February 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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wiki account
by Jan 03 Mar '18

03 Mar '18

hi I need a wiki account to enhance a few articles.

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Wacom smartpad support - request for ideas
by Peter Hutterer 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

Benjamin Tissoires and I have been working on a project called Tuhi that communicates with the wacom smartpad devices and pulls the data off them. https://github.com/tuhiproject/tuhi/ Devices working so far are the Bamboo Spark, Slate and the Intuos Pro Paper. Smartpad devices aren't traditional graphics tablets [1] but instead have a paper notepad on top of a sensor with a special pen. You draw on the paper, the sensor registers the drawings and stores it in a custom vector-based format in the device. Later, you connect the device over bluetooth to the host and fetch the drawings from the firmware. This is the bit that tuhi does, and it exposes the drawings as a simple json-based vector format overa session DBus API. To interact, you basically connect to the dbus daemon, tell it to listen to the device and then get notified about new drawings. Then you can fetch the drawings one-by-one as needed. Tuhi only has a commandline client for debugging and we don't intend to ship that client, it's for debugging only. Eventually, we may have a standalone application similar to Wacom's Inkspace (yeah, confusing, isn't it?). This app would be a gallery-style application that displays the drawings and exports them to the desired formats. That's a fairly straightforward process. But right now what we're interested in is whether inkscape has interest in a plugin-style implementation that talks to the tuhi daemon. Or whether there are use-cases where the standalone application is insufficient and some tighter integration is needed. Or other use-case you can think of that we haven't yet. Any comments appreciated! Cheers, Peter [1] the intuos pro paper is when you plug it in, let's ignore that for now

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List issues
by Maren Hachmann 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Does anyone know why some list emails arrive so late lately? Within the last week, I think at least 10 emails arrived after > 4 days only (I can exclude a mail server issue on my side, as I get the same emails at the same times on my web-based email account). Has there been a major sourceforge outage? What's the status of the mailing list move to our own server? Maren

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Fw: Visitor analytics
by brynn 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

Resending this. Apparently I used the wrong email address to send this from, so it didn't go to the list. -----Original Message----- From: brynn Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 12:25 PM To: Martin Owens ; Ryan Gorley ; inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Visitor analytics What I like the best about it (Piwik/Matomo) is that it seems to only report on what I refer to as human visitors. Personally I find that much more useful. (Although I could imagine that some sites (or webmasters, owners) might be more interested in aalllll the traffic.) So that's the sandcats.io script that I see in Firefox's No Script? So already, visitors haven't been notified about the site using this tracking? So the login via github has to do with sandstorm, from what I can tell? Because I just log in on the page where I installed it, on my site. brynn -----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2018 2:12 AM To: brynn ; Ryan Gorley ; inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Visitor analytics On Sun, 2018-02-25 at 01:24 -0700, brynn wrote: > Whatever a Piwik "sandcat sandstorm grain" is, it's probably very > different from > what I'm using on my site. That's just the way it's deployed. It's easier to do that then to set it up raw although it comes with it's own oddness hence the login restrictions. The graphs even now are interesting. Martin,

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Boston hackfest stickers
by C R 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

I've heard three mentions in support of Boston Tea Party ships. I'll do a variation with that and then we can maybe take a vote on which version works better. I'm not married to either idea. Just want folks to be happy with the results. :) More soon. -C On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy@...43...> wrote: > > On 02/20/2018 10:48 AM, Martin Owens wrote: >> >> Although I fear we're putting too much pressure on you, your design was >> really nice tbh. It doesn't have to scream boston if it doesn't want >> to. > > Totally, sorry, didn't mean to exert pressure at all. Just that the building > is in a bit odd of a place so you know the lay of the land. Honestly design > looks good enough that it doesn't really matter I think if ppl recognize it > or not. > > ~m

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Visitor analytics
by Mihaela 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

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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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MacOS build on Github to consider
by Jared Meidal 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

