September 2009 - Inkscape Devel

InkscapeForum.com for offer to Inkscape.org
by microUgly 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

If you don't know, I run www.inkscapeforum.com--a relatively successful phpBB forum for Inkscape users. I created the forum because I knew there was demand and at the time I knew I could devote a lot of time to make it successful. But I was never fond of the idea that a single person would have ownership of the data accumulated from the community. I wanted to offer ownership of the forum to Inkscape.org. Ideally this only needs to go as far as knowing that if I were hit by a bus, someone could step in and take over. I don't know how things are ran on the inkscape.org site, but I would be offering the entire setup to be hosted by inkscape.org (if possible). I would happily continue to moderate, and administer the board if appropriate access were given. And I would redirect inkscapeforum.com to the new domain, or change it's name servers. Anyway, discussion open. Would Inkscape.org be interested in adopting the forum? The forum won't be shutdown regardless of the answer. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/InkscapeForum.com-for-offer-to-Inkscape.org-tp2467341… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Imported PNG file not displayed.
by Tavmjong Bah 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hi, In the past few days, importing a PNG file seems to have been broken. The svg:image data seems to be correct but the file is not displayed. Does anybody else see this? Tested with latest SVN on Fedora 9 and 11. Tav

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Paths and file extensions in save dialogs
by Maximilian Albert 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hi all, as of rev. 22010 the "Save as ..." and "Save a copy ..." dialogs should now remember the last used directories and file extensions independently of each other (this closes at least LP #184655, #386292, and perhaps even a few more, I haven't checked yet). It took me a while to understand how the different OS-specific file dialogs are implemented, and I hope I got it right. But please test extensively and let me know if there are any problems. This particularly applies to Windows users since I cannot test the changes there. Thanks, Max P.S.: I believe the export dialog doesn't remember its own path yet althouth I modified some parts in the corresponding source files, too. But it just occurred to me that there is an #ifdef in file.cpp to choose between different types of export dialogs, so I probably modified the wrong part. Anyway, my question is: Is it desired to store the path in the Export dialog at all, at least for the Page and Drawing tabs?

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] rotating guides
by Krzysztof Kosiński 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

2009/9/28 ~suv <suv-sf@...58...>: > While I never really appreciated the new way to delete a guide (I have > to reach across the keyboard (laptop) for the <Backspace> key, whereas > <Ctrl> is in reach of the resting left hand) now I long for the previous > behavior! Many times I accidentally have removed a selected object > instead of the to-be-deleted guide - without noticing first, so that I > was forced to go through the undo list to discover how far I needed to > go back to retrieve the lost object. Sorry for storming into this discussion (I'm not much into guides), but wouldn't this be solved if we had right click menus that were actually contextual? A guide could then by deleted by right clicking it and selecting Delete Guide. I don't think making guides selectable is a good idea, because barring any ugly hacks we can only select SPObjects. Regards, Krzysztof

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lp:inkscape branch in Launchpad
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

The lp:inkscape branch in Launchpad is out of sync with SVN, there is some error when importing. Can someone try to unwedge it? Maybe completely removing it and importing again from scratch would help? Regards, Krzysztof

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[NEW] Waf build
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hello all I just managed to build Inkscape using Waf as the build system. Although the documentation of Waf isn't complete and writing the scripts involved some guesswork and reading the source, it made a lot of things very easy when compared to Autotools or CMake (for example, the SVN revision feature). Currently it works for Linux builds, but supporting Windows and OSX only requires some tweaking. It doesn't do anything beyond building yet (like installation, updating translation templates, generating manpages and the like), but I'm working on it. Regards, Krzysztof -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-NEW--Waf-build-tp25530159p25530159.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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URI is EVIL!!!
by Jon A. Cruz 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hi, Just wanted to point out that technically URI classes are not usable for our assets. For example, it is tempting to use an URI to resolve an asset to the base document path. The problem is that a URI according to the RFC's is not usable for file paths. Glib and friends properly implement URI, therefore we can't use them for files. In the future we can probably use IRI's or our own classes for references and assets, etc. However URI's are not usable. I'm pointing this out since we are just about to release, but I tracked down a critical bug to being caused by this. In the near term we should search through the codebase for improper uses of URI classes. The tricky thing is that they will appear to function since common path names are "safe." However as soon as unexpected characters come in (like ampersands), all bets are off. To summarize: If we are linking something that is represented by a file (images, color profiles, etc.) can't be processed with a URI class or URI functions. It will work for simple cases, but not all.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape scripting API (Draft)
by Glimmer Labs 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 9:36 AM, Kent Tenney<ktenney@...400...> wrote: > I see mention of pytester.py in src/inkscape/src/extension/dbus/Notes.txt > but haven't found the file. > > Thanks, > Kent Update to the latest SVN and it should be in the dbus folder. I didn't add it at first because it was just for testing, but now I realize it serves as a fairly good example script as well. The reason it creates two documents is to make sure functions work even if they are called on an inactive document. This can be changed if you don't want to be opening lots of extra windows. (or use document_0 if you don't want to open any extra windows.)

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Judging rendering test results
by Jasper van de Gronde 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

There are 15 "new" results in the rendering tests, if anyone could help judge the outcomes that would be great (I'm most definitely not getting around to it until somewhere in November). To do that, check out: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/gsoc-testsuite/tester You can run any of the tests that are marked as new at: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html Once run, just compare the result (in the output subdirectory) with any of the existing references and/or your knowledge of what the output should be. If the current output is correct, add it as a pass reference, if it is incorrect add it as a fail reference (and commit). If needed I can always update the results page on request.

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Failed 17 of 176 tests on cxxtests
by Aurélio A. Heckert 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

May be good to clean the errors in inkscape cxxtests before realize the new version. Here you can see the make test result: http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/LastMakeCheck Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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