March 2016 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

ANN: reproducible build & test virtual machine
by Olof Bjarnason 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Hi Inkscape list! I've worked on a Vagrantfile* over the past few months, that is able to bring up a virtual build- and test machine for Inkscape. The VM is running on Lubuntu linux (lightweight Ubuntu) so you can actually run the inkscape binary produced by the build. You can, of course, modify the Inkscape source code within the VM, and rebuild. So if you got Vagrant and VirtualBox up and running, creating a development environment for Inkscape is just a "vagrant up" away. Because of this, it is relatively simple to develop Inkscape regardless on what OS&machine you are on, be it Windows, Mac or Linux - as long as you can install VirtualBox and Vagrant you are good to go. I'd love feedback and/or pull requests. https://github.com/objarni/inkup/ /Olof * The Vagrantfile is the "recipe" used to build a VM using Vagrant. Vagrant automates the creation and management of virtual machines on a computer. It supports VM ware, VirtualBox and more.

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Quick fix suggestion: Filter document "Page Size" options based on "display units" drop-down
by C R 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Working on the video templates today and noticed that many of the options for template sizes that are present in the "New from template" dialogue are missing in the Document Properties options (including video templates). But... Rather than include a search (which may be nice but time-consuming as a fix). Why don't we include them all, but filter the options shown based on the units selected in the "display units". So if the user chooses "in" then show all options with dimensions listed in inches In my case, the template would naturally be in px for video, so having chosen "px", I'd get my 1080p template right away without having to open a new file (or remember that 1080 is the height rather than the width, which always gives me issues remembering "1920" for some reason). At the least, I think it should make the px values float to the top of the list, for convenience. The sizes are somewhat haphazardly listed at the moment. Thoughts? -C

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Linked offset broken in trunk
by C R 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hey, just noticed that linked offset now produces very bad results. I'm using Inkscape 0.91+devel r (Mar 14 2016) To reproduce results: 1. Draw any shape 2. Add a linked offset to the shape 3. Drag the linked offset handle out or in. Star and rounded rectangle example with linked offset here: http://www.opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/linked_ofset_problem.png As you can see the results are wavey/garbagey. Whatever changes were made to the linked offset modifier seem to have broken it pretty badly. :/ Thoughts? -C

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GSoC Student Applications & Submitting Patches
by Josh Andler 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hello Prospective Students, Since the application deadline is soon approaching, I figured I would send out a reminder. If you have not completed your proposal by the deadline, we cannot accept it. If you have not submitted the mandatory two patches by 2 weeks from today (April 6th), we cannot consider your proposal. If you have any questions, please let us know. Cheers, Josh

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Installing Inkscape nightly alongside stable 0.91 on Linux Mint 17.3
by jelle 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Installing Inkscape nightly alongside stable 0.91 on Linux Mint 17.3 Is that possible? And if so, how exactly? Or does it install like that already? I'd rather not replace my stable release with the nighlies, but would like to be more active testing now I can finally report bugs. But I can also imagine wanting to use a nightly as production tool if the bugs can be avoided and the functionality gain warrants its use. I also wonder if some of the bug fixes couldn't be released as Bugfix package rather than to have to wait for a long time till the next stable release. I can imagine that to be a lot of work to keep track of though, so not sure about the feasibility of it. Or maybe some kind of recommended Beta update (as Inkscape is still Beta anyway), that has proven to have some improvements making it worth upgrading. Being able to use Shift+Del and Shift+Insert for text springs to mind as an particularly annoying omission in 0.91 (as years of usage has carved that path in my neural network) but fixed in later nightlies. Cheers, Jelle

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commit access to lib2geom?
by alvinpenner 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Would it be possible to get commit access to lib2geom in github? I would like to commit a proposed fix for Bug 1545632. My username is alvinpenner. When I try to push a change I get the result: remote: Permission to inkscape/lib2geom.git denied to alvinpenner. fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/inkscape/lib2geom.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 Thanks, Alvin -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/commit-access-to-lib2geom-tp4976146.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Better data structure for selections
by Adrian Boguszewski 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hello, I'm Adrian Boguszewski. I'm 5th year student in the field of Computer Science at Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. I'm interested in Better data structure for selections project. I have expierence with C++ and STL and I know many data structures (e.g. lists, trees, graphs, hash tables), their time and space complexities. Moreover I implemented some of them, during my studies, myself. I've already sucessfully compiled Inkscape and I'm going to start with learning the code and bugs fixing. Is there anything I should to know? Best regards, Adrian

