February 2009 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Tablet stopped work in Dev builds
by microUgly 28 Apr '09

28 Apr '09

I just downloaded the Oct 24 Windows build and found that my tablet isn't working properly with it. I can move the cursor with tablet pen, but when I press on the tablet nothing draws. I tried toggling the "Use pressure" button. My tablet still works fine in 0.46 and was working in an earlier build I was using last night (I don't think it was more than a week or two old). Let me know if you require a bug logged for this. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Tablet-stopped-work-in-Dev-builds-tp20171213p20171213… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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PerspectiveObject / Envelope Effect
by G33K 15 Apr '09

15 Apr '09

Hello, I am very interested in the PerspectiveObject feature that is mentioned in the roadmap for milestone 15 / Inkscape 0.49. Has the implementation already started? Couldn't find any information. Also, the link to the example on the wiki seems to be broken. Does anyone know what it was showing? Perhaps I might get my hands on a developer machine in a few weeks, so I might be able to help out. In the meantime, I'd like to try and fix the Python implemented envelope effect. It looks like it's only using the corners of the envelope for the perspective, but doesn't take any curved sides into account. Can someone tell me in which directory I can find the source code for that one? Many thanks! Gerrit -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Snapping toolbar
by Diederik van Lierop 05 Apr '09

05 Apr '09

Op Vr, 16 januari, 2009 01:39, schreef Rock Star: > The difference between creating and editing can be somehow seen from the > video [1]. That video indeed explains everything! A few months ago I introduced a snapping delay, which makes snapping in Inkscape much more responsive in complex documents. That snapping delay is what you noticed when editing objects, but it apparently it doesn't work when creating objects. I will fix that. If however you prefer the old behavior without any delay, then just go the preferences -> snapping and set the delay to zero. > Now I see the problem with guides and grid and toggles. However, since I > come more from a CAD world, I'm used of snapping to whatever is visible. > Hence, if there are 2 grids turned on, I would expect to snap to both. > This > would than mean 2 more toggles. If you see grid/guides it snaps, otherwise > not. Maybe it isn't a problem after all to add an additional toggle in series. When creating a grid, the per-grid snapping is turned on by default. So if a user is not aware of this then he won't notice, and if he turns it off then... well, that's his/here responsibility ;-). So we would end up with these options in series: 1) the global snapping toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS** 2) the GLOBAL grid snapping toggle -> CLEARLY RECOGNIZABLE ON THE TOOLBAR 3) the PER-GRID snapping toggle -> ON BY DEFAULT 4) snap bounding box corners toggle or the snap nodes toggle -> EVERY USER MUST KNOW ABOUT THIS TOO** **) ... but only if they care about snapping obviously. > Anyway, thanks for the answer and additional explanation. You're welcome. Thanks for your feedback! Diederik

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Ubuntu nightly builds
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Hello all, So I've gotten most of the way on getting a nightly build setup in a Launchpad PPA. It builds for the current, the previous and the next release of Ubuntu. What I'm particularly happy about is the package is "inkscape-devel" so it can be parallel installed with a stable version of Inkscape. Here's the PPA: http://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive I'm going to run the script by hand for a couple of days to catch errors but then Cory has graciously allowed me to run it on his server after that so it should become more regular. --Ted

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Guide editing by mouse
by Maximilian Albert 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi, as a kind of test for some other things I have in mind I added better support for editing guides by mouse. You will notice that the anchor point of guides is now displayed on canvas as a small dot. You can still move guides as you used to, but now you can also rotate them around the anchor as well as move the anchor along the guide. What I'm not really happy with, though, is the way in which the various functionalities are accessed. So I'd like your help in this respect. Currently it works as follows: 1) dragging the anchor moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it) 2) pressing Shift and dragging the anchor moves it along the guide (while the guide itself stays in place) 3) dragging the guide anywhere outside the anchor rotates it around the anchor 4) pressing Shift and dragging the guide outside the anchor bypasses rotation and moves the whole guide (as in 1.) Does this make sense to you? Do you have better suggestions as to which functionality should be accessed in which way/with which modifier? Thanks for your feedback, Max

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[NEW] Icon theming
by Krzysztof Kosiński 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

All icons used in Inkscape should now be themable. You can find out the names by looking at the IDs in icons.svg, at icon names in in share/icons/hicolor/scalable/*, or at the file src/ui/icon-names.h. All names are defined in a new file, ui/icon-names.h. This file should be used for all icon names used in Inkscape. I also removed stale files which attempted to do the same but weren't used universally (ui/stock.h, ui/stock-items.h, inkscape-stock.h). Right now Inkscape uses the discrete SVG icons. I timed "hot" startup (using "time inkscape --verb FileQuit" twice and noting the second run) and it seems that it's actually faster (9.281s) than using icons.svg (9.799s), probably because the RSVG renderer which renders the SVG icons in Gnome is faster than ours. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-NEW--Icon-theming-tp22120443p22120443.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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LinuxFund work 2009 wiki page
by Milosz Derezynski 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hey, Just a quick note that I've created a wiki page for the LinuxFund proposal, which is explicitly meant for everyone to add comments or discuss propositions. The page can be found here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxFund2009_1 Cheers, M. -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]

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graphtec
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, FUI: https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/35004 Apparently, CraftROBO vendor is interested in cooperation. Alexandre

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Windows nightly builds are still broken...
by Diederik van Lierop 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

The windows nightly builds are still broken... Can anyone look into this please? Diederik

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