April 2013 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

GSoC 2013
by Arshdeep Singh 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hello all, I am currently pursuing my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Engineering at Delhi Technological University , New Delhi , India and am looking forward to be a part of GSoC 2013. I have been using software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop since before high-school. With the interest I had in programming and algorithms, I always wanted to contribute to such software programs. FOSS caught my attention in my second year of college and I began delving into Inkscape as it provided me an opportunity to get inside the workings of a real software almost similar to Illustrator. I have fixed one bug till yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/773288 *I intend on implementing a Recolor Artwork Tool that shall allow: *1) Managing Color Themes with one go. 2) Enable editing many objects' colors on-the-go (simplified interface). This site should give some idea about what I have in mind- http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Thankyou to ScislaC for pointing this site out and lessening my burden of explaining what the tool would do. The credit for the idea goes to Inkscape's developer wiki which urges the contributors: '*Don’t please the artist—BE the artist'* and in my view, this tool shall be a boon to all of Inkscape's heroes, our artists. I have played around the gimpcolorwheel.c file and studied Cairo's drawing structure to paint the entire Hue Wheel in my experiments. A screenshot (result) is attached for the mentors' and advisors' perusal. Also, I have added a 'Recolor Artwork' option in the 'Object' Menu to house the final tool widget. As an almost rookie for such a project, I hope the discussion with people adept with industry methods and experience in digital designing will definitely help me chalk out finer details of how to structure the tool keeping in mind the intricacies of Inkscape's codebase. Thankyou for your time. -- Arshdeep Singh (demicoder) Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Request for http://wiki.inkscape.org account, update to CompilingUbuntu wiki page
by Christoffer Holmstedt 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

The wiki states that I should send an email to the dev list if I want a wiki account, so here is that email . I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working. Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that it's the same for later releases than 12.04? Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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GSoC 2013 - Embedding of license and attribution metadata
by Christoffer Holmstedt 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi I'm studying Master in Software Engineering at Mälardalen University in Sweden and looking in to the possiblities of participating in GSoC 2013. I've used Inkscape for several years as a user and want a deeper understanding of how c/c++ is used in larger projects so I feel that Inkscape can be a good project for me. Enough about me for this time, as Johan Engelen posted in an earlier conversation [1] I will try to spend my time fixing bugs instead of "fine tuning" my GSoC application. So to my suggestion and questions. For the last weeks I've been in contact with Jonas Öberg a Shuttleworth Fellow running the project "License and attribution metadata" [2,3]. With start from the 1st of June 2013 they will begin their work of developing a library for storing license and attribution metadata in digital works. My suggestion for GSoC 2013 is to use that library in Inkscape. There are both benefits and problems that comes with trying to use a library while it's still in alpha/prototype stages so what do you think about this? 1) Is this work of any interest? 2) What do you think about developing the additions to Inkscape as GSoC project in parallell with creation of a library for this? [1] http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Guides-Improvement-and-GSoC-2013-td4966479… [2] http://jonasoberg.net/post/40518443141/embedded-metadata-for-digital-works [3] http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/jonas-oberg/ Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hello all, I have also assigned a ' Shift+Ctrl+R ' , shortcut to the new widget I linked with the 'Recolor Artwork' entry. Till this blossoms into a possible new tool, the ad-hoc :D ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu To: Jon Cruz <jon@...18...>, inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Hi all, I was successful in showing the custom widget in the menu of *Object. *I used the *fillstyle* widget as an instance to test my code. Screenshots are attached. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> wrote: > *came to you for advice. > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...>wrote: > >> I had added that Jon. Only then I cam to your for advice. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 14, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Arshdeep Singh wrote: >>> >>> > Thankyou Jon. Actually I've done this a number of times. Adding >>> > >>> > registerFactory("RecolorArtwork", &create<RecolorArtwork, Floating >>> Behavior>); >>> > >>> > gives an error saying that RecolorArtwork was not defined in the scope. >>> > >>> > Complete Error: >>> > Make error line 301: problem compiling: >>> src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp: In con >>> > structor 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::DialogManager::DialogManager()': >>> > src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:108:51: error: 'RecolorArtwork' was >>> not declare >>> > d in this scope >>> >>> Might only need to add the #include for your new header. >>> >>> Similar to line 27: >>> >>> #include "ui/dialog/fill-and-stroke.h" >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Arshdeep Singh >> Third Year, Computer Engineering >> Delhi Technological University >> Ph: +91-9654115614 >> https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home >> > > > > -- > Arshdeep Singh > Third Year, Computer Engineering > Delhi Technological University > Ph: +91-9654115614 > https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home > -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Open Clip Art Spring 2013 Activity
by Jon Phillips 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Heya guys, can you help spread the news on the main page of the Inkscape site about the new openclipart spring2013 push? I uploaded a flower. http://openclipart.org/detail/176886/detailed-super-flowerz-by-rejon-176886 Also, anyone on the list interested? Let me know if I can help get anyone interested. Cheerz! Jon -- Jon Phillips 王✳ http://fabricatorz.com ✳ skype: kidproto ✳ irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) ✳ +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi all, I was successful in showing the custom widget in the menu of *Object. *I used the *fillstyle* widget as an instance to test my code. Screenshots are attached. On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> wrote: > *came to you for advice. > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...>wrote: > >> I had added that Jon. Only then I cam to your for advice. >> >> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 12:46 PM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Apr 14, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Arshdeep Singh wrote: >>> >>> > Thankyou Jon. Actually I've done this a number of times. Adding >>> > >>> > registerFactory("RecolorArtwork", &create<RecolorArtwork, Floating >>> Behavior>); >>> > >>> > gives an error saying that RecolorArtwork was not defined in the scope. >>> > >>> > Complete Error: >>> > Make error line 301: problem compiling: >>> src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp: In con >>> > structor 'Inkscape::UI::Dialog::DialogManager::DialogManager()': >>> > src/ui/dialog/dialog-manager.cpp:108:51: error: 'RecolorArtwork' was >>> not declare >>> > d in this scope >>> >>> Might only need to add the #include for your new header. >>> >>> Similar to line 27: >>> >>> #include "ui/dialog/fill-and-stroke.h" >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Arshdeep Singh >> Third Year, Computer Engineering >> Delhi Technological University >> Ph: +91-9654115614 >> https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home >> > > > > -- > Arshdeep Singh > Third Year, Computer Engineering > Delhi Technological University > Ph: +91-9654115614 > https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home > -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Cairo compositing in handles
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 15 Apr '13