About four years ago some discussion occurred around rejuvenating a build system for MacOS. I have since noticed a individual in that discussion has code and build instructions open on Github, and has continued to develop here: https://github.com/valerioa/Inkscape-MacOS-Curated-Build After trying out the build, I like the ability to work without X11 in a native app appearance. I'm not an app developer, but would like to raise attention to this as a project which has gone a long way to benefit Mac users. --Jared

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape liveAnimate idea
by openInvent 22 Feb '18

22 Feb '18

Hey all someone told me a way to view same document at different zoom levels using the window duplicate function. I was able to use it somewhat but in ubuntu the window doesnt stay on top some times or it isnt dockable. Also I used the tutorial files from help and I was trying to LIVE ANIMATE that file using vokoscreen that comes with ubuntu studio... And It was very laggy on my slow pc running off 2GB RAM and a Live DVD. I really think with a RAID 0 of 10k Hard Drives it would be fine. Anyways I am kinda suggesting that I be able to dock or split a window. I was liking the horizontal spilt I could move animated objects on lower screen and they would move above in the larger screen without the cursor showing. I wish I could disable the UI or the cursor with a hotkey and set other hotkeys to affect scale or rotation or like switch layers like press space to swap group file or unhide a top layer etc. Any suggestions? I know Inkscape isnt a animation suite but its simple for little things like a Puppeteer App especially if you can do post production and use a chromakey background. Example like handwriting Words onto a music video etc. It seems that my emails get "lost" you can snail mail me at the address below and I will reply with sticker gifts.(tiny.cc/oisticker) Ember AR Leona 250 S. Lyon Ave Ste E 108 Hemet, CA 92543 Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. -------- Original Message -------- On February 22, 2018 1:25 AM, Maren Hachmann <maren@...3165...> wrote: >Am 18.01.2018 um 21:30 schrieb Bryce Harrington: >>Do we have a wiki page setup for discussing/brainstorming bug tracker >> ideas? Maybe that'd be a good starting point? >> > > Now we have: > >http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Bug_Reporting_Workflow > > Maren > > >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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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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Boston hackfest stickers
by C R 19 Feb '18

19 Feb '18

These are modeled after the Paris engraved ones I did last year. This time however, I thought the venue was a better thing to put on the sticker rather than a local tourist attraction, which in this case, no one might actually see. So here it is, the Boston Hackfest sticker sample: https://www.dropbox.com/s/trkgrniaf4g33iz/inkscape_foil_sticker_boston_hack… Any thoughts? Wish it were a famous landmark instead? Lemme know. -C

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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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inkscape sticker graphics
by C R 18 Feb '18

18 Feb '18

Someone asked for the original files to print a set of their own. I've included the sample mockup, flattened vector print layer, 40mm dieline, and some (c) and font information on different layers in the svg. It's here in case someone would like to add it to the inkscape archives, or use it to print their own stickers: https://inkscape.org/en/~C.Rogers/%E2%98%85inkscape-silver-foil-sticker-40mm -C

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Twitter...
by Tavmjong Bah 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Who's got access to the Twitter account? If you have access can you announce both Inkscape's GSoC participation and the upcoming Boston hackfest? I've taken care of our G+ account. Thanks, Tav

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Google Summer of Code - 2018
by Tavmjong Bah 13 Feb '18

13 Feb '18

Hi all, Inkscape has been accepted as a mentoring organization for this year's Google Summer of Code. Students, time to develop your proposals. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/5174841905250304/ Tav

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Variables in Inkscape
by Robert Van Den Bergh 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Hey, Is it possible to create variables in Inkscape that link to a database? Kind regards, Rob

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new moderation procedure?
by brynn 09 Feb '18

09 Feb '18

Hi Friends, This is something which has never been discussed. But recently we've had some images being reported by a regular member, which moderators have approved, and they remain in the gallery. In one case they reported a member. Should we contact a member who reports an image, thank them for helping, and explain our decision, why we decided not to delete the image? In this particular case, I'm thinking we may need to contact him or her, just to try and prevent more unnecessary reports. But in general, I wonder if we should take the time to explain our motivation, since the member is taking the time to help us. (Hah, for these recent reports, maybe I should try to recruit him or her as a moderator....?) Thanks for any comments :-) brynn

