July 2013 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape Window Size won't stick
by michael grosberg 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Recently (I'm using an updated development version) I noticed that Inkscape doesn't seem to be able to remember the last window geometry. Well, it does, initially, when I open a document - but a second later the window size changes to a size of 1920X768. Why that size? I don't know, but I have a two monitor setup, both 1280X1024, so it might be 75% of desktop size. I am using the latest dev build on Window 7 64bit. I am not seeing the problem with the stable version. Does anyone have some insight on what might cause this?

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On Canvas Align: Video Demo
by Martin Owens 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hey Devs, I've got a new feature (uncommitted) to show: http://blip.tv/martin-owens/on-canvas-alignment-feature-for-inkscape-6613286 I'd like to know what you think and your feedback could be key to deciding where my new handles would fit with people's workflows. Excited, Martin Owens

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[Recolor] Week #2 Progress
by Arshdeep Singh 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

Hello, There hasn't been any coding this week. It has been mostly a brainstorming session where I have been looking at ways to achieve the purpose of the tool without interfering with other tools' functioning. The approach of enabling the paint-selector object to color 'active' objects from the selection will spiral into disaster as pointed out by Krzysztof. Now, I plan to directly access the SPDesktop object (again suggested by Krzysztof) and be working with Inkscape :: Selection . There are a few design issues that promptly come to mind which will be discussed shortly. + Firstly, as a followup to my previous question: "How to extract the fill information using the getStyleProperty ( ... ) function" - Is there any other method I can extract the style information ? I see recurring code of the form where a css object is created and the particular property is set using *sp_desktop_get_style(). *Will this be of any use ? I need to fetch the 'fill' property of the style of the object. + Problem of how to know from which objects I can access SPDekstop and related functions. And for the matter, Inkscape::Selection and realted functions too. + I intend to add a structure definition in gimpcolorwheel.c going as: struct WheelColorMarker { gchar id[6]; //the id is always 6 characters long (is thsi correct ?) gchar fill[7]; //#rrggbb in hex } I will use a dynamic array of this to fetch the id and color of the objects selected on the canvas and paint the color wheel with their respective markers. I will need access to functions which can create color into rgb triad of gdouble from the hex code of fill. +Last and the most nerve wracking question: Where do I add the functions that actually will change the colors ? in paint-selector.cpp ? If yes, how do I get access to the selected objects from that class ? Also, I remember discussing this on the mailing list, that if I change the attribute in the XML editor, it automatically gets reflected on the canvas ? Just want to confirm that if I use XML to change the solid colors of the objects then will they reflect on the canvas or not ? Thanks, --- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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[Units] Refactoring Progress
by Matthew Petroff 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

In the past week, I decided against using Boost Units, began porting code to "util/units.cpp", and fixed a minor, long-standing bug in the page size selector dialog. http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2013/07/07/refactoring-progress/ -Matthew

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Which container used for path nodes?
by Shriramana Sharma 06 Jul '13

06 Jul '13

I'm not sure where in the source tree to look for this, so I'll ask this here. What container does Inkscape use to store the nodes of its paths? I mean, a drawing program would often use (in STL terminology) push_back, pop_back, insert and erase. (I don't think push_front would often be needed.) The contained value type would probably contain a few flags in addition to the x,y coordinates. So I'm curious what container you people chose to cater to these requirements. Thanks. -- Shriramana Sharma ஶ்ரீரமணஶர்மா श्रीरमणशर्मा

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[Recolor] GSoc 2013: Week 2 Brickwall
by Arshdeep Singh 06 Jul '13

