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Inkscape @ Chemintzer Linux Tage 2023
by the Adib 10 Mar '23

10 Mar '23

Hello All, I really enjoyed the experience from the last two years. This year is on-site again, all lectures will be streamed too. https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2023/en/ Even there is no real Inkscape booth, I will be there. As part of the Leipzig Python User Group. https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2023/en/programm/beitrag/206 So if you are there I would be glad to meet in real live. :-) Regards, Adib. --

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First talk to mentors
by Clair Brown 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

What am I supposed to do to start to talk to the mentors if I'm interested in the GSOC project of inkscape? Thank you!

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March 2nd Meeting notes
by Martin Owens 03 Mar '23

03 Mar '23

Developer meeting for March 2nd, Next meeting is March 10th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Big thanks to everyone who came to this week's developer meeting. Attending: Marc, Jonathan, Martin, NPJ, René, Mikekov, Nicco # Hackfest The hackfest is a week and a half away! Pono is coming to the hackfest, this will be good and it'll be great to see him in person. SFC will pay in advance for the hackfest using an international wire transfer. The money will need to be there by next week if we want this all to work out. But this is good news that there are no further discussions needed to sort this out. Reviews of the wiki as well as the developer introduction page are planned activities. Especially to help GSoC students with their common questions. Marc is planning on working on dithering at the hackfest, other developer have various activities planned for their time at the hackfest. There's no set developer meeting during the hackfest, but every day will be a meeting. Streaming options and interviews are also planned. # Releases and Release Planning Marc has been busy but is planning on releasing an Alpha version this weekend. He wants to check on the windows store release, but is confident that windows builds can be created. René has a specific set of fixes that need to make it into the release because all builds are broken for macOS at the moment. The alpha will wait for this merge request to be complete, and is expected to be complete later today. The openmp library update fixes the latest macOS specific crashes which was only found because someone opened the about screen. Marc needs help uploading things to the Ubuntu PPA regarding cpack. May need to reach out to Ubuntu maintainers to get the process working well. René will remove dithering support in the macOS release because it's not stable and is causing problems. He will also be making an ARM build of the macOS package using our own CI builder infrastructure which should mean we have these builds for alpha. Mikekov has a few merge requests that need attention and wanted clarification on what is acceptable to merge during freeze. At this point we wouldn't stop changes to strings, but we don't want large untestable changes, so most additions will be made on a case by cases basis, but the size of mikekov's changes should be ok. # Importer Project Nicco, Jonathan and Martin did an on-boarding session on Monday, and Jonathan has been working with Nicco all week to guide the creation of the new extension. There's work done on the environment and the testing framework to make sure the entire process is tested and that it fits in with how our existing extensions work. Nicco has been looking into the format specification and putting together the priority for what pieces should be worked on first. Basic shapes are expected to be working by the hackfest time frame. The type of python dialect/parsing programming which is not-object-orientated is interesting to Nicco. Waiting on getting a message out through the Vectors team. # Bug Accelerator Program Martin has published the first blog post detailing the work done for the program last month (Feb). This is the tail end of the month and Rafael will become available this month (March) Other developers are happy with the progress. Instructions have been made on how to encourage and prioritize bugs. Please use the Inkscape 1.3 tag, and increase the priority on issues which should be fixed first. # Gtk4 Upgrade Proposals Jonathan is going to bring the proposal to the hackfest so it can be worked on in person. Mikekov is concerned about the instability and lack of commit access that will be available during the upgrade. Reassurances have been made that the upgrade would not take years to complete and this is one of the reasons we want to commit paid resources to pushing it through at a quicker pace, so we don't block valuable contributions that would otherwise go to waste while Gtk4 upgrades were proceeding. Martin recommends doing a risk assessment at the point where all Gtk3 compatible actions have been completed and the fork to a gtk4 branch is needed. Everyone agrees that Inkscape's main branch should never be in a state where it doesn't compile. Although we might want to freeze work on the UI folder during the upgrade process. # Vectors There's some discussion that the vectors team doesn't have the resources it needs to respond to requests from the developer team and we wonder how we can help. Maybe we need to do more recruitment, or do join activities to raise excitement. It's hard to know what might help. René proposed that the developer team may want to request the production of a release video if there are no objects from the vectors team. Although Martin was more cautious and wanted to instead see if the vectors team could be encouraged or resourced rather than circumvented. This will need to be an ongoing conversation with the members of the vectors team. # Other work - Martin has been working on speeding up the rendering pipeline, specifically the way bounding boxes are calculated over and over again. - Jonathan did a pdfimport frenzy to find issues and ended up opening 11 new bug reports. This might indicate we need more testers for 1.3 to improve our coverage. - Marc wants the old-files text fix to be tested more rigorously before it's accepted. - René says the performance of test running is getting worse and we're not sure why. - NPJ reports that macOS is very fast and wants to congratulate us all on a job well done. # Merge request review We looked at four merge requests. One was given back to the developer (mikekov) and three others were moving code around by new contributors who never go back with comments and so were closed. Thanks everyone! See you all next week.

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Developer Meeting notes for Feb 22nd 2023
by Martin Owens 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Attending: Marc, Martin, NPJ, Nicco, Johnathan, René, pbs, Mikekov The next developer meeting is 2nd March 2023: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ ---- How the bug accelerator program is going (Martin) Bug list for 1.3 is being used https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/milestones/11 developer should add the milestone 1.3 if they want issues to be in the mix. The advantage is that this list provides a sorted and updated list and so the blocker issue has been closed and instead people should mark issues as blocker using the tag. Lots of bugs fixed and lots of merge requests are now open waiting for review. When Rafael becomes available merge requests will have a reviewer to move code faster. On the effectiveness side; Martin says other paid contracts have been re-scheduled so time is available to work on Inkscape issues, so it's functioning as intended to create time for inkscape at this early stage. Though this is a self-reported data point. A new blog is available to contributors. This will be used to report on work done in the bug accelerator program, but can be used by other contributors if they want to talk about their work and have it available on the inkscape website. Please contact the web admin for access. ---- The recent Cairo rendering failure is related to Marc's dithering patch. It was suspected that it was just related to using an updated version of cairo, but the patch itself is implicated and Marc things it's becuse of the way the dithering code throws an error which pbs says will cause the whole rendering stack to then reject any other rendering instructions. ---- A Pango problem that has appeared is an upstream issue with the fontconfig backend. To fix this the version is restricted to 1.50.11 for all builds and the windows build is pinned to 1.50.11 for now. The issue has been reported to upstream although they say they can't guarentee a fix. ---- A version suffix was added to inkscape's library file (*.so, *.dll etc) this allows the library file to be placed in predictable places and should make it easier to create C++ extensions which can link against the Inkscape library of a specific version despite not having a stable API. Getting these library files into the right system directories to make them useful is a possible task, as well as providing header files or a -dev type package to allow developers to work without building the entire of inkscape first. - This causes a problem for macOS builds that didn't expect the version to be there. but René is working on a packaging fix. ---- Mikekov is working on a few features and improvements, mostly UI related fixes. A new milestone has been created by Marc so anything that we don't expect to make it into 1.3 can be tagged for the next release and not merged by accident before the branching date. Marc asks if the font collections feature is ready? It needs to be rebuilt, but looks to have problems and may need to be posponed. The original developer may also not be available. --- What kind of plan should we have for Gtk4 migration? After the 1.3 branch (or release) we will allow much more riskier code merges that progress us towards Gtk4 support. So master is expected to break more often, but we want to make sure Inkscape compiles so any changes will still be expected to compile even if they cause large bugs. Having this high risk development policy after the release is most ideal and sets expectations in the whole developer team about what we need to be focusing on. Jonathon is creating a paid contract to hiring people to work on the Gtk4 transition, please join him on rocket chat to look at the proposal draft and see what kind of paid work we need to ask for in order to push hard on getting Gtk4 transition done with the smallest amount of disruption it's possible to have in our development cycle. ---- We were concerned that Nicco had not recieved the contract for the AI importer work. But Nicco was available at the meeting and has recieved the contract. Next is signing it and sending back to the SFC, and Johnathan is organising a date to do onboarding with Martin. ---- The Hackfest is coming up very shortly. There's ongoing discussions with the SFC and René regarding paying for the venue costs upfront so the particpants won't have to pay the large fees that will be due at the end. We are told Karren was unavailable so there may be some delays reviewing the venue contract and sorting out the payment. Though we do want to make sure this happens because we don't have a lot of time now. ---- We are accepted into the GSoC program, number of applicants isn't set yet. You may advertise about our particpation in GSoc 2023, and please make sure to update the list of projects on the wiki https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Google_Summer_of_Code ---- We looked at three of the oldest merge requests as part of our regular end of meeting activity: One was assigned to Adam (sorry adam!), two were closed as out of date. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Feb 14th Meeting notes
by doctormo＠gmail.com 14 Feb '23

