January 2018 - Inkscape Devel

win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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About knots selection
by Antonio Ospite 01 Nov '18

01 Nov '18

Hi, I was looking into fixing https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1707919 and, after compiling a recent Inkscape version I noticed that the behavior of knot changed wrt. selection and dragging compared to 0.92.x. After some research on the mailing list I found the change mentioned here: https://inkscape.org/en/news/2017/07/12/what-happened-hackfest-2017/ I can see the benefit of keeping knots selected to be able to move them with the keyboard but I still find the new behavior a little unintuitive, at lest for shape editing: 1. The colors of the mouse-over and selected states are the same, maybe the coloring scheme of node paths can be copied: where mouse-over color is different from the selected and dragging colors which are the same. 2. Previously selected knots look still selected when _another_ knot is dragged without pressing Shift. Steps to replicate: 1. Change size of a rect using one corner. 2. Then change the size using the opposite corner. The firs corner looks still selected. 3. Shift-click does not really select arc knots for ellipses, or rounding knots for rects, because this action is already used for something else, e.g. to close the arc instead. Would it be possible to use Ctrl-Shift-click for the current function and leave Shift-click for the normal select behavior? IMHO this would be more consistent. 4. Dragging with the mouse only affects the last selected knot, even if multiple ones are selected, but this is not a big deal, the behavior is different compared to path nodes, but both make sense IMHO. I'll resume working on https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1707919 after the details from above are sorted out, to avoid overlapping problems. Thanks, Antonio P.S. When verifying 1. I also noticed that path nodes change their size when clicked the _first_time_ but then get smaller again if the object is unselected and re-selected; however this is unrelated to the message above, I'll file a separate bug report for that if it can considered a bug, what do you think? -- Antonio Ospite https://ao2.it https://twitter.com/ao2it A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

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Problems building on Ubuntu 16.04
by mathog 24 Apr '18

24 Apr '18

Upgraded the Ubuntu 14.04 system which had endless build problems to Ubuntu 16.04. It doesn't seem to like 16.04 much better. Different problems, but still problems. Cleaned out the build directory and did: cmake .. which failed at ... WITH_OPENMP: ON WITH_PROFILING: OFF WITH_YAML: OFF ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CMake Error: The following variables are used in this project, but they are set to NOTFOUND. Please set them or make sure they are set and tested correctly in the CMake files: POPPLER_INCLUDE_DIR used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk used as include directory in directory /usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk <SNIP many lines> -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "/usr/local/src/inkscape_trunk/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". This is at revision 15617. These poppler pieces are present ii gir1.2-poppler-0.18 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 ii libpoppler-dev:i386 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 ii libpoppler-glib-dev 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 rc libpoppler-glib4 0.12.4-0ubuntu5.2 ii libpoppler-glib8:i386 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 rc libpoppler19:i386 0.18.4-1ubuntu3.1 rc libpoppler44:i386 0.24.5-2ubuntu4.4 rc libpoppler5 0.12.4-0ubuntu5.2 ii libpoppler58:i386 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 ii poppler-utils 0.41.0-0ubuntu1 What needs to be tweaked to make this work? Thanks, David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech

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slow, sluggish drawing with pencil & calligraphy tool solved
by Yale Zhang 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

Hi, I've identified why drawing is lagging with GTK+3. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1723247 It's because of GTK3's motion event compression: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702392 Adding a * gdk_window_set_event_compression (window, FALSE);* in SPCanvas::handle_realize() makes things much smoother. At 1st I thought it was because the events were sitting in the queue for too long. So I added some timing code to measure the latency between when a motion event was generated in GDK to when SPCanvas::paint() is called. Actually, I detect bursts of mouse moves or redraws and only use the 1st for latency measurements since there might not be a 1 to 1 relation between motion events and redraws. I was seeing a 4 to 10ms latency for head (GTK3) but only 0.5 ms for 0.92 (GTK2). I thought I was on to something, but this mislead me for a while. Finally, I saw that the # motion events and redraws were 10x higher for GTK2. I haven't stayed up to date with the GitLab migration. I tried to push a patch to my branch simdgenius_inkscape, migrated from Bazaar, but access is denied. I just requested project access, so appreciate it if someone grants it. -Yale

