May 2020 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

updates: 2geom in submodule
by Marc Jeanmougin 11 May '20

11 May '20

Hi all, I've merged quite a few updates today, including the use of c++17 as per the previous discussion (thanks Linkmauve), and the change of 2geom inclusion to a submodule (Thanks Sergei Izmailov). So you're likely to get a CMake error on your next compile, which should be solved with a "git submodule init; git submodule update;" Thanks, -- Marc

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Inkscape 1.0 - Icon size woes.
by David C. Rankin 06 May '20

06 May '20

All, I have loaded Inkscape 1.0 both on windows and on Linux (Arch). I have both on my laptop. The biggest problem is that toolbars that used to fit properly now spill-over into elipsized menus and the spacing between the rulers and icons are now double what it was before. In 92.5 the interface showed 24 icons on the vertical toolbars. In 1.0 only 17 are visible. (despite all icons sizes being set to "smaller" in preferences) On Arch I have the Adwaita icon them (about all that is available anymore). On Windows I guess it comes with the icons. Both interfaces are almost identical in the size growth of the icon size and the ruler-to-iconbar spacing. This isn't a problem unique to Inkscape. All apps making the Gtk+2 to Gtk+3 jump have faced the issue. Gimp, Mozilla, Geany, etc.. and most have found a way to solve the problem. I know it is frustrating for you as well, but for small screens like laptops -- it is a big issue. css doesn't provide a solution a global solution, despite the Gtk+3 documentation pointing in that direction with https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkToolbar.html Searching, there are old solutions suggesting entries in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/setting.ini similar to: gtk-icon-sizes = panel-menu=16,16:panel=16,16:gtk-menu=16,16:gtk-large-toolbar=16,16:gtk-small-toolbar=16,16:gtk-button=16,16 Gimp 2.10 has somehow solved this issue so that interface is comparable to Gtk+2 and will still allow pickup of the Gtk+2 themes. I'm not sure how they did it. Whether they wrote a partial theme to handle it or what. I'll keep searching and I'll keep working with the interface to see if I can find something that can work. The actual solution needs to come from the gnome developers of Gtk+3 providing programatic control of the toolbar icon sizes rather than leaving them to be overridden by the themes. The fact that Gtk+3 was such a moving target for so long and the fact toolbar icon size has gone unaddressed this long is a shame. You all have put so much good work into Inkscape for the 1.0 release, it must be really frustrating that the new Gtk+ version doesn't provide near the polished look that Gtk+2 provided off the shelf. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Welcome to our GSOC 2020 students !
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 May '20

06 May '20

Hi all, we are thrilled to have four GSOC students selected this year! https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6070010742571008/ - Vanntile will work on dialogs and on GDL with Tav, helped by Alex and Thomas - Linkmauve will work on our rendering stack, with the goal of integrating Pathfinder to do GPU rendering, supervised by me and Tav - Moazin will work on our path library lib2geom, trying to merge missing algorithms from livarot in it, with Thomas, tweenk, and me - Abhay will work on a command palette and a macros features, with Patrick, Thomas, and Jabier Let's welcome them, and good luck to all the projects! -- Mc

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Move Inkscape to C++17
by Tavmjong Bah 06 May '20

06 May '20

Hi, There has been discussion of moving Inkscape to C++17. See: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=C%2B%2B17 All of the platforms we support have support for C++17 (and have for several years). https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Tracking_Dependencies#Distros If no one objects, I will push a commit in the next week to require C++17. Tav

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Inkscape 1.0 released
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 May '20

04 May '20

================ = Inkscape 1.0 = ================ Inkscape version 1.0 is now released. ---------------- You can watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/release-video-1-0/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.0 is a major milestone for the Inkscape project, following the update of our user interface toolkit GTK to GTK+3, which allows us to support custom theming and HiDPI screen resolutions, and to provide a native app for macOS (as a preview). We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/1.0 . The highlights of this release are: * Easier theming options * macOS support * HiDPI screen support * Rotating and mirroring of canvas * Alignment of object with on-canvas handles * Split view and X-Ray modes to inspect path geometry * Searchable symbols dialog * New live path effect selection dialog * PowerPencil Live Path Effect to draw variable width strokes with graphic tablets * Many new useful live path effects (corner rounding tool, offsets, measures...) * Performance improvements for path operations on large number of paths * Default coordinate origin has been moved to the top left * Improved text line-height support * Variable font support * Browser-compatible flowed text * Extensions now use Python 3 ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or freenode/#inkscape-devel) [2] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-translator.lists.inksca… [3] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/bug_migration [5] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Inkscape Board Meeting this Friday (May 1st)
by Ted Gould 02 May '20

02 May '20

Howdy folks, This is a reminder that we have an Inkscape Board meeting coming up this Friday (May 1st) at high noon Texas time. For those not in Texas you can use this handy link to figure out the time where you are. https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?msg=Inkscape+Board+Me… I imagine the discussion will largely be about the upcoming release. Everyone is welcome to attend. Ted

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