PASS svgtestsuite-1.1 coords-units-02-b.svg
by unknown＠example.com
Hi all,
Percentages are now correctly transformed to coordinates and lengths for
circles, rects and lines. Now Inkscape passes
svgtestsuite-1.1/coords-units-02-b.svg.
Cheers,
Johan
12 years, 3 months
Tango icons as default set.
by Guillermo Espertino
Since the Tango icon set for inkscape seems to be pretty complete and
revised, I'd like to propose making it the default set in SVN (of course
mantaining the current set as an alternative for people who preferes
it).
I know it is already possible to test the set easily, but I think that
making it the default set will force users (of the development versions)
to test it and will be a good opportunity to see if the general
consensus is to leave it or roll back to the current set.
It may be helpful to discover some bugs, too.
What do you think?
I haven't commit rights to do the change myself, so i'd like to ask
someone who do, to apply the change if there are no objections.
12 years, 3 months
Interactive extensions? (Scripting console)
by Glimmer Labs
Glimmer Labs has been designing an interactive scripting console
designed to provide a consistent UI for multiple languages and
multiple programs called MediaScript.
Currently it works standalone or as a GIMP plugin and handles several
dialects of Scheme and soon will have python support.
MediaScript is written in C using the GTK toolkit and will eventually
be multi-platform as well.
Unlike our previous scheme scripting console for Inkscape, MediaScript
is a fully-featured editor with tabs, indentation, highlighting and
more.
(Apologies for the lack of communication about the cessation of work
on SchemeInk and the development of it's successor, MediaScript.)
I was looking for ways to add support for scripting Inkscape but I
have not found a way to do so interactively. That is, all of the
support for scripting seems to be a one time interaction,
either through the command line or through menu items that call an
outside program and pass it some information.
Is there any API (similar to libgimp) that would be more suitable for
this purpose?
Is there is an incomplete system being developed I may be able to
devote some time to, rather than hacking out a workaround?
I remember hearing about some work that Bob Jamison was doing in this
area and seeing some code stubs
but I can't seem to find anything about it in the current code.
Ted and MenTaLguY, I would be especially interested in hearing your
thoughts on this matter.
Thank you for your time,
-Soren Berg
12 years, 3 months
Inkscape promotion in Colombia
by Ocetalo
Hi there!
I apologize for using this list, found it most related to current topic.
I've got a proposal for you. Here in Colombia there is the
SENA<http://www.sena.edu.co/portal>,
a government service for training people -mostly youth and low income- in
several trades by technical degrees and courses, graphic design among those.
As far as I know, they've been using Corel and traditionals so I want to
introduce Inkscape to them. I've found someone who can help pushing into the
SENA office here in
Cartagena<http://www.flickr.com/photos/mariedoucet/sets/72157611795508388/>.
A first step would be to prepare an introduction material for this person,
something she finds atractive and digestible (bear in mind she's a
bureaucrat).
I think it would be of great help, given that SENA targets people who can't
afford licensed programs, as well as a window for Inkscape with a big chance
of national coverage. Would you be interested?
God bless you
12 years, 3 months
Clamwin is flagging the 0.46 installer as infected....
by john cliff
Hi Guys, a user on the inkscapeforum has reported that clamwin
is finding Trojan.Downloader-65039 in the 0.46 installer from sourceforge.
I downloaded and installed clamwin and used it to check a fresh download and
can confirm it flagging it. Any suggestions on what to do with it?
Cheers
John
12 years, 3 months
Building libraries for Win32
by Bob Jamison
Hi all,
I am very sorry that I have been extremely busy with the day job
since Thanksgiving (last Thurs in Nov, for you heathens (j/k) :-) )
I am going to put some text on the wiki how to build libs on win32/mingw
for the bundle. It's actually quite easy. I'll start putting info on
the site this
weekend. But in the meantime, if you want to be able to add libs to
the bundle (or build Gtk how Tor Lillqvist does it) you should download
MSYS in the meantime.
Several people have been trying to contact me about rebuilding Boehm-GC
with a different option. I received your emails... sorry I was away at
the time.
This weekend, let's talk on the IRC/XMPP channel.
bob
12 years, 3 months
my build.xml change
by bulia byak
This works for me, but since I rarely build for Windows I wanted to
alert others in case this may turn problematic:
cxxtests use python, but they assume there's a python executable in
the path, which may not work for everyone, so I switched that to use
${devlibs}/python/python.exe
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
12 years, 3 months
LPE cleanup
by bulia byak
Hi guys,
what if, as a first step towards 0.47, we clean up the mess in our LPE
list - remove proofs of concept, hide those that only make sense in a
tool, merge similar ones per our discussion, remove or fix those that
crash? Can anyone who's more in the loop please make a list of
suggestions?
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
12 years, 3 months
Input Devices cleanup
by bulia byak
I just noticed that we have two "input devices" commands in File menu.
Please whoever did this, decide which one we will use and delete the
other!
In general, I would propose a "bus tomorrow" rule as a general
guideline for committing stuff to our SVN:
Before committing, imagine you are hit by bus tomorrow and cannot
continue your work. Is your work so far still better off committed?
That is, please do not willfully introduce duplication in the code and
especially in the UI unless this solves some problems for the user
(not you). What you commit must not be perfect and complete (nothing
is ever perfect or complete), but it must be immediately useful for
something and must not introduce confusion for the user. An exception
can be made when your commit does not change the UI; committing unused
code is still bad but can be tolerated so long as it's hidden. But two
same-purpose commands in the menu or two indistinguishable LPEs are
not acceptable in any case. Either we do the switch or we do not. If
you expect users to give you feedback after comparing the two
commands, forget it. People are too busy to bother. If not ready, do
not commit; if ready, just make the switch, as early in the release
cycle as possible, and be ready to answer angry emails :)
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
12 years, 3 months
GSoC2009
by Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi,
>From what Leslie wrote in the mentors list it's quite obvious that
this year all organizations willing to participate should make an
early start to get best proposals, because amount of projects is
somewhat cut (no details given at this point) in comparison to last
year.
Since a number of principal developers had agreed that we indeed
should take part at GSoC2009, I've just dared to publish news to
encourage potential students looking at list of projects and
blueprints and thinking about participating. If you find it necessary
to edit the news text, please do so :)
Alexandre
12 years, 3 months
