July 2025 - Inkscape Devel - Inkscape Mailman

CLI: Extensions need GUI
by Alexander Roalter 30 Jul '25

30 Jul '25

When I run Inkscape in CLI mode, and want to run an extension that needs currently selected elements, the currently selected elements are only passed if the CLI is run in GUI mode (with --batch-process parameter). Otherwise, no IDs of selected elements will be passed to the extension python script. I tracked it down to src/extension/implementation/script.cpp, where the _change_extension method is called from two different methods (both are overloaded Script::effect methods), one is for the case where a desktop is available, the other was added for "pure document version for calling an extension from the command line", and has no desktop. But the current selection still can be extracted from the SPdocument*, so I made this patch that duplicates the passing of the selected elements as parameters to the extension from the other effect() method. -- cheers, Alex

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Developer Meeting Notes: July 29th 2025
by Martin Owens 29 Jul '25

29 Jul '25

Hey Devs, Today's meeting was very light. Just me and Mikekov. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We talked about his recently landed object properties branch into main and what to work on next. Also talked about the road map team and some of the considerations for what that would look like. Mike raised a concern that our reimbursements for Nuremberg were delayed getting processed. One thing I think might help for next time is a small spreadsheet we can share which has all the voted on numbers, and names of people. I, someone else, or Roseanna could pop the numbers in from the reimbursement claim to see if they check out more quickly. We talked about color (I always talk about color), I'm mulling over hosting a video conference between various free software devs working on color in their projects. Might be fun, might be useful. That's it for this week! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting July 21st 2025
by pulsar17 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting, it was a short one, and text-only: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Vaibhav, Ishaan, Mike Next Meeting: July 29th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Vaibhav - Working on some crash fixes related to text/text on path. Also created an issue to track removal of unnecessary header files from Inkscape's codebase, hoping it will make the CI/local builds faster. So far most unused header files in the UI directory have been removed. Ishaan - some light experimentation with selection cues. Mike - Hoping to see his MR delivered, but it is failing one test: peppercarrot. This test has something to do with fonts, and Mike doesn't understand why it started failing in his branch. Thanks to all who joined. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting July 13th 2025
by pulsar17 13 Jul '25

13 Jul '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Tav, Philip, Ishaan, Adam, René, Willy Next Meeting: July 21st https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Philip - questions about packaging and CI, discussion about Conan, jhbuild, and building GTK packages with Conan. Also has a patch for icons in menus, probably a hack. Some discussion on why icons in menus are a good thing, and maybe we should try upstreaming it in GTK, might get accepted. Tav had looked at the icons issue in the past, even had a patch for it. Had questions about building capypdf without updating deps on macOS - René answered that it's possible to do, but hasn't started work on it yet. René - Dependency updates for macOS and Windows. Also helped with Mike's big MR, suspected glib version too old, some debugging related to Locales left on Mike's part - Fill and Stroke dialog not opening (target parsing error). Worked on packaging Inkscape using (more) standard Apple practices. Willy - learning c++, good progress so far. Ishaan - continued work on incremental selection, currently in a branch on the personal fork, will open an MR sometime soon. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting, July 5th 2025
by Martin Owens 05 Jul '25

05 Jul '25

Dear devs, Attending: Mc, René, Vaibhav, Martin, Jabier Today's meeting was focused on unpicking the problems with the Microsoft store. We screen scared and focused on trying to figure out the issues with the upload of 1.4.2 and why it's failing to install. Had a look at the analytics as well as reviewed what the process is for constructing the installer for the store and the corrections that are needing during the process. Normal proceedings on pause for this week. Thanks for everyone who was able to come and give their thoughts on this process. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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