14 Feb '23

Hey all, Some basic notes for our developer meeting today: Attending: René, imv, MikeKov, Nicco, Martin, Johnathan, Marc, Chris Rogers, Tav, Jabiertxof Hackfest (Rene): * Fully booked hackfest, see the wiki for details * Arrivals, please document when you are arriving on the wiki - CAB service from hosts is an option, Public Transport is there - Bus connection is very easy to use from the train station, to be added to the wiki page. - Payment for public transport: Credit Card and coins, Google and Apple Pay, see https://www.kvb.koeln/tickets/ticketkauf/automaten.html * Departure from hotel on Friday not fixed, yet (proposal: 5pm) * SFC might be able to pay for the venue directly via a wire transfer. * A couple of people are staying a few extra days in Cologne, the weekend. Marc: GSoC, will know in a week if we have been accepted. Major issues with the windows and AppImage builds which wreck all cairo rendering and make inkscape unusable. We can't make an Alpha release until it's done. Johnathan: - Working with pono and pushing the ai importer project, it's currently with Tracy and Karen at the SFC to sort out. - Bug project, Martin and Rafael are awaiting updates from the SFC which are also with Tracy and Karen. Rafael will be able to start work on it in a couple of weeks due to house moving. - Drafting the new Gtk4 proposal for funded work and the selection process which will involve finding the right people who can work on it. Tav: Is still working on vertical text problems in fonts. MikeKov: Reviewing some features and getting some fixes in. Nicco: Very happy to experience how the team interacts and how people get some of the work done. Asked about communications preferences, Johnathan suggested doing an onboarding video chat for the AI importer project. Chris: Vote for Hardware via PLC, Pushed forward and concluded since the vote is quite old now. Merge Request Review (group activity): * We looked at 3 old merge requests this week to try and push them forwards or close them. One merged, two reviewed. Thanks everyone! Martin Owens Developer Team

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Feb 6th Meeting notes
by Martin Owens 06 Feb '23

06 Feb '23

Hey all, Some basic notes for our developer meeting today: Attending: Martin, Chris Rogers, imv, Jabiertxof, Johnathan, Marc, MikeKov, René, Tav Feature freeze - We're now in freeze, but there are a couple of branches close to being merged - Are we supporting old OS versions? - Debian 10 too old? Ubuntu LTS? Remove RedHat and centOS. Team testing organising restarting the team with Chris Rogers and KrIr17 Martin has worked on the PDF Refactoring branch is ready to merge Tav has been spending time fixing the vertical glyphs pango problem. Marc asks, have we tested the latest cairo version 1.17.8? René is close behind and will see the issues first. Cairo removed auto tools and the unmaintained GL backend. Johnathan Last week we found our contractor Nico, the SFC are at FOSSDEM so were not available to finalise the hiring process. Everything is documented in the wiki. Johnathan was at FOSSDEM too, talked to Penpot who were involved with https://rethinkscape.netlify.app/ they use inkscape for their branding and Johnathan talked to them about SVG support in browsers. Spoke with the document foundation too about their support for old file formats. We can think about where to get money from. Spoke with the FSFE and other about what kind of public money is available. The consensus is that it's usually available but needs to be applied for. i.e. NLNet which is usually for individuals. There's a growing call for collabrative editing. Talking to Collabera, XMPP and others about these features. Gtk4 migration is a project we need to focus on and we could contract someone to push it forwards and get us on the right track. A Peer project involving one internal experienced inkscape programmer and an external person who knows Gtk4 well. What do people think about this, is this something we should put time into organising? The project would be conducted over the summer. The selection processes, what the scope of the project is etc. Rene / Hackfest René will have a meeting with pono to sort out transport costs. Chris will contact ted about possibly needing extra funding for more expensive flights for people in the USA. René is telling the host we will be 10 people. Meetings to be conducted this week to finialise everything. GitLab at FOSSDEM, credit card requirement, new contributors should email contributors at gitlab.com and people will be manually validated which will allow people to use the CI builder. We need to confirm the exact details for this process. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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February Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

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/264 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting (Feb 3, 2023)
by Ted Gould 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

Howdy folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday, Feb 3rd for anyone who'd like to join in. Details are on the wikipage: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates You can adjust the time to meet your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20230203T10&p1=202 Hope to see everyone there! Lots to talk about! Ted

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pdf hyperlink issue
by guilherme 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

Dear Sir/Madam, I am currently using Inkscape version 1.2.2 on my MacBook M1 running MacOS Ventura 13.1. I am facing an issue when trying to add a target (_blank) to a hyperlink in my PDF. When I open the PDF in my browser (Firefox or Brave) and click on the link, the PDF tab closes and the link opens in a new tab. I attempted to troubleshoot the problem by opening the development tools in Firefox, and I noticed that the "target" field of the link <a ...> is empty, as shown below: <a data-element-id="10R" title="https://www.google.com" href="https://www.google.com" target="" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" id="pdfjs_internal_id_10R"></a> Thank you for your time and attention. Sincerely, Guilherme F. Huth

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Hackfest 2023 Bensberg - it's happening!
by René de Hesselle 15 Jan '23

15 Jan '23

Dear all, the „Hackfest 2023 Bensberg“ is happening! Hackfest week is March 13-17, 2023 deadline to apply for attendance is February 01, 2023 Now it’s time that you figuratively „git add“ and „git commit“ yourself to this event on our wiki (scroll down to the bottom, section „Attendance“): https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Hackfest2023_Bensberg (This wiki page is still incomplete and will be updated continuously.) If you have any questions or feedback, or want me to add you to the wiki page, please use this issue in our GitLab (do not reply to this mail, neither on-list nor to me directly, I won’t respond): https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/8109 Cheers, René

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Feature Freeze for 1.3
by doctormo＠gmail.com 06 Jan '23

06 Jan '23

Dear Developers, This is to let you all know that the developer team decided to set the feature freeze for 1.3 to January 31st 2023. This gives you a few weeks to complete a feature merge request or help a GSoC student complete their work. Also decided was that there won't be a 1.2.3 release, but there will be a macOS only 1.2.2 (build 3) release, which we may want to advertise which should produce some better compatibility. The code it's based on doesn't change. Thanks to the large numbers in today's first 2023 developer meeting. Productive and fun. 😎️ https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Best Regards, Martin Owens

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stop emails from inkscape
by Marie Pierre 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

