April 2024 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Developer Meeting Notes: April 29th 2024
by Martin Owens 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Hey All, Thanks to everyone who came to this week's meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Ishaan, Marc, MikeKov, pbs, ScislaC, Tav, Vaibhav, Adam, Jonathan Next Meeting: May 7th Started talking about LGM/fest organisation. Five people are coming. Marc: - Published beta, now announced by vectors on social media - Looked into and discovered the issues with a bad graphicsmagic package. - Wrote a guide for new developers who want to help https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4855 - Marc wants to be able to inform translators to help do the translation process now. We do have a number of MRs with string changes, but most are minor except for one of mikekov's which will me merged soon. Next week will have a string semi-freeze to help with this. ScislaC: - The last trunk PPA build I have from over a month ago can open/import webp files and the current AppImage for 1.4.x fail. Marc thinks pillow needs the libs available. Martin: - Continuing the bug accel program. Will be writing the first monthly report on Wednesday. Jonathan: - Asked Tav, Vaibhav and Adam if they've managed to get their funded machines yet. Philip: - Will be building 1.4.x to help go through the backlog. - Polishing off last two merge requests. Document cleanup and boolops will be merged into master. - Has some ideas about where to go with writing Mikekov: - Font collections and font browser issues have been fixed. - Improvements to symbols dialog, it uses the clipboard which on macOS isn't currently working. Will publish their MR and pbs will look at it. Ishaan: - Continued work on selection improvements. Every tool should be able to set it's own style. There's some issue, it might be a race condition with the style that gets destroyed at the end. - Will publish the broken code so everyone can look at it and it can be reviewed. Vaibhav: - Last week update, Continued working on their open MRs related to gradient issues and a selection issue in the Layers dialog. Adam helped with testing and opened couple of new reports related to selection improvements in the layers dialog. Will be spending the coming week working on some of those and will try to update the open MRs. Tav: Fixing x/y attributes in pdf import to fix the editability. It's a bit of a cascading issue that causes more issues as things get fixed. The glyph table issues with combined glyphs and non-latin languages cause some issues. See you all next week. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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About Screen Contest: Inkscape Contributor Voting
by Kyle R. Conway 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

Calling all Inkscape Contributors! It's time for you to cast your votes for the Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest! Round one has elevated 5 artworks into top contention as favorites from the Inkscape community with 855 total ranked votes from 251 voters. As Inkscape Contributors, you are the final panel of judges to vote for their favorites to award the next winner of the About Screen Contest that will be featured in the next release! Voting begins Monday, April 22, 2024 and ends at 11:59 UTC on Monday, April 29, 2024, so be certain to cast your vote soon! How does this work? We're using ranked choice voting, which means you can vote for many artworks. Click the checkbox on any artworks you'd like to vote for from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least. They'll be re-arranged from your top selection to your bottom. Vote for as many or as few of the entries as you'd like! (Each Inkscape Contributor may only vote for each artwork once). Cast your vote here: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… These are the 5 items the community voting elevated for the final round (in alphabetical order): - "Creative Growth“ by Chris Hildenbrand - "Expand Your Creative Universe" by Chris Hildenbrand - "Inkscape's Path-Artist's Blossom" by Inkonic - "Draw your world" by Kess - "Vibe On Creators" by NDIM DONALD Step 1: Make sure that you are an Inkscape Member (see previous message or link below), and if you're not one yet, apply for membership and ask 3 of your team mates or other contributors whom you have worked with to confirm your membership. More info: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/ Step 2: Visit https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… and rank the 5 images by clicking on the little circle right below them in order of preference (most liked first). Thanks for all of your work on Inkscape! Kyle

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 21 2024
by pulsar17 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Hi All, Here are the meeting notes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Martin, Adam, Ishaan, Marc, Michèle, Rafael, René, skippr, pbs, Vaibhav # Beta Release Marc asked about when to release a Beta since there's not that many changes. Martin thinks an Alpha might still be useful, especially considering how much refactoring has happened in the meantime. But is unsure. Michèle thinks users will expect there be an Alpha and that if. Multiple betas are possible and considering the lack of critical issues in the bug accelerator milestone indicates that we could jump directly to beta. Martin says we should be ready in case the release has serious issues to pull it. But this is a very unlikely senario. Marc has time this week to put together the Beta and René says he should become available on wednesday. We are not going to do an alpha. (alpha/beta is semantics / communication only) We'll tag the 1.4-beta tonight # Contest Website isn't working so well, we're pointing people to vote. Some contest entries are fantastic, we're not openly sharing who we're voting for for fairness, but it's not a secret. # GSoc To be discussed in another place : gsoc selections and status of eligibility # Other Items [Marc] Minor packaging stuff, MR reviews [Rafael] Some work on PDF export - differences in output with rsvg. Make a progress bar for slow exports ? [René] still ongoing work from last week & update to appimage creation (with go-appimage) [skippr] I worked on some UX features suggested by Adam but they required further discussion among the UX team, so they were marked as drafts for now, other than that I did not get much work done due to my practicals. I have exams till 4th of may I will try to help in issues and testing but it is highly unlikely [ishaan] Fixing fill patterns in selection modes [Philip] spellcheck almost ready, boolean operations ok [Martin] Refactoring color and split out the more agressive UX/signals changes into a future merge request. It's close to being able to be tested. [vaibhav] This week, I spent most of the time working with gradients and meshes. Proposed some minor fixes for the objects dialog, icon preview dialog and an issue related to the node toolbar. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest: Community Voting until April 21!
by Maren Hachmann 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

We've received some excellent entries for the About Screen Contest! Community Voting is open now through April 21 (ends 23:59 UTC)! The topic for this years' contest was "Growth". This first round of voting is the Community Round. Voting will be ranked choice voting, so click the checkbox next to each artwork to vote for as many ― or as few ―artworks as you'd like. Vote from your top choice to your lowest choice. No need to vote for every work, just as many as you'd like to see elevated to the final round of voting. Remember, each voter may only vote once. Voters must be logged into their Inkscape accounts. Cast your vote: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-14/ Thanks so much for your participation! (and in case you're asking yourself "Am I allowed to vote? Am I a part of the community?" - if you're reading this, the answer is YES!)

