March 2016 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Proposal for building Windows devlibs and for windows build environment setup
by Michael Soegtrop 02 Apr '16

02 Apr '16

Dear Inkscape Team, I have a proposal for improving the delivery for the windows libs and for setting up a build environment. The current method of delivering binary libs has two disadvantages: 1.) it restricts the user to a very specific binary gcc build (at least the docs say so). 2.) it is tricky to check if this delivery method is GPL compliant. According to GPL if you deliver binaries you also have to deliver sources, and it is a lot of work to check all libs licenses and to check if all required sources are in the delivery. Please note that it is NOT sufficient to say "this is standard GPL software and you can download the sources from the official sources". If you delivery binaries, you have to deliver the sources. Now to my proposal: for another open source project I created 2 scripts: one which automatically sets up a fresh cygwin with MinGW cross support and whatever else is needed and another one which downloads and builds a bunch of libraries and apps from sources, including GTK, cairo and pango. About 70% of the libs inkscape requires are built by this script, so it wouldn't be that much work to add the remaining 30%. This does not just setup a build environment and builds everything automatically, it also documents exactly what was used and how it was built (and possibly patched). So my proposal would be to instead of delivering the libs as binaries and lengthy instructions just deliver these two scripts. The scripts are fairly simple and well documented. The build for inkscape and all its libs from scratch would likely be 2..3 hours on a decent machine. Would others appreciate such a mechanism to build inkscape on windows? Usually it would be a single call to a DOS batch file to setup cygwin and start the download and build process. Best regards, Michael

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Hackfest Topics and Agenda
by Tavmjong Bah 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Hi all, We're getting close to the Hackfest. Please add your topics and agenda items to: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2016_Topics You don't have to be participating in the hackfest to add things! Thanks, Tav

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Fwd: CMake Windows build: should it work?
by Michael Soegtrop 01 Apr '16

01 Apr '16

Dear Inkscape Team, I was on travel an wanted to work a bit on my embroidery stuff on the way. Unfortunately I just had a Windows laptop with me and I found that building the latest trunk version on Windows with CMake doesn't work out of the box. First question: is this supposed to work or is CMake for Windows work in progress? I could only get it to build after adding a few libs. Also the order in which libs are given to the linker I had to change. The make install target just installs gettext stuff, nothing else, which makes it tricky to run the built exe. In case this is known to not work, any nobody is working on this, I could work on fixing this (I am already quite far). Otherwise are there some docs on how to configure it correctly with CMake on Windows? Best regards, Michael

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Board Meeting @ Friday Mar 4th, 2016
by Bryce Harrington 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Let's plan on doing a short meeting tomorrow, March 4th. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time (2000 UTC). http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Shortened Agenda is: * Hackfest 2016 * GSoC 2016 * Other business If time permits we'll tackle some of remaining topics from last meeting, but I'd like to keep the meeting to under an hour for folks, and to reserve as much as necessary for the hackfest and gsoc planning work. Bryce

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Participation in LGM [Design]
by Xaviju Julián 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hi everyone! Since this year is the LGM and the hackfest it could be a good moment to meet personally with some of you and talk/learn about the Inkscape interface design. In a conversation with Ilmari, from the LibreOffice team, he pointed out that they currently have a design team with great results. A design team could (should!) also include developers, who like to hack on the UI and how functionality is presented to the user. We are also part of the Open Source Design community with tons of designers with interest in contributing but have little idea on how to start contributing to projects like Inkscape. This Design team could help new contributors to be useful on the current development. We really want to contribute to Inkscape with our skills :) Do you think it would be good to create an official Design team inside Inkscape? In a conversation with Jabier he suggested us to meet in the hackfest in Leeds, we are a group of 2-3 designers going to the LGM and, if you think it would be useful to meet in the hackfest, we could make it to Leeds on 13th (arriving 12th night). Thanks, looking forward to meet at the LGM! Xavi

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Inkscape with touch screens?
by Brynn 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hi Friends, Occassionally we've had a message in forums about using Inkscape with a touch screen. And in the past I've always answered "not yet". But now I'm shopping for a new laptop, and approx 90% of the laptops available in my RAM range (16 gb) are "2 in 1" types which have touch screens. I've had to search rather closely to find a non-touch screen! If I look in the lower range of RAM (around 6 gb) the available systems are roughly split between touch and non-touch screens. But even then, it gives the impression that touchscreen computers are much more common than I had imagined. The last time I bought a new computer, touchscreens were rare! Anyway, I wanted to ask the development community -- will Inkscape ever be made to work using a touch screen, or will it always be mouse (or graphics tablet/pen) driven (also commandline)? Or is using a touch screen essentially the same as a graphics tablet, and Inkscape is already touch-capable? Thanks for some clarity (answer doesn't need to be very technical) :-) Thank you very much, brynn

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Dbus implementation
by Raphaël Bournhonesque 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

Hello, I've noticed that a Dbus application was written during a former GSOC event (2009), and I was wondering why it was not included by default in Inkscape. Does the implementation still need some work? I would be glad to work on this if needed. Best, Raphaël

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Mirror Symmetry LPE
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

Any one want to rebiew the resubmited LPE code to allow CRogers include it in his video for LGM? https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/mirror-symetry-lpe-improv… Cheers, Jabier.

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support for gcode extensions
by Brynn 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Hi Friends, I provide support for Inkscape daily, in bb style forums or occassionally in LP Answers. A couple of things are missing across the community. 1 - tutorials for using gcode tools, and 2 - support for questions and problems with those extensions. I know that the extensions all reference a single, 30-page topic in a Russian forum, as a place to get support. But we still are getting questions posted in other forums, that we just can't answer. Is there any other place where people can find support? Thanks, brynn

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Inkscape Hackfest: I'll bring teh coffeh
by C R 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

I have a small nespresso coffee-pod type coffee machine which fits nicely in a bit of hand luggage. I'm also willing to smuggle a truly questionable quantity of coffeepods to Leeds, since it seems most folks who are attending love coffee to some degree, and it's friggin miles to the nearest coffee chain stores. What I want to know is: who wants coffee, and how much per day. I'm going to bulk-order nespresso coffeepods (or reasonable facsimiles), which will get them cheaper than they would be otherwise. If you are attending the inkscape hackfest, and want coffee, just reply with your average per-day quota, and I'll add it all up to see how much to lug along. Also advise if you want other things like sugar, powdered milk, soy, cocoa, etc. Thanks! -C

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