March 2010 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Discoverablity of kerned text
by unknown＠example.com 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Hi all, I recently had a problem with text that was kerned manually without me knowing it. It would probably have helped if there were some small indicator that it was 'manually kerned'. Things I can come up with: - change color of textbox when using the texttool - add small indicator to the textbox Anybody else have an idea? Thanks, Johan

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uniconvertor on windows
by Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Hi, Igor has just mailed me that a new version of UniConvertor (1.1.5) will be out soon. Here is what you (win32 packagers and users) need to know. 1. First of all, Inkscape currently ships older version of UC - 1.1.3, whereas the actual one is 1.1.4. 2. The new Windows build of UC will be *much* larger (around 50Mbyte), so he's thinking about doing a special, smaller build for Inkscape, stripped of Python (IIRC). 3. The new version of UC is tuned for VisualStudio 2008 which allows 64bit builds, whereas Inkscape seems to rely on mingw (no 64bit, as he states). This might be problematic for Windows packagers. If you need any details, please mail him. Alexandre

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Modifiers on OSX
by Krzysztof Kosiński 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hello I have never used OSX, but I know there are issues with modifier keys on it. Correct me if I'm wrong. * Control is called Command, and is used for shortcuts * There is a different key called Control, which is used to emulate a right click and is rarely used for shortcuts * Left Alt is called Option and is used for shortcuts * Right Alt (AltGr) is called Alt and is used for inputting diacritics (third level chooser) * Shift is called Shift I would like to know the following things, to create an initial solution for Inkscape, with the goal of including it in GTK. - How are those keys reported to GDK, e.g. which bits in the state field are set when they are pressed? GDK knows about Shift, Control, Mod1 (aka Alt), Super (aka Windows key), Hyper and Meta. Which of them correspond to which Mac keys? - Does the above differ in the Quartz version of GTK? I know there are some X server preferences that can be used to alter the mapping. - Is it OK to shorten "Option" as "Opt" in the UI? I know that Command is shortened as Cmd. My plan is as follows: - Define some constants in ui/tool/event-utils.h that define cross-platform masks for the "state" field of GDK events, so that e.g. INK_STATE_ALT maps to Alt on Linux / Windows and to Option on Macs, and INK_STATE_CONTROL accordingly maps to Control or Command. - Define macros for names of the keys indicated by the above masks. For example INK_KEYNAME_CTRL would expand to "Ctrl" or "Cmd". This name would also be marked for translation. - Adjust all messages that contain modifier names. - Look into modifying GTK so that menu items created from actions have the correct modifier names. Alternatively, derive from Gtk::Action and override the widget creation functions. PS is there any way to run OSX in a virtual machine? If not, then maybe people who do have access to OSX machines could help. Regards, Krzysztof

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Moving to Frost stage...
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hey All, To move from Chill to Frost we need to do some things. 1) Get most 'make check' issues resolved. I can probably help with some of these and will try to and see what I can pull off this week, however, additional help would be appreciated as I need to get our GSoC stuff rolling and in order. 2) Get current 'make distcheck' issues resolved. I have not reviewed how this is done yet, so, experienced volunteers are appreciated. 3) Get current builds available. We do have fairly recent win32 and non-universal osx builds available. If I could have users other than the people who produced those builds confirm viability, that would be great! 4) Start the About Screen contest. The only thing necessary for this is to get #3 done. Speaking of this, any ideas on a potential theme this time (if we want to go that route)? Cheers, Josh

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Bug importance guidelines?
by Krzysztof Kosiński 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hello Do we have any bug importance guidelines? I'm asking because some of my bugs had absurdly high importances. This node toolbar "bug" that is a cosmetic change in UI got "High" - same as the flowtext issue. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/534045 This preferences "bug" that affected a developer-only debug setting got "Critical" - same as graphic tablets not working on Windows. (and I don't even agree with classifying this as a bug - for me it's an incorrect use of preferences) https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/367752 Regards, Krzysztof

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Revno in the splash screen
by Uwe Schöler 11 Mar '10

11 Mar '10

Hi, i miss the revision number in the splash screen on an windows devel. I think it's imoprtant for users who want to file bugs. Can someone fix this 'problem'? Sincerely, UweSch

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GSoC: Possible Mentors?
by Joshua A. Andler 10 Mar '10

10 Mar '10

Hey all, Obviously we do not know if we will be getting accepted to GSoC, however it would probably be good to know who's willing to possibly be a mentor this year. Any volunteers? Cheers, Josh

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ocal v2.0 import/export
by Alexandre Prokoudine 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, So, we have OCAL v2.0 that uses a new engine now. Importing does work, so kudos for keeping backwards compatibility :) But maybe the new team behind OCAL v2 could work on fixing the exporting? Alexandre

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Libre Graphics Meeting Pledgie Campaign
by Donna Benjamin 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hey Everyone! The LGM will be in Brussels at the end of May. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/ The pledgie campaign is open for donation! http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 and the Design and Architecture committee of the Flemish ministry for culture is supporting LGM2010! http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/governmental-support-for-lgm But we need more. And you can help! Please spread the word about the pledgie campaign. The libre graphics community itself has been one of the biggest sponsors of our main event. It's a fantastic way for all the users of free graphics tools out there to make a contribution too... but not if they don't know about it. So please - dent, tweet, blog, and post to mailing lists about the LGM and about the pledgie campaign. Please forward this message to other libre graphics developer groups you're involved with. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/ http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 -- Donna Benjamin Libre Graphics Meeting, Brussels 27-30 May, 2010 http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/

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Work on NFT dialog for GSOC 2010
by Albin Manoël 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi developers, I found something on the blueprint that I really want to work on :-) It's the NFT dialog : « New From Template » dialog. For more informations see : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/NewFromTemplateSpec I think that I have sufficient skills in order to work on this improvement. And It could be great if I can work on this for the Google Summer of Code 2010. Is there anybody who wants to be my « mentor » ? :-) Good night. Albin Manoël

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