October 2024 - Inkscape Devel

Seeking your thoughts on LLM-generated contributions
by Daniel Pono Takamori 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Heya Inkscape Developers, Following up on an issue that came up a few months ago about code and other uses of LLMs; we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been hearing from member projects that people are asking whether they can submit code to these projects that was generated by large language models (LLMs), sometimes called AI coding assistants. We'd like to better understand the nature of these requests, how much LLM-generated code has been offered to these projects, and generally how you're feeling about the situation. To do this, we will be holding three different sessions, where you are welcome to join and share your thoughts and any details so far on these types of contributions. The sessions will all be run in the same way with the same topic - we are running three in order to hopefully allow as many people from around the world to attend as possible. Our Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich, will be hosting some sessions at the times below for all our member projects to discuss the issue. date -d "2024-10-29 20:00 UTC" date -d "2024-11-01 14:00 UTC" date -d "2024-11-06 04:00 UTC" We'll be meeting in this room for the sessions: https://bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/oss-nnj-obi-jea We are excited to see some of you there and are looking forward to drafting appropriate recommendations based on what we hear! Thanks, -Pono

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Inkscape 1.4 released!
by Marc Jeanmougin 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

================ = Inkscape 1.4 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.4 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-… and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.4 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following more than one year of development after the 1.3 major release, and paving the way for the next version of Inkscape. The highlights of this release are: - Filter Gallery: it has never been so easy to find the best filter for your needs! This new dialog features previews, categories and search. - Modular grids & improved axonometric grids: set the grid angle by ratio for isometric designs and use modular grids to plan layouts and make icons! - Swatches dialog and palette file handling improved: quick access to dialog layout controls, search for colors, and open different palette file formats! - Unified font browser preview: when activated in the preferences, use it to quickly browse through your font collection. Try it out and give your feedback! - Customizable handles: Power users with CSS knowledge can now customize the styling and basic shape of all the handles! - Fast image clipping with the Shape Builder: raster graphics can now be clipped into multiple sections using the Shape Builder. - Affinity Designer File Import - Support for internal links in exported PDF files - A whole new icon set - There's even more: faster extensions, new templates for folding booklets, additional options in Ruler and Taper Stroke LPE, new keyboard shortcuts, changed node deletion behavior, preview in Spray tool, many new command line options, more supported color palette formats (e.g. CIELAB, Adobe Color Book and Adobe Swatch Exchange), updated translations and many bug fixes. The new features are showcased and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.4/Inkscape_1.4.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]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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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: SVGs from Inkscape do not display correctly in Firefox or EoG
by Shlomi Fish 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Hi Fernando, please reply to all / the mailing-list next time. On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:51:25 -0300 Fernando Lozano <fernando(a)lozano.eti.br> wrote: > All advice in this thread was misguided. Using WebP or PNG is nonsense, > I need and want vector graphics. SVG is the web standard for that and > the reason Inkscape exists. The fact that it failed with multiple > browsers and also with a standalone viewer (eog) was a clear indication > it is something with inkscape. > My advice to use WebP was given after someone else mentioned using JPEG instead of PNG. So it wasn't "nonsense" in its context. I should note that https://github.com/tdewolff/minify and similar can be used to try to minify SVGs and use them as smaller bandwidth SVGs. Despite that, I realised that the minified SVG for the logo of https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Terminator/Liberation/ was prohibitedly large, and used webp instead, so there's that. > It was not a bug fixed many years ago, it was working fine on 1.1.1, > appeared on 1.3.2, and looks like fixed with 1.4 beta. > > Em 28/09/2024 02:59, Shlomi Fish escreveu: > > > Hi Steve / all, > > > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:49:06 -0400 > > Steve Litt <slitt(a)troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > > Fernando Lozano said on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:28:56 -0300 > > > > I opened 2313610 - SVG files from Inkscape don't render in a web > > browser (nor eog) 4 [1] on Fedora bugs about this issue. It contains > > two test files, one the export from google slides, other after edits > > by Inkscape. > > For the most part, I've stopped rendering SVG inside browsers, for > > performance reasons. On anything but the simpler SVGs, the time it > > takes the browser to go through all the transitions on transitions on > > transitions takes seriously finite time. > > > > I convert to JPG, or if I need more quality PNG, and show the converted > > file in the web page. > > Note that there is also WebP and similar formats, which are smaller than > JPEG > and PNG, and look better and crispier than > JPEG: https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/site_loads_quickly.xhtml . > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > > > http://444domains.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user(a)lists.inkscape.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/ - my dotfiles Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .

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Meeting Oct 6th 2024
by Martin Owens 06 Oct '24

06 Oct '24

Dear Developers, This week's developer meeting was a quiet one; it was Rene, Martin, Tav and Marc. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We talked about the release and making sure everything is lined up. Marc is happy about the translations system he's created. Rene has one final commit to update the windows build infra, nothing for macOS. For the future, Rene is not going to upgrade the macOS version but is going to keep the intel machine so it can be booted up during releases, We looked at a merge request outstanding which was all about tanslations. There have been a couple of crashes which have been fixed and merged in time for the 1.4.x We reviewed the locations for various projects in gitlab and if things are organised correctly. Martin has been working on the capypdf integration, between C and C++ APIs and upstream headers. The next meeting is Monday the 14th October. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2024: Results
by Martin Owens 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Dear devs, Big thanks to everyone who filled out the survey. I'm attaching the PDF of the results here so we can have a saved record of it. There's some really interesting comments and results. TLDR; 1. We need more windows devs 2. Build instructions are too unreliable 3. People aren't finding mentors 4. Merge requests aren't being reviewed quickly enough What prompted this survey was a view that people were bouncing off contributing this year and I wanted to know for sure what was going on. I think we certainly have build issues, but it's not the only issues new contributors are facing. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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