Hello, I have already sent a request to unsubscribe from inkscape mailing lists. But without result. I get emails from people talking to me about inkscape like I'm a member of the inkscape team (see email below). Which i am not. I don't understand. Is it possible to delete my email from your database please? Thanks a lot. Have a good evening. Marie-Pierre OTTENIO For instance i received this email : Dear Sir/Ma'am, I am Rishi Kejriwal, currently a 2nd year student, studying Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Roorkee, and I would love to contribute to Inkscape for open source and also the upcoming GSoC, 2023. I am a full stack developer, and I am well versed with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, Python, C++, Java, Git, PHP and MySQL, and I would like to use my existing knowledge and experience to contribute to your organization. I would be grateful if you can share some points how to get started with contributing to Inkscape. Kind Regards, Rishi. _______________________________________________ Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org>

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Guidance for GSoC Contributions
by Rishi Kejriwal 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

Dear Sir/Ma'am, I am Rishi Kejriwal, currently a 2nd year student, studying Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT), Roorkee, and I would love to contribute to Inkscape for open source and also the upcoming GSoC, 2023. I am a full stack developer, and I am well versed with *HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, Python, C++, Java, Git, PHP and MySQL*, and I would like to use my existing knowledge and experience to contribute to your organization. I would be grateful if you can share some points how to get started with contributing to Inkscape. Kind Regards, Rishi.

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GSOC 2023
by Yashashvi Mann 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

Respected Sir/Mam, My name is Yashashvi Mann and I am currently an undergraduate in Delhi technological University. I am a GSOC 2023 enthusiast. I have knowledge of Python, HTML, CSS, Java script, Tailwind and React. I am extremely new to the contribution world and don’t know how to start. If you could guide me or assign me a task that I can contribute to, I will be very grateful. Hope to hear from you soon. Regards

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OSC or UDP messags
by John Allsup 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Hi, A general topic I'm interested in, with many applications, is the possibility of using OSC or some custom UDP protocol for messages. As such, all the core application needs to do in its run loop is to check for pending packets and process any that have arrived (the rest of receiving could be on another thread). For example, so that you could use essentially any device with rotary knobs or buttons to control things like line width or colour of the selected object or, more generally, anything else. OSC is a common protocol used by some music software, but I'm interested in its use beyond music software. You could send messages like e.g. /currentobject/linewidth/changeby 46 "pt" to increase the line width by 46 pt Essentially anywhere there is a numerical value the user could control via e.g. the toolbar or some slider somewhere, or something that could be toggled on/off, or stepped through, there is the scope for controlling it via something tactile like a rotary encoder on a Midi controller, or anything else. (You could easily have an external program which handles conversion to/from what an app understands.) Just my general line of thinking. My motivation for trying to get along with this idea is devices like the TourBox which, in absence of a protocol like OSC, is just a box and some (bloated) software that turns knobs and buttons into keyboard shortcuts to control applications. John Allsup

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Inkscape 1.2.2
by Marc Jeanmougin 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Inkscape 1.2.2 ============== Inkscape 1.2.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you 4 crash fixes, over 25 bug fixes, 5 fixes for extension bugs and 13 improved user interface translations. Notably, the OpenClipart import is now available to everyone, regardless of the selected packaging format or operating system, spellchecking finally works on macOS, performance is improved (in exchange for dithering disabled by default), extensions that modify colors can now also modify colors in patterns again, and for our maker community, we fixed some issues with the measure tool, the DXF14 export and with hairline strokes. Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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Wiki account request
by Kyungjoon Lee 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Hi, I want to contribute to the wiki, mainly the bits on building for macOS. I tried to contribute to GIMP documentation before: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-macos-build/-/merge_requests/1… https://gitlab.gnome.org/Infrastructure/gimp-macos-build/-/merge_requests/1… And now I would like to try to update the Inkscape documentation as well. Could you grant me access to the wiki with username kjoonlee, please? Thank you very much in advance. Cheers, KJ

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Vectors' Meeting December
by Maren Hachmann 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! We're planning the 1.2.2 release! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/262 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Howdy folks, Been traveling a bunch and out of the loop. So at least for me this will be a super exciting PLC meeting. Hoping to get back into the swing of things and catch up with everyone! Standard agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Date time: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20221104T10&p1=202 (NOTE: this is on Pacific time from when Bryce organized it, so it might be a different time than you're used to) Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Vectors' Meeting October
by Maren Hachmann 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

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/261 Please comment on items you think should be added! Note that the time has moved along with US time, so it's one hour later than usually in Europe. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape Hackfest 2023
by René de Hesselle 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

Dear all, we’re trying to organize a Hackfest early 2023 in Germany at a location outside Cologne (~15 km). While the location won’t lend itself to sightseeing tours or visiting a different bar each night (because it's not in the city, more on the country side), it’s special appeal is that we actually don’t have to leave the premises: team room, hotel rooms and excellent catering (breakfast, lunch, dinner) are conveniently all in one place. Ideal conditions for late night sessions under the influence of beer and good company to spark commits for make benefit glorious library of Boost Pointer Container! ('grep -A 5 glorious src/3rdparty/2geom/include/2geom/curve.h‘ and you will understand) More details will be revealed later, for now let’s see which week(s) to look at for possible booking and how many people are interested. Please use your GitLab handle as your name to vote within 7 days: https://framadate.org/FKWRfp1N54R1YJr3 (Two weeks in February are missing because traveling during carnival season through a hotspot like Cologne isn’t fun.) Cheers! René

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Anybody build from source on RH EL 8 (or related)?
by David Mathog 14 Oct '22

14 Oct '22

This question was first posted here (recently): https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/anybody-build-from-source-on-rh-el-8-or-… It was kind of long, so please just read that and then reply here. Found this script in the current developer's instructions: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-ci-docker/-/raw/master/install_depende… Have not tried it yet. It lists Fedora but not any of the RHEL variants. Also, under Fedora poppler is not explicitly called out as a dependency, and from the first link, building poppler was a problem. Does the Fedora build not use poppler, or does it come in automatically from one of the other dnf commands? For reference, see also: https://forums.centos.org/viewtopic.php?t=76971 For Centos 8.3 (or maybe it was 8.2) "dnf install poppler-devel" worked, but for almalinux 8.6 it does not, failing with a: No match for argument: poppler-devel Thanks, David Mathog

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Vectors' Meeting October
by Maren Hachmann 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday (i.e. tomorrow)! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/260 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting (Sept 2nd)
by Ted Gould 09 Sep '22

09 Sep '22

Hello Folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday. Agenda is here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Time in your timezone is here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220902T10&p1=202 You can find a calendar entry here: https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/calendar/ Everyone is invited, hope to see you there! Ted

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Vectors' Meeting September
by Maren Hachmann 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday (i.e. tomorrow)! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/259 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Godot Company
by Martin Owens 22 Aug '22

22 Aug '22

Dear PLC & Devel, This is an interesting bit of news. Godot, which is a member of the Software freedom Conservancy, and one of their largest other projects have had their leadership set up a for profit company called w4 games. This is ostensibly to develop Godot further. "Our mission is to strengthen the open source Godot ecosystem by providing companies with the commercial products and services they need." - https://w4games.com/ This is interesting to us here I believe. One of the conflicts I have personally with the SFC is how constraining and limited the SFC are for many of the things that would allow Inkscape to grow, invite commercial partners, hire developers, pay mentors, fund marketing research and design. Material things that we currently patch together with very kind support for key volunteers, but should be more properly resourced. Has anyone here had thoughts about developing a commercial company to develop Inkscape? I'm going to be reaching out to the new Godot business as well as a few of their contacts to see what their thoughts are and see what I can learn and if we can copy them. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Monthly PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Howdy folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting this Friday (Aug 5) at the regular time on chat. You can figure that out in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220805T10&p1=202 The projected agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Everyone is invited! Also, a special thanks to Maren who sent out the Vector's reminder and made me realize I had forgot to send this email. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting July
by Maren Hachmann 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Hello Vectors (and those 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/258 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape 1.2.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 15 Jul '22

