September 2009 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Since release is nearing, let's talk 0.48 and beyond...
by Valerie 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 23:09 -0500, Ted Gould wrote: > On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 23:16 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote: > > One thing that Debian is considering is fixed dates for freezes. > > So they'd do a freeze on a fixed schedule, and then > > release when it's ready. I'm curious if this might work for us > > long term, certainly with a DVCS we'd have more flexibility there. > > Interesting approach... I think that this may work for us > too after 0.49 since it may be a little unpredictable with > the library changes. It'd probably be a good idea after 0.49, yes, after major tasks such as library change is complete. Open source projects often push back the release date so that they can stabilize all the features they have added during the development cycle (and even then, some don't make it on time anyway). To the user, the choice is pretty simple though: - In 6 months, you get to access Feature A, and 6 months after that, you get to access Feature B, or: - You get to access Features A and B in 1 year. Those 6 months with "just" Feature A isn't pointless, it may mean hours of work saved, or that the user could accomplish things that he couldn't have otherwise. For some users, the absence of a crucial feature can be just as crippling as a bug. Good thing for the Development version, though that's not a solution for everybody.

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Inkscape nightlies PPA
by Ted Gould 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Hello, I set up this repository a while ago, but it broke, and now I think I have it all running again. I'm still running the builds manually so they're not quite "nightlies" but it's been running reliably, so I'm almost ready to move it to an automated script. This is a PPA that contains frequent builds of Inkscape directly from the trunk branch. It creates a separate package called "inkscape-devel" that you can install while you have stable version of Inkscape installed as well. Hardy is still a bit broken, so this is for people on Ubuntu releases 8.10 or newer. https://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive/ppa/ Currently, this will have pre2 plus other patches and translations that have been put in trunk since it's release. --Ted

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[patch] Allow inkscape to zoom a wider range
by Arjan van de Ven 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Hi, A program I've written (timechart, see http://blog.fenrus.org/?p=5 ) has SVG as output format. The idea behind timechart is to show what is happening in a system as part of performance tuning, and to do so in a way that is "infinitely zoomable", that is, if you want more information about a portion of the timechart, all you need to do is zoom in and more small details appear. With Inkscape being the primary suggested tool for viewing the output, I currently have a problem in that I can't put the finest details into the SVG, because inkscape just won't allow zooming deep enough to be able to see those details. I made the patch below that bumps the limits on zooming so that users of timechart then can get to the very finest details (if this patch is accepted I'll change timechart to put the details in that I've not been able to put in so far). I hope this (or a change with similar effects) is acceptable for inclusion into Inkscape. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Center Index: src/desktop-handles.h =================================================================== --- src/desktop-handles.h (revision 22220) +++ src/desktop-handles.h (working copy) @@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ class Selection; } -#define SP_DESKTOP_ZOOM_MAX 256.0 -#define SP_DESKTOP_ZOOM_MIN 0.01 +#define SP_DESKTOP_ZOOM_MAX 4096.0 +#define SP_DESKTOP_ZOOM_MIN 0.001 #define SP_COORDINATES_UNDERLINE_NONE (0) #define SP_COORDINATES_UNDERLINE_X (1 << Geom::X)

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Inkscape 0.47pre2
by Ted Gould 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Hello! After too much delay, some for good and some for stupid reasons I've finally uploaded a pre2 source package for Inkscape. This is VERY close to the final 0.47 release so it's important that people pay attention and we don't let things fall through the cracks. https://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.47pre2 There should be packages available shortly, packagers please reply to this message with information regarding those. Please discuss any release critical bugs or other information regarding the release on the inkscape-devel mailing list. === MD5 Sums === de351d81cca9f99b3a1fb4faa36c723d inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.bz2 77c6ea1245618af69381067c90e57afc inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.bz2.asc ccced173f66611591006d16ea6a200b4 inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.gz 3df60bde0ca2ef28db283c285d5511b1 inkscape-0.47pre2.tar.gz.asc cb94fa821bff40970260f9530cc0bd84 inkscape-0.47pre2.zip 710c523dfdcf10ad39753788baefba90 inkscape-0.47pre2.zip.asc --Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Since release is nearing, let's talk 0.48 and beyond...
by Guillermo Espertino 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

I'd really love to see beter text tools and better image links management in Inkscape for 0.48: - An improved text tool with the ability of setting other units than pixels, better inline style edition, break words with hyphenation for better looking justified text blocks. - Better management of image links (manage absolute and relative links properly) and a simpe UI to fix broken links or relink images. Also a proper interpretation of the resolution of the imported images (i.e.: if the document's default units are cm or inches, read the resolution value of the image and scale it to fit the proper size). Those are in my oppinion some weak points in inkscape that should be revised as soon as possible. I think I can wait for the animation features proposed in the current roadmap.

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Fwd: [Bug 397075] Re: Inkscape crashes adding image effect in filter editor
by the Adib 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Bulia, Joshua, If you could commit please. Adib. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: theAdib <theAdib@...1439...> Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:18 AM Subject: [Bug 397075] Re: Inkscape crashes adding image effect in filter editor To: theAdib@...1439... Appended patch resolves the crash situation. The patch catches now all BadURIExceptions. Pls test and confirm. Adib. ** Changed in: inkscape Assignee: (unassigned) => theAdib (theadib) ** Attachment added: "patch for catching all exceptions" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31733106/BUG397075_image_filter_crash.patch ** Changed in: inkscape Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- Inkscape crashes adding image effect in filter editor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397075 You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.

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Filters in Pre-2 ?
by Ivan Louette 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Hi Bulia, I noticed that the filters.svg in Pre2-1 for Windows isn't the latest one. That should be this one : http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/share/fi… regards, ivan

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Win2K SP4 uninstall problems with Inkscape-0.47pre2-1.exe
by Jon 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

I just tried uninstalling to check whether the uninstaller would delete my theme customizations in etc, lib, and share when it uninstalled it's core files, and ran into the following problems. FYI, the original installation was into E:\Inkscape 1) Installer appeared to be deleting files and at the end of the process pop'd a dialog asking if I wanted to delete "E". Obviously as E is one of my partitioned "drives" I said no. Don't really know what the uninstaller would have done, but this appears serious. 2) Likely due to my "no" answer in (1), it doesn't appear any files were deleted by the installer. Note that the original install did not go smoothly as I first tried to have the installer install to a non-empty directory containing my theme customizations. Once the installer squawked that it couldn't install to a non-empty dir, I manually deleted my customizations (while the installer was still running) and then was able to get the installer to continue by clicking the Cancel button (I think) many times until it continued. It may be that the original installation snags are to blame for. However, this is an example of why I initially avoid installers like the plague until they prove that they will not degrade my system. Please, please, please continue to provide the 7z's at the same time as the installers :) I'll check out the next release of the installer when it comes out to see how it handles installing to an existing dir with theme customizations. Jon

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latency skew
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, >From what I remember, there were plans to remove latency skew from Preferences. Could we please either get rid of it or have an explanation in a tooltip what this function actually does? Jon? Alexandre

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poppler 0.12.0 is out
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, TWIMC, poppler 0.12.0 is out. Among new features: support for color management. Alexandre

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