November 2017 - Inkscape Devel

Meeting - Inkscape Vectors
by Ryan Gorley 08 Nov '17

08 Nov '17

The Inkscape Vectors will be meeting a couple hours before the board meeting. Catch the agenda, time and location details here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-vectors/general/issues/21 (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-vectors/general/issues/21) All are welcome. We hope you'll join us! -- Ryan Gorley Founder + Creative Director https://dijt.co (https://dijt.co)

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Gtk3 Trunk/Master Status
by Tavmjong Bah 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hi All, At the last Inkscape board meeting I was tasked with looking into the status of our move to Gtk3. I've updated the Gtk+ 3 issues wiki page: wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/GTK%2B_3_issues Here are what I consider to be the big blockers to a 0.93 release from the Gtk3 perspective: 1. Filter Editor dialog rewrite. Our custom Filter Editor dialog is seriously broken with Gtk3. Some work was done at the hackfest on rewriting this dialog from scratch. This needs to be finished. 2. Crash in Wayland with docked dialogs. When Inkscape is run under Wayland and there is a docked dialog, opening a new Inkscape window causes a crash in the GDL code. 3. Icons themes. We've removed our custom icon handling code and now rely on native Gtk icon handling. This means that each icon is now in its own SVG file. In principle this should allow theming to work properly but more work needs to be done. All the icons are currently dumped into one directory. They need to be in put in subdirectories according to the common desktop spec and the Inkscape code updated to use the directories. 4. Icons missing in toolbars. Icons are often missing in toolbars until the window is resized. There are quite a few other major bugs that should be addressed as well listed on the wiki page, some of them may be candidates for blockers. Please give your feedback here and/or on the wiki page. Thanks, Tav

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Inkscape sponsor requirements
by C R 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hey all. As requested of me at the board meeting, I've typed up a "common sense" draft of what I think is in-line with the project's purpose and goals. I thought about all the ways I could think of that a sponsor could make the project look bad with their actions, so here's the result: Sponsorship Requirements: The Inkscape project was founded to serve a world-wide community of artists, hobbyists, designers, scientists, engineers, and people everywhere by providing free and open source software (FLOSS) tools for vector graphics production. Since our sponsorship offerings include the service of exposure on our website, we require that all sponsors meet the following criteria to ensure a mutual compatibility with the spirit of the Inkscape Project. Thus to qualify for sponsorship, a sponsor must be: 1. A Legal, Law-Abiding Business - Must be registered as a business, pay taxes, and maintain a good standing with their customer base, and the country(s) in which they do business. 2. Politically Neutral - Our community is vast, and serves users from all walks of life and political views. The Inkscape Project does not, and therefore must not be seen to support one any particular ideology (beyond that of our belief in the essential software freedoms), and thus can not accept support from organisations of a political or religious nature. 3. Supportive of User Freedoms - A sponsor must not have a history of abusing user freedoms. This includes the sale of and promotion of proprietary software as part of the sponsor's core business, which we consider incompatible with the project's goals of user freedom. 4. Supportive of the Environment and the Future - The Inkscape Project can not accept donations from companies which promote the destruction of the environment. This includes companies which fund climate change denialism, anti-science groups, and members of the tobacco and fossil fuel industries. 5. Supportive of Equal Rights, Free Speech and Gender Equality - A sponsor must not fund groups which seek to deny the rights and freedoms of others based on gender, race, creed, religion (or lack thereof), or sexual preference. If a sponsor is found at odds with any of these essential compatibility points, the Inkscape Project reserves the right to pull the sponsor from our website, at which point a prorated refund of the donation amount will be returned to the sponsor.

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Error building (last two steps)...
by Patrick Dorion 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Hi, could anyone give me a hint? I don't know what to do... Building on FreeBSD-amd64 11.1-REL from the Ports tree... --> See attachment for output. Patrick Dorion 📱 +1 438 345-4575

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[Inkscape-board] Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 03 Nov '17

