October 2017 - Inkscape Devel

Request for hosting sponsorship for the Inkscape Project
by Bryce Harrington 12 Oct '17

12 Oct '17

Inkscape is seeking to improve its online service hosting. To this end we're soliciting proposals for donation/sponsorship of hosting services for the project. The Inkscape Project is a non-profit, volunteer-driven organization that develops and maintains the popular Inkscape vector drawing software, provided freely to millions of artists, designers, and other drawers of lines. Our website is at http://www.inkscape.org If you would be interested in sponsoring us through a donation of hosting service, we would be happy to add you to our sponsors page, with a mention & link on our main website's footer. Proposals can be sent to me as contact point. These will be presented to Inkscape's board, who will make the final determination in about a month's time. == Background == We currently have various services hosted at a number of different locations with widely varying administrative capacities. We would like to centralize the administration of these services, such as consolidating them onto one platform. We also want room and flexibility to easily install additional services as we grow. Services high on our priority list to migrate soon include mailing lists, Mattermost, and wiki. Bug tracking, web forum and gitlab are potential secondary priorities. Our Django-based main website may also be worth consolidating at some point in the future. For redundancy, we'd like to engage two distinct hosts, with one as a primary and the other backup/space, preferrably in geographically distinct areas (e.g. Europe and Canada). == Requirements == We think that a suitable machine would look something like this: Minimum Desired Required Ideal CPU: dual core quad core RAM: 4 gb 256 gb Storage: 500GB >1 TB (HW RAID-1) HDD SDD Bandwidth: 1 TB/mo 2 TB/mo OS: Any linux Ubuntu 16.04 We like the straightforwardness of physical (metal) hardware, but could consider virtual options if we can get similar levels of flexibility and expandability. * UPS power backup * 24h support at the datacenter - For hardware (metal) options, a technician would need to be available for handling hardware issues, to do OS installation/reinstallation, hook up KVM/IP if available, and to investigate faults that can't be diagnosed remotely. * Server would be under the administrative and technical management of the Inkscape admin team (about 6-8 people). We would have root access to the machine for doing system updates and to install/configure software and services. * We expect to be managing/maintaining our software ourselves. Items we anticipate migrating to this include (in rough order of priority): + Mailman3 + Mattermost + Wiki (mediawiki currently) + Forum (e.g. hosting for inkscapeforum.com) + Bug tracker (TBD) + Gitlab + Other project management tools + Website / Django * Inkscape does not handle anything particularly controversial. No copyright infringing materials, nothing political, nothing intentionally offensive. Our windows binary has been false-positived by virus software in the past, but we clear this up ourselves. * Currently our website hosting is sponsored and managed by OSUOSL. It's a root access virtual machine running postgresql, memcached, nginx and the django site itself. Memory usage is 450MiB per web host thread, currently 2 threads, plus 500MB for postgresql and 500MB for memcache. CDN is hosted by Fastly, currently serving 32TB per month for Inkscape (1:1.5 ratio US:EU, so more EU hits overall). There's enough dynamic content that we still see a decent load (1/2 TB/mo) on the server, notably around major releases (once every year or two); we are continuously tweaking optimizations.

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Oct 6, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Welcome new Board Members + Officer positions? + Board election debrief + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting + Sponsor acceptance policy + Preliminary preparations for 0.93 + 2017 Budget + Merchandise sales + Funded development + Other Business Bryce

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Cppcheck results
by Friedrich Spee von Langenfeld 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi, I've checked the files in the src directory (without those in subdirectories) with Cppcheck. The attachment contains the results as an XML file. You can open it in the Cppcheck GUI e. g. to restrict the items to errors only. (There are very few ones.) Perhaps, this list is of interest to you to further improve the quality of Inkscape's source code base. Greetings Friedrich

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A future idea: SVG internet kickstarter
by Miguel Lopez 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi Inkscape developers and those who are with Inkscape developers, This idea just hits right in the back of my head, the minute that Inkscape gets bugs fix, and a few more improvement, would it be possible to have every Inkscape users as possible to make their SVGs, and ask internet browsers and so on to support gradient mesh, and other things by getting them to make some sort of text to support SVG development and they post their SVGs on the web? Something like some sort of yearly campaign. I know this might not amount to much, but it's just something.

