April 2016 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Sponsoring
by jelle 25 Apr '16

25 Apr '16

Hello all, When Martin brought up the idea if I wanted to do the translation to Chinese, I had to inform him that sadly, my Chinese sucks. Nor do many Chinese jump to the idea of doing anything for free. Time is precious here where students start at 8.00 and end some days at 22.00. Memorising Mao's rantings can take a lot of energy. However, it occurred to me that we might very use sponsoring for translations and other tasks. If we would allow them to add a line of text to documents and have some sponsor page on the website, we could probably find a lot of institutes interested in sponsoring parts of the project with whatever means we would allow. The sponsor page should allow them to post a Logo, name and a short description of what part of the project they are involved in. To my idea it would be a great idea to get more exposure on Inkscape in places where not that many people have ever heard of it and maybe even inspire some competition on obtaining sponsorship. Of course we already have a large number of largely anonymous sponsors that have build the project so far, but rather than only going for crowd surfing, we could use the power of sponsoring to get things done and get the word out that Inkscape not only exists, but actually is an option. Already we have companies sponsoring part of the project by their own interest, which is how we end up with extensions for cutters and embroidery. True, they tend to be low profile sponsors, but I fail to see why we shouldn't embrace those that would like to be named. What are your feelings, thoughts and objections to something like that? Cheers, Jelle

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Offset LPE
by Jabier Arraiza 24 Apr '16

24 Apr '16

Hi to all. Finaly I could end my work in Leeds. Based on Join Type LPE and in the new Boolops code, now we have a new LPE offset. In comparsion whith SPOffset: Similar speed, handle more cases, allow joins not only rounded and give better results -sometimes-. The branch: lp:~inkscape.dev/inkscape/offset I get some wrong results on cusp nodes also in JoinType LPE and problems with text give bools some times to crash. I think when Boolops and JoinType is fixed the LPE work like a cham. Cheers, Jabier.

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AppImage for easy distribution of nightlies and releases
by probono 23 Apr '16

23 Apr '16

Hello Inkscape developers and maintainers, today I would like to propose an easy way to run and test Inkscape on various Linux distributions. Inkscape used to provide upstream- packaged Autopackages, but since I could no longer find them, I wonder whether this project might be interested in providing AppImages, which are essentially self-mounting ISOs that contain Inkscape and all dependencies it needs to run that cannot be assumed to be part of the base system (Linux distribution). This means that projects like Inkscape can package once and reach users of most desktop Linux distributions. http://www.appimage.org Linus Torvalds recently wrote about AppImage: "Sure, it means that the end result is much bigger than a distro-native binary would be, but if you want a way to build applications for your users without limiting them to a particular distribution, or having to build fifteen different images, it really looks like it works very well.=EF=BB=BF" - https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/WyrATKUnmrS I prepared an AppImage of the bzr version. You can download it from https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/Inkscape/_latestVersion#files Simply download, chmod a+x, and run. The recipe script that generated it is is linked below, in case you want to see how it was done and improve it. Using the recipe, it should also be easy to generate an AppImage for 32-bit systems: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/tree/master/recipes/inkscape I have tested it on a couple of different distributions with success: * CentOS-7-x86_64-LiveGNOME-1511.iso * debian-live-8.0.0-amd64-xfce-desktop+nonfree.iso * elementary_OS_0.3_freya_amd64.iso * Fedora-Live-Workstation-x86_64-23-10.iso * ubuntu-16.04-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso I had to work around an issue with "undefined symbol: g_type_check_instance_is_fundamentally_a" by bundling glib2, this makes it run also on * antergos-2014.08.07-x86_64.iso * linuxmint-17.3-cinnamon-64bit.iso * ubuntu-14.04.1-desktop-amd64.iso Possibly we can find a cleaner way (e.g., use CentOS 6 as the build host) to make this workaround unneccessary. Most likely it will run on others, too - and with some fine-tuning of the recipe (i.e., bundling additional dependencies) on even more. Probably the recipe is not perfect yet and might be missing some stuff, but that should be relatively easy to fix. If there is a continuous build system in place, this could be integrated so that continuous/nightly/weekly images get built. Having such builds should allow more users to run the latest bleeding-edge version, test on multiple systems, and give earlier feedback. Of course the AppImage format could also be used to distribute stable/testing versions to users of most Linux distributions. I have set up a cloud-based build system where I do the builds on travis-ci using a build system living inside a Docker image generated on Docker Hub. You can see this system in action here: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/ Of course this would be even more useful if it was integrated into the official Inkscape build system. There is also an update mechanism in the works which allows users to download binary deltas between the version they have and the latest version. This works without central servers or repositories, you could run it on your own project infrastructure. Makes updating continuous builds really fast and easy. https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/blob/master/ AppImageUpdate.AppDir/README.md (this is purely optional though). Is the Inkscape project interested in maintaing an upstream-generated AppImage, as projects like Krita, MuseScore, and Scribus already do? Upstream packaging would have the advantage that users/testers get the software exactly in the way the upstream team intended, with the correct versions of the libraries bundled together with the application. What could be improved? Regards probono

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Greetings from GTK+ land
by Martin Owens 22 Apr '16

22 Apr '16

Hi Allan, I've had an email to you in my drafts all week :-) you beat me to the send. Thanks for your offer of help, I want to go to the developers list and really flush out all the issues we have into a document you can use to see where we are. So I've added the developers mailing list to this email and point everyone to this wiki page: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Gtk_issues Everyone: please have a quick look at the page, it's mostly empty right now, so it needs your help to fill out some of the information. Hopefully this is a way for us to feed back information to Gtk/Gnome about the library we depend on. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens On Thu, 2016-04-21 at 18:06 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > Hey Martin! > > > It was great to chat with you at LGM. As per that conversation, do > fill me in about the challenges that you're facing with the GTK+3 > port. A list of issues would be really useful for our own work, and > would help us to support you where possible. > > > On a personal note: as a heavy Inkscape user, I'm really excited about > the prospect of the GTK+3 port. Dark themes, symbolic icons, improved > file dialogs, overlay scrollbars, all the new widgets... it's going to > be great! > > > On the design side we're happy to advise on best practices for the new > widgets and how to use the new CSS machinery. > > > Best wishes, > > > Allan

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Conservancy at OSCON Austin
by Bryce Harrington 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

FYI, if anyone in the Austin area might be interested in attending to promote Inkscape in conjunction with the Conservancy. Conference is May 18–19, 2016 Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> ----- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 21:38:49 -0400 From: Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> To: project-reps@...3057..., Member Discuss <member-discuss@...3057...> Subject: Conservancy OSCON presence Reply-To: karen@...3057... Hi member projects! Conservancy has confirmed its booth again in OSCON's Nonprofit Pavilion. Bradley and I will be attending OSCON in Austin next month and it would be great to have help in the booth (I've got a session talk on employment agreements and Bradley's on a panel about patents). Plus, helping with the booth would mean that you can specifically promote your project too. This worked out really well last year - we had a very popular booth and it was really a very fun experience IMO :) We have a bronze pass as well as a couple of exhibitor passes available so it would be on a first come basis. Let me know. In any event, we're also happy to include any materials that any of you would like us to have from your projects even if you don't come. Please coordinate with me on this soon. I am likely to order stickers for at least one of our member projects and have some flyers printed, for example. Also if you're going but aren't interested in the booth, we'd love to see you and meet up. And, we're planning on having a Conservancy Supporter BBQ event there too! karen Karen M. Sandler Executive Director, Software Freedom Conservancy __________ Become a Supporter today! http://sfconservancy.org/supporter/ ----- End forwarded message -----

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Ping! Welcome Inkscape UI team and interested parties [UI]
by C R 21 Apr '16

21 Apr '16

Hi! Was great to talk with everyone who made it to the LGM Inkscape UI meeting. In the interests of keeping the newly formed Inkscape UI group momentum going, I'm posting this welcome message. Please note that at all Inkscape UI group messages should include "[UI]" in the title (without quotes) so developers can elect to filter it to reduce noise from the UI team if desired. Martin is presently hard at work getting the gallery system updated and ready as a working space for UI discussions and mockups. I will do my best to keep everyone informed about the progress of everything as information becomes available. Thanks again to Martin for setting up a friendly custom workspace for us to play. :) -C

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New batch files in trunk
by LucaDC 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

In rev. 14855 ("merge Moritz's branch") two batch files have been added in the root of trunk: configure.bat and touch.bat. Both of them contain a particular system's specific configurations like a fixed path and a reference to some script/program (forfiles) so little chances they are useful for others. Being them useless and to avoid confusion I think they should be removed from version control. -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/New-batch-files-in-trunk-tp4976419.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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lib2geom github access
by Jabier Arraiza 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

I want to assign a pull request to Krzysztof and think i need to be joined to it. My github username is jabiertxof. Cheers, Jabier.

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Any objections to 770461?
by insaner 18 Apr '16

18 Apr '16

https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/770461 While we wait for the fix to the rendering engine, some of us benefit from the (now discovered to be poorly named) "use_slow_but_correct_offset_method" (which prevents linked offset text artifacts), while others do not. So I went ahead and wrote a patch that enables you to switch method at runtime, which includes a user pref to remember what your choice is (the default is the one that allows for the old method which is also currently default). Any saved file will not take this preference with it, in case there was any doubt. Please let me know if there's any objections to this, the idea is that this would be removed once the rendering code is fixed for both situations. -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Any-objections-to-770461-tp4976404.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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rectangle warping
by Ben Thurston 17 Apr '16

17 Apr '16

This is an idea about taking any rectangular number of grid squares on an image and warping them by solving a system of linear equations, I had previously submitted one about 3x3 but this can do mxn and to any number of dimensions... http://benpaulthurstonblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/rectangle-warping.html

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