February 2016 - Inkscape Devel

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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