October 2009 - Inkscape Devel

0.47 about screens in progress
by Nicolas Dufour 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi Thanks to all who confirmed or added their translation (some translations still need to be confirmed!). Wiki page updated (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AboutScreenTranslation). Johan is very busy at the moment, thus I've started to translate the screens by myself. I've tried Excellentia, but due to a very limited accents support, I've finally switched to Harabara Hand (http://www.dafont.com/harabarahand.font). The only drawback is that it doesn't support Cyrillic and other Unicode characters. Since I haven't found a nice script Cyrillic font, the Russian screen uses URW Chancery L (a default Ubuntu font). It's not a script font, but it looks better than a Times or Arial in this context. The translated screens are now (revision 22547) br, fr, it, nl, pt_BR, and ru. Could you please take a look at the screens and tell me what you think of the chosen fonts before I continue? Johan, do you want to keep your original untouched, or replace the "draw freely" font by Harabara Hand (or another script font)? Regards, -- Nicolas

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To ^-, where are you?
by unknown＠example.com 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi ^-, Where are you? I miss you around in our chat channel... Love, Johan (our beloved IRC/Jabber-bridge-bot is gone from the Jabber channel :-( can we bring it back?)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Bug in snapping (using pen tool)
by Arcadie Cracan 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

În data de Miercuri 28 Octombrie 2009 03:21:40 pm Diederik van Lierop a scris: > Op Wo, 28 oktober, 2009 14:13, schreef Arcadie Cracan: > > Hello, > > > > I've found a misbehaviour in the latest svn regarding snapping. > > Using pen tool, with snap to grid enabled there are times when the first > > point > > of a polyline drawn using the pen tool is not on the grid. I have > > investigated > > this a little and it seems that at (random?) times the snapping gets > > "postponed globally"... > > If this is the case then I'm the one to blame ;-). I've programmed the > snap delay. Does this also happen when you set the snap delay to zero in > the preferences? Has "always snap" been enabled for the grid? > > I haven't seen this before, and I'm not able to reproduce this. > > Diederik Actually, it depends (as suv hinted on the irc - thanks) on the speed of the cursor. You have to have some potential snap targets (some drawing) in order to reproduce it: 1. Have some drawing on the canvas, 2. select the pen tool, 3. move your mouse quickly for some time, 4. click somewhere near a drawing for a new line. You will notice that the snap indicator appears correctly on the grid, put the line starts somewhere in between... Arcadie

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Fix for bug #459811 - can't switch ellipse mode
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hello Attached is a fix for bug #459811. The case was a typo (missing slash) in toolbox.cpp which I probably made when refactoring preferences code. Please commit. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński

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0.47, probably not in the next week
by Joshua A. Andler 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hey All, Subject says it all. My family is moving this week and Jon & I will be at Google HQ this weekend for the GSoC Mentor's summit. I will not have a chance to review any patches until I am back early next week. Bulia, if you see any good and safe ones, feel free to wreak havoc. ;) Honestly, if someone wanted to take a look at the LPE Undo issues (change a param on any LPE and then hit undo). It would probably save us a ton of grief with user complaints if it could be fixed (obviously, only if the issue is not to complex). Cheers, Josh

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Re : [Inkscape-translator] Re : Re : About box graphics in 0.47
by Nicolas Dufour 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

New wiki page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/AboutScreenTranslation Please confirm or add your translation here. Thanks! -- Nicolas

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About box graphics in 0.47
by Alexandre Prokoudine 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, Just so it doesn't slip, are we not forgetting to replace graphics in the About dialog with the contest winning picture? (and prepare the one that was No.2 for 0.48 development cycle?) Alexandre

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my latest commit: a followup
by bulia byak 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Somehow in all our discussions about refactoring, few if any mentions were made of the long-standing code duplication: the "new GUI" switch and the fact that src/widgets/desktop-widget has been duplicated in ui/view/edit-widget. This second copy lingers there for at least two years, unused, with little progress. Do we still need it? As I vaguely remember, at least one of the reasons for starting it was to get collapsable toolbars, but we have them now working fine with the old UI. Will anyone object if I remove ui/view/edit-widget and related unused code post-0.47? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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versioning scheme
by Alexandre Prokoudine 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, This mail can lead to all sorts of flamewars, hunting with pitchforks etc., but what the hell... :) Don't know for you, but to me Inkscape seems to be inside the <1.0 loop forever, whereas people all around effectively use it for solving Real Life (C)(R)(tm) tasks. Yes, it is unbearably slow, it cannot work as a standalone prepress tool and so on and so forth. Nevertheless, it's real tool, not toy. That is, in a way the current <1.0 versioning quite misrepresents Inkscape and its features. Lately Hugin (which is a panorama making tool) project adopted the YEAR.EVEN/ODD versioning scheme. Should we probably discuss whether we need something like that? This would be another way to deal with the roadmap that we don't really follow anyway. /me ducks Alexandre

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Lauchpad milestones
by Nicolas Dufour 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, Could someone update the Launchpad milestones so that we can target the bugs and wishlists to the next releases? (0.48 and 0.49)? 0.47alpha, 0.47beta, 0.47rc1, 0.47.0 and 0.47.1 are not very useful and we could probably remove them safely. (0.47.1 has 5 reports which should be targeted 0.48, and the others none.) Thanks! -- Nicolas

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