December 2013 - Inkscape Devel

better targets for task/note-annotations on website
by Jared Meidal 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

I really like how the new website is functioning and it seems a slick way to bring in users and developers both into engaging with Inkscape! I've seen a number of text notes appearing on page content which seem to be reminders for tasks or content-to-come. I'm really glad for the diversity of contributors on the site, but as notes/tasks/needs are published on the site (rather than actual useful content itself) I'd like to see an alternative destination established before these notes sit out there too long on our live site. For example, http://inkscape.org/en/download/windows/ contains the line at the top "[[website TODO : pretty buttons showing main download link, + maybe screenshots of the installer.]]" This is a useful reminder to the website author-community, but not text that should reside on the live site. Would a better action be to move these annotations into the launchpad templates/bugs area, or can the web CMS handle notes in the backend for the developers only? Thanks, --Jared

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Dealing with OS reported bugs
by Kris De Gussem 16 Dec '13

16 Dec '13

Hi all I was wondering how to deal with bug reports automatically submitted by the operating system. It is often hard to verify for these bugs how exactly one could to provoke the issue but on the other hand it may be clear from the backtrace that some null pointer check (or related thing) is missing). See for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/+bug/1172484 for which I added a patch. See for example https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/+bug/1219264 which might be solved by trunk revision 12851 (or maybe revision 12838). Do we mark these reports as fix committed (although we do not know how to provoke the issue)? Do we add a patch and wait for a specific amount of time for reactions? Any experiences on how is it dealt with for Ubuntu? Kind regards K

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Tutorials Gallery
by Martin Owens 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

I've added a simple rss feed to the tutorials page: http://inkscape.org/en/learn/tutorials/ It's pulling in items from my inkscape tutorials favorites folder on deviantArt and I think it looks rather nice. Thoughts? Martin,

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tutorials Gallery
by Jared Meidal 11 Dec '13

11 Dec '13

>On Sat, 2013-12-07 at 22:19 -0500, Partha Bagchi wrote: >> Looks nice. I am sure you are aware the links don't work? > >Yes, we're waiting for an editor to fix them. Any Volunteers? > >Martin, These links seem to be working fine for me: http://inkscape.org/en/learn/tutorials/ Is there still more work needed here? --Jared

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [CREATE] Open source patternmaking tool
by Susan Spencer 10 Dec '13

10 Dec '13

Valek, Attached are screen prints of how variables are used in the demo software. Roman's tutorials need translation as well. Susan On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer@...400...>wrote: > Hi Valek! > > There are lists of variables which need translation, > The variable lists themselves are chosen by radio buttons, > so the labels need translation as well. > > Are you interested? > > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Valek Filippov <frob@...45...> wrote: > >> Susan, >> >> Could you be a bit more specific about what you would like to be >> translated? >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Valek >> >> >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:58 PM, Susan Spencer <susan.spencer@...400...>wrote: >> >>> This program was recently developed by Roman Telezhinsky >>> and is now going through initial testing and UI development. >>> >>> http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=38602 >>> >>> If there is anyone on this list who can help with translation >>> we would really appreciate your help! >>> >>> - Susan >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> CREATE mailing list >>> CREATE@...626... >>> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create >>> >>> >> >

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New website
by Hinerangi Courtenay 08 Dec '13

08 Dec '13

Hello Inkscape devs, I just noticed today that the new website is up - congrats! I especially love the gallery with all the user artwork. :-) I wanted to help out with the front-end a few months back but got bogged down with my studies, but now I have more free time on my hands. I was thinking maybe I could tweak the visual aspects to work better together (font sizes, spacing, etc), and maybe make the site responsive (adapted for smartphones and tablets)? There were also a few pages that were designed but not implemented - if I did the html/css would someone be able to develop them into the website? Also, good idea leaving out the flags in the language switcher (I had them in there before learning about website i18n and l10n, thinking they'd help to quickly find a language). Thanks for being awesome! Hine

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Cli -> path effect
by Alain Meunier 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

Hello, My goal is to hatch my drawing by command line. In the gui, you just draw a line -> Path effect editor -> Hatch -> Add Now, in the cli,I saw the "DialogLivePathEffect: Manage, edit, and apply path effects (Shift+Ctrl+7)" option, but when trying to set it right, nothing happens.. --select=myobject --verb DialogLivePathEffect but then, nothing happens. Is this option implemented ? Could not find any clue on how to modify the values (frequency randomness..) This part is *very* undocumented and i could help if i get any answer. Thanks

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Call for Designer
by Martin Owens 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hey Devs, I'm not happy with the size increase on the website. I do admit that readability is important, but the website has lost some of it's style in the process. Could one of you kind designers help get the style sheet back in order? It should take more than 10 minutes for someone with css skills and a keen eye: http://inkscape.org/en/develop/ Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Website Announce
by Martin Owens 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Hey Devs, Firstly, sorry for the 3 minute outage between 12:56 and 12:59 Secondly, should be announce the new website as news this week or next week? I interested on hearing if you think it's ready or if you think it could do with some more time to edit. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Website Announce (Martin Owens)
by Jelle Mulder 06 Dec '13

06 Dec '13

Ehm,.. Martin,.. the downloads are not functioning at this moment. The link goes to the old staging site and has this curious notion of not being live. Confusing to say the least. I also think the basic typeface could be a point size larger for clarity. Cheers, Jelle On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 08:37:53 +0800, <inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Website Announce (Martin Owens)

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