15 Jul '22

Inkscape 1.2.1 ============== Inkscape 1.2.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, fixing a nasty data loss crash with the export dialog, various other crashes, and improving page export and some translations. Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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Github Page and Repository
by Ted Gould 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Howdy folks, I was looking at our repo on Github, and frankly, I like it. But, I know for some employers they're rating potential employees on their Github profiles (I don't agree with this, but it happens) and so not having the commits in Github reduces the exposure for that work. This probably effects our "interns" from Google SoC and Outreachy the most. For reference: https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape The problem we've had in the past is that when we had the repo on Github, people would fork it and create Pull Requests that no one would see or triage. Which would frustrate folks (understandably) and look poor on the project. The idea that I had is that we take the Inkscape repo, and we make a branch "github" that has the same README and graphic that is currently up on Github. We push the full Inkscape repo, but then set the default visible branch to the "github" branch. So anyone going to the repository sees exactly the same thing. Github doesn't seem to have a mechanism for disabling PRs, or forks. So we're relying on people actually reading the text. But I was curious what folks thought about the idea. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting July
by Maren Hachmann 30 Jun '22

30 Jun '22

Hello Vectors (and those 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/256 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 27 Jun '22

27 Jun '22

Howdy folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday July 1st. Everyone is invited. Proposed agenda is currently: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda You can find the time in your timezone here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220701T10&p1=202 And you can add it to your calendar from here: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/46/ Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Inkscape lagging
by Finn Downey 05 Jun '22

05 Jun '22

> > > > > > > > Hello Inkscape. My name is Finn Downey. And I have been using Inkscape to make a drawing to put on Deviantart but I am having a slight problem. > It seems that the bigger my drawing gets, the slower the website seems to act. I have especially noticed that whenever I try to change the width and height of the drawing in the document properties, the numbers seem to automatically revert to what they were before I changed them. And whenever I select something to try and move it, it moves so slowly. > do you know what is wrong and if there is anything that can be done to fix these problems? > > please send a reply. Thank you kindly. >

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Vectors' Meeting June
by Maren Hachmann 01 Jun '22

01 Jun '22

Hello Vectors (and those 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/252 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Further information about CVEs
by Thomas Leroy 20 May '22

20 May '22

Hi there, As you may know, 3 CVEs [0] [1] [2] have been assigned to Inkscape, but there are a very few information available. The 3 CVE pages redirect to the same CISA page [3], mentioning Inkscape version 1.0 or later as fixed. Could you please confirm this information? Moreover, in the case of backporting patches is preferred instead of upgrading, could you please point me to the fixing commits? That would be very awesome.:) Best regards, Thomas [0]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42700 [1]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42702 [2]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-42704 [3]https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ics/advisories/icsa-22-132-03 -- Thomas Leroy Security engineer SUSE Software Solutions

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Inkscape 1.2 released !
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 May '22

17 May '22

================ = Inkscape 1.2 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.2 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features, and watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/news/2022/05/16/inkscape-12/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.2 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.1 major release. The highlights of this release are: * Inkscape documents can now hold multiple pages, which are managed by the new Page tool * Editable markers and dash patterns * Layers and objects dialog merged * On-canvas alignment snapping and Snap settings redesign * New 'Tiling' Live Path Effect * Redesigned Export dialog with preview and ability to select objects/layers/pages and even multiple file formats to export to * Import SVG images from Open Clipart, Wikimedia Commons and other online sources * Selectable object origin for numerical scaling and moving * All alignment options in a single dialog * Gradient editing in the Fill and Stroke dialog * Gradient dithering * SVG Font Editor updated * Flowing text around shapes and text padding * Convenience Boolean operation for splitting paths * Configurable Tool bar, continuous icon scaling and many more new customization options * Performance gains for many parts of the interface and many different functions * Lots of improvements to the user interface * Numerous crash & bug fixes in the main Inkscape program and in in the stock extensions We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.2/Inkscape_1.2.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! 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.or… +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/bug_migration [5]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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PLC Meeting in an hour
by Ted Gould 06 May '22

06 May '22

Okay, I think I figured out why these emails aren't going out on Monday, but that doesn't help for this one. Sorry for it being late. But we have a PLC meeting in an hour. I imagine most of the big things are going to be hiring and the release. But we'll check in on other stuff too. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Hope to see everyone there! Ted

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Inkscape 1.2.x branched of main
by Ted Gould 05 May '22

05 May '22

Howdy, Not sure who else needs to know it but apparently 1.2.x was branched of main. AFAICT it wasn't announced anywhere. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/tree/1.2.x Ted

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Fw: Re: Introduction
by Shlomi Fish 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Please see https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/netiquette/email/reply-to-l… . Begin forwarded message: Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2022 13:43:12 +0200 From: "Fares M. Basosy" <faresbasousy(a)gmail.com> To: Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Introduction Is there a task that i am supposed to do? On Tue, Apr 19, 2022, 7:30 AM Shlomi Fish <shlomif(a)shlomifish.org> wrote: > Welcome, Fares! > > please see https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and > > https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/open-source/how-to-start-co… > . > > On Tue, 19 Apr 2022 04:02:40 +0200 > Fares El-Basousy <faresbasousy(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Hello I’m a student from GSOC and I’m willing to contribute to Inkscape, > > my name’s Fares and I am in 3rd year in computer engineering, > > > > My main languages are C/C++ and python, I am new to open-source > community > > and I am willing to give it my all the thing I love the most about > this is > > that I can gain new experiences and get to know more people in the field > as > > well, > > > > > > > > Sent from Mail for Windows > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ > NSA Factoids - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/NSA/ > > Buffy: OK, Xandoosh, can you perform a search to find where such a > duplicator > is present? > Xander: Sure! Hey, Wil, can you use a spell for that? > — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Buffy/A-Few-Good-Slayers/ > > Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply > . > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ Funny Anti-Terrorism Story - https://shlom.in/enemy Chuck Norris ability to destroy is only matched (and exceeded) by Summer Glau’s ability to undo his destruction. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Summer-Glau/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .

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Introduction
by Fares El-Basousy 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

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Creating an Inkscape wiki login
by Solutions Master 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

I am trying to set up an account on https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=C…. This page says the following: > Automatic account creation has been disabled due to high levels of spam. To request an account please email the developer list Can anyone give me access, or know a more proper way to get/request access? Thanks.