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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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Fwd: HLC-Farbatlas
by Maren Hachmann 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

Hi there, Christoph has asked me to forward his message, as it didn't get through: -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: HLC-Farbatlas Datum: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 06:32:39 +0100 Hi all, After a year of hard work freieFarbe/freeColour is pleased to announce the completion of its first major project, the "HLC Colour Atlas", which is a truly open colour system based on mathematics and unrestricted by copyrights or trademarks. It has been created by colour professionals from Germany and Switzerland. The atlas comprises the following elements: - a printed reference (A4, ring binder) of 2040 colours, based on the intuitive HLC colour model (Hue, Lightness, Chroma), with increments of 10 between each hue. It also includes colours that can't be reproduced in regular CMYK workflows (spot colours). Unlike commercial products, its colour precision is extremely high, with a DeltaE00 of 0.5, i.e. colour differences between two copies of the atlas can only be measured but not perceived, even by a trained eye. Each atlas is being produced with a Fogra-certified high-end proof printer on Fogra-certified paper by a Fogra-certified company. Each copy is also being shipped with a production record (ISO 12647-7:2016); - a printed introduction and usage instructions in German and English; - colour palettes with LAB values for Adobe software (ASE format) and in Swatchbooker's SBZ format, as well as sRGB versions for LibreOffice (SOC), GIMP (GPL) and Scribus 1.4.x (XML). Please note that Scribus 1.5.x already includes the SBZ file, and an sRGB version is being shipped with LibreOffice since version 5.4.x, as well as the current officially stable Scribus 1.4.6. - A PDF master file of the atlas with layers for different output targets (e.g. sRGB, ISOCoatedV2); - XSLX files with colour conversion tables and QC report; - a CxF v.3 file which includes the colour data in spectral values. All files are available for download here: https://www.freiefarbe.de/thema-farbe/software/ The latter is important, because we want to enable others to create their own reliable references without having to ask for permission or paying licence fees. Thus, an ink manufacturer can simply load the CxF file into its formulation software and create the correct mix for his particular inks. Manufacturers of other colourants (e.g. paint, textile colours or plastics) can do the same, provided their software is supporting CxF, which is an open standard. This is also the reason for us not to publish any mixing recipes, because all necessary data to reliably recreate a colour are in the CxF file, so the recipes can be created and customised by software. Whilst the digital files are available for free download under a CC licence, the printed reference needs to be paid for, because production and certification are quite labour-intensive (introductory offer: EUR 99.-- until 31 March 2018, later: EUR 149.-- plus VAT and shipment costs; see: https://shop.proof.de/index.php?language=en). freieFarbe/freeColour are convinced that the "HLC Colour Atlas" is not only a true and open alternative to Pantone, HKS etc., but we also think that the very high quality standard of our printed reference will be hard to match. Our next step is to fill in the necessary paperwork to make this open colour system a DIN SPEC with the German industrial standards organisation DIN (April/May 2018). From there it will hopefully be moved on to ISO to make it an international standard (time frame unknown). Special credits go to Matthias Betz, Holger Everding, Jan-Peter Homann and Eric A. Soder, who did all the heavy lifting, as well as Gregory Pittman, who wrote a Scribus script that reduced the creation of the print PDF for the Atlas to a matter of seconds. freieFarbe/freeColour is also grateful to ColorLogic GmbH, Epson Deutschland GmbH and GMG GmbH & Co KG for generous technical support. The high quality of the atlas is owed to the producer, Proof GmbH. Christoph

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0.92.3 Release Planning Meeting ~ Feb 2nd
by Bryce Harrington 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