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Fwd: GTK+ 3.20
by Krzysztof Kosiński 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Heads up: GTK+ 3.20 will allow us to get rid of the Windows-specific file dialogs. Best regards, Krzysztof ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Matthias Clasen" <matthias.clasen@...400...> Date: Mar 21, 2016 7:01 PM Subject: GTK+ 3.20 To: <gnome-announce-list@...45...>, "gtk-devel-list" < gtk-devel-list@...45...>, "gtk-app-devel-list" < gtk-app-devel-list@...45...>, <gtk-list@...45...> Cc: GTK+ 3.20.0 is now available for download at: http://download.gnome.org/sources/gtk+/3.20/ sha256 sum: 1c3d3a4a6e959ec8636ccb074bcdb8fa25c81ec56fbc70de6a3f5ef83ba6d803 gtk+-3.20.0.tar.xz What is GTK+ ============ GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. Offering a comprehensive set of widgets as well as facilities for creating your own widgets, GTK+ is suitable for projects ranging from small one-off tools to complete application suites. GTK+ has been designed from the ground up to support a range of languages, not only C/C++. Using GTK+ from languages such as Python, Vala and JavaScript (especially in combination with gobject-introspection and the Glade GUI builder) provides an effective method of rapid application development. GTK+ is free software and part of the GNU Project. However, the licensing terms for GTK+, the GNU LGPL, allow it to be used by all developers, including those developing proprietary software, without any license fees or royalties. Since its origins as the toolkit for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP), GTK+ has been used in a wide range of software. Notably, GTK+ is the foundation of the GNOME desktop. What's new in 3.20 ================== Major new features include: * The CSS machinery now uses element names for widgets and their components * CSS margins, borders, padding and min-width and min-height are now much more consistently supported * CSS features that have been added: radial gradients, recoloring symbolic icons, image(), calc(), rem * Help overlays to document keyboard shortcuts and gestures * GTK+ now reads .XCompose files * GTK+ can use native file choosers on Windows * A HighContrastInverse theme has been added * The Wayland backend has full support for DND, kinetic scrolling, startup notification, primary selection, presenting windows, bell. * Deprecations and removals: Style properties, testing infrastructure, geometry support in window sizing, GdkDeviceManager, gtk_text_iter_begins_tag, gdk_display_get_screen For more details and lists of fixed bugs, see the NEWS file that is included in the tarball, or see: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/plain/NEWS?id=3.20.0 For concerns about porting from older GTK+ releases, see the README file that is included in the tarball, or see: http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/plain/README.in?id=3.20.0 Where to get more information about GTK+ ======================================== Information about GTK+ including links to documentation can be found at: http://www.gtk.org/ An installation guide for GTK+ is found at: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/stable/gtk-building.html Common questions: http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk3/stable/gtk-question-index.html Contributing ============ GTK+ is a large project and relies on voluntary contributions. We are actively searching for new contributors in various areas and invite everyone to help project development. If you are willing to participate, please subscribe to the project mailing lists to offer your help and read over our list of vacant project tasks: http://live.gnome.org/GTK+/Roadmap Thanks to the many people who contributed to this release in the form of bug reports, patches and translations. March 21, 2016 Matthias Clasen _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@...45... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape with touch screens?
by jelle 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Took some time and the kind assistance of Maren to get this posted. Here is the example I tried to get to show. I think it works now, but I am not quite sure as I can't even get the CSS code to load from the site. Blame the Chinese govt and NSA for adding 1.8 seconds to my latency for a total time of 3 seconds to Europe. Yeah,.. timeout edge. My take on how the interface might evolve. https://inkscape.org/en/~chubbymoth/★minimalistic-inkscape-interface Cheers, Jelle

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape with touch screens?
by jelle 22 Mar '16

22 Mar '16

Well,.. Considering the move to put some effort into a new UI design, I say we could combine > Customisable UI with >Inkscape that works on tablet. It wouldn't need to be a whole new version, a new screen setting called blank slate, with nothing but some floating dockable tool widgets. For tablets, a customisable UI would do the trick. Hell, just a customisable toolbox would do the trick, for starters. If you can initiate a widget to appear on screen now, I cannot imagine it to be that difficult to create some buttons named ABC etc. that when clicked executes a key combo, that you could just add to the default one. Ehm,.. better still if you could replace the default options (such as tweek, star, spiral and 3d box) with something you actually would like to use and/or change the locations of such tools so something like the bucket fill tool and color dropper don drop of my low res screen. Those are nice gadgets, but the past 13 years I've hardly ever used them. A golden ratio drawing tool would make more sense to me than the spiral. It would also allow for some of the those useful LPE's and extensions to find a place on the desktop rather than hidden in the drop down menu. So would I rather increase the productivity of Inkscape than add more options? Yes, I would! Reorganising the UI to my idea is at the same level of importance as optimising code considering the plethora of hard to access options we already have, but hardly use. Call me a point and click addict if you like, but having a visual reference is important to me. Keyboard mappings don't stay in my Alzheimer brain. >> On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 1:20 PM, William Adams <will.adams@...3004...> >> wrote: >>> I have to run a small button bar utility on my Toshiba >>> Encore 2 Write 10 which provides Alt/Shift/Ctrl/Space/Tab/Enter keys. William, Could you tell me where you found this button bar utility? So far I have never been able to find anything usable for that except full keyboards or numerical pads. Just a small bar would be quite useful already. Cheers, Jelle

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