15 Apr '13

>From similar input in IRC: Hi to all, i have a cuestion to developers. Anybody know if there is actual work for give Cairo compositing to the overlay lines? I see some similar in actual build with the handles in pen tool. I'm working in this direction with the help of Gez and don`t want to duplicate works. Hi, Jabier.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hi all, I have been successful in making a menu-item in the *Object* Menu of the name *Recolor Artwork*. Just as an exercise I have copied the Fill and Stroke .cpp and .h files and translated the entire dialog to under the name *RecolorArtwork* rather than *FillAndStroke*. Logically this should mean that the entire dialog box shall now be replicated under the pseudonym of * RecolorArtwork*. To add a menu-item I edited the *menu-skeleton.h* file's variable * menus_skeleton[]. * I added " <verb verb-id=\"DialogRecolorArtwork\" />\n " under " <verb verb-id=\"DialogFillStroke\" />\n " This handles the display part of the task. Now what remains is linking the action and verb. I added a enum value: *SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK* in *verbs.h* and in *verbs.cpp * I added: *new DialogVerb(SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK, "DialogRecolorArtwork", N_("_Recolor Artwork..."),* * N_("Description of Recolor Artwork..."), INKSCAPE_ICON("dialog-fill-and-stroke")), * This links the verb *SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK *and * DialogRecolorArtwork. * In the same file *verbs.cpp*, I added: *case SP_VERB_DIALOG_RECOLOR_ARTWORK:* * dt->_dlg_mgr->showDialog("RecolorArtwork");* * break;* in the function: * * *void DialogVerb::perform(SPAction *action, void *data) * * * which launches the appropriate dialog or rather it should. Sadly this is not the case ? Can someone please help me point out the what am I missing out ? -demicoder On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Arshdeep Singh <moduli16@...400...> wrote: > Thankyou for the information. :) > > I managed to find the 'display' part of the menu-items in " > menus-skeleton.h " . > > SYNTAX in MENU-SKELETON.H - > > " <submenu name=\"" N_("_Object") "\">\n" > " <verb verb-id=\"DialogFillStroke\" />\n" > > verb-id attaches the action to launch the menu-item. I am unable to figure > out where establish this verb-id and requisite action. > > It shall be really helpful if you could point me in the right direction ! > > > On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:57 AM, Jon Cruz <jon@...18...> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Arshdeep Singh wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > I have made a small widget that is populated in a page in a notebook in >> a panel. Right now, for experimental purposes it contains only a GTKButton. >> How can I make it appear in a menu like Fill and Stroke ? >> > >> > Fill and Stroke is created under Object->Fill and Stroke >> (Shift+Ctrl+F). >> >> >> We're trying to focus on a more logical approach, rather than physical. >> In that direction we set up verbs and actions then just get those placed >> into the menus. >> >> Actions are a GTK+ concept >> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk2/stable/GtkAction.html >> https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/unstable/classGtk_1_1Action.html >> >> Then we have a higher-level concept of a 'verb'. Verbs, aside from >> predating GtkAction's addition to Gtk, are not tied to a specific Gtk >> window but apply per document. We also have helpers that can get a gkt >> action from an inkscape verb. >> >> >> >> > > > -- > Arshdeep Singh > Third Year, Computer Engineering > Delhi Technological University > Ph: +91-9654115614 > https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home > -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Grids - new coordinate system
by Johan Engelen 14 Apr '13

14 Apr '13

Hi all, We have to change the coordinate system used by grids in XML. I think it is the only thing left that has the inverted coord-system in XML. I changed it in the guides improvements branch, and it works fine. The only problem is: grids of old files will show wrong, they are not "upgraded" to the new format, because there is (yet) no way to distinguish old-style from new-style grids. How should I go about this? It is relatively easy to fix it manually for each file, but I understand it is an annoyance. Cheers, Johan

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Displayig a Tool in the Menu
by Arshdeep Singh 13 Apr '13

13 Apr '13

Hi all, I have made a small widget that is populated in a page in a notebook in a panel. Right now, for experimental purposes it contains only a GTKButton. How can I make it appear in a menu like Fill and Stroke ? Fill and Stroke is created under Object->Fill and Stroke (Shift+Ctrl+F). -- demicoder

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