06 Jul '13

Hello, As a follow-up to my first week, I have been digging into numerous source files to get a hold to the functionality that handles coloring objects selected on the canvas ( desktop ) . The file paint-selector.cpp is a generic file which handles the different color selectors like the color-wheel selector( sp-color-wheel-selector.cpp ) which is our attention right now. Now, the FillNStroke class (fill-style.cpp) puts the Paint Selector in the appropriate mode. The Paint Selector then passes control to the color selector which repaints the object on the canvas which is selected. There is just one problem with respect to the demands of my project : The color selector will apply changes to ALL objects currently in the SELECTION list. What I need is that a group of objects are selected, with the ONLY ONE object selected or atleast the color selector thinks so ? Any ideas on how I actually create such pseudo-selection criteria ? I have an approach in mind that goes like this: I can include an extra Paint Selector mode by the name of MODE_RECOLOR and in that mode the desktop handles the selection differently that it maintains a list of background selections and an ACTIVE selection. The ACTIVE selection is what the color selector sees. When I toggle the selection, the appropriate object becomes the ACTIVE SELECTION. There must be many experienced developers here who know the in and outs of the coloring mechanism. Can you guys suggest a better solution/ go-ahead whether my proposed way is possible/ an easier method ? Waiting eagerly for a reply. -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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[Tracing] Weekly report #4
by Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira 06 Jul '13

06 Jul '13

Hi all, No progress this week. I've being at FISL all day for the last days and I've been enjoying a lot. My talk will be tomorrow and the slides are ready, but I still want to finish the example application. Next week (or two, if necessary), I won't leave my home till I make some impressive progress to compensate this delay. I'm attaching a picture of the event (me and Richard Stallman). There is so much thing that I could tell about the event. Free software ftw. =) -- Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira https://about.me/vinipsmaker

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Extension Organisation Was: [Merge] lp716676
by Martin Owens 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Thanks suv, I've CC'd devel with the below thoughts. > On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 20:02 +0200, su_v wrote: > to get an idea whether others agree with shipping this extension with > inkscape or not I feel extension inclusion is a packaging and code administration question and I think about it like this: a) Should Free Software extensions be linked to the inkscape project? I emphatically say yes, because the more disassociated extensions are, the worse their code and the more duplication happens. We want to encourage extension writers to be members of our project family. Who knows, they might get comfortable and start doing C++ ;-) b) Should all extensions be packaged into the same deb file? Without a policy on which extensions and how a package of non-core extensions might work. It's worth considering because it allows c). c) Should extensions be committed to trunk. This is code layout. Extensions don't need to be compiled but are packaged and might be better splitting out if we could benefit from smarter reviews from python programmers who might be intimidated by the inkscape codebase at the moment. Testing for inkscape can be done in situ, but testing extensions involves extra steps which could be handled with tools in such a specialised branch. It would be possible for instance to have extensions live in an inkscape-extensions project or branch and for packages to be curated. Like 'ink-generator' but with a "Get More Extensions..." link at the bottom of the Extensions menu that either links to a website page with the packages for non-package-managed platforms, or loaded the right os package list for managed platforms. The additional benefit would be the separation of versions. Extension packages could be fixed, released and integrated at a different speed to the glacial inkscape release process. I'd be interested in hearing from other developers about their thoughts since I can understand that having thousands of highly specialised extensions in trunk might not be desirable but splitting them out might be heretical. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Could I get a log-in for the wiki?
by William Adams 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

Apparently I'm supposed to ask here? ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=In… ) I'm a graphic designer who's gotten quite disgusted w/ Adobe and want to help out w/ any opensource alternatives in any way that I can. William -- William Adams senior graphic designer Fry Communications Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow.

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Fwd: [Templates] Report
by Jan Darowski 05 Jul '13

05 Jul '13

There are no major ui changes since last published mockup. I still need to decide which part of the dialog will be scrolled (and how to do it) and how to retrieve templates info from the svg file. You can also see an empty entry in the templates list. That's something disturbing as origins of this empty entry are completely unknown. 2013/7/5 John Smith <john.smith7545@...36...> > Hello Jan, > > > >> Real Inkscape templates are loaded by the dialog. > >> Using the dialog actually creates new document from the given template . > >> Dialog has been added as a menu item to the file menu > > Great work !! > Looking forward to seeing the UI ... do you have a screenshot ? > > John. > > >

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