03 Nov '17

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for tomorrow, Nov 3rd, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings [Please note that some timezones have gone through daylight savings time changes, but others have not, so check your time!] Agenda: + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure backup/alternate hosting + Sponsor acceptance policy + Preliminary preparations for 0.93 [tav] + Merchandise sales + Other Business Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] reply to personal message re Inkscape
by brynn 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi Andrew, I'm posting this directly to the mailing list, as an introduction. And I'm also copying in Alexia, who has replied to me as well. You will have to subscribe before you can send messages to the list. As I mentioned before, please find the link you need to subscribe to the Devel Mailing List here: https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/ There's a good chance your scale issues can be fixed with this info: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/faq/#inkscape-092-my-drawings-are-just-quarte… Or the other possibility I can think of is Inkscape Preferences > Input/Output > SVG Output > Path Data If those don't solve the problem, then it's well over my head, and definitely you should subscribe and post to developers on the mailing list. All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Jansen Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 6:53 PM To: brynn@...3472... Subject: Re: reply to personal message re Inkscape Hello Brynn, Confirming receipt of email below. Please confirm and let me know if you can point us in the right direction. Thanks, Andrew Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 27, 2017, at 2:07 PM, "brynn@...3472..." <brynn@...3623...> > wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > I'm contacting you as a reply to a personal message you sent me today, > on Inkscape Community. I've pasted the text of your message below, just for > convenience. > > I don't think you've actually contacted the person you intended. I have > not posted in any forum about AxiDraw, and in fact, this is the first time > I've heard about it. I tried searching for a forum, and found a few which > have messages about AxiDraw. I'm guessing you were referring to the Evil Mad > Scientists forum. But once there, I still had no idea which message to look > at. > > The president of the Inkscape Board of Developers' name is Bryce. And > with my name Brynn, we get confused sometimes. This forum is run separately > from the Inkscape website, although I am quite active in the community. I can > certainly put you in touch with Bryce, or whomever you're looking for. > > I've never heard of the Inkscape community having a paid consultant > service. But I know the Board has been creating sponsorship opportunities, as > well as funded development options. So perhaps either one of those would work > for you, or perhaps could be modified. But certainly I can't represent either > one of those to you. > > The Inkscape development community primarily communicates via mailing > list (although they also use IRC for real time chats). I'm pretty sure you > can post to the Board of Developers list, without subscribing to it. But the > Development list does require subscription (although you don't necessarily > have to receive mail or stay subscribed, and you can read messages via the > archives). (Although for developing an extension, perhaps you'd want to be > subscribe to the list?) > > This page has links for all the mailing lists, as well as the archives: > https://inkscape.org/en/community/mailing-lists/ > > Or if you know the name of the person you're looking for, I could > probably put you in touch. > > For the scale issue, I'm guessing there will be a simple solution. > Starting with version 0.92, Inkscape's native unit is mm, rather than px, and > if you need a different unit, you have to set the Scale option correctly. As > someone who participates primarily with user support, I can tell you there is > a good deal of confusion about it. So whoever you end up working with can > explain it to you. (Personally it confuses me, haha. As far as I can > understand it, it sounds like something that most users should never have to > deal with. But unfortunately, it currently requires user input.) > > Let me know if I can help you contact someone in particular. > > All best, > brynn > > __________________________________________________ > > Hello, > > My name is Andrew and I noticed you commented on a AxiDraw Forum. We're new to > using Inkscape and we currently use it for pen plotting. The pen plotter we > are using is called the AxiDraw3. Inkscape has been quite challenging to use > at scale. We currently use Inkscape and our pen plotter to write handwritten > cards. I understand that Inkscape is free but is there a paid consultant > service we can use to help us streamline our business? > I sincerely appreciate your time. > > I check my email more than I check my messages on this forum so if you could > respond back at andrew@...3622... that would be incredibly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance! > > Andrew > (323) 532 6551

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moderation - 'could have been made w/Inkscape'
by brynn 02 Nov '17

02 Nov '17

Hi Friends, I think I probably know how the community leans on this. But since it bothers me so much, and happens so often, I thought it was worth not assuming the answer, and finding out for sure. A few months ago, we decided not to allow random photos in the gallery, which are unrelated to the project in any way. We also decided not to bother with copyright issues. (long discussion - https://sourceforge.net/p/inkscape/mailman/message/35798617/) Probably equally as often as random photos being uploaded, are images which *could have been made with Inkscape* but which I doubt were. So far, I've been letting these go through. But as I said, I wanted to have a discussion, rather than assume. Here are a couple of recent examples: -- 2 images, 1 resource and 1 thumbnail -- https://inkscape.org/en/~noahgabe@...3618.../%E2%98%85music -- https://inkscape.org/en/~KristiBryant113/%E2%98%85jesus-saves-the-world2 (I did a little research on this one, and found it at many different sites (many on different sites selling tshirts, as well as just web images) with the same basic image (and this exact image here: https://res.cloudinary.com/teepublic/image/private/s--rVeDm8Gt--/t_Preview/…) -- so I'm pretty sure it wasn't made with Inkscape) --https://inkscape.org/en/~chiquitita/%E2%98%8515230751-703016283207581-8475381764676214363-n To me, all of those /could have been/ made with Inkscape. But I have reasons to doubt all of them. How do you all think they should be handled? I think they should be handled similarly to random photos (contact the member, explain and link to CoC, ask to explain the relation to Inkscape, ask if they would like to remove, inform after 2 weeks we will do it, of course with graciousness. Or do we let them have the benefit of our doubt? I honestly don't understand why people go around posting random images (apparently, afaict) in random galleries, once or twice, and never come back. (I have the same curiosity about people who post 1 or 2 frivolous, sometimes meaningless messages in forums and never return.) But it seems worth the effort not to waste our limited resource on hosting these things. Anyway, thanks for any thoughts or comments :-) All best, brynn

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Development versions
by Jabier Arraiza 01 Nov '17

01 Nov '17

Hi all. I have a request from a Grafica Libre user to get a PPA or AppImage of devel versions to start working filling bugs. Hi is focussed now in Jessyinc. Is posible create similar thing like the one for windows described a little time ago in Appveyor for Appimage to allow user coexist easy 2 inkscape versions without need install&reinstall PPA needs because same package devel and stable? This grow our testing base user and also provides people ability to test if a bug is realy fixed without need to wait the release, removing surprises. Thanks in advance, Jabier.

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