February 2012 - Inkscape Devel

Google Summer of Code
by Josh Andler 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Hey All, Any volunteers for possible mentors? When/if we apply later this month, it would be good to know how many potential students we could handle. Cheers, Josh

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My involvement with the project
by Josh Andler 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

This is related to the discussion over the past couple days. I have decided that I will fulfill my commitments surrounding releasing 0.49.0 and GSoC 2012. However, I will most likely be less active on the mailing list, and less involved in general until those commitments have been fulfilled. I will reassess how I feel about continued involvement with the project at the time that those commitments have been fulfilled. For the time being I will remain on the board, but will likely step down later this year in favor of "new" blood getting in there. Cheers, Josh

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Ubuntu LTS feature freeze deadline
by Alex Valavanis 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi All, Just a quick reminder that Ubuntu 12.04 LTS hits its feature freeze deadline on Thursday 16 Feb. It will be pretty difficult to update the Inkscape package after that deadline, so it would be great if we can push ahead with the 0.48.3 source tarball in the next day or two. I can quickly submit an updated package for review as soon as this is done. Thanks, Alex

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Problem with the following SVG
by Gerben Wierda 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

The following SVG can be correctly exported to a bitmap, but it cannot correctly be printed on Windows and not correctly translated to PDF on either Windows or Mac. (I did not see it coming through with the attachment, so here is the SVG attachment in plain text) <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <svg xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:sodipodi="http://sodipodi.sourceforge.net/DTD/sodipodi-0.dtd" xmlns:inkscape="http://www.inkscape.org/namespaces/inkscape" version="1.1" width="43.82cm" height="51.92cm" viewBox="0 0 4382 5192" preserveAspectRatio="none" id="svg2" inkscape:version="0.48.2 r9819" sodipodi:docname="Total view for [rs6sv054_k0bbbd01] Oracle RDBMS (Artifact).svg"> <metadata id="metadata1049"> <rdf:RDF> <cc:Work rdf:about=""> <dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format> <dc:type rdf:resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage" /> <dc:title></dc:title> </cc:Work> </rdf:RDF> </metadata> <defs id="defs1047" /> <sodipodi:namedview pagecolor="#ffffff" bordercolor="#666666" borderopacity="1" objecttolerance="10" gridtolerance="10" guidetolerance="10" inkscape:pageopacity="0" inkscape:pageshadow="2" inkscape:window-width="1217" inkscape:window-height="1292" id="namedview1045" showgrid="false" inkscape:zoom="0.5" inkscape:cx="838.10578" inkscape:cy="790.69214" inkscape:window-x="0" inkscape:window-y="0" inkscape:window-maximized="0" inkscape:current-layer="svg2" /> <g id="g22" transform="translate(5.6444446,-705.55559)"> <defs id="defs24"> <pattern id="pattern6" patternUnits="userSpaceOnUse" x="90.00" y="870.00" width="540.00" height="180.00" patternTransform="translate(0.000000,0.000000) scale(1.000000,1.000000) translate(-90.000000,-870.000000)"> <g style="fill-opacity:1.00;stroke:none;" id="g27"> <rect style="fill:#b4ff00" x="0.00" y="0.00" width="180.00" height="180.00" id="rect29" /> <rect style="fill:#b4b400" x="180.00" y="0.00" width="180.00" height="180.00" id="rect31" /> <rect style="fill:#ffff00" x="360.00" y="0.00" width="180.00" height="180.00" id="rect33" /> </g> </pattern> </defs> <g style="fill:url(#pattern6);stroke:#000000;stroke-width:2.6500001" id="g35"> <path style="fill-rule:nonzero;stroke-linejoin:bevel" d="m 630,915 0,135 -540,0 0,-180 495,0 45,45 -45,0 0,-45 z" id="path37" inkscape:connector-curvature="0" /> </g> </g> </svg>

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Future development
by Valerie 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