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GSoC Proposal for integrating Tesseract OCR into Inkscape
by Bashar Ahmed 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

Hello everyone, I am Bashar Ahmed, a CSE Sophomore at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. I wanted to get some feedback on my proposal before the final submission. I have already sent it on the IRC. Any reviews will be valuable https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C10mlxyYuyTDBY7B9g6xS09RKzYbdJqwXWAm0ff…

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Help Vote on 1.2 Release Video Features - Urgent
by Ryan Gorley 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

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From Roy Torley: support to evaporate soon for gtkmm?
by Roy Torley 07 Apr '22

07 Apr '22

Hello, I took a quick look at Kjell Ahlstedt's statement that he will cease to maintain gtkmm and other such modules soon. Before I write him to find out what's happening, I would like to get a few ideas from any of you what you want to see in gtkmm so that I can write a letter that is worth reading. For context about me, I am just getting back into C++ after a 20-year hiatus and am in the process of reviewing latest developments in the language. I have written an introductory tutorial series for Inkscape, so I have a decent feeling for how to use it so I can talk with you about it intelligently (I hope). My basic idea is that, if Kjell wants to move on from gtkmm, might it be worth our while to step in where he leaves off? Might there be other options? I speak naively because I am new to this particular arena of software development and yet am interested in contributing to Inkscape's good health in a meaningful way. I appreciate and salute all of you who are doing all this work for Inkscape and for all those graphic artists who desperately want to learn, improve, and realize their creative potential with this powerful tool. Your thoughts and perspectives are more than welcome. Best wishes for the early Spring, Roy Torley

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Inkscape 1.1.2 and Inkscape 1.2-alpha released
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '22

06 Apr '22

Inkscape 1.1.2 ============== Inkscape 1.1.2 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1.2 is mainly a stability and bugfix release. It fixes numerous crashes and several major inconveniences, such as lost styling when when converting text to path, or relative position of clones pasted into a new document ---------------- In addition, we are releasing an alpha version of Inkscape 1.2, to facilitate testing of major upcoming features, such as the multipage support, editable markers, on-canvas alignment, revamped alignment and snapping options, layer and objects dialog, etc. If you find any issue with this new version, please report it tohttps://inkscape.org/report You can download it at https://inkscape.org/release/1.2alpha0/ ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us onhttps://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this release! -- The Inkscape team

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From Roy Torley: gtkmm lack of maintenance
by Roy Torley 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi Martin, I have read your musings about gtkmm and I wonder: is it worthwhile for somebody else to cultivate the Web site and help gtkmm keep up with the rest of the world? I am sorely tempted to get involved, especially because I am reviewing my old C++ from about 20 years ago. Maintaining and improving gtkmm would be a huge task and, indeed, much more than one person can do, and yet, that is how wonderful things get started, or revivified. I have looked over the gtkmm Web site and noted that it is a good Web site. To keep it up-to-date is a huge project for one person. On the other hand, might it be worth thought and energy for new blood to maintain gtkmm and its Web site? I am tangentially involved with a science fiction and fantasy convention organization in Portland, Oregon, USA, called Orycon. We are aging out and desperately need new blood to continue a worthwhile and valuable tradition in this city. The challenge for us involves reaching out and contacting younger people of a New Age culture to become involved in keeping Orycon alive and vibrant. I spend time thinking about what we can do to keep gtkmm alive and thriving. I remember that a new fellow in India, Soham, just contacted us and is interested in getting involved. This is a good sign. How can we recruit more? This is just a naive rhetorical question right now, perhaps all the more rhetorical because I have a busy and chaotic work schedule. At least, I can sit with a glass of a nice white wine and think through what we can do. I hope I'm not wasting your time. I like to sit on the sofa and think about projects and, when the time is good, act on those thoughts. The tutorial I was writing is finished and now I can move on to other things, such as gtkmm. I appreciate your time, thoughts, and concern. You are not alone. I hope that I can provide good company. Best wishes, Roy Torley

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New Contributor - Help
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Contributors, Hello everyone, I am Soham Tripathy aka Archaic Mage from India. I started using Inkscape as an alternative to Illustrator (which was costly) for my school projects (small scale). Inkscape is free to use, easy to navigate and has noticed many significant improvements over the years. I was fascinated by the team which was able to make such a wonderful product.This inspired me to contribute to open source projects. Since, Inkscape was the first software which introduced me to open source, I wanted to start contributing to it. I am a second year, computer science student in Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. I am completely new to open source contributions, but I have a good enough knowledge on git, c++, CSS, GitHub and I have also started learning GTK. In regards to it, I have successfully forked and cloned the Inkscape repository on my local system(Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS) and I was also able to build and run it. I have also read the programming style used. Kindly guide me, on how to start making small contributions to Inkscape, what kind of issues to address and how to start researching about those issues. Thanking You, Yours Sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Post on List
by soham tripathy 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Dear Sir/Ma'am, I want to post to the Inkscape Devel mailing list, kindly consider the same. mail: sohasoham811(a)gmail.com Yours sincerely, Archaic Mage

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Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 03 Apr '22

03 Apr '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different artists: ----------------------- 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs ------------------------ Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): ========================================= Ranking: Name or nickname: Contribution to Inkscape: ========================================= You can subscribe to the mailing list here: https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can help you set this up. The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in one week from now). To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ Thank you everyone! --------------------- Explanation: Ranking: Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. The system that is used for determining the winner is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. Name or nickname: The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. Contribution to Inkscape: We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the inkscape.org website for the voting. Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an Inkscape membership!

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Vectors' Meeting April
by Maren Hachmann 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/248 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting Today
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '22

01 Apr '22

Howdy Everyone, Sorry for the late notice, not sure what happened to my scheduled email. But we do have a PLC meeting today. Lots of things in progress. Everyone is invited. Time and date: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220401T10&p1=202 Agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda Ted

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Future of Gtkmm?
by Diederik van Lierop 30 Mar '22

30 Mar '22

Hi, Not sure if everyone is already aware of this, but see https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtkmm/-/issues/110 "I will not continue forever with maintenance of gtkmm and other *mm modules. Unless someone else continues the work, glibmm, gtkmm and other modules will be abandoned in a near future." Should we be worried? Best regards, Diederik

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Regarding the serialization of Spiro control points
by Fred Brennan 28 Mar '22

28 Mar '22

Greetings, I write from the FontForge project. Of particular interest to me is the Spiro spline feature, which was originated around ten years ago by Raph Levien. One thing I'd like to add, (which would benefit both our projects,) is the ability of FontForge to understand the Inkscape Spiro serialization format. However, there are several things about the format which to me as an outsider appear to be defects serious enough that I have no idea how to even *import* these splines correctly, much less export our Spiro splines to this format. I would very much like to support the _de facto_ standard Inkscape has originated of supporting Spiro in SVG, but I am lost. George Williams, FontForge's original author, noticed this defect over eleven years ago.[1] Things are virtually unchanged since then, I checked `git blame`. Spiro has five point types, not including beginning and ending points. They are: * G4 curve (o) * G2 curve (c) * Corner (v) * Left Constraint ([) * Right Constraint (]) The ASCII single letters are the normal method of Spiro serialization, as championed by Raph Levien and by us in FontForge. Inkscape seems to create what I will call a "pseudo-SVG path". So, it is not really an SVG path, but rather is an SVG path which undergoes transformation into the typical Spiro format. Inkscape stores this in the "original-d" attribute. So, given a Bezier spline with control points defined as (x, y, c1, c2), Inkscape interprets a control point with only (x, y) to be a corner, meanwhile a control point with all four is a G4 curve, and (x, y, c1, NULL) is a left constraint while (x, y, NULL, c2) is a right constraint. I can probably overcome this, although George Williams was right to be skeptical of this format. There is no way I can see to define a G2 curve in this strange "original-d" format. Thus, this email. I write to ask a few things. I suppose first of all, what are the chances that we can convince you guys to store Spiro splines in plate[2] format, or another widely accepted Spiro serialization format? Second, if we cannot convince you to do that, how do I export FontForge spiros which contain G2 control points to Inkscape's original-d format? It's not possible, yes? So should I just silently fail and save them as G4? The curves will not be the same if I do that. Should I disallow export to SVG w/Spiro if glyph contains G2 control point? That seems a steep cost that will just confuse my users, so perhaps I should abandon the whole thing if it comes to that. Cordial regards, Fredrick Brennan (@ctrlcctrlv) [1]: https://narkive.com/63FADpG3.4 [2]: https://levien.com/garden/ppedit/README, section "Plate files"

