February 2009 - Inkscape Devel

Absence from Inkscape work
by Maximilian Albert 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Dear fellow Inkscapers, on rather short notice I need to inform you that I won't be able to do any development work during the next 2-3 months. Also, I will have very little internet access (if at all) and therefore won't be receiving emails from the -devel list. I am aware that there are a couple of - in part quite substantial - things which I leave unfinished in the SVN repository and I truly apologize that due to my broken laptop (which left me with no personal computer at all during the last half-year) and both major upcoming changes in my life and a lot of very urgent research work for university, I so far haven't completed the tasks I was working on. I very much hope and am positive that things are going to be better in the second half of 2009 and I promise that I will complete all the unfinished stuff as soon as I can resume coding. Until then, please feel free to remove any code of mine which is not functional or not tidied up. You are also welcome to improve it but I will also do so when I'm back at my regular Inkscape work. For the guides stuff I committed a short while ago, I'm attaching a patch of recent work in progress which (partly) implements selecting and editing of multiple guides. You are welcome to clean it up and commit it - or to ignore it for now. Again, sorry for all the inconvenience. I'm very much looking forward to getting back up to speed with my work. Best regards, Max

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svg filters crash
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hi, For last couple of days Inkscape crashes whenever an SVG Filter from Filters menu is chosen. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/334050 BTW, we have 37 more bugs tagged with "crash". If we are planning to do a release this year, maybe we should encourage ourselves to clean up the mess or at least leave several wet floor signs around :) Alexandre

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Export, Publish and Save As
by Martin Owens 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hi inkscapers, I was looking at a few bugs (#168504 and #168958) and thinking about some of my own personal grievances with the whole business of exporting and saving as. Currently in inkscape 0.46 (Ubuntu 8.10) there are a whole boat full of exporting, saving, loading menus in the File menu. Most of which seem to follow this logic: 1) File New/Load/Save * New > * Open ... * Open Recent > * Revert * Save * Save As ... * Save a copy ... 2) Import/Export * Import ... * Export Bitmap ... * Import from Open Clipart ... 3) Print ... 4) Vacuum Defs 5) Preferences * Document Properties ... * Document Meta Data ... * Inkscape Preferences ... * Input Devices ... 6) Application * Close * Quit This seems a bit of a mess, although I don't know if you've changed much for 0.47 so apologies if this has already been put through for refinement. My suggestions would be as follows: * Move Revert to Edit and have it as a function of the undo system. And/Or rename it to 'Reload from File' * Remove Save a Copy and replace with 'Publish ...' which would have a dialog specifically designed to export to pdf, plain svg or png and with options that make sense such as v1.1 svg, clean defs and no personal data (such as paths). * The document properties and meta data seem out of place, since they're more to do with the document object than the file object. Maybe a top level document menu? One that includes some of the edit menu items specific for the document? * Vacuum Defs seems like a plugin or something that could be a part of publish, or the doc menu. * Import and Export make sense, but perhaps having plugins that allow imports and exports to various places and removing the specific link for open clipart. Thoughts? Flames? Regards, Martin Owens

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Conversion of circular arc to Bezier curve
by Alvin Penner 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

This is a follow-up to LP332735. In the file \src\sp-ellipse.cpp there is a formula for calculating the length of a Bezier arm when converting a circular arc to a Bezier curve. The formula reads: len = 0.552*(e-s)/M_PI_2 where (e-s) is the angle of the arc. I think the formula should read: len = 4*tan((e-s)/4)/3 I've created a patch for this, at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/332735 , but I'm reluctant to commit it, because I don't actually compile the code myself, I work only from the Windows nightly builds, so it may be a few days before I can test it. Would anyone be willing to confirm that this patch will not cause a crash, or is it okay if I just commit it? (As to the formula itself, it has already been tested in the file cubicsuperpath.py and it behaves as desired.) http://www.nabble.com/file/p22179587/sp-ellipse.diff sp-ellipse.diff -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Conversion-of-circular-arc-to-Bezier-curve-tp22179587… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] website
by Jarosław Foksa 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hey, I've been working on inkscape.org mockup, but just like Joshua I somehow couldn't finish it for several months... >Do we have a new design? Do we have anybody to work on new >website? It's still work in progress: http://wstaw.org/p/4e95/ Please give me 1 week to finish header and main menu icons, maybe this will make it look a bit cleaner. If you have any ideas how this layout could be improved further then feel free to share them here.

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website
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi, I'd love to know about our plans for inkscape.org. Some time ago it was proposed to move to Drupal, and there was even a theme contest at DeviantArt. Right now I have here an experienced webmaster interested in Inkscape who could turn a ready-to-go design into PHP templates or whatever you want. Do we have a new design? Do we have anybody to work on new website? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Helo
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:38 AM, adam hyde wrote: > how many of the inkscape doc team are going to the LGM? I'm probably not present this year. Alexandre

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Videos from linux.conf.au
by Jon A. Cruz 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

The first of the Inkscape-related videos from linux.conf.au is up online now http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2009/02/color-talk-at-linuxconfau.html Hopefully Andy's and Donna's will be up soon. Once they are, I'll send out another note.

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Gradient manipulation is crashing in current revision
by Yann Papouin 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hello, When you move one of the node of the gradient transform on the path of the polygon, inkscape crash immediatly (Win32). Maybe due to the snap code ? Have a good day! Yann.

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libgdl
by Joel Holdsworth 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi All, Just to say that working on the Lumiera project, we've adopted the GDL library for panel management, same as Inkscape. We've found some shortcomings with GDL: it's got a few bugs, the documentation is sparse, and it lacks some features that we need. Right now the Anjuta guys are maintaining it, and I'm submitting patches, and other people seem to be contributing to it from time to time. I notice that Inkscape uses it's own forked version of GDL. I don't know who's maintaining that code, but can I suggest that someone take some time to try and move over to using the shared library? The Anjuta guys are very helpful, and seem happy to accept all kinds of patches, including feature additions, so there shouldn't be too many political problems in merging. If you can merge over, then Inkscape, Anjuta, and Lumiera will all benefit from shared maintenance of the code. The flip side is that I'm squashing bugs, and I'd like Inkscape to benefit from my work! Is this going to be possible, do you think? Best Regards Joel

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