April 2010 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Text toolbar
by Jon Cruz 25 Apr '10

25 Apr '10

I have two problems showing up on the new text toolbar. On Ubuntu 8.10 I get no combo boxes showing up at all for the font family and size. On Ubuntu 9.10 I am getting all fonts warned as not being on the system and that they are ignored to not crash pango. I'm poking around at the 8.10 one to see if there's anything I can pinpoint as the cause. For the 9.10 problem, I was thinking there is a better chance that others might be seeing the same issue.

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Legacy Icons
by Joshua A. Andler 24 Apr '10

24 Apr '10

Is there a reason we still have the "legacy_icons.svg" in the repo (in share/icons)? Cheers, Josh

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node tool testing
by bulia byak 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

Krzysztof, I finally found time to test the new node tool. Overall it feels great, but of course I found many small and not so small things to fix :) #1 is my personal pet peeve, if you can't see it please just give me pointers to the code which passes events up and I'll have a look myself. I'll probably have more as I do more testing, but here's the fist batch: 1. Bug: Middle-button dragging and Shift-middle button zoom rubberband still do not work. Are you using a mouse with a middle button to test? They work in Selector but not in Node. 2. Lost feature: when rotating/scaling nodes by keys and one node is mouseovered, it is used as center of rotation and scaling. 3. Lost feature: when ctrl+alt+dragging a node, it should slide along the handles _and their perpendiculars_. 4. Lost feature: when ctrl+alt+dragging a node, and it has a linear segment on one side, it should slide along the continuation of that segment. 5. Lost feature: node sculpting. Will you work on it, or do you want me to work on porting it? 6. Bug: select a single node and rotate it by [] with or without Alt: it rotates around some random center far away, instead of around itself. 7. Lost feature: When rotating a handle with Ctrl, it now snaps to the original position and 15 deg increments from that original position. The previous behaviour was: snap to origin, its opposite and perpendicular, to vertical/horizontal, and to 15 deg steps from vertical. This is much more useful because more often, I use Ctrl to snap it to vertical or some simple angle like 60 deg. 8. Lost feature: create a cusp node next to a linear segment; press Shift+S; it becomes semismooth, aligned with the segment (correct); now press Shift+S again; old behavior is to make it fully smooth, extending the second handle, but your tool does nothing. 9. Lost feature: Rotating a handle with Shift before allowed to rotate the second handle by the same angle, thus rotating a cusp node as a whole; now it does nothing. 10. Suggested feature: now that we can edit multiple paths, Ctrl+A when nothing selected should do the same in Node tool as in Selector, instead of doing nothing as now. 11. Performance: Create a path with thousands of nodes (paste text, convert to path, combine), select it in Node tool: notice how slow it all becomes, freezing for many seconds, as you simply move your mouse over the path. My guess is that it calculates something on each motion event and does not cache the results. The old tool also wasn't very snappy in such situation but it was much better, only freezing for a couple seconds at most with the same file (test it!) partly because it cached the livarot representation of the path it used for proximity/over the path calculations. 12. Lost feature: the statusbar used to say how much total nodes are there ("2 of 5 nodes selected") and, for a single node, its type (smooth, cusp, auto). For multiple subpaths it said e.g. "2 of 9 nodes selected in 2 of 3 subpaths". Now it only says "Selected 2 nodes" (which is also a wrong word order, suggesting an action instead of a state). Could you please just copy this part from the old node tool? 13. Suggested feature: now that we can select multiple objects, the statusbar hints must reflect that, in the same way as subpaths, e.g. "2 of 9 nodes selected in 2 of 3 subpaths in 1 of 2 selected paths", or simply "2 of 9 nodes selected in 1 of 2 selected paths" if there are no subpaths involved. 14. Bug: when dragging a node handle, statusbar erroneously says "Move by" instead of "Node handle:" as did the old tool. 15. When mouseovering a node, it says "click to select" even if it is already selected. I'd like to copy this from the old tool as well, which suggested various modifiers for dragging instead. 16. On the node deletion discussion, I found the current behavior satisfactory: if you Del, you get curved approximation; if you Ctrl+del you get linear segment from linears. I think this is logical (unless I miss something). 17. UI suggestion: since the show/hide seltrans handles button belongs to visualization, it should be moved to the right end of the controls bar, next to node handles and node outline toggles. 18. Crash: draw a path; draw a path and apply it as mask; draw another and apply as clippath; go to node tool; enable both mask and clippath editing; drag a mask node; drag a clippath node; drag a node of the path itself; undo 4 times - crash. 19. UI bug: create with Pen a Spiro path; now switch to Node tool - the green outline of the source path is visible always, even when "show outline of path" toggle is off and "show path parameter" was never pressed. Also, as we discussed in the summer, I suggested a purple color for LPE parameter paths, so they are not confused with clippaths. 20. Crash (somewhat hard to reproduce): With Pencil in Spiro mode, create a path with just two nodes (click, click). Now create a curved doodle path (unrelated bug in Pencil: you need to deselect first path before drawing second, otherwise they will become joined!). Now select both paths, go to Node. Select the end node of the linear path and start node of the curved path. Mouseover the latter and press Shift+J. Then press Ctrl+Z while still mouseovering the joined node. Crash: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. Inkscape::UI::NodeList::closed (this=0xbfffe3dc) at ui/tool/node.cpp:1060 1060 { (gdb) bt #0 Inkscape::UI::NodeList::closed (this=0xbfffe3dc) at ui/tool/node.cpp:1060 #1 0x085fc574 in Inkscape::UI::CurveDragPoint::_getTip (this=0xb8d57c8, state=4) at ui/tool/curve-drag-point.cpp:152 #2 0x085fadc1 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_updateTip (this=0xb8d5790, state=4) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:470 #3 0x085fb914 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_setMouseover (p=0xb8d5790, state=4) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:460 #4 0x085fc122 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_eventHandler (this=0xb8d5790, event=0xaf56a80) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:411 #5 0x085faad8 in Inkscape::UI::ControlPoint::_event_handler (event=0xaf56a80, point=0xb8d5790) at ui/tool/control-point.cpp:298 #6 0x0824dd28 in sp_marshal_BOOLEAN__POINTER (closure=0xb5c0270, return_value=0xbfffe80c, n_param_values=2, param_values=0xad41600, invocation_hint=0xbfffe6b0, marshal_data=0x85faac0) at helper/sp-marshal.cpp:352 #7 0x0056a072 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #8 0x0057f7a8 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #9 0x005809b8 in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #10 0x012b38ee in gtk_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #11 0x081c66df in emit_event (canvas=<value optimized out>, event=0xb8d57c8) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1348 #12 0x081c68e3 in pick_current_item (canvas=0x985c060, event=<value optimized out>) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1491 #13 0x081c9431 in sp_canvas_motion (widget=0x985c060, event=0xaf58340) at display/sp-canvas.cpp:1603 -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Bug Hunt Update - 216/300
by Joshua A. Andler 22 Apr '10

