March 2025 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

Inkscape Developer Meeting, March 31st 2025
by Martin Owens 31 Mar '25

31 Mar '25

Dear Developers, Attending: Martin, Marc, Jonathan, Mikekov, Ishann, Itlnx Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Marc: created and uploaded 1.4.1 binaries and has been investigating issues with the various builds and adding in translations. Jonathan: updated extensions for the release and released on pypi. Working on AI import. Some of the designs internally to AI have some really weird design choices. Martin: Bugfix Accelerator work + investigation of Windows slowness. Some discussion with Mike about Pattern editing architecture. Helped with the AI importer work with a PDFBones library for opening pdf files based on pdf Mikekov has been working on the Gtk Window preview editor. A separate project to see glade files and edit them a little bit. Hopes to get back to Inkscape work soon. SVG W3C held a meeting and we didn't know until after they had met about trying to revive interest in supporting SVG. Itlnx has been working on translations, fixing various small issues with the translation strings in the software. Needs to access read the docs account and will be following up with Maren to find out how to do that. Also helped with the release making a graphic for the website. Next meeting is April 8th and is at the earlier time. Thanks everyone for coming and helping with the 1.4.1 release! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting for March 23rd 2025
by Marc Jeanmougin 23 Mar '25

23 Mar '25

Attendees: Marc, Adam, Anu, Ishaan, Jonathan, Ravi, René, Vaibhav, Tav Vaibhav : text on path, investigation on steam account Adam: Lots of Bug triaging, some discussions about triaging in general Tav : LPE corners bugs and implementation René : gitlab CI/infra work Jonathan : .ai stuff with manpreet Marc: helped on python deps Ishaan : investigate dbus on macos

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Developer meeting notes Mar 15, 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 16 Mar '25

16 Mar '25

Dear all, see below. Jonathan Meeting notes Dev Meeting Mar 15 Attendees: Ishaan, Jonathan, Marc, Martin, Philip, René, Tav, Vaibhav, Yotam - 1.4.1: Maren wanted information / timelines etc, which we haven't done yet because we just wanted it done ASAP René will check the windows dependencies. Extensions updates: the zstandard package is needed for Affinity import + AI import, but only exists on 22.10 onwards. Appimage is currently built on 20.04. Jonathan will review the newly contributed Vectornator / Linearity importer and include it in the default extensions for 1.4.1. Martin is rewiting the Splash screen because it is reliably crashing MacOS 1.4.1 after 15 seconds of use. René warns that this shows that 1.4.x is basically untested on MacOS. The Tofu character fix on MacOS (Pango update) has a side effect: it breaks kerning for everybody in the UI. GIMP has the same issue (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/12736). There is a workaround - manually selecting the correct system font - but that also sometimes breaks, https://gitlab.com/free-astro/siril/-/issues/1508. He suggests to delay the Pango update, we leave the decision to René. Martin inquires about CapyPDF on MacOS. This will require us to drop support for anything except the newest MacOS version. In theory, we could compile it using a different compiler than what XCode provides, but that would make our build pipeline so unique, that it would become unmaintainable (and it's also a lot of work to set up in the first place). René will investigate releasing two versions, one with and one without CapyPDF. Another options would be to dlopen CapyPDF? Maybe as a C++ extension? Update round: Jonathan: worked with Manpreet on the AI Importer, he has about 40 hours left. All basic features are covered now, we need to decide on whether to extend the contract in a few weeks. Nuremberg organisation: if you attend, please make your your details are updated in the organisation table. René: Can we find an alternative for DBus? It doesn't work on MacOS. Martin has investigated, there are none. DBus description: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/DBus DBus is deeply embedded into Gio Actions, we use it for Jabiers --active-window mode. Martin: Bug fixes; Website work. Please let him know if the website cannot be reached by real human beings. René wants to move the MacOS infrastructure repositories to the Inkscape namespace. Marc makes him an owner of the Gitlab group to make the moving process possible. MacStadium negotiations are in their final stages, mostly waiting for SFC signature right now. Tav: working on LPE bugs, in the process of merging the GTK4 file dialog work. Vaibhav looked into Steam documentation. There is some paperwork and an initial registration cost (100 USD). Application is pretty straightforward. We need to discuss all steps with the SFC. Jonathan will bring it up in the Monday meeting with Tracy. We have also been approached by a developer who wants to set up revenue sharing on Steam, but we need a steam publisher account for that. René remarks that there is a certain maintenance burden if we publish in an additional app store (comments, updates, screenshots...)

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Developer Meeting for March 7th 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Mar '25

07 Mar '25

Developer Meeting Mar 7, 2025 Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attendees: Martin, Ishaan, Mike, Willy, Jonathan, Elendil, Marc, Tav Next meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Martin: Started working on the Bugfix accelerator program. Contracts are signed. Many open, high-priority issues are on Windows and MacOS. Mike has been working on dissecting his mega MR, got stuck on in-gamut functionality which he now thinks should be undone. Some color discussion between Martin and Mike. Mike is also experimenting with writing a Viewer for ui files. Jonathan has been organsing the Nuemburg event. There was some organisation needed for the hotel, getting a place with single rooms but people had already booked a room in a hotel. Also worked on the extension event sync system. Asked about 1.4.1 extensions and Marc said that updates should be in place before the Gtl new version is available for windows. Marc worked on the 1.4.1 release candidate installers. Worked on the capypdf building for windows Martin and Jonathan report capypdf build files appering in the source folder. Willy worked on the documentation on the dev said and has been looking at a Korean translation. Asked about getting extensions written in python which work like the python extensions in Blender. Martin gave a description ofhow the current extensions work and why it can't be changed into a blender like system. A new system would have to be wirtten. Tav started working on fixing bugs, two down and 2 being worked on. Jabier has a fix for one of them but the fix has to be understood more. There is some complexity in the node tracking system. We all want to talk about the LPE code in Nuerumburg. How we can refactor it into a healthy place would be on the table. Elendil has been working on the 1.4.1 release notes. There some things missing so far. Also working on the bug accelerator program, currently looking at a crash on clones when closing Inkscape. Tav, Martin and Elendl will meet on wednesday at 10am EST. Jonathan and Isshann talked about visa situations. Thanks everyone for coming! See you next time. Martin,

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