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Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest: Chris Hildenbrand wins with "New discoveries await …"
by Maren Hachmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

Dear Inkscape Contributors, thank you to all of you who have cast their vote in the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest and to all of you who have worked to allow for this Contest to take place again! The winning image is this awesome entry: "New discoveries await …" by Chris Hildenbrand, aka 2DGameartGuru https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await Congratulations, Chris Hildenbrand! A big thank you also goes to all the other artists who took the chance and participated. You can find their Inkscape-made artwork in the contest gallery: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ The votes ballot file and election running log are available for your interest here: https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2271327 For the next Inkscape About Screen Contest, Tim created a collection of possible changes that came up during or before the contest in Vectors meetings. We still need to set a date for when to figure out which of them and how to implement those, more discussion topics are welcome, too: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/243 Maren

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Voting for 1.2 screen
by Victor Westmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

I would like to cast my vote to the artwork in this link: https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await Thank you all! Amazing submissions! Thanks, Victor

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Vote for your favourite Inkscape About Screen for Inkscape 1.2 until March 13 2022!
by Maren Hachmann 22 Mar '22

22 Mar '22

It's time to vote for the About Screen for Inkscape's version 1.2! We're very proud to present you with an amazing gallery featuring 25 entries, by 20 different Inkscape artists. Thank you so much to everyone who entered! Community voting opens on March 7 (0:00 UTC) and closes on March 13, 2022 (23:59:59 UTC). Here are the rules: * If you don't have a user account on the Inkscape website yet, you need to register (https://inkscape.org/user/register/) to be able to vote. * Everyone who enjoys Inkscape is allowed to vote. * Everyone gets 1 vote - this includes all contest entrants. * Visit the gallery and check out all the amazing works of art. * Click on one of the thumbnails to see the a larger version of the image and a description. You can also comment on the contest entry. * To cast your vote, either click on the check mark below the image or hover over the small image in the gallery to see a circle-shaped checkbox you can click on. If you accidentally vote for the wrong entry, you can change your vote by simply voting for a different one. * Voting will ONLY be accepted via the Inkscape website. * You can vote until Sunday, March 13, 2022, 23:59 (Time zone: UTC). In the gallery, there's also a countdown timer available that shows how long voting is open. * Once the community voting is done, the top five entries with the most votes will be passed on to the developers, who will then vote to determine the winner. * For the contest participants, ANY modifications of the files are prohibited at this point. SEE ALL ENTRIES AND CAST YOUR VOTE HERE: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ Good luck to all participants!

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

Forwarding your vote to the mailing list, Adib - it's now in the ballot file, too! Thank you! Maren Am 20.03.22 um 15:29 schrieb the Adib: > ========================================= > > Ranking: 1 3 5 > > Name or nickname: theAdib > Contribution to Inkscape: developer > > ========================================= > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:36 AM Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> wrote: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await> > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1> > > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn > <https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn> > > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist > <https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist> > > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs > <https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs> > > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors > <https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors> ) so we can > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > inkscape.org <http://inkscape.org> website for the voting. > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > Inkscape membership! > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org> >

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Pacer 20 Mar '22

20 Mar '22

Ranking: 45213 Name or nickname: Pacer Contribution to Inkscape: I do the monthly challenges

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Gammets
by NASA Jeff 17 Mar '22

17 Mar '22

Do we need someone who can review papers

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Re: [Inkscape-translator] Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Thank you for your vote, Mohammad! It's saved to the ballot now. Maren Am 16.03.22 um 07:25 schrieb MSKF: > Ranking: 154 > > Name or nickname: MohammadSaleh Kamyab > Contribution to Inkscape: Translating Persian

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1.2 About screen contest
by René de Hesselle 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Ranking: 12543 Name or nickname: RdH Contribution to Inkscape: macOS dev

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1.2 About screen contest
by Maren Hachmann 16 Mar '22

16 Mar '22

Forwarding Michèle's vote to the list. Thanks for the vote, it's in the file now! Maren Am 15.03.22 um 01:26 schrieb michele: > Rocket.chat > > *michele* hat Ihnen eine Nachricht gesendet: > > > @zigzagmlt / @michele Vectors Team > My vote is as follows: 2, 3, 1, 5, 4 > > Thanks! > M

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1.2 About screen contest
by Vaibhav Malik 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Ranking: 14253 Name or nickname: vaibhav_malik Contribution to Inkscape: Code and bug triage

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Fwd: about screen 1.2 voting (Lazur)
by Marc Jeanmougin 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: about screen 1.2 voting Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2022 21:00:19 +0000 (UTC) From: Tamás Pétery <peterytamas(a)yahoo.com> To: inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.inkscape.org <inkscape-devel-owner(a)lists.inkscape.org> Hello there, saw the announcement of the voting in the vectors team chat. Don't want to subscribe to the mailing list, hope this way I can still chime in. ========================================= Ranking: 21435 Name or nickname: Lazur Contribution to Inkscape: -handling the deviantart page as part of the vectors team -occasional showoff on the forum and frequent chat conversation starter -custom filter assets, drawings sharing via openclipart and what not ========================================= All the best Lazur

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Jobs
by NASA Jeff 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

I can do some piece work

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Meeting Recording: Discussing the Project
by Martin Owens 15 Mar '22

15 Mar '22

Hi Everyone, This is a follow up to share the recorded link from last week's leadership committee video meeting: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/playback/presentation/2.3/80b082be7c60e7a1fd9… This was a no decisions meeting. There's no need to watch unless you're interested in a bunch of people thinking and talking. This discussion was really interesting, and varied. Covering people's thoughts on what is Inkscape is as a project, how we paying people changes things, how we go about asking volunteers, what this means for our sense of identity. What the SFC thinks of corperate involvement, of project different structures etc (big thanks to pono and Karen for attenting from the SFC). The video doesn't have a way of continuing any of the discussion on, so if you do want to talk abou the issues, please do add context to which part you'd like to add to. Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Leadership Committee

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Ishaan Arora 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking: 21534 Name or nickname: pulsar17 Contribution to Inkscape: Writing code for website

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(no subject)
by Adam Belis 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking:21534 Name or nickname: Adam Belis Contribution to Inkscape: UX / UI / testing / documentaiton -- *Adam Belis* Illustrator / Animator/ Designer / Artdirector / Fabulator *www.AdamBelis.com* <http://www.AdamBelis.com>

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Thank you, Valentin, your vote has been saved to the ballot file! Maren Am 14.03.22 um 12:48 schrieb vanntile: > > Ranking: 142 > > Name or nickname: vanntile > Contribution to Inkscape: programmer, translator > > > @vanntile > > developer by choice and designer for fun > > Sent with ProtonMail secure email. > > ------- Original Message ------- > > On Monday, March 14th, 2022 at 02:35, Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de> wrote: > >> Dear Inkscape Contributors, >> >> here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About >> >> Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different >> >> artists: >> >> ----------------------- >> >> 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand >> >> https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★new-discoveries-await >> >> 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand >> >> https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★joy+1 >> >> 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski >> >> https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/★a-new-dawn >> >> 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia >> >> https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/★i-artist >> >> 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly >> >> https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/★fox-drag-bugs >> >> ------------------------ >> >> Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send >> >> it as a reply to this email to the Inkscape developers' mailing list >> >> (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): >> >> ========================================= >> >> Ranking: >> >> Name or nickname: >> >> Contribution to Inkscape: >> >> ========================================= >> >> You can subscribe to the mailing list here: >> >> https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… >> >> (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) >> >> In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the >> >> mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat >> >> channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can >> >> help you set this up. >> >> The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in >> >> one week from now). >> >> To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: >> >> https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ >> >> Thank you everyone! >> >> --------------------- >> >> Explanation: >> >> Ranking: >> >> Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is >> >> your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank >> >> all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. >> >> The system that is used for determining the winner is >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package >> >> openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. >> >> Name or nickname: >> >> The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, >> >> required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. >> >> Contribution to Inkscape: >> >> We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as >> >> opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). >> >> Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling >> >> us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main >> >> area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing >> >> news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum >> >> moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). >> >> For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the >> >> inkscape.org website for the voting. >> >> Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an >> >> Inkscape membership! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org >> >> To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen
by Milo Ivir 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking: 4 5 3 1 2 Name or nickname: Milo Ivir (milotype) Contribution to Inkscape: Croatian translation, bug reporting (sometimes)