22 Apr '10

This list contains fixes between 4/14 @ 11:15am PDT - 4/22 @ 2:28pm PDT. Only fixes to "true bugs" (i.e. no website/translation/docs/etc. bugs). Pts BugID Fixer Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6 479964 Johan Engelen "Fit Page to Selection" doesn't take arrow... 3 429776 Johan Engelen Axonometric grid unusable when spacing set... 3 554734 JazzyNico inconvenient default path for extension... 12 165529 jaspervdg border around bitmap object in exported png 3 530790 Jon Cruz Compiler warning: function returns random... 3 439270 ycswyw javafx save with errored call to function path 6 455302 jaspervdg Filter: Ink bleed with bad results 12 208768 Kosiński Bézier tool behaviour changed with 0.46 3 401567 JazzyNico Render>Grid doesn't render the horizontal... ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Confirmation of rendering problem needed
by Jasper van de Gronde 20 Apr '10

20 Apr '10

It's regarding this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/455302 I recently commited a fix, but now it appears there might be a new problem with this filter. It doesn't look directly related to the fix to this particular bug, but it perhaps it has something to do with one my other fixes (or someone else's). Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the problem, so I'd like to know who CAN reproduce it (and how). If you can reproduce the problem any information that might help pin down the exact revision in which the problem was introduced would help. (Obviously it's also interesting if you CANNOT reproduce the problem.)

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Launchpad mails
by unknown＠example.com 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hi all, Today, I decided to change my main launchpad email address back to something that I read. Can someone tell me how to stop receiving general Inkscape Bug Team mails? (the mails that say: "You received this bug notification because you are a member of Inkscape Bug Team, which is subscribed to Inkscape.") If this is not possible without leaving the Bug Team, I'm forced to set my mailaddress back to the spam address. Thanks, Johan

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Issues with SVG
by John Coppens 19 Apr '10

19 Apr '10

Hello people. I've started using SVG for some of the graphics on my pages, and encountered some problems - probably due to ignorance... but not for lack of trying to find answers: 1) If I 'embed' an SVN image in a page, and want to use it as a link to somewhere else, I find that the image isn't sensitive. I'm using Firefox 3.6 - I thought embedding was ok for the majority of browsers? 2) If I define the size smaller than the original image, I get scrollbars in Firefox. I thought SVN was scaleable? Or are the images only scaleable to larger sizes - never seen that mentioned... I'd appreciate pointers to documentation for either or both issues. Thanks John

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Ruler LPE giving new rendering result
by Jasper van de Gronde 18 Apr '10

18 Apr '10

If you wrote the Ruler LPE or know what it's about, please have a look at its rendering test (still in SVN), it produces a new result that is clearly different from the old (regression?). For more info on the rendering tests (and where to get them), see the Wiki: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Testing_Inkscape#Rendering_tests

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How to access viewport dimensions?
by Jasper van de Gronde 17 Apr '10

17 Apr '10

I've fixed Inkscape to actually respect the filterUnits (and primitiveUnits) propertie(s), but now I need to be able to access the viewport dimensions for the filtered object... As far as I have been able to find this is only available reliably from SPItemCtx. But for a filter I need to access this not for the filter itself, but rather for the filtered object... Any help would be appreciated. Getting this right would fix the following bug btw.: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/229246

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Advertising at StackOverflow
by Manuel Strehl 16 Apr '10

16 Apr '10

Hello, Disclaimer: *This is no advertisement.* If it doesn't get clear from the following, I'm in no way associated with the owners of StackOverflow.com. (I mention this, because after reading the mail again, it could be interpreted the wrong way.) The Q&A platform StackOverflow offers open source projects free ad space to recruit new developers [1]. The method is quite simple: If you want to have an ad there, place it as answer to the question linked as [1] and hope for other people to upvote it. After a certain threshold of upvotes it gets published for free on stackoverflow.com. Since Inkscape hasn't got an ad proposal there, yet, I thought I'd suggest one. It must be 220px x 220px and GIF or PNG, and my suggestion is [2]. If noone on the list objects (especially against using the Inkscape logo) I'd upload the proposal to meta.stackoverflow.com during the weekend. If there are suggestions for other banners, mine can easily be exchanged afterwards. I write this mail just because I don't want to do the ad kind of behind the back of the Inkscape developers. By the way: What would be your suggestion for the backlink the ad should point to? The wiki? The Inkscape homepage? Cheers, Manuel [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/31913 [2] http://static.manuel-strehl.de/StillImage/inkscape_promo.png

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