December 2014 - Inkscape Devel

fyi on some new and updated website content
by Brynn 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Hi Friends, As I've mentioned before, I've been helping with some of the website content. These pages on the staging site below will replace their live site counterparts, as close to the release of 0.91, as possible, given this global community. Of course changes can always be made afterwards, but if anyone wants to review them, before they go live, your comments and/or questions are certainly welcomed. (Note that the formatting of the pages on staging, specifically the indenting and extra line spaces, are not necessarily permanent. If you compare to the live site, where *everything* is left justified, you can see the difference. I think it makes the pages more interesting, they draw you in more, and are easier to read. That's just my opinion. But, if there is any consensus on this, I'd like to tweak all the live pages with the same indenting and extra line spaces.) (Maybe rightly it should be done in the style sheet/css, if it's done?) Ok, here they are: The content of this page http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynns-user-faq will replace the content of this page https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/ The content of this page http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynntest/ will replace the content of this page https://inkscape.org/en/community/ The content of this page http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynn-community-pg2/ will be a new page on the live site, and will be linked to the Community page. (from the old "External Galleries" page of the wiki) The content of this page http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynns-learn-page/ will replace the content of this page https://inkscape.org/en/learn/ This is the Development FAQ, which resulted from splitting out all the user content. Everything is updated *except* section E. You are welcome to use it, but I won't replace the wiki FAQ unless you specifically ask me to. http://staging.inkscape.org/en/brynn-dev-faq/ All best, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 103, Issue 20
by Jelle Mulder 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Hello all, Let's start saying this. I really appreciate the idea to tackle the UI and make it into something more coherent, but... If there's going to be a whole team of people on the job, how possible would it be to create something like the Coreldraw UI that let's the user move tools and UI objects around, hide and show them from view and basically create the UI he would like. I felt this to be the greatest strength of Coreldraw and it was one of the reasons why my production time using Coreldraw was about 4 times faster than when using Illustrator. It enabled the noobs to have a basic UI and for me to lard my text editing widgets with all the functions I needed to do some decent Typography. For those not familiar with Coreldraw, download a trial version and use the tools -> customisation to get the idea. It could be quite a hassle to get everything set, but once you did, it made working a breeze. What would make a real difference though would be to unlike Coreldraw that loaded the whole shebang, load and offload functionality on demand. For Inkscape it would be a great way of organising the abundance of extensions as well if such UI widgets would be linked to loading or not loading of said extensions. Maybe by using an extension panel where you can load or unload extensions. They are really nice and all, but in general you will only use a few of those and it becomes a bit of a bloat to load them all. Likewise if It would to my idea also open up more space to try new and unstable functions if they'd be able to be loaded and unloaded dynamically. That way Inkscape can be build as a stable core with API to hang up new functionality and even allow for radical changes of UI objects depending on what functionality is being used. Thinking of animation, web design, print etc. Now I understand that that is all a bit far fetched at the current state of Inkscape, but creating a flexible UI might lay a base for realising such concepts. On the concept UI as I saw it, I would state that the importance of UI objects like the node editor would call for a top location as it is now. In the design phase of objects it is my most used tool and it might actually have some of the tools that are now in the dynamic bar moved to the toolbox (smooth node editing, cusped nodes etc.) to make access quicker. With the last chosen option made prevalent. Likewise, there are some tools grouped together now that make me switch a lot. For instance gradients and drop shadows are in the same group, whereas I often use both in succession to make a nice effect on text objects. Maybe a reconsideration as to how things are grouped is in order. They seem more chronological than functional to me. Cheers, Jelle

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[UX, UI] Questions about collaboration - inkscape
by Xaviju Julián 21 Dec '14

21 Dec '14

Hi inkscape devs, We are a group of UX, UI designers and front-end devs from Kaleidos <http://www.kaleidos.net/community/>, a company from Madrid, Spain. We are also designers and developers of the open source tool Taiga.io. We use inkscape in our everyday work and we love it, *so we would like to collaborate with our expertise to help make it even better.* Some months ago, we started to think on how we could improve usability and design in inkscape and other open source tools. We found out that inkscape improved in the last years, but still have some issues. We made some initial wireframes and designs, but nothing has been developed until now. In our company we enjoy a *free* week every six months to work and collaborate (or develop) in open source projects. This week is called ΠWEEK [*a.k.a. Personal innovation week] *(piweek.com). *This ΠWEEK we decided to focus on inkscape to do a first approach on how could look the inkscape we would love* in terms of look & feel as designers and front-end devs. Of course, we know that is hard work and it is not just designing it so we decided to write to the list *to get some advice on how to collaborate in the best way possible for designers and developers and hopefully fit in the inkscape development roadmap. * Even if this week we will probably be doing just a creative exercise it would be amazing if we could get some parts of this work and focus on it in a longer term to be part of the inkscape development roadmap for the future with your feedback and fitting in the inkscape needs and conditions. It will be amazing if you show us what is the best way to contribute, what would be your needs and how we could be part of this amazing community. Soon we will publish the result and hopefully we get some feedback as well. Thanks! Xavi *Front-end developer in Kaleidos and UI designer in taiga.io <http://taiga.io>*

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Need a button to lock the gradients
by Віталій 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

Hello. I recently installed Inkscape 0.91+devel, and I would like to make a suggestion. In version 0.48 often I had a problems with too many unused gradient in the list. At 0.91 you have created the opposite problem. In the new version if there is no object that uses the gradient, and hence there is no gradient. *I propose to****add a button****next to each****gradient****in the list,****clicking on which****you will****lock **this****gradient.* In this case, even if all the objects are removed, the gradient will be in the list and it can be applied to a new object.

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eqtexsvg
by Alexander 15 Dec '14

15 Dec '14

Hi, I want share my rework of this extension. See attach. Good Luck, Alexander.

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Hard Freeze for 0.91 - Documentation update
by Nicolas Dufour 12 Dec '14

12 Dec '14

Hi all, I've recently updated the Keys and mouse reference translations in the doc/ folder, but there are still things to be done on the documentation side: * Man pages in the root folder of the branch. * Tutorials, in share/tutorials/. Note that my documentation environment is still broken (unknown reason, it worked like a charm last time I used it in May on the same computer). Could someone (Masato? Kris?) try to generate the tutorial SVG files and confirm it works or not? Thanks. Also note that I saw nothing wrong in the Tracing-PixelArt tutorial while translating it to French. Regards, -- Nicolas

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Win64 testing needed: high dpi
by Johan Engelen 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Hi all, I just added high-dpi awareness to the Win64 manifest. It makes all the icons pretty tiny on my system, but I think it's a step in the right direction. :) Could someone please test if this breaks Inkscape on a non-highdpi system? Note: only the 64-bit build is affected. Thanks, Johan

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Fw: [Inkscape-user] Release Marketing
by Brynn 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Well, I somehow managed to send this twice to the user list. Sorry for newbieness. -------------------------------------------------- From: "Brynn" <brynn@...3133...> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2014 6:20 PM To: "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>; "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Release Marketing > Hi Friends, > Well, I'm not sure I could point out parts of the previous release > announcements that are a result of developers being too critical about > their > own work. > > But since you asked, and since no one else has replied, I took a stab at > it. > For the items I specifically mentioned, it's because I understand those > things from the release notes. There may be some more important things > that > you want to specify, that I didn't mention, simply because I didn't know > quite how to word them. > > Note that since I counted the new extensions (in the last sentence), I > thought it would be interesting to say how many new filters there are. > (just because that's something I'm looking forward to) But that's not in > the release notes, that I found anyway. So if anyone knows, or can count > the new filters, you can replace the "?? new filters" with the proper > number. Or just delete that part. > > So fwiw, it's attached in a text file. Please feel free to edit, as > necessary. Or don't use it at all, if it's no good :-) > > All best, > brynn > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Josh Andler" <scislac@...400...> > Sent: Friday, December 05, 2014 1:11 PM > To: "Inkscape Devel List" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>; > "Inkscape > User Community" <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: [Inkscape-user] Release Marketing > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm following up on Bryce's call for volunteers to help out with >> marketing. We need to have a release announcement prepared for >> Inkscape 0.91, and we're wanting to try having it prepared by someone >> who is not one of our developers this time. In case you're wondering >> why, it is one of the things taken away from Google's Mentor Summit >> this year. Simply, developers should not write things of that nature >> as they tend to be too critical of their own work. >> >> If you're interested in seeing what we've had in the past, I've linked >> what was posted to deviantART for 0.48 [1], 0.47 [2], 0.46 [3]. >> >> Please let us know if you want to have a go at it (or just respond >> with a draft). Worst case, if nobody takes it on, I have prepared a >> version of it following the same formula from the past couple >> releases. >> >> Cheers, >> Josh >> >> [1] http://news.deviantart.com/article/126847/ >> [2] >> http://scislac.deviantart.com/journal/Inkscape-0-47-Released-214212648 >> [3] >> http://inkscape.deviantart.com/journal/Inkscape-0-46-Released-214165811 >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server >> from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards >> with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more >> Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE >> http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-user mailing list >> Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server > from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards > with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more > Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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Release Marketing
by Josh Andler 08 Dec '14

08 Dec '14

Hi All, I'm following up on Bryce's call for volunteers to help out with marketing. We need to have a release announcement prepared for Inkscape 0.91, and we're wanting to try having it prepared by someone who is not one of our developers this time. In case you're wondering why, it is one of the things taken away from Google's Mentor Summit this year. Simply, developers should not write things of that nature as they tend to be too critical of their own work. If you're interested in seeing what we've had in the past, I've linked what was posted to deviantART for 0.48 [1], 0.47 [2], 0.46 [3]. Please let us know if you want to have a go at it (or just respond with a draft). Worst case, if nobody takes it on, I have prepared a version of it following the same formula from the past couple releases. Cheers, Josh [1] http://news.deviantart.com/article/126847/ [2] http://scislac.deviantart.com/journal/Inkscape-0-47-Released-214212648 [3] http://inkscape.deviantart.com/journal/Inkscape-0-46-Released-214165811

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New to Inkscape Development
by Alejandra Aranguren 07 Dec '14

07 Dec '14

Hi all, My name is Alejandra and I'm new to the development team. I'm excited to get working on fixing some bugs or anything that needs to be done but am unsure where to begin. Do any of you have suggestions on where to begin or what my first milestones should be? I'm looking for a good and not very complicated first step. Thanks! Alejandra

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