September 2010 - Inkscape Devel

Funding inkscape development
by Drechsel Wolf 30 Sep '10

30 Sep '10

Hi everybody, as I was the person to start this discussion, I feel myself obliged to try a sort of resume, so I tried a solution hopefully many people can agree with. What about a sort of "market place solution" like this ? ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ We create a "market place" section in the wiki. Somebody looking for the solution of a specific problem (called "inquirer" in the following) can create a related page, containing a description of the task and a table with two columns and several lines. One column contains contributors with their financial offerings - obviously starting with the inquirer. The other column can contain entries of people who are willing to do the job, including the amount of money each person is asking for to do the job. When the sum of offerings exeeds the lowest demand, the inquirer can ask the contributors to wire the money to a "inkscape bank account in trust", which should be administrated by a small commitee. When the sum came in, the administration committee can issue the mandate to the contractor, who will start to work on the solution. When the inquirer states that the job is done, the administration committe can tranfer the money to the contractor, and the inquierer can remove the request page. In the case of conflict, the committee should act as an arbitration board. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ As a EC citizen, I'd like a European Bank account - would make money transfer very cheap and easy due to the IBAN/BIC thing. If this or a modified solution of this kind would find general acceptance, I'll be happy to design the wiki pages/templates. Let me hear your comments. Yours, Wolf

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Non-model extension dialog consistency
by Craig Marshall 29 Sep '10

29 Sep '10

Hi, I think it would be good if the 9 extensions that are not using live-preview[0] could use a non-model dialog, just like all the other live-preview-enabled extensions do (when live-preview is unchecked). By live-preview-enabled, I don't mean whether the live preview checkbox is checked, I mean whether it has the checkbox at all. Note: I am only talking about extensions of the "effect" type, not input, output or any others that may exist. For example, if I want to re-apply an extension (a non-live-preview-enabled extension) and to change the workpiece between applications, I currently I have two options: 1) Close and reopen the dialog between uses. 2) Pretend that the extension can make use of live preview, but leave it unchecked. Option 1 is irritating, even though there is a "Previous extension" menu entry. Option 2 is a nasty hack, and one which could cause the extension to crash if the checkbox is accidentally checked. Since this non-modal functionality is the default for extensions that say "I can use live preview", I see no downside to making it the default to all extensions. In fact, it is a more consistent, and more user-friendly approach. I've filed a bug [1] and attached a very small patch, which implements this proposed change. It works in Windows 7 and OS X 10.5.8 at least. I think it would be great if some of the original or current UI/extension authors could give their points of view and possibly tell me where my thinking is flawed. Thanks, Craig [0] Add nodes, Embed Image, Extract Image, Guillotine, Printing Marks, Replace Font, Webslicer Create Group, Webslicer Create Rect and Webslicer Export [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/649441

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problem while building 0.48
by Britton Kerin 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

It fails like this (on a re-run of make after vanilla configure): $ make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.48.0' Making all in src make[2]: Entering directory `/home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.48.0/src' CXXLD inkscape /usr/bin/ld: warning: librt.so.1, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgomp.so, may conflict with librt.so.19 /usr/bin/ld: warning: librt.so.1, needed by /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.3.2/libgomp.so, may conflict with librt.so.19 libinkscape.a(addNoise.o): In function `Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::AddNoise::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)': /home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.48.0/src/extension/internal/bitmap/addNoise.cpp:29: undefined reference to `Magick::Image::addNoise(MagickLib::NoiseType)' libinkscape.a(channel.o): In function `Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::Channel::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)': /home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.48.0/src/extension/internal/bitmap/channel.cpp:32: undefined reference to `Magick::Image::channel(MagickLib::ChannelType)' libinkscape.a(levelChannel.o): In function `Inkscape::Extension::Internal::Bitmap::LevelChannel::applyEffect(Magick::Image*)': /home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.48.0/src/extension/internal/bitmap/levelChannel.cpp:33: undefined reference to `Magick::Image::levelChannel(MagickLib::ChannelType, double, double, double)' collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [inkscape] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.48.0/src' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bkerin/tmp/inkscape-0.48.0' make: *** [all] Error 2 any clues? Thanks, Britton

