November 2010 - Inkscape Devel

Node Tool Regressions(?)
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi, In updating my book, I've done a comprehensive test of the node tool. Here is a list of regressions I've found (a couple where reported earlier today). 1. Clicking on the background with a node selected deselects the path rather than the node. 2. Page Up/Down no longer adds/removes nodes when cursor is hovered over a selected node (mouse wheel still works). 3. Node selection via mouse wheel swaps with/without Shift key functionality (spatial distance vs. distance along path). 4. Shift no longer prevents grabbing the path when doing a rubber-band selection of nodes. 5. Shift no longer disables snapping of nodes while dragging nodes. 6. Space bar no longer drops a copy of the nodes while dragging. 7. . or > expands only one handle rather than both, while Right-Ctrl . or > expands both. Ditto with Alt (rotating handles is correct with respect to Left/Right Ctrl/Alt keys). 8. Node-sculpting pressure sensitivity with tablet lost. Are all these bugs or are some feature changes? Tav

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Inkscape bitmap question
by Kris De Gussem 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi all I stumbled upon a few issues during the translation of the tips tutorial. In the preferences you'll find the option "Resolution for Create Bitmap Copy:" in the Bitmaps tab. It does not seem to be related to the "Bitmap export" dialog... so to what feature is this option relating to? Secondly, the tips tutorial refers to an option for "always importing bitmaps as pattern-filled rectangles" in the Misc tab. However, this option is not present in either the misc, nor the Bitmaps tab in the Preferences. Hence, I'd like to know where to find the option so I can update the tips tutorial. Regards Kris

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Color Gestures Cursors
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Nov '10

18 Nov '10

Hi, The color gesture cursors appear to be missing in v0.47 and v0.48 (the ones with the +/- and H, S, or L). I know that they present translation problems so I am wondering if this is intentional. Tav

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Wacom + browser plugin active.
by Mark T 16 Nov '10

16 Nov '10

I've recently been made aware of: http://mura.deviantart.com/ It uses a Wacom plugin in the browser. The plugin is installed with the recent Wacom installer. It did this with my Bamboo Fun Touch. I saw the plugin in the browser list of plugins a while back. There were little clues at the time what/where. The above site is a major clarification. Devel relevance for Inkscape could be use of the plugin to resolve driver issues? All best. MarkT -- (+61 4) 0679 5734 :: skype: govirtual.com.au :: チェックアウトが、Jingle だ! ::It's a Jingle Out There!

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.48.1?
by ~suv 15 Nov '10

15 Nov '10

[ back to the list ;) ] On 15/11/10 11:15, Tavmjong Bah wrote: > On Mon, 2010-11-15 at 08:28 +0100, ~suv wrote: >> On 4/11/10 05:35, ~suv wrote: >>> On 4/11/10 04:37, Josh Andler wrote: >>> >>>> Any blockers left? Things look pretty ripe right now imho and it seems >>>> like momentum has slowed. Better question... any opposition to moving >>>> forward? > > One more minor things... > > It appears that clicking on the background when a node is selected with > the node tool no longer just deselects the node but deselects the path. > This is a change in behavior from 0.47 where the first click deselected > the node leaving the path selected and the second click deselected the > path. IIRC this has come up before and is related to the multi-path editing feature of the new node tool, but I'm not sure about that. ~suv

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Enable background please !
by Ivan Louette 13 Nov '10

13 Nov '10

I suggest we make background enabled by default in templates in next builds (perhaps to late for 0.48.1 but definitely possible and easy for devel versions). Regards, ivan

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Wacom Enabled = Mouse Wheel Scrolling Broken?
by Tavmjong Bah 12 Nov '10

12 Nov '10

Hi, Has anybody else noticed that in v0.48 when a Wacom tablet is enabled via the Input Devices dialog that scrolling using the mouse wheel (even with a different mouse or via the edge of a trackpad) no longer works? Tav

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Re : [Inkscape-translator] What a big chang!
by Nicolas Dufour 11 Nov '10

11 Nov '10

Hi, > De : Masato Hashimoto <cabezon.hashimoto@...400...> > In 0.48.x branch-r9714, POTFILE.in is updated and it seems to affect > all of existing translations. > As for ja.po, It was completed expect for unimplemented features but > there are 88 fuzzy and 72 untranslated strings after the commit. > > If it's necessary changing, please notify us. I don't know why POTFILE.in was updated (probably to clean it), but it was not a good idea because the generate_POTFILES.sh script is not up to date and 1. forgets some files 2. adds some unused files (mainly experimental LPEs) that were previously removed or commented. Anyway, as this is a bugfix release, there should be no string change, and AFAIKT there's nothing to do for the translators in the 0.48.x branch. Of course you can still update your strings (if the translation is not 100% finished or if you need correct it), but please don't update your po file with the new POTFILE.in. Regards, -- Nicolas

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NEW: QR code
by bulia byak 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Inkscape now has an extension to generate this increasingly popular 2D barcode format (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code). Go to Extensions > Render > Barcode: QR Code. Please report to me any problems. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Removal of mysterious code
by Krzysztof Kosiński 09 Nov '10

09 Nov '10

Please tell me how do you feel about removing the following code: - dom/ - pedro/ - jabber_whiteboard/ - Scripts dialog - Java binding stuff - one of the Find dialogs - native Windows file dialogs Rationale: - dom/ and Java binding are obsolete, the DBus binding should be used instead. For high performance applications there could be a binary plugin API, but I'd prefer to do that once the internal APIs are sane (right now they are far from it). - pedro/ and jabber_whiteboard/ contain Inkboard stuff which doesn't work. - The purpose of the script dialog evades me. To what extent does the scripting capability work? - There are two Find dialogs, one of them is disabled with a notice in the code encouraging to test it. This should be finally resolved. - Native file dialogs are a maintainability nightmare and aren't that much better than GTK dialogs; they are the reason I went for the "embed / link" popup hack for images instead of putting the checkbox in the import dialog. If you have a strong attachment to any of the above, keep in mind those are only suggestions. Regards, Krzysztof

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