After the last board meeting we discussed maybe starting 0.92.3 in Feb. I'd like to hold a kickoff meeting following this Friday's board meeting to get started. Hopefully this should be a straightforward release but worthwhile to touch base with everyone just in case. For this meeting I want to just get a handle on the status of everything and flag tasks needing done. I'd like to also get a rough timeline figured out. Date: Fri, 2nd Feb, 2018. Time: 11:00 PST / 19:00 UTC / 20:00 CET Where: #inkscape-devel on freenode What: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92.3 Agenda: + Status of the 0.92 tree - Any pending patches we should track? - Are there more fixes worth cherrypicking from trunk? - Are the release notes up to date? + Status of platform packaging - Any new issues compared with 0.92.2? - Are all 0.92.2 packagers available for this go around? + Release cycle plans - One pre-release? - Rough dates + Conditions that might cause release delay + Looking forward --- 0.93 - Dependency versions needing revved? - Remaining licensing issues? - GTK+ 3 stabilization / Windows performance bug - Other stabilization work needed? + Next meeting? - March 2nd following board meeting? + Other business Bryce

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inkscape-docs has a new home
by Eduard Braun 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Hi all, I'm happy to announce that the former "inkscape-docs" (i.e. manpages, keys and mouse reference and tutorials) has a new home! You can now find the "Inkscape Documentation" at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation After migrating the repo to GitLab some time ago I finally got around and tweaked some last bits, so it's now in a production-ready state again. Obviously there's still a lot to do (on my short list: getting updated docs onto the website and make translation statistics work again, preferably using some CI automation) but I think the repo is at a point were contributions should be possible without too much effort again and I'd appreciate any help in getting it updated in time for the 0.92.3 release! If you have any questions let me know! Happy documenting, Eduard

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Boolean Operation LPE Question
by Miguel Lopez 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

Hi everybody on the mailing list, I have noticed on a inkscape development build that there doesn't seem to be a easy way to use boolean operation LPE. Copy and pasting, and pressing the button doesn't seem to work. Right now, I don't believe this is a bug as I'm thinking that it's a work in progress and thus no need to treat it as a bug, but I could be wrong. Is this a work in progress? Thanks, Miguel Lopez.

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numpy: include, give warning or ...?
by Maren Hachmann 05 Feb '18

05 Feb '18

Hi there, the .deb packages for Ubuntu do not seem to include a dependency for numpy, but the gcodetools depend on it. It's included in the snap, and also seems to be present for Windows and macOS versions. Some other extensions give warnings when it's missing (measure, perspective, dxf_outline,...) So, my question is: Should the gcodetools also just output a warning message with install instructions, like the other extensions do, because there's a reason why numpy cannot be made a dependency? Or could numpy be made a dependency? (I guess that's more a question to packagers - do we make any recommendations anywhere? Or do they need to figure it all out by themselves?) Maren

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 03 Feb '18

03 Feb '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for this Friday, Feb 2nd, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings (Note that a Release Team meeting will follow immediately after. The Vectors Team will be meeting the next day, Saturday the 3rd.) Agenda: + Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association + Boston Hackfest (March) [doctormo] + Merchandise sales [crogers] + Board election process review [tedg] + Infrastructure hosting [bryce] + LGM 2018 [Tav] + GSoC [ScislaC] + Other Business Action Items from last meeting: ♦ ACTION: Re-ping Madras Printer's and Lithographer's Assoc. [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Find out who did the Indian language translation [Tav/Moini] ♢ ACTION: Calls for fundraising for the hackfest [bryce/Moini] ♦ ACTION: Arrange vote for Boston hackfest [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Arrange vote for LGM [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Port credential repo changes from bzr to git [doctormo] ♦ ACTION: Move credentials repo to a new git project [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Ping Brett regarding DigitalOcean [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Investigate CloudScale.ch [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Kickoff the 0.92.3 release [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Arrange vote on Budget 2018 [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Connect with Diego about CMYK planning [bryce] ♦ ACTION: Kickoff GSoC 2018 registration [ScislaC] ♢ ACTION: Make a list of projects for cleaning up our code base [Tav] ♢ ACTION: Pursue the RedHat option for the hackfest [doctormo] ♢ ACTION: Send invites to old Inkscapers to attend hackfest [bryce] ♢ ACTION: Collect CMYK ideas into Color_management wiki page [alface] Bryce

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