February 2010 - Inkscape Devel

Selecting Clipped Objects
by Alex Leone 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi everyone, I spent a lot of time this weekend trying to wrap my head around how an object gets selected to no avail. My goal is to fix this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/365458 Currently selection of clipped objects is horribly broken - see http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31755891/clip-selection-bug.ogv Anyway, can someone explain: 1. What handles click events on the canvas 2. Where is the logic that decides what gets selected >From what I can tell, display/sp-canvas.cpp:1505 sp_canvas_button (GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventButton *event) handles click events. Within this function I don't see any calls to anything that resembles "is this point within this object". Help! Thanks! - Alex

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Text dialog
by Diederik van Lierop 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Yay, I just noticed this: "Fundraising goal: $1300 – Raised to date: $1,415" on http://www.linuxfund.org/projects/inkscape/ Will this finally bring us user friendly sub- & superscript capabilities? Diederik

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Newsforge?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Inkscape_coverage#Online_Articles_a… contains * [http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/07/19/214206 newsforge article] When I follow that link, it appears my ISP redirects the newsforge domain to a Yahoo search with the message, "Sorry, 'www.newsforge.com' does not exist or is not available." Can anyone else reach the newsforge server?

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SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking
by Felipe Sanches 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

let's unblock it! SourceForge Removes Blanket Blocking<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/08/1620238/SourceForge-Removes-Blanket-…> on Monday February 08, @12:12PM Posted by ScuttleMonkey <http://slashdot.org/%7EScuttleMonkey/> on Monday February 08, @12:12PM from the power-to-the-people dept. government <http://slashdot.org/index2.pl?fhfilter=government> Recently there was much gnashing of teeth as SourceForge (who shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) started programmatically blocking users in certain countries<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/01/25/1854241/SourceForge-Clarifies-Denial…>to comply with US export restrictions. Thankfully they didn't let it end there and have found a way to put the power back in the hands of the users<http://ow.ly/14U1k>. *"Beginning now, every project admin can click on Develop -> Project Admin -> Project Settings to find a new section called Export Control. By default, we've ticked the more restrictive setting. If you conclude that your project is *not* subject to export regulations, or any other related prohibitions, you may now tick the other check mark and click Update. After that, all users will be able to download your project files as they did before last month's change."*

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Broken Links in Wiki Gallery list
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

On http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries the following links are broken with the noted result: I'll be commenting out each reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to fix the site. 404 - File or directory not found. Simondebelem http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Simondebelem http://www.wrzs.igk.pl/simondebelem/simondebelem.htm Piotr Kosmala http://www.insert.waw.net.pl/vector/firecat_large.jpg Henrich Fichna http://haef.szm.sk/ This webpage is not available. Slightly Weirdly http://slightly.weirdly.net/illustrations_vector.php Inkscape animations http://www.revis.co.uk/site/?q=taxonomy/term/7 Haypo http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Haypo http://www.haypocalc.com/perso/image/vache_qui_rit.ico.png Tribal tattoo drawn in Inkscape http://dump.c7.se/tribal.png freewaydesign http://www.freewaydesign.com/ Topological images http://aumat.unipv.it/~arecchi/miatesi.pdf Oops! This link appears to be broken. Cal Russell-Thompson http://clik.to/cal Andy's Blog http://blog.die-scheiss-kiste.de/wordpress/ Jon Campbell http://www.joncampbell.ca/inkscape/gallery.php Larry's Main Entrance http://www.protemporeevents.com/larrys/ jhuss's artwork http://jhuss.com/category/arte/ OrganicaDTM Studio's gallery http://blog.organicadtm.com/wp-gallery2.php Parked Jiije artworks by jiije http://www.jeromehouix.info/ picturi,reproduceri,portrete http://www.pictura4.1gb.at/ portrete la comanda in creion http://www.pictura4.1gb.at/portrete_in_creion_pe_hartie.html Cedric Gemy http://www.ndparking.com/le-radar.com Fred's SVG Wallpapers http://f-r-e-d.org/ Brain Cud http://www.braincud.com/ CejasBravas TV serie webpage http://cejasbravas.com/

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Inkscape Brasil Galeria inaccessible?
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/InkscapeBrasil/.Galeria responds: This webpage is not available. in Google Chrome 4.0.249.78 unknown (36714) In fact, http://wiki.softwarelivre.org/ responds the same. I'll be commenting out the reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to resurrect the site.

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http://www.ufowebfactory.net/ seems to be having a problem
by unknown＠example.com 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

http://www.ufowebfactory.net/download/free-svg_en.htm responds: CakePHP Rapid Development Missing controller You are seeing this error because controller DownloadController could not be found. Notice: If you want to customize this error message, create app/views/errors/missing_controller.thtml. Fatal: Create the class below in file : app/controllers/download_controller.php <?php class DownloadController extends AppController { var $name = 'Download'; } ?> I'll be commenting out the reference in http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Galleries unless someone can tell me who to contact to fix the site.

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r9059/60: pencil tool sometimes fails when node snapping to grid is active
by ~suv 07 Feb '10

07 Feb '10

One of the changes in recent revisions 9059 or 9060 makes the pencil tool act strangely with default snapping settings (global node snapping enabled) while a grid is visible and set as active snapping target: it seems as if some key press or release events don't get processed immediately. To reproduce: draw freehand curves with different mouse speed and timing of left-mouse-button-clicks. Sometimes neither the path outline while dragging nor the finished line when releasing the left mouse button are visible, yet the starting point is picked up for and added to a later drawn curve. It does not happen with no grid visible nor when global snapping is disabled. This is reproducible with my usual preference settings as well as with a default (new) preferences.xml file. I haven't seen it in earlier revisions <= 9058, but can reproduce it with Inkscape 0.47+devel r9060 and r9061 on OS X 10.5.8 ~suv

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performance 047 vs. 046 Mac OS X 10.4
by Wolf Drechsel 06 Feb '10

06 Feb '10

Hello friends, after having built 0.47 for Mac OS X 10.4, I got the feeling that it is quite a bit slower than 0.46 was. Now I tried to verify that suspicion (all done on a G4, 1350MHz, 960MB RAM): Launching inkscape + X11: 047: 27s 046: 17s Opening a very tiny SVG file (3350B), inkscape already open: 047: 4s 046: 2s Opening a more complex SVG file, inkscape already open: 047: 5s 046: 4s Importing a pdf file with lots of text, than selecting all and ungrouping all the contents (time is just for the ungrouping): 047: 16s 046: 8s Probabely this is just an issue of my home brew thing - but maybe this is an issue which is more easily noticeable on such a slow machine like mine. So I'd be grateful if people on other platforms would cross-check that. In the case it is a general issue it may be well worth to put some effort in fixing it in 048. Greetings, Wolf

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Exchange position of two objects
by Nicolas Dufour 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, Roland Meub has posted a patch to implement this nice feature (see https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171944). It compiles and works correctly on Ubuntu 9.10, and the only glitch I've found is related to 3Dbox (unexpected translations). Could a C++ expert review this code and commit? Regards, -- Nicolas

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