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Thank you, Lucas, your vote has been saved to the ballot file! Maren Am 14.03.22 um 14:30 schrieb Lucas Vieites: > ========================================= > > Ranking: 1 3 2 4 5 > > Name or nickname: Lucas Vieites > Contribution to Inkscape: UI translation to Spanish > > ========================================= > -- > *Lucas Vieites* > Blog @ codexion.com <https://blog.codexion.com/> > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasvieites> > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:36 AM Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> wrote: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await> > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1> > > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn > <https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn> > > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist > <https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist> > > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs > <https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs> > > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors > <https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors> ) so we can > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > inkscape.org <http://inkscape.org> website for the voting. > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > Inkscape membership! > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org> >

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Fwd: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Forwarding Valentin's reply, too - thanks for your vote, Valentin! Everyone: please make sure to reply to the mailing list, not to me personally. Thank you! Maren -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20 Datum: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 11:48:44 +0000 Von: vanntile Ranking: 142 Name or nickname: vanntile Contribution to Inkscape: programmer, translator @vanntile developer by choice and designer for fun Sent with ProtonMail secure email. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, March 14th, 2022 at 02:35, Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de> wrote: > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★new-discoveries-await > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/★joy+1 > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/★a-new-dawn > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/★i-artist > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/★fox-drag-bugs > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > > it as a reply to this email to the Inkscape developers' mailing list > > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors ) so we can > > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting, using the package > > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > > inkscape.org website for the voting. > > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > > Inkscape membership! > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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1.2 About screen contest
by Tim Jones 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Ranking: 3 2 4 1 5 Name or nickname: T1mJ0nes Contribution to Inkscape: Vectors

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Re: Contributors' Voting for the Inkscape 1.2 About Screen until March 20
by Maren Hachmann 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

Forwarding Lucas' vote to the developer mailing list: Am 14.03.22 um 14:30 schrieb Lucas Vieites: > ========================================= > > Ranking: 1 3 2 4 5 > > Name or nickname: Lucas Vieites > Contribution to Inkscape: UI translation to Spanish > > ========================================= > -- > *Lucas Vieites* > Blog @ codexion.com <https://blog.codexion.com/> > LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasvieites> > Thank you very much, Lucas! I'm going to process all incoming votes once a day, in the late evening. Maren > On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:36 AM Maren Hachmann <maren(a)goos-habermann.de > <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> wrote: > > Dear Inkscape Contributors, > > here they are, our community's 5 favorites for the Inkscape 1.2 About > Screen, chosen by 353 community members from 25 entries by 20 different > artists: > > ----------------------- > > 1: “New discoveries await...” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85new-discoveries-await> > > 2: “Joy!” by Chris Hildenbrand > https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1 > <https://inkscape.org/~SpriteAttack/%E2%98%85joy+1> > > > 3: “A New Dawn” by Fabian Mosakowski > https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn > <https://inkscape.org/~fabianmosakowski/%E2%98%85a-new-dawn> > > > 4: “I artist” by Davi Maia > https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist > <https://inkscape.org/~daviarte23/%E2%98%85i-artist> > > > 5: “Fox & Drag Bugs” by Muhamad Farlly > https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs > <https://inkscape.org/~mfarlly/%E2%98%85fox-drag-bugs> > > > ------------------------ > > Please fill in the following snippet with your ranked choices and send > it as a reply to this email to the **Inkscape developers' mailing list** > (this one: Inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:Inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org>): > > ========================================= > > Ranking: > > Name or nickname: > Contribution to Inkscape: > > ========================================= > > You can subscribe to the mailing list here: > https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… > <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or…> > (you do not need to create an account, it's easier without!) > > In case you have encountered difficulties with posting your vote to the > mailing list, please contact Vectors in the Inkscape Vectors chat > channel ( https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors > <https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors> ) so we can > help you set this up. > > The contributor vote closes on Sunday, March 20, 2022, 23:59:59 UTC (in > one week from now). > > To see the complete gallery with all entries, visit: > https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/ > <https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-12/> > > Thank you everyone! > > --------------------- > > Explanation: > > Ranking: > Put the numbers in order of preference, so '32154' would mean 3 is > your first choice, 2 is your second choice etc. You don't have to rank > all numbers if you don't want to. No comma or spaces in between, please. > > The system that is used for determining the winner is > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting>, using the package > openSTV from (old) Ubuntu repositories. Ties will be broken randomly. > > Name or nickname: > The name you usually use in your communication in the Inkscape project, > required in case you change your vote or forgot that you had already > voted. > > Contribution to Inkscape: > We allow voting from all Inkscape contributors (as > opposed to C++ developers and translators in the AUTHORS file only). > > Please help us with determining your eligibility for voting by telling > us what you do or did in the Inkscape project (very short, only main > area, e.g. 'writing Inkscape code', 'writing website code', 'writing > news articles', 'setting up infrastructure', 'translating', 'forum > moderation', 'bug triage', 'board member' etc.). > > For next time, we hope to use a new membership system provided by the > inkscape.org <http://inkscape.org> website for the voting. > Please watch out for an announcement that asks you to register for an > Inkscape membership! > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org> >

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Inkscape Booth at Virtual Chemnitzer Linuxtage this weekend!
by Maren Hachmann 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Hi everyone, do you have plans for this weekend? What about a drawing and inking course with Inkscape? Visit us this Saturday and Sunday at our booth at the virtual Chemnitzer Linuxtage and enjoy free demos and workshops about drawing, programming and design: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/programm/beitrag/187 (all times CET, Berlin/Paris/Amsterdam - note that US/Canada change to summer time on Sunday, while Europe does not yet) Also ask us anything about Inkscape! See you at the Inkscape booth at Chemnitzer Linuxtage!

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Job Posting: Project Coordinator
by doctormo＠gmail.com 11 Mar '22

11 Mar '22

Good news everyone! As Inkscape continues to grow, the responsibilities of the Inkscape team increase in tandem. To keep up with the current pace, the Project Leadership Committee are looking for a Project Coordinator. See the job posting for more details... https://inkscape.org/news/2022/03/10/hiring-project-coordinator/ Please check out the article and the job posting link inside it for all the details. Be sure you are emailing any submissions to the right email address. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Leadership Meeting: What is Inkscape
by Martin Owens 09 Mar '22

09 Mar '22

Dear Inkscape, We're having another video chat tomorrow, you can find the date/time in your local timezone, plus the link to the video conference here: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ * Note: it will be recorded, so share your audio and webcam with that in mind. This is going to be more casual than usual as I want to invite people to ask questions on the topic and discuss together our ideas. The topic I'd like to discuss is: What is Inkscape. Broadly an open source project can have many functions and many masters. Our project here has always been a very flat and inviting space for all sorts of contributors. Now that we are hiring a project coordinator, people would like to talk about what a project looks like when it has contributors who are paid by the project, volunteers, as well as people who are paid by outside companies. So how we can be a broad project to fairly accomodate all types of people. Can we identify when work is volunteer and when it should be a contract? Why have contracted work at all? These are not things we'll be concluding at the meeting. Just the topical questions to get things started. Hope to see you there. Best Regards, Martin Owens Project Leadership Committee

