April 2025 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

1.4.2 release plan
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

Hi all ! After the issue on 1.4.1 which prevents offering it to mac, we discussed the plan to release a 1.4.2 with few fix soon, which will mostly contain changes from 1.4.1 and a few additional fixes. Ideally, we will make it ready for the beginning of may, to be announced and made available on the day vectors will see preferable :) Hence, - we are now in string freeze for development (easy to check fixes can still be merged if they don't break strings) - I'll merge translations done on translate.inkscape.org (1.4.x) or in-repo doc updates on May 7th and generate installers on May 8th If there is any concern, feel free to voice them, we can adapt. Thanks everyone ! -- Mc

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Inkscape Developer Meeting 16th April 2025
by Martin Owens 16 Apr '25

16 Apr '25

Dear Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, ltlnx, pbs, Jonathan Apologies: Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ (earlier) Inkscape Release 1.4.1 is removed because of crashes and we need release 1.4.2. We want to be more courteous to other teams such as documentation and translations so they have some time to prepare themselves. Marc will send out a message to everyone explaining our situation with the plan. Martin explained what happened in 1.4.1 and why it couldn't be released. The splash screen was loading too early causing macOS to crash and causing an error with command line uses as the CLI wasn't read in by the time the splash screen was being loaded. The developer team is basically ready but will give two weeks for other teams to get themselves into position for the point release. this puts the release at the end of April, start of May. The bug Accelerator program met today and there isn't a lot of bugs fixed yet in April as Martin took a break to work on PDF and Tav working on LPE issues. Blog posts for March are available on the website. Willy has been busy doing the documentation project, Inkscape manual. He's modeling it on the Blender manual and the end goal is to have it in the UI interface, not just in the help menu. Jonathan has been organising the GSoC review meeting. The details for the discussion were disclosed but were not added to these minutes as they are confidential. PBS wanted to ask about how exporting symbols. Inkscape for windows is hitting the limit on the number of symbols and so PBS created a branch to experiment. This shows that almost everything can work, except for Plugins which are the under-used C++ based code since the API would need to be available. We could ask the projects using plugins to design what the inkscape symbols API should. Martin has been working on PDF output dealing with Markers and context paints, wrote some more tests and is happy with the test output so far. PBS has some ideas about how it might be possible to make a static version of capypdf, but this would be highly experimental. We talked briefly about cppgir, but the problem is that it takes so long to load; but it's a good API and with gtkmm being not as maintained this might be a good future option. See you all next week! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Use x and y parameters on element clones
by LuKaRo 15 Apr '25

15 Apr '25

Hi everyone, when moving object clones, Inkscape automatically adds a `transform: translate(x, y)` filter to the `<use>` object. However, like many SVG elements, the `<use>` object supports `x` and `y` translation directly, as per the specification <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Reference/Element/use>. Can't we use the `x` and `y` parameters of use objects directly, instead of attaching a `transform` parameter? This would reduce complexity, which e.g. causes firefox to render SVGs incorrectly <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458353> under certain circumstances. I already had a look at src/object/sp-use.cpp, but it does not have a dedicated set_transform or set_item_transform method. Thanks a lot in advance! Lukaro

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