adib taraben <theAdib@...400...> wrote: > Bryce Harrington schrieb: > > Hi all, > ... > > So, if you're working on a feature, can you please tell me at this time? > Also please report: > > * Current status > * Anticipated date of completion > * Issues that must be solved before release > > ... > Bryce > > > Bryce, there is one thing that we need to negotiate: > > as we have several exporters for one and the same format, we need to > decide if we have one exporter only or both in the release. > > We have this native PS and Cairo PS. Also there might be extensions using > the uniconverter to convert from/to ai- or wmf-format. > > Last I also want to point > Uups there was something missing: Last, I want to point to this issue: http://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/177783 This is a windows only problem there might be a solution that we use a self patched version of cairo. HTH, Adib. ---

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