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PLC Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 05 Mar '22

05 Mar '22

Hello Inkscapers! We have a PLC meeting this Friday to catch-up on all the fun things happening. Agenda is here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/09C5E804-8AB2-44D1-AB35-048397A21AB5@ge…) Time is Noon US Central Time on Friday March 4th. You can convert that here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220304T10&p1=202 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/09C5E804-8AB2-44D1-AB35-048397A21AB5@ge…) Everyone is invited, hope to see you there! Ted

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Vectors' Meeting March
by Maren Hachmann 04 Mar '22

04 Mar '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/244 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Job Posting
by Martin Owens 03 Mar '22

03 Mar '22

Dear Leadership Committee, Following our successful vote to hire a project coordinator, I'm here to report the progress and the remaining process for this job posting. I spoke with Pono from the SFC to finalise the details and the process they would like. These include: * The creation of a private mailing list where applications can go. Marc has created jobs(a)lists.inkscape.org which is a list of the hiring panel, and pono and myself as observers. I think Marc is there too as list admin. * Creation of the complete job text here: https://inkscape.org/jobs/project-coordinator-2022/ which the SFC wanted us to host on our own website. Included modifications from the SFC are the sentence for "equal opportunity employer" and the final section in how to apply for the job. The schedule for the submission of applicants and review processes is in that final section. * The formation of three inkscape community members to vet applications. Tim, prkos and michele have volunteered and are added to the above list. ~ Process todo: Confirm pono is on the mailing list and is receiving emails. Give job posting to the Vector's team for publication, however they would like to do that. A news article, twitter, etc etc. I need two other PLC members to form the finalisation panel, to conduct video interviews once we have a short list. Each interview could be an hour long, and there should be three at least in the short list, so please be aware of the time commitment at the start of April. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Can someone please contact
by NASA Jeff 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

Areana Grande fandom on Facebook with regards to new algorithms etc.. and work we can do. I've mentioned mixx so far. But generally anything related to the arts. I've talked most about this on here I believe. Yes, I believe I've finally secured funding for Linux developers. Thank you for your patience.

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How do I invoke my.custom.extension by CLI
by marc 25 Feb '22

25 Feb '22

Hello all, this is my first post on this list. I'm not sure whether this is the place to ask, but couldn't find a better one. I chose to use inkscape for modifying vector-graphic-PDFs and convert them to PNGs and also to a varienty of PDFs with extra information in a background batch job. Basically this works well with official Inkscape 1.1 (c68e22c387, 2021-05-23) and the results are just as desired. Unfortunatelly there is some glitch with inkscape freezing every some hundred conversions. To track down the above freeze I decided to try the latest inkscape source and build it myself (Windows 10/Windows 11) to be able to debug it. I found that the current app (24f6795) does not obey to the same CLI. Calling --verb=my.custom.extension complains Unable to find: my.custom.extension verbs_action: Invalid verb: my.custom.extension I get the same error message if I try to invoke as -- actions=my.custom.extension. Both --action-list and --verb-list do not list any extensions. The extension is part of the menu, so inkscape seems to know about it. Commit 5e32ad5 "Menubar Filters + Extensions : Conversion to Actions" removes extensions from the verb-list. Various comments suggest that verbs are supposed to be moved to actions. Not sure whether that is the plan for extensions as well. So my question is: How can I invoke my custom extension from CLI in the current version of inkscape (24f6795926, 2021-12-25) or any later? Cheers and a happy new year to everybody, Lokomoko

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Inkscape GIMP Shotwell Aseprite and other open-source image editors - Great Scott! you cannot meet me at Twin Peer-to-Peer Mall at 1:15 AM
by Sergei Udris 15 Feb '22

15 Feb '22

Inkscape GIMP Shotwell Aseprite and other open-source image editors - Great Scott! you cannot meet me at Twin Peer-to-Peer Mall at 1:15 AM program peer-to-peer programs, including unseen competitive games i've had enough practical jokes for one morning, future boy! siding with big by accepting Hill Valley without peer-to-peer games github twitch email when Marvin Berry inviting Marty to play guitar is p2p selling out Isengard Tower and garden by hosting money-donate-sponsor-ads-jobs-coins disease Rey refuses to sell BB-8 for 60 portions in the desert, you burn Fangorn for coin fuel in the era of Internet turning programs into projects like producers pushing Nick Lang to play Joe Gunn when he wants Ray Casanov part docs-nesting around one program and not programming games like proud Vulcan Academy yet having hsiny web pages and lengthy maintainer credits and attributions no wonder Spock left for Starfleet thank you, ministers, for your consideration - live long and prosper maybe you were adopted honest as What the Health? if Federer Nadal Djokovic instead of competing for gran-slam set up a donation-collecting docs-booth in the middle of court if Linus - inner Jabba the Hutt stole name Freax - agreed to join Steve Jobs and Apple on that meeting when first came to California instead of keeping his word - free and open if torrent clients accepted Strickland-serer-networks-only valley instead of generating most traffic if Jesus instead of feeding 4000 had a small comfy meal for himself and friends for years or started a bread-breaking business even Biff would gladly polish their car for being scarier bullies Marty! you've gotta come back with me! even dust of open source image and photo editors we hake off of out Seinfeld-Obama-Nike running shoes but be sure - peer-to-peer programs including new competitive games - are climbing like Honnold on Mount Kenia no projects no experiments no docs no issue-scratching-on-top-of-ou-heads no money-sponsor-donate-ads-coins-jobs fatal error programs who are guests not workers breathing and singing with their won voice like Chris Pine i-am-Chris-Pine better than what Borg of money can collective-gram are on their way along with Pat Brown and Impossible Foods mission both will be served in vegan jars of time travel parens ( ) my calculations are correct - when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious shit Peter Dinklage: you thought that Joffrey had to survive - he aint in the credits for season five - baby you know i'm the man for all seasons

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Inkscape 1.2 About Screen Contest open for submissions!
by Maren Hachmann 06 Feb '22

06 Feb '22

Calling all Inkscape artists! ----------------------------- You're invited to enter our traditional About Screen Contest to celebrate the upcoming release of Inkscape version 1.2! Find all information about how to join the drawing contest on our website at https://inkscape.org/en/community/about-screen-contests/ . We're looking forward to seeing **your** art! The Inkscape Vectors Team (marketing and outreach)

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Vectors' Meeting February
by Maren Hachmann 04 Feb '22

04 Feb '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! After the meeting, the 1.1.2 / 1.2alpha release coordination meeting is planned! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/241 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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PLC Meeting this Friday (2022/2/4)
by Ted Gould 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Howdy Folks, We have a PLC meeting this Friday at Noon Texas time. Agenda is updated here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates And you can find the time for you locally here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20220204T10&p1=202 Everyone is invited to join in, hope to see you there! Ted

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Fwd: Scribus 1.5.8 released
by Maren Hachmann 25 Jan '22

25 Jan '22

Forwarding for your interest: -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- The Scribus Team is pleased to announce the release of version 1.5.8. Like previous releases, work on version 1.5.8 focused mostly on bugfixes and code optimizations, the latter of which are expected to lead to reliability and speed improvements. We have also begun to prepare Scribus for using Qt6, which will make our work easier for future releases. Most important changes General - UI Improvements for dark mode and some icon updates and window interactivity - Improvements to file import (IDML, PDF, PNG, TