January 2016 - Inkscape Devel

Re: [Inkscape-devel] Devlibs 46 too slow
by Mark Titchener 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

I tried your modified build with an NVidia Quadro 1000M on Windows 7 and it seemed okay to me. > Le Jeudi 21 novembre 2013 9h09, Nicolas Dufour <nicoduf@...48...> a ?crit > : > > I'm still investigating the issue, and just found out that the computers > I > > used to reproduced the bug were all using an Intel GPU. Tests with an > nvidia > > GeForce 210 (GT218) show no slowness at all. > > Could some Windows users help me? I'd like to confirm the slowness only > affects Intel graphics cards. Could you test a modified Inkscape binary > (from ftp://download.tuxfamily.org/inkscape/inkscape-12282-cairo-1.12.8.7z), > give your graphic card model and tell me if it's slow or not? IMHO it could > be a blocker for 0.49 on Windows. > >

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Win32 devlibs update and Windows XP support
by Nicolas Dufour 03 Feb '16

03 Feb '16

Hi all, Work on a new win32 devlibs branch is currently in progress (see https://code.launchpad.net/~jazzynico/inkscape-devlibs/trunk). It's goal is to replace our old devlibs with the most recent ones, compiled with TDM-GCC-5.1. It's almost done, but there are some issues that will affect our win32 devlibs in a near future: * Harfbuzz can't compile on Windows XP (but runs fine). Vista or 7 can be used instead (I'm going to test with a virtualboxed 7). Of course, Harfbuzz is required by lots of other libs (pango, rsvg, imagemagick, gtk...). * Glib doesn't compile on Windows XP and 7, due to recent changes in Glib-2.43. So we're stuck with 2.42.2. Side effect, we can't compile the latest glibmm and atkmm libs (and maybe others, I haven't try Gtk and Gtkmm yet...). I don't know if it's directly related, but there's an old thread in the gnome mailing list that question Windows XP support (see https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2014-December/msg00055.html). Note that Gnome no longer provides binaries for XP on their download page (http://www.gtk.org/download/windows.php). So be aware that maintaining Windows XP (and even win32) versions is going to be harder and harder... I'm going work on the branch until it's done (or blocked), but I'm seriously considering switching to my old cross-compiled branch, which was far easier to maintain. Regards, -- Nicolas

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Inkscape and AppData
by Richard Hughes 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi all, I would like Inkscape to start shipping an AppData file for the GNOME and KDE software centers. At the moment it's invisible to AppStream-enabled software managers as there is no metadata file to read. I've uploaded a file here http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/temp/inkscape.appdata.xml which needs to be committed and then installed into the $prefix/share/appdata directory at install time; there's no need to conditionalize this as it's just ignored by any distro without an app installer. If you want to mark it translatable that would be great too, although I'm not familiar with what tools inkscape uses (intltool?) and I'm 100% okay if you want to change the description or add/change any extra screenshots. I'd like to make Inkscape a featured application in GNOME Software for 3.20 and an upstream AppData file is a prerequisite to that. I first wrote a mail to this mailing list in 2013 when we started the AppStream project, but since that time over 1200 other applications have started shipping metadata files for the software center. This very much makes Inkscape the odd-one-out now, and now we're building nightly snapshots of inkscape as part of the xdg-app nightly repo we can't even include an additional file in the srpm like so many distros are doing. I think the time has come to move it upstream :) There's more details about AppData here http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/appdata/ but I'm happy to answer questions or comments here too. Thanks! Richard

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Plugin from Nathan Hurst metro simplification path
by dypsok＠...400... 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hi all, I recently contact Nathan about this code here : http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lib2geom-hackers/lib2geom/trunk/view/head:/src… I wanted to work with it : he suggeres me to ask on the mailing list if someone (perhaps jabertxo) could help me to turn it in a plugin... Does anyone know about this code or could help me with this ? Thank you in advance, Best regards, Dypso

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Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2016 - Call for mentors & help with ideas page
by Josh Andler 02 Feb '16

02 Feb '16

Hey all, As you all know, we were not accepted as a mentoring organization for GSoC 2015. Part of the reason for this is that they have been getting more mentoring org submissions each year and really started to get tighter with enforcing existing guidelines that they had. Essentially, our ideas page was the big problem as we didn't follow their guidelines at http://en.flossmanuals.net/GSoCMentoring/making-your-ideas-page/ They specifically said "Each idea should have potential mentors, difficulty level, expected skills, etc. and none of those are listed on your ideas page." For people's reference the ideas section of our GSoC page is at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code#Suggested_Ide… The application period is still a about a month out, but one of the things we do need to get on sooner rather than later is getting people to volunteer to mentor so we can get the ideas section right by the time we actually apply. We also need to gauge how many interested devs we might have for mentoring this year so if you're interested, please reply saying so. I think we might want to entertain having a separate "dormant ideas" page where we have a pool of all the ideas possible. We then only move them to the active ideas section that currently exists when they have mentor, difficulty, and necessary skills assigned. Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape Hackfest: Who will attend?
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

Hi, We are planning an Inkscape hackfest[1] in Leeds just before the Libre Graphics Meeting[2] in London. To help plan this event we need to have an idea of how many people would attend. Please reply here or send a private email to me if you are interested. As with last years hackfest[3], travel support will be offered to developers and others active in the Inkscape project ($500-$2000). Dates: Hackfest: 11-13 April 2016 (tentative) LGM: 15-18 April 2016 Tav [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2016 [2] http://libregraphicsmeeting.org/2016/ [3] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape Hackfest: Who will attend?
by Brynn 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Hi Maren, Thanks for the info. Oh, I didn't know about the change in plans for HF (since I'm not subbed to the Board list, of course). I'll hold off on making new posts, until there is some new/confirmed info. And may as well wait on new news item too. If there now may be a charge for a new venue, maybe donation button would be more needed? Or maybe that will not be very significant? I'm just not very knowledgeable about that kind of things. Even though donations may not be "needed" at the moment, HF still might represent a good opportunity to pick up donations for a time in the future when donations are more scarce. Or maybe more donations would simply allow more people to attend? If I recall the old donation page, money went into the Fund, so maybe could be used for other things, as well. Bryce and/or others - What do you think about a Donations page for Hackfest, this year? > The old hackfest page has been unpublished, and kept for this kind of > purpose. But maybe you could just make a copy instead of updating it, so > we still have the old one as a kind of archived version? Ok yes, I'll do that. But again, may as well wait for some confirmed info. Thanks again :-) -------------------------------------------------- From: "Maren Hachmann" <maren@...3165...> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2016 6:17 PM To: <inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape Hackfest: Who will attend? > Hi Brynn, > > Am 28.01.2016 um 02:02 schrieb Brynn: >> My preference would be for both a brief news item, and updated page under >> Support menu. What do you all think? > > - For the donation page we'd need a new button for paypal, I believe. > > You'd have to ask Bryce > - if a new donation page is required/desired for this year's hackfest > (there seems to be no pressure for more funding currently :D) > - and if so, if we need a new donation button > - and if so, if he'd ask Software Freedom Conservancy to procure one for > that and pass it on to you to exchange it on the page. > > The old hackfest page has been unpublished, and kept for this kind of > purpose. But maybe you could just make a copy instead of updating it, so > we still have the old one as a kind of archived version? > > - For the news item: > Is there already enough info we can give? We don't have a place > (anymore), we don't have a date (anymore), no agenda nailed down yet... > :/ See board mailing list for more details. > > http://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/inkscape-board/ > > Maybe just writing that there are ongoing plans, and that we still need > a venue...? If we ask for donations, that could be linked into the > article. > >> Hhmm....trying for convenience, I might have just caused a problem. I >> tried >> to reset my pw on the website, but I'm not receiving the new email, which >> I >> seem to recall, there might be a problem with. > > - If you reset it via your user profile, then you are not going to get a > confirmation email. You just enter the new password next time you log in > instead of the old one. > Or does the new password not work? Then I'll gladly set a new one for you. > > Maren > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-docs mailing list > Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs

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Website Upgrade Status: Springtime
by Martin Owens 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

Dear Developers, board and lurking users, The live website has just been transitioned. Maren and I have been testing and fixing the next version of the site over on staging for the past two weeks; so I firstly want to offer my profound thanks to Maren for the timely help with bug reports to clean up many rough edges. With the testing, this doesn't mean we have clean up everything, so don't worry if you see something odd or an error. Report odd things to me or the inkscape-web bug tracker, errors get emailed to me directly so don't worry too much about them. Now onto features. * The gallery app has had a lot of work done on it. Some things got patched into live before, but the vast majority of improvements are now there. Mainly the index page that allows one to browse: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/ * There is an alerts system now. You can subscribe to pages so you can get an email when they're edited, to users so you get a message when they upload new art and you may also get a message if someone clicks the send message link in your profile. Allows other users to message people without email addresses being exposed. * The teams app has been massively improved, although not completed as the end goal is mailing list integration. You can see the three public teams here: https://inkscape.org/en/teams/ * There is a new releases app which replaces the cms downloads pages. It's being filled in slowly, if you can help write up and link up all the downloads, please get in touch. You can see the start of the data here: https://inkscape.org/en/release/ And there's many many bugs fixed since last year. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Fwd: Plugin from Nathan Hurst metro simplification path]
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi Dypsok. Here are some info about LPE. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/ index.php/Creating_Live_Path_Effects Basicaly add a processed data to path, retaining original path data on a atribute of the path (inkscape:original_d). I do a few LPE and can help you if tou want if have any question. Any way you need to develop in C++. Cheers, Jabier. Posted also on devel list wrong attempt on first email. El vie, 29-01-2016 a las 21:00 +0100, dypsok@...400... escribió: > Hello, > thank you for your response and sorry for mispelling your name. The > code > in the lib2geom is effectively aimed to give this representation : > the > source data was take from two plain text files ( one with a list of > coordinates points and one with the list of path definition using > those > points), but I could easily replace those two files by one svg file > containing a list of paths. > Then the code was making a simplification in order to schematize > those > path in a octilinear fashion (each sub part of a path should be > aligned on > an orthogonal line or at an angle multiple of 45° - for the detail of > how > the algorithm is designed I have this document : > http://njhurst.com/publications/PathSimplification.pdf).... > I was hoping to have an automated process that take some sort of > real map > in and give a schematic map out... > > I was not aware of the LPE (surely because because I am a real > newbie at > Inksape), may be it could help to give the same result ... but not > sure how > to use it in order to achieve the desired outuput effect. > > Please tell me if you could help me, > > Thank you again, > Dypso. > > > > > > > > 2016-01-29 20:24 GMT+01:00 Jabiertxo <jabiertxof@...400...>: > > > Hi Dypso. > > The code is for do this? > > > > https://www.researchgate.net/figure/30508950_fig1_Fig-4-a-The-origi > > nal-Cityrail-geometry-and-simplifications-using-c-4-e-6-and > > > > Is the source vector based? > > > > If yes I think the best is make a LPE -live path effect-, I could > > help > > you in the process, but not familiar about metro simplification. > > > > Cheers, Jabier. > > > > El vie, 29-01-2016 a las 18:49 +0100, Jabier Arraiza escribió: > > > --------- Mensaje reenviado -------- > > > De: dypsok@...400... <dypsok@...400...> > > > Para: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > Asunto: [Inkscape-devel] Plugin from Nathan Hurst metro > > > simplification > > > path > > > Fecha: Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:44:10 +0100 > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I recently contact Nathan about this code here : > > > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~lib2geom-hackers/lib2geom/trunk/vi > > > > ew/h > > > > ea > > > > d:/src/toys/metro.cpp > > > > > > > > I wanted to work with it : he suggeres me to ask on the > > > > mailing > > > > list > > > > if > > > > someone (perhaps jabertxo) could help me to turn it in a > > > > plugin... > > > > > > > > Does anyone know about this code or could help me with this ? > > > > > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > > > > > Best regards, > > > > Dypso > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------ > > > > ----------- > > > > Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application > > > > Performance > > > > APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just > > > > $35/Month > > > > Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions > > > > now > > > > Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup > > > > Now! > > > > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/414 > > > > 0 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Inkscape-devel mailing list > > > > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > Hi all, > > > I recently contact Nathan about this code here : http://bazaar. > > > laun > > > chpad.net/~lib2geom- > > > hackers/lib2geom/trunk/view/head:/src/toys/metro.cpp > > > > > > I wanted to work with it : he suggeres me to ask on the mailing > > > list > > > if someone (perhaps jabertxo) could help me to turn it in a > > > plugin... > > > > > > Does anyone know about this code or could help me with this ? > > > > > > Thank you in advance, > > > > > > Best regards, > > > Dypso

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Plugin from Nathan Hurst metro simplification path
by dypsok＠...400... 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

Hi all,

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