There we go, volunteer #1. :) Thanks for volunteering so fast! It's good for the testers and compilers of Inkscape on OS X to actually be using Inkscape on OS X, since it means they actually have very good incentives to keep an eye on it. Any other takers? Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:54:58 +0100 From: Drechsel Wolf <edv-e@...2249...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Future development To: Inkscape List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <4B050791-52B0-456A-863A-C0052A0DDA61@...2249...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes > With any luck there may already be Mac Inkscape-users out there > compiling and fixing Inkscape on OS X for themselves... I've been doing my professional work in my home-made inkscape aqua for more than a year now. Allthough it has some issues, I like it a lot over the X11 variant. I cant belive that finishing Gellule's (aka Julien's) work documented in his blueprints will be so much effort, and I strongly belive that there will be many Mac people interested in a useable inkscape aqua. Sorry - still I dont know about coding - but still I'm very much willing to do testing and compiling. Yours, Wolf

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Future development
by Valerie 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Since several issues are gtk-related, "Coordinating with the OS X GTK+ team" could be part of the job description. With any luck there may already be Mac Inkscape-users out there compiling and fixing Inkscape on OS X for themselves... > More blending/compositing options will be available in SVG2. Ah, I was already aware of that. I was just saying. x) I suppose it won't be implemented anytime soon, but that's fine.

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LCMS2 support in
by Jon Cruz 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hi, I got in the rough fix for enabling LCMS2. I confirmed that things just aren't working right on OS X, but that on Ubuntu 11.10 they operate well. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/885324 I should be able to get a backport to 0.48.3 done tomorrow, but if anyone else wants to get it in sooner, feel free.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Future development
by Valerie 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

On the OSX debate... a few years ago I would not have cared about OSX native versions at all, but it's true that Apple products have been getting more popularin recent years. But, can't there be a dedicated OS X team as opposed to forcing the core team to dedicate itself to it? Apple products aren't exactly cheap, and how many systems does one have to force all developers to use? Maybe Inkscape could send an announcement on the website asking for an OS X team, something in the lines of "As some of you know, Inkscape currently lacks a native OS X build. However, as Apple products have become more popular, more people are also asking for a native version of Inkscape. However, not all the developers use OS X, so if you are a developer familiar with OS X, we welcome you to join the Inkscape team to help produce native OS X builds." I'm willing to bet that if people are actually aware that Inkscape is looking for sure a team, you'll get a few responses offering to help. I admit, I already use Windows and Linux, and I'm not personally interested in OS X. I'm much more interested in features such as Pablo Trabajos' transformation anchors blueprint, layer masks (especially since unlike raster programs, you can't just lock visible pixels), and maybe a few more layer composite modes like overlay. Powerstroke of course, but that's happily in the works. :) (on the other hand... how many people want to use Inkscape on touchscreen devices? I'm not familiar with this area, so forgive me if there are actually a lot of them)

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Future development
by Josh Andler 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Hey All, So I think we need to discuss a few things related to development. 1) Regarding the irc dev meeting it appears that two weeks from today on 02/25 at 0800 UTC is the time that worked the best for the most people. Everyone, please put that on your calendar. 2) We're close to cutting 0.48.3, given the state of 0.49, we will also pursue 0.48.4. 3) We need to think seriously about GTK3 at some point. We may want to create a GTK3 branch sooner rather than later to begin that work. It would be good to get other people's thoughts on this. Do we want to take on A) 3 active development branches and B) 2 active refactoring branches. I will note that I don't believe there is a full set of GTK3 libs available for win32 yet and have no idea about the status on OSX. Cheers, Josh P.S. Tavmjong, I cc-ed you explicitly because you didn't put the time we ended up with as available. Any chance it can be made to work?

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Inkscape 0.48.3?
by Alex Valavanis 12 Feb '12

12 Feb '12

Hi All, Any thoughts about when we're going to release Inkscape 0.48.3? Coming at this from an Ubuntu maintenance perspective, the next LTS release (12.04 - "Precise Pangolin") will hit feature freeze on Feb 16, so it would be great to update the binary-package in the Ubuntu-main repository before that date. Large numbers of Ubuntu desktop users could potentially end up sticking with it for a couple of years, so I think it makes sense to squash as many bugs as possible! Does anyone else agree with releasing 0.48.3 in the very near future? Is there any reason to hold back? If we're going to do this, we'd need to release a source tarball by ~9 Feb. We've already committed a fair number of bug fixes in 0.48.3[1], so it would probably already be useful to users in its current form. However, perhaps a two-week bug-squashing session would be nice before we go ahead. Best wishes, AV [1] https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.48.3

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