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 13 2024
by pulsar17 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Hi All, Here are the meetingnotes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Tamir, Vaibhav, Mike, Rene, Jonathan, Ishaan Rene: Reactivated Windows CI for master branch. Not satisfied with the artifacts, window drawing in Windows is weird after the switch [no pun intended], might need to look into it. Vaibhav: Working on Bug Fix Accelerator, starting from easy to complex. Ishaan: Working on Selector Tool, Rene suggested to ask questions in the dev chat. Mike: Continuing work on the Symbols dialog. Jonathan: Failed to build master on 22.04, but got it working on Windows. No spot of Google Summer of Docs for Inkscape. Planning to ask about end user applications since most accepted projects are libraries. Generic Discussions: GTK4 Inkscape works for Tamir on Windows, yayy! Some discussion on Windows support since Windows 10 will be EOLed in 2025. Cursor icons are bigger than they should be, and then some discussion on GTK4 cursors and high dpi screens. Rene asked a question about Google Summer of Code students - Since they targetted pre-gtk4 versions of Inkscape for the 2-patch rule, are they able to work on post-gtk4 master. A public announcement might be required to ask them to rebase their work on master. Discussions about Developer role and how to minimize privileges. It might be difficult to disallow just a single person or person(s) from the Approval settings, that setting seems like it is group based. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Inkscape Summit - Rennes May 6th - 8th
by tavmjong＠free.fr 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Hi all, Just a reminder to sign up for the Inkscape Summit to be held just before LGM in Rennes, France. Travel support of up to $2500 offered to current Inkscape community members. Details at: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Inkscape_Summit_2024_Rennes Tav

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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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Developer Meeting Notes, April 5 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear all, please see the meeting notes below. Best regards Jonathan Dev Meeting April 5, 2024 Present: Jonathan, Marc, Martin, MikeKov, PBS, René, Tav, Vaibhav === Important for all === - If you fix stuff for 1.4, target 1.4.x and auto-close the issue + forward-port tag. - Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ If you need hardware for your Inkscape work, please ask. === Individual Developer summary === Jonathan helped with GSoC student and getting a student set up with the tools for the sfdesigner conversion and get their application sent in. Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ Martin: Fixed some issues on the bugfix accelerator program (about 9h this week). Tried to work around an issue where in one distribution ImageMagick doesn't have JPG support by adding a test for it, and also adding tool-specific shortcuts to the preferences interface. Mike: Tried to adapt Look & Feel of master to GTK3, adjusting differences PBS: Brought Spellcheck back. Is looking into GTK4 regressions, and working on speeding up the Font dropdown. Some discussion about how to implement this best in GTK4. For rendering, waiting on feedback on cross-platform support for OpenGL. René: Tries to fix master CI for Windows. Helpful contributions by Max Gaukler. Next version for MacOS is in the works as well, xz fallout. Is checking the GSoC 2 patches for formal criteria. Marc suggested that the cutoff for the 2 patches is close to the decision date. Tav: tries to come up with a solution for editing text in imported PDFs, as there are currently only manual kerns, no spaces. Vaibhav: This week, I worked on fixing some regressions in the text and font dialog on master. Most of the regressions in the font tab are fixed, but I'm confused about the placement of the font size selector without breaking the symmetry of the dialog. Any inputs are appreciated. Link to the MR: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6303

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/284 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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Introduction land project proposal for Paint Server Dialog Improvements
by Julia Nguyen 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Dear Inkscape Developers, I hope you are doing well. My name is Julia Nguyen, and I am a passionate software developer with a keen interest in contributing to open-source projects. I recently came across Google Summer of Codes program which has an Inkscape project, and I am impressed by its commitment to providing a powerful and accessible vector graphics editor to the community. I am writing to introduce myself and express my interest in contributing to the development of Inkscape. I have a background in C++ and Java programming. I am particularly drawn to the project of improving the Paint Server Dialog, which I believe presents an exciting opportunity to enhance the user experience and functionality of Inkscape. I am interested in the project proposal for the Paint Server Dialog improvement that is available in the Google Summer of Codes Program, and I would greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions from the community before finalizing my application. Here is some ideas that I have for the project: Gradient Support: Implement functionality to allow users to select and apply gradients for fill and stroke. This includes designing a user-friendly interface for creating, editing, and applying gradients within the dialog since it is a bit weird when I use it. Solid Color Integration Improvements : Enhance the dialog to include options for selecting and applying solid colors for fill and stroke. This involves designing intuitive controls for choosing from a palette of colors and applying them to objects. I thought of this because when I tried go fill a color, I noticed a line on the edges of the pictures that is not part of the stroke. I believe that these improvements will significantly enhance the usability and versatility of the Paint Server Dialog, ultimately benefiting the entire Inkscape community. I welcome any feedback, suggestions, or questions you may have regarding this proposal. I am eager to collaborate with the talented developers and designers in the Inkscape community to make this project a success. Thank you for considering my contribution, and I look forward to your feedback. Best regards, Julia Nguyen

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