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Election Inkscape Board: Results
by unknown＠example.com 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Dear Inkscape Developer, The election for Inkscape Board is now concluded. -- RESULTS -- * Chris Rogers (Elected) * Marc Jeanmougin (Elected) ---- Full Results: http://www.inkscape.org/en/*board/elections/board-elections-2017/

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Git version/ MacOS / Quartz: Crash when clicking to draw second element
by Friedrich Beckmann 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi, I try to build current git master (October 3rd, 2017) version on MacOS. I used Macports (+quartz) to install all required libraries and then build with CMake. The build process works and I can install inkscape. I have El Capitan with xcode 7.3. inkscape also opens. When I click the pen tool I can draw a first line. Clicking in the draw window to start the next line will crash inkscape. The same happens when I try to draw a second elipse. I traced it with the debugger and the problem is that the current selection is cleared. The failure is here: Process 27826 stopped * thread #1: tid = 0xd6be1e, 0x0000000100d0801a libinkscape_base.dylib`Inkscape::ObjectSet::_clear(this=0x000000010c678e70) + 106 at object-set.cpp:123, queue = 'com.apple.main-thread', stop reason = EXC_BAD_ACCESS (code=EXC_I386_GPFLT) frame #0: 0x0000000100d0801a libinkscape_base.dylib`Inkscape::ObjectSet::_clear(this=0x000000010c678e70) + 106 at object-set.cpp:123 120 } 121 122 void ObjectSet::_clear() { -> 123 for (auto object: _container) { 124 _remove(object); 125 } 126 } (lldb) quit And the calling frames are here: (lldb) f 3 frame #3: 0x00000001006533fb libinkscape_base.dylib`Inkscape::UI::Tools::PencilTool::root_handler(this=0x0000000112bae100, event=0x000000010672f950) + 91 at pencil-tool.cpp:109 106 107 switch (event->type) { 108 case GDK_BUTTON_PRESS: -> 109 ret = this->_handleButtonPress(event->button); 110 break; 111 112 case GDK_MOTION_NOTIFY: (lldb) f 2 frame #2: 0x00000001006538de libinkscape_base.dylib`Inkscape::UI::Tools::PencilTool::_handleButtonPress(this=0x0000000112bae100, bevent=0x000000010672f950) + 1054 at pencil-tool.cpp:198 195 // This is the first click of a new curve; deselect item so that 196 // this curve is not combined with it (unless it is drawn from its 197 // anchor, which is handled by the sibling branch above) -> 198 selection->clear(); 199 desktop->messageStack()->flash(Inkscape::NORMAL_MESSAGE, _("Creating new path")); 200 m.freeSnapReturnByRef(p, Inkscape::SNAPSOURCE_NODE_HANDLE); 201 } else if (selection->singleItem() && SP_IS_PATH(selection->singleItem())) { (lldb) b pencil-tool.cpp:198 Anybody out there who sees this on MacOS with the quartz backend? Any ideas? Friedrich

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G(S)List no more
by Marc Jeanmougin 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hi all! After a work in three main phases over >2years: - merge 9b7af8caac08ad42a48214518bc004e258eb5873 (+1544,-1778 over 114 files) taking care of just the uses pertaining to the selections, - merge 50ab3a3c4215474d437f9adcc4b725bed26767d7 (+701,-884 over 60 files) taking care of many various uses, - tonight's merge of https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/86/diffs (+1041,-1612 over 90 files) taking care of the rest, I'm pleased to announce that the number of GList and GSList in the codebase is at an historical low: → GLists are still in heavy uses in libcroco and libnrtype forcing two uses in sp-style-elem.cpp (libcroco) and widgets/font-selector.cpp (libnrtype) → Three files related to actions in src/widgets/ crash when gtkmmified so they still keep GSList in "proxies = gtk_action_get_proxies( GTK_ACTION(action) );". The normal way to get rid of those would be to make a big effort of gtkkmification of the actions and make them derive from Gio::Action <https://developer.gnome.org/glibmm/unstable/classGio_1_1Action.html>. I'm not sure how to achieve that. Many of these lists were not properly g_(s)list_free'd, so I may or may not have fixed several dozens of memory leaks in the process. I've been as careful as I could, but if you detect crashes or regressions linked to this merge, please contact me on IRC or email as soon as possible so that I can investigate. Yay! -- Mc

