April 2017 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Email spam from inkscape.org
by Martin Owens 01 May '17

01 May '17

Hi all, I've disabled the email server on osuosl's machine which is hosting inkscape.org, it sent out some spam (50~140) with a rather inviting political headline subject, and a mortgage advert body. whereupon 22 people emailed me (the webmaster) with abuse. I'm going to continue to monitor it, but without some sort of expert that can tell if the machine is compromised, I may just have to keep email offline for now. Sorry for the inconvenience. Effected will be: registration confirmation emails, password resets and any website notifications. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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[UX] Defaultable LPE parameter improved
by Jabier Arraiza 29 Apr '17

29 Apr '17

Hi Again. This mail is about the same. I'm not too much sattisfy with the UX proposal from yesterday and I do a full redesign. There is a special code not used yet that allow to show LPE and params inside a "inkscape-preferences" dialog. If anybody want to use it in the future I share the code here: https://inkscape.org/en/paste/10909/ The current UX is more simpler in code and in use. I attach screenshot. Please review strings. https://inkscape.org/en/~jabiertxof/%E2%98%85default-parameters-new-ux Cheers, Jabier.

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Any chance we can make some docs material? (targeting the moon)
by Victor Westmann 28 Apr '17

28 Apr '17

Hi team, I was not sure as where I was supposed to open this discussion (or question) of mine. I was just wondering... I do know that it takes a lot of time, and money, and then more time, and probably a lot of revisions... but do you guys think we can try to aim making something similar to this? https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/designer/workbook/ This is a hard copy, printed, material that Affinity Designer, from the Serif company, sell. I confess I don't have a copy of this material (yet) as it seems it only exists, officially, in the printed version... but I saw some samples and was really inspired and eager to check if we could do something on our own more or less of the same kind. We could try to use the Scribus to achieve such results.. and some open fonts (from Google and Adobe) and try to assemble 4 - 6 different big learning areas inside this Inkscape Activity Book. They could be: 1. Creating isometric graphics, (there is a super sweet plugin that works wonderfully in Inkscape 0.91.2) 2. Vectorizing simple photos, 3. creating logos (or recreating famous ones (not sure this is allowed)), there are multiple AMAZING examples of this on Nick Saporito Youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEQXp_fcqwPcqrzNtWJ1w9w) 4. UX-UI design to create webpage (or mobile apps) mockups. I know it is a lot of work. But we could try doing a smaller and simpler version of it to see how it goes. It would help us gather more money to the Inkscape project and follow, more or less, the model of Krita (they have a paid support option and some books to sell as well) and Blender (they have a store with multiple long and detailed tutorials on how to do things in videos (DVDs)). Just wondering... I know this might be asking too much... but I plan to be involved in this. Even if we have time for only 1 or 2 modules. It would be amazing to craft such material and spread it to the community (paid or free). --Victor Westmann

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Windows Properties > Start in "C:\Program Files\Inkscape\etc"
by brynn 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Hi Friends, A recent post in the forum asks why \etc should be the Start In location for Inkscape installed on Windows. http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=32259 Pretty much everything is already said in that topic, so I won't make so much noise repeating it. But I'll be glad to relay the answer, in case whoever has the answer isn't a forum member :-) (Also glad to make a bug report, if it's needed.) Thank you very much, brynn

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[UX] Default value for live effects parameters updateable
by Jabier Arraiza 27 Apr '17

27 Apr '17

Hi all [UX] folks! I have done a work to allow storing diferent default values for live effects parameters. By this way a user can have a fixed "stroke width" parameter in a concrete live effect for new uses instead than currently, what always is reseted to harcoded default ones. First of all, here is the current state of the code Code: https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/lpeUpdDefaultPa rams Screenshot: https://inkscape.org/en/~jabiertxof/%E2%98%85ui-for-lpe-def aults-params As now is fully functional not sure if is easy to explain and my texts info in widgets need to be improved. By default no default storable params since we go into: "preferences dialog->select_lpe->active_desired_parameter". Once is done, when using this effect, the desired parameter has a "*" mark to show is defaultable and apply current values pressing "Set BUTTON" or remove the custom one to go into harcode defaults pressing "Reset button". Anyway we need a work defining the strings for labels, buttons, prefs to try to be more understable. Thanks again for reading, Jabier.

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News news needs your help
by Martin Owens 26 Apr '17

26 Apr '17

Dear all, Our news article about Inkscape in 2017 and what we hope to get done is languishing on the website, unpublished, unloved. https://inkscape.org/en/news/unpublished/805/ If you are able to help finish it off, you can paste the text in a reply here if you want or stuff it into a google doc. But your help making sure it shows what the whole developer community is doing would be great. Thanks everyone, Best Regards, Martin Owens

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translations for extensions
by Mark Schafer 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Several extensions have indicated they would like translation to other languages. Its not clear how this can be achieved. Any ideas on the proper approach - even if we can't do it now ? - current info - https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/translations/#translatable-content Currently .po files are: - not dynamic and distributed with the main distributon - are per language They use a mechanism of direct translation of one phrase into a substitution phrase as outlined here: - http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Translation_information#PO_translat… So this mechanism cannot accommodate the extensions which probably need: - one file per language added to the current inx and code file. - perhaps a way of merging all these new po files when extensions are loaded. Now: When we write an extension we can use the underscore variants (below) to get translations. My assumption is that this is looking in the translation database on the off-chance the word has been translated. However this will fail for all descriptions and currently untranslated names, options, gui-texts and items. The complete set of translateable types for extensions is: - _gui-text, _name, _description, _filetypename, _filetypetooltip, _item, _option, _param - but its not clear any do get translated. Can anyone confirm this is how it works now ? Any ideas on a plan for what might be done in the future so we can add it to the todo list ?

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Improving 'circle' tool
by Daniel Plaza 19 Apr '17

19 Apr '17

Good morning, I would like to let you know an idea I had regarding the circle tool. I feel it difficult to take into consideration centers and radi of the circles I create with Inkscape. Therefore, I suggest adding a new way (not deleting the pre-existing one) to create circles, as in Geogebra (you can try it for free online), where the first time you click defines the center and the final double click the radius, so you can see how the circle grows while you are editing it and it would be easier to do tangents, as well as many other things... I hope you'll take this idea into consideration. Have a nice day!

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GSoC
by Josh Andler 16 Apr '17

16 Apr '17

Hey Mentors, If you haven't marked any proposals that you wish to mentor that you are interested in, please do so within the next 12 hours. I want to make sure we have a relatively accurate minimum and maximum number for slots requested. Cheers, Josh

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Create inkscape GitLab project
by William Entriken 16 Apr '17

16 Apr '17

Hello, I see that some projects are already set up on GitLab. Would an admin please create an "inkscape" project. This will allow us to play around with importing inkscape code and discuss progress using GitLab's wiki feature. I have some documentation of this project at > https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape/wiki/Synchronization-task > https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape/wiki/Migrate-Launchpa d-to-GitHub-%5BDRAFT%5D Presumably, the process on GitLab would be very similar as the proof of concept that worked on GitHub. Regards, Will William Entriken +1 267-738-4201 <(267)%20738-4201>

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