July 2018 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Trouble installing the development environment
by Marién Soria 26 Jul '18

26 Jul '18

Hey guys! I'm installing the environment to develop inkscape on my desktop. I'm following this guide https://inkscape.org/en/develop/getting-started/ but when I try to install the libraries on my linux system with this command: sudo apt-get build-dep inkscape the terminal responds: You must to provide some URIs to the sources.list What should I do?

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Survey: Default "style" for inkscape
by Jabier Arraiza 25 Jul '18

25 Jul '18

A little survey: ¿You want default inkscape launch by default like Gimp do now? (black theme and symbolic icons) https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/294#note_90217954 Thanks in advance for vote.

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First contribution - looking to improve eps -> svg conversion ( or eps import ) - kickstart needed
by Andrea Bogazzi 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hi Everyone, I was looking into eps -> svg conversion and inkscape does an almost perfect job if it wasn't that it trash layers information and group information. I started to dig into the code to figure out if it was something i could look into and try to improve, i found so far this folder that seems to handle the relevant code: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/tree/master/src/extension/internal/pdf… Is there anyone able to give me a quick input to know if that is the correct code to look at, or if not point me to the right code files? Also does anyone have information of why this feature is currently not supported, if is a matter of use case missing, if just no one built it or if is more about some technical problem that has been already discussed and discarded? To be honest i remember in the past opening some pdf with inkscapes and having multiple ungrouping operations to do before hitting the single objects, but as of now, if i create an eps with illustrators with group or layers and then i import it in inkscape, i get a flat list of objects. So maybe i just remember wrong. I m not by any mean a c++ expert, i have svg and pdf knowledge and some c++ coding, but since i need this feature i would like at least to give it a shot. Andrea

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Hello everyone, trying to get my hands dirty with the inkscape codebase
by Andrea Bogazzi 24 Jul '18

24 Jul '18

Hi Everyone, I was looking into eps -> svg conversion and inkscape does an almost perfect job if it wasn't that it trash layers information and group information. I started to dig into the code to figure out if it was something i could look into and try to improve, i found so far this folder that seems to handle the relevant code: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/tree/master/src/extension/internal/pdf… Is there anyone able to give me a quick input to know if that is the correct code to look at, or if not point me to the right code files? Also does anyone have information of why this feature is currently not supported, if is a matter of use case missing, if just no one built it or if is more about some technical problem that has been already discussed and discarded? To be honest i remember in the past opening some pdf with inkscapes and having multiple ungrouping operations to do before hitting the single objects, but as of now, if i create an eps with illustrators with group or layers and then i import it in inkscape, i get a flat list of objects. So maybe i just remember wrong. I m not by any mean a c++ expert, i have svg and pdf knowledge and some c++ coding, but since i need this feature i would like at least to give it a shot. Andrea

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New developer member
by Mare Soria 23 Jul '18

23 Jul '18

Hi everyone! After a few years using Inkscape I finally decided to get involved with their development. I think that Inkscape it's the best alternative to Adobe Illustrator, but I feel like is needed a big upgrade, fundamentally on their interface that looks like very old and caotic. Unfortunately, I'm a web developer, so I don't know how to code in C++ but I can develop the UI/UX design. Is there someone hightly motivated to develop with me a nice update for 2019? Marién

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patches
by unknown＠example.com 22 Jul '18

22 Jul '18

How does one go about getting a patch applied? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1780775

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Linux Humble Bundle
by John Cliff 18 Jul '18

18 Jul '18

Hi All, Just thought I'd point out that theres a Linux Humble bundle on currently that includes the Book of Inkscape by Dmitry Kirsanov in the $8 level. Cheers John

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Survey: Theme structure for new inkscape template system
by Jabier Arraiza 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi all another survey. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/294#note_88513589 All reply is wellcome!

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Survey: ¿Why predefined icon sizes?
by Jabier Arraiza 17 Jul '18

17 Jul '18

Hi all: Just a survey for a implementation of a pixel based (any) icon size instead the current 5 fixed values in toolbars: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/294#note_88346407 Please :thumbyourway:

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Inkscape Website: Attack and Spam
by unknown＠example.com 16 Jul '18

16 Jul '18

Dear developers, I've just now been alerted to some activity on our webserver py1. Email bounces from users started arriving to me (the webmaster) and I quickly tried to gather information about what kind of event we had. One of the bounces contained headers showing the emails were coming from our server. I have thus shut down postfix on py1 as a precaution, the website will be unable to send email for the time being. I've been digging through the logs to find out what kind of issue we have: * A service ticket has been created for OSUOSL to investigate * None of the email addresses appear in our user accounts list, so our database is unlikely to have been compromised. * There's been an sshd attack against the server today from 3:12am to 18:23pm but no actual signs of a break in. * Email appear at 18:53, unknown quantity (more than 40), logs do not report quantity at this time. So it might be something pretending to be py1 to osuosl's smtp server. I'll reply here when I know more, although I probably won't hear back from osuosl until tomorrow. Best regards, Martin Owens

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