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Releasing Inkscape onto the Website
by Martin Owens 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Dear developers, The website supports developers submitting releases using the releases app, we haven't linked to the releases app publically, but thanks to Maren and others it's a mostly complete history of Inkscape package files. To upload an inkscape package: a) Go to the website and login b) Click the "Upload Art or Resource" (or click Submit in any of your galleries to better organise your files) c) Fill in all the fields you want, make sure to include the uploaded file and gpg signature. d) Select "Inkscape Package" in the category drop down. e) Save. f) Now re-edit the new upload. This will give you the two new fields of "Release" and "Platform", these ONLY appear if: The upload is in the Inkscape Package category AND you have permission to edit releases. If you don't see these fields, make sure you join the releases team at https://inkscape.org/en /*release-team and try again. You can only have ONE resource per release, per platform. So the Inkscape 0.92.2pre0 release can have ONE Win32 MSI Package, ONE Mac OSX 10.9 DMG, etc etc. If you try to over-write, it will deny you setting the platform and release fields. We're going to try and keep the permissions to one person for each of the main platforms. So bryce can do source uploads, tgh can do Mac uploads etc etc. We make have some backups, but user wise it shouldn't need every developer to be a release team member. Let me know if you have issues. Best Regards, Martin Owens Your Friendly Website Admin

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Daily Inkscape Builds?
by Miguel Lopez 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Hi Inkscape developers, users, and supporters, There's a open-source software named Krita which offers daily-builds from trunk, and I was wondering if this sort of thing was possible for Inkscape. Thank you for reading.

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no access to Inkscape code repository on Gitlab
by alvinpenner 24 Feb '18

24 Feb '18

Hi, Is it just me, or have the permissions changed for browsing the Inkscape code on Gitlab? I have a shortcut for accessing Inkscape: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape I use this regularly just for curiosity. This link no longer works, unless I am signed in to Gitlab, which I typically am not. Even worse, if I use this link, and then go to the link that says: Explore projects on GitLab.com (no login needed) I find that the Inkscape project no longer exists. That is to say, many Inkscape-related projects are found, but Inkscape itself does not exist or cannot be found. just checking, Alvin -- Sent from: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Inkscape-Dev-f2781808.html

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hackfest location confirmed?
by Máirín Duffy 21 Feb '18

21 Feb '18

If you need any help w Red Hat brand elements let me know! Cheers,~m Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. -------- Original message --------From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> Date: 1/20/18 8:42 AM (GMT-05:00) To: C R <cajhne@...400...>, inkscape-devel <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Hackfest location confirmed? On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 12:57 +0000, C R wrote: > Hey everyone. Working on the sticker for the Boston hackfest. > Did we ever get confirmation on the location? The page still says, > RedHat Boston Office, but did we ever confirm? I'd like to include > the > location on the swag stickers. It is confirmed! Martin, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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Some guests for Boston Hackfest
by Máirín Duffy 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

Hi, I spoke to Matthias Clasen from the upstream GTK+ project and he has kindly offered to attend the hackfest for a day or two. If there are specific days you think his input would be most valuable, I can pass that on to him. Bill Sanford from our Desktop QA team is, among many other things, responsible for testing Inkscape for our desktop product. He is also interested in attending, and if you have specific questions or things you'd like to hear from him, please let me know. Cheers, ~m

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Update on Inkscape hosting
by Bryce Harrington 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

As many of you already know, we've been looking for sponsors for providing hosting for some of our ancillary services (mailing lists, wiki, forums, et al). I put out a CFP to hosting providers a few months back, and with ample help from Ryan we've received a couple good offers. I'm currently in discussion with the Software Freedom Conservancy to get the legal/administrative bits sorted out, so not everything is 100% nailed down just yet. However that's proceeded to a point that I'm starting to turn attention to the more technical end of things. To refresh your memory, here's the background statement from the CFP: """ 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. """ Mailing list migration will be the first focus, possibly also with some DNS services. This would finally get us off SourceForge, allowing us to close that down. After that, I'm pretty open to what comes next; we can play it by ear depending on opportunities and manpower availability. If you have something you wish to put time into setting up and/or administrating, contact me to sort out details. While in the CFP I had preferred physical hosting, the virtual hosting provided by the cloud service providers offering sponsorship to us does have some advantage in terms of flexibility - being able to spin up VMs on a per-service basis, or temporary ones for development and testing. One common industry best practice I'd like us to adopt is to switch to use of automated scripts for setting up the systems and services. I.e., using cloud-config to bootstrap the raw VMs, and then something like Ansible or Puppet to do automatic configuration management. We can then consolidate the service setup scripts in a git repository. More on this later. I've added a new "Inkscape Infrastructure" subgroup for holding this configuration management repository. This will be a sysadmin-oriented repository - i.e. more focused on the setup/administrative end, not so much on the data or code. I'll work up some policy/procedure for membership management of this group, for now I'll handle it manually. I'm also going to move our 'credentials' repository into this Inkscape Infrastructure subgroup. Last board meeting we discussed migrating the credentials git repo, so that it's not hosted as a branch of the inkscape codebase (which causes it to take a long time to checkout). So this will implement that change. Bryce

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