Re: [Inkscape-devel] spray tool: UI
by Josh Andler
I agree in principal, but I can't say that a function being "fundamental"
matters as much as adding versatility to a tool, which in the end does what
we want to do... empower the user. I think we should hang on to it until our
nightly build situation gets sorted. The best way to figure out if it's
truly valuable is to get feedback from users.
Cheers,
Josh
On Jan 4, 2010 4:12 PM, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:04 PM, Joshua A. Andler <scislac@...400...> wrote:
> Why not keep Focus? I'...
A modifier must be sufficiently fundamental and versatile to be worth
having. This one looks to me more arbitrary than fundamental.
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
13 years
spray tool: UI
by bulia byak
I haven't fully tested the functionality yet, but here are some
comments on the UI. Sorry for the terseness - I do find the tool
valuable, but the UI really needs some work.
* The tool icon is horrible and very out of the line with the default
tool icons. The Tweak icon is not stellar either. Can some talented
artist suggest a replacement?
* "Population" is unclear. Its tooltip does not really help. "This
setting adjusts" is superfluous, just delete it, but then what remains
is still confusing: "the number of items sprayed" - total number? Per
click? Per mile? Per what? What does the percentage represent? Please
rethink this.
* "The mean of the spray action" is impossible to understand. Mean what?
* "SD" is very techy, and while the tooltip expands it as "standard
deviation", it is still confusing. Standard deviation of what value?
Can you explain it in terms understandable to someone who has no math
training and has no idea of what SD is.
* The button "Some options for the spray" is a bad idea, as is the
dialog it opens. We don't have separate dialogs for tool options. Each
tool may have some often-used controls on the controls bar, plus some
rarely-used settings on its page in Inkscape Preferences. Please try
to redistribute the dialog controls between these two locations. E.g.
I don't think many people will ever change the distribution from
Gaussian to uniform - this choice can be moved to Preferences. The
controls bar can accommodate more than you have there now - if
something does not fit it will be placed in an automatic menu, so just
move the least used controls to the right (but preserving some logical
grouping, of course). You may also try to combine some of the options
into higher-level, coarser but more user-friendly preset-like options,
such as a single "Scale randomization" slider instead of min/max
values. (And for cursor, the Width value seems a duplicate of the
controls bar's Width slider.)
Code-wise, the file spray-option.cpp contains some leftover bits from
Alignment dialog (e.g. "remove overlaps" undo comment - and why do you
need to make undo commit at all in this dialog?!) and some French
comments that need to be translated.
--
bulia byak
Inkscape. Draw Freely.
http://www.inkscape.org
13 years
How to sync 2Geom?
by Krzysztof Kosiński
I have a question: how do I "sync" 2Geom from its SVN? I want to add
this action as a custom command in my Waf build system for Inkscape.
Regards, Krzysztof
13 years
build weirdness
by Alexandre Prokoudine
Hi,
While building revision 8938 I saw this:
In file included from extension/execution-env.cpp:27:
./util/glib-list-iterators.h: In member function ‘T* const&
Inkscape::Util::GSListConstIterator<T*>::operator*() const [with T =
SPItem]’:
extension/execution-env.cpp:61: instantiated from here
./util/glib-list-iterators.h:47: warning: dereferencing type-punned
pointer will break strict-aliasing rules
CXX extension/init.o
^Cmake[2]: *** [extension/init.o] Interrupt
make[1]: *** wait: No child processes. Stopping.
make[1]: *** Waiting for tasks execution end...
make[1]: *** wait: No child processes. Stopping.
make: *** [all] Error 2
The compile messages were actually in RU, so I did 'LC_ALL make' and
for some reason the compilation didn't break there again and is likely
to be completed this time. Any ideas?
Alexandre
13 years
Back from the dead
by Bob Jamison
Hi, all!
I've been busy with other things for the last 7 months, but I want to
make up for it somewhat.
Sorry!
I've been told that the "devlibs" bundle on Modevia seriously needs
updating, so I will start doing
that with what people need, and what they agree upon.
After adding msvcr80.dll to the devlibs, I was told that Python's libs
need updating in general.
We have been wanting to use Python 2.6 for over a year now, but a couple
of the dependencies,
(lxml and numpy) have held us back.
I looked at their project pages, and it appears that there are
2.6-usable win32 binary builds
available for them.
So, the question is: is everyone comfortable with updating Python to
2.6? It's the version
'at the precipice.' Being the last version before 3.0, there is some
expectation of permanence.
Things work correctly now for 2.5, but moving to 2.6 will allow updating
UniConvertor to 1.1.4,
which helps toward fixing a bug:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996
<https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/315996/comments/39>
bob (ishmal)
13 years
Issue with inkscape on FreeBSD
by Guy Brand
Hi list,
I'm having a serious issue with inkscape on FreeBSD -current. I'm
using the port available for FreeBSD and even a forced reinstall
of it doesn't fix the problem. The maintainer of the port suggested
to report the problem through this list.
The issue is quite simple to express: adding a layer to any opened
file freezes inkscape. I can open any svg file without a trouble, and
a file can contain layers, they are perfectly displayed. I can also
hide any of the layers of a document, or rename a layer, change the
order of layers, without problem. Only creating a new layer (or
duplicating the current layer) is impossible, and leads to a freeze.
Tracing the process (using truss on FreeBSD) doesn't show anything
once the process is frozen. If there is anything else I could do
please let me know.
Does such an issue speak to anyone here?
Merry Christmas all
gb
13 years
