December 2010 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Usability development help for Inkscape available
by Aslak Karsi 19 Apr '11

19 Apr '11

Hello We are a group of five students from Finland, studying at University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Science. We are currently working on a project assignment to offer help in usability development for an open source software project of our choice. Past few weeks we have been familiarizing ourselves with Inkscape and its community and now we would like to offer our work resources for your use. We have already figured out a few ideas of what we could do for the Inkscape project: * Heuristic evaluation * Usability testing * Prioritization of usability related bugs on the buglist To produce as useful results as possible, we would like to hear your ideas. How do you feel about the tasks suggested? Is there some specific part of the software we should focus on? Any ideas and feedback at this point would be greatly appreciated. Project leader Aslak Karsi Marko Arffman Matias Patosalmi Jouni Rissanen Matti Siipola

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Compile error (color-profile.cpp)
by Marcin Floryan 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

Hi! Did anyone bump into this compile error - I was just trying do do a clean compile of latest inkscape from bzr trunk. color-profile.cpp: In static member function ‘static std::list<Glib::ustring> Inkscape::ColorProfile::getProfileFiles()’: color-profile.cpp:758:34: error: ‘sanitizeString’ is not a member of ‘Inkscape::IO’ make[3]: *** [color-profile.o] Error 1 Did I miss something? Cheers, Marcin -- Marcin Floryan http://marcin.floryan.pl/ Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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C++ificiation and GTKMM
by Abhishek Sharma 10 Feb '11

10 Feb '11

Hello everyone, C++ification of inkscape has been a long term planned goal for inkscape. To the same accordance I would like to ask a few questions: 1. Does the dependency on GObject need to be removed?? The current code is huge and based on GObject as inheritance, increasing the complexity further. But if we wish to use the functionalities of GTK+ and remove GObject from the picture, wouldn't it be possible and feasible to instead use GTKMM to suffice for the same??? 2. While c++ifying what is going to be the fate of the inkscape's own implementation of garbage collection?? 3. What are your views regarding GTKMM to be introduced in the codebase for c++ification?? Expecting replies from the developers. Thank You. -- Abhishek Sharma

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idea: Exposée-like effect for visualizing complex stacks of svg elements in Inkscape ?
by Felipe Sanches 12 Jan '11

12 Jan '11

I have been using inkscape a lot recently and I noticed that sometimes it can become very annoying to select svg elements that are in the middle of a pile of other elements. Thus, I was thinking that we could have a key-combo that would break appart all "hidden" shapes to allow you to select one of them, and after that, all shapes would be places back in their correct places. Sometimes I do something similar to that by hand, but an automated UI feature would be very useful. Also, it would be solely a visualization mode, not actualy modifying elements in the SVG DOM. I'd like to have some feedback on this idea. thanks, Felipe Sanches (Juca)

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Should inkscape take over libcroco?
by Daniel Macks 06 Jan '11

06 Jan '11

I just received a fairly surly reponse to a libcroco bug on bugzilla.gnome. Apparently the upstream is so inactive that gnome doesn't want to see bugs about it. Inkscape appears to be a major user of this library and (last I knew) had some unmerged (or at least unreleased) patches for it. Might be worthwhile for an inkscape dev to get developer access to the project on gnome to keep it alive. Bonus: could actually use it as an external dependency instead of needing bundled source? dan -- Daniel Macks dmacks@...2516...

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Fourth-year student projects
by Jean-Baptiste Mouret / Mandor 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

Hi Inkscape developers, I teach computer science in France (in this school: http://www.polytech.upmc.fr/version-english.html ) and my fourth-year students are required to work on a project for a few months (2-3 months), for about 2 days a week. Instead of asking them to do "random" projects, I would like them to (try to) contribute to open source projects. In particular, I would love that they contribute to Inkscape. We have three main constraints in the choice of the project: - be do-able by 2 students in a few months; - be a challenge interesting enough to provide work to 2 students for a few months; - include a design phase (understanding the topic, asking questions, designing a planning, find algorithms, etc.) and a coding phase (this excludes code cleaning, documentation, bug-fixes, etc.). Ideally, I would like the students to be mentored by an Inkscape developer who could answer their questions and give some directions; I'd like a least to be sure that the project is interesting for inkscape developers. You can think about this like something similar to the Google Summer of Code. The main difference is that we don't really select candidates so the students may not be very good and the project can obviously fail; but sometimes they can also be very efficient and motivated! I've checked the google summer of code page (http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_Of_Code). The import/export code might be interesting to try with them. The font designing idea and the ICC support migh also be cool. Are these proposition still up-to-date? I'm of course open to other ideas. Something I was thinking about: I often use Inkscape to design posters and I'd really like to have an option to use the Knuth-Plass algorithm and hyphenation (at least in English). I know that they're not in the SVG specifications but this could be only for pdf exports. Another feature which would be useful is to be able to link text blocks (as do Indesign and Xpress) [again, this is not in the svg specs]. This would make an interesting challenge for our students. What do you think? Would some of you be interested in helping us? What task would you suggest? At any rate I need your help to calibrate a task (or several tasks) so it's not too hard but challenging enough. Thank you and merry Christmas. Best regards, -- Jean-Baptiste Mouret / Mandor http://people.isir.upmc.fr/mouret 3 ((4&({*.(=+/))++/=3:)@([:,/0&,^:(i.3)@|:"2^:2))&.>@]^:(i.@[) <#:3 6 2

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OpenMP fix
by Krzysztof Kosiński 03 Jan '11

03 Jan '11

I just discovered that OpenMP support (used to parallelize Gaussian blur) is not functional on Linux and OS X because of a missing AC_DEFINE. Here is a patch that fixes this problem. Admins: please apply to 0.48 branch also. Regards, Krzysztof

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1 bug left for 0.48.1
by Josh Andler 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Hey all, Given that I'm thinking a .2 will probably be in order, this is the one bug really holding back .1 from being released at this time. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/510618 Is anyone willing and able to look into this? If not, the only way that .1 will get out without it is to have someone pledge to fix it for 0.48.2 or 0.49 to be released (whichever makes sense in 4-6 months based on the current rate of progress). If 0.48.1 gets out without this fixed, it will not be avoidable as a fix after that... no exceptions, as unnecessarily hitting the undo-history or dirtying documents is incredibly bad practice. I hope we have a taker. Cheers, Josh

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current trunk fails to build with dbus enabled (Bug #696062 “dbus builds no more”)
by ~suv 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Bug #696062 “dbus builds no more” <https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/696062> fails with (current): 9994 last known working: 9834 on fedora 13: > CXX extension/dbus/dbus-init.o > extension/dbus/dbus-init.cpp: In function ‘void Inkscape::Extension::Dbus::init()’: > extension/dbus/dbus-init.cpp:87: warning: unused variable ‘obj’ > extension/dbus/dbus-init.cpp: In function ‘gchar* Inkscape::Extension::Dbus::init_document()’: > extension/dbus/dbus-init.cpp:109: error: ‘sp_document_new’ was not declared in this scope > ./document.h:99: error: ‘gchar* SPDocument::name’ is protected > extension/dbus/dbus-init.cpp:112: error: within this context > extension/dbus/dbus-init.cpp:103: warning: unused variable ‘result’ > extension/dbus/dbus-init.cpp:104: warning: unused variable ‘error’ > make[3]: *** [extension/dbus/dbus-init.o] Error 1 Anyone else building with dbus enabled and getting the same build failure? ~suv

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