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how to include size information in SVG_G_ELEMENT
by Ogla Sungutay 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi guys, I need to add the size of the SVG_G_ELEMENT in a custom namespace as seen below: <g inkscape:label="baz" id="foo" myNamespace:width="647" myNamespace:height="400" > This will require some hacking, so before I go into the code, I wanted to get some feedback from you; I'm hoping that you can give me some directions or offer me solutions. Thanks!! -- V. Ogla Sungutay, UI programmer www.lyciasoft.com skype:oglasungutay

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Website redesign Proposal (was: )
by AJ Ashton 28 Sep '10

28 Sep '10

Hi all, I've been reading the side-discussion about the current state of the Inkscape website and figured I should speak up. from Alexandre Prokoudine in the 'Free Desktop Release' thread: > In fact, our custom website CMS is rather unmaintained. Several people > volunteered to create a new website based on drupal or possibly > something else, and we never heard back from them. This was me and my colleague Young Hahn. We work for Development Seed, a small web shop in Washington, DC, with a focus on using & contributing to open-source projects. Young and I are both designers who rely on Inkscape for the majority of our graphics work. You can see the kinds of things Inkscape is helping us do at http://developmentseed.org/projects Earlier in the year we chatted with Josh Andler about how the current website works and what a Drupal redesign/migration might look like. We suggested Drupal since that is what we specialize in - Young, in addition to being a kick-ass designer, is also a highly respected and experienced Drupal developer. Since our initial chat with Josh we've been letting other projects distract us. However, recently I've been speaking to Young and our CEO, Eric Gundersen, about scheduling some real time for this and, if the community is willing, we'd love to get started soon. One important aspect of the site that we think needs work is the information architecture. We propose reducing the main navigation menu to: - News - Download - Documentation - Resources - Gallery - Community - Development I would like to open a discussion about people's thoughts on this, and perhaps get into some specifics regarding what pages/sections would need to be consolidated, rethought, or perhaps eliminated in order to do this. I have some ideas regarding a new visual design as well, but think that can wait until these more fundemental decisions are made. Thanks! AJ Ashton

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our logo in EPS
by Alexandre Prokoudine 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Hi, For a reason I may not yet announce I need our logo in EPS file format. Unfortunately Inkscape still has no idea how to flatten transparencies when saving to PS/EPS. Before I go tweaking the SVG to get rid of them, I'd like to find out if somebody did this job before, so that some time could be spared. Thanks in advance, whatever would come out of this :) Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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round and bevel edges of any kind of shapes ?
by Axel Richter 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

hi, is it possible to bevel or round edges on any shapes? i know its going on the boxes but how can i realize it when i need a bevel of 5mm or any unit. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Axel Richter ~ +WEB+VECTOR+PHOTO+MUSIC+ ~ Web: http://www.airwaveindehouse.com http://www.axelrichteronline.de Mail: airwaveindehouse@...1439...

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Status of dbus awareness
by Kent Tenney 26 Sep '10

26 Sep '10

Howdy, I just built the inkscape trunk from bzr and ran this script #!/usr/bin/python import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() inkdoc1 = bus.get_object('org.inkscape', '/org/inkscape/desktop_0') doc1 = dbus.Interface(inkdoc1, dbus_interface="org.inkscape.document") im = doc1.image(100 ,100, '/home/ktenney/Firefox_wallpaper.png') Which worked on a dbus branch a while back. Now it starts inkscape, but does not place the image - was the dbus code merged? - if so, how do I enable/use it? - if not, where is dbus capable code? Thanks, Kent

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Error while building 9775 on windows
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

After R19 of devlibs everything is fine. Got a new completely rebuild. Thanks Krzysztof Sincerely, UweSch The build problem introduced in trunk revision 9775 should be fixed with devlibs revision 19; they now contain libxml2 2.7.7 built against iconv and zlib from the devlibs. Regards, Krzysztof ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel -- Mit freundlichem Gruß, Uwe Schöler

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Error while building 9775 on windows
by Uwe Schöler - OSS-Marketplace.com 24 Sep '10

24 Sep '10

Hi, i get the following error: Make error line 299: problem compiling: src/xml/repr-io.cpp: In function 'Inkscape::XML::Document* sp_repr_read_file(const gchar*, const gchar*)': src/xml/repr-io.cpp:297: error: 'XML_PARSE_HUGE' was not declared in this scope Can someone else build 9775 on windows? Sincerely, Uwe Schöler

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