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fw: Inkscape export error
by Maren Hachmann 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

You're welcome, Thomas. Am 02.10.2017 um 18:57 schrieb Tomax63: > I worked, thanks. > > > Am 01.10.2017 um 22:43 schrieb Maren Hachmann: >> You'd need to have Python 2.7 installed. >> >> If on Windows, you can add that during installation, it will be >> available for Inkscape only, as far as I know, and will not mess up your >> system Python version - then you don't need to do anything else. >> >> If you install the Python system-wide, or have it installed elsewhere, >> then in the preferences file, you can define which Python to use. >> In that case follow the instructions given here: >> https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/215655#comment-2 >> >> Maren >> >> Am 01.10.2017 um 21:58 schrieb Shlomi Fish: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> please freaking reply to the list. See: >>> >>> * >>> http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-li… >>> >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Shlomi >>> >>> Begin forwarded message: >>> >>> Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:52:30 +0200 >>> From: Tomax63 <tomax63@...128...> >>> To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...2985...> >>> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape export error >>> >>> >>> Yes i am programming in Pythom 3. How can I solve that problem? >>> >>> >>> Am 01.10.2017 um 19:42 schrieb Shlomi Fish: >>>> Hi Thomas, >>>> >>>> On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 09:02:02 +0200 >>>> Tomax63 <tomax63@...128...> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hello, I receive the following message: >>>>> >>>>> File "synfig_output.py", line 396 >>>>> raise AssertionError, "Unsupported param type %s" % >>>>> (param_type) >>>>> ^ >>>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>>>> >>>>> Whenever I try to export a file. >>>>> >>>> the problem appears to be that you are using Python 3 (which isn't yet >>>> supported) to run the python code instead of python 2. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> >>>> Shlomi >>>> >>>>> Same with HP plot file >>>>> >>>>> Traceback (most recent call last): >>>>> File "plt_output.py", line 25, in <module> >>>>> from uniconv_output import run, get_command >>>>> File "D:\Program >>>>> Files\Inkscape\share\extensions\uniconv_output.py", >>>>> line 66 >>>>> except Exception, inst: >>>>> ^ >>>>> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>>>> >>>>> Can you help me export to Synfig? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks >>>>> >>>>> Thomas >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Inkscape-devel mailing list >> Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > >

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Cut and paste has stopped to work between FontForge and Inkscape
by Ivan Louette 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Copy/Cut ant paste has recently stopped to work between Inkscape Trunk ppa and FontForge on Kubuntu 16.04 I didn't use this feature for about twoo week Thanks in advance for fixing it,ivan

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Fw: Inkscape export error
by Shlomi Fish 01 Oct '17

01 Oct '17

Dear all, please freaking reply to the list. See: * http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-li… Best, Shlomi Begin forwarded message: Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:52:30 +0200 From: Tomax63 <tomax63@...128...> To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...2985...> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape export error Yes i am programming in Pythom 3. How can I solve that problem? Am 01.10.2017 um 19:42 schrieb Shlomi Fish: > Hi Thomas, > > On Sun, 1 Oct 2017 09:02:02 +0200 > Tomax63 <tomax63@...128...> wrote: > >> Hello, I receive the following message: >> >> File "synfig_output.py", line 396 >> raise AssertionError, "Unsupported param type %s" % (param_type) >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >> Whenever I try to export a file. >> > the problem appears to be that you are using Python 3 (which isn't yet > supported) to run the python code instead of python 2. > > Regards, > > Shlomi > >> Same with HP plot file >> >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "plt_output.py", line 25, in <module> >> from uniconv_output import run, get_command >> File "D:\Program Files\Inkscape\share\extensions\uniconv_output.py", >> line 66 >> except Exception, inst: >> ^ >> SyntaxError: invalid syntax >> >> Can you help me export to Synfig? >> >> Thanks >> >> Thomas >> >> > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ https://is.gd/MQHVF3 - The Atom Text Editors edits a 2,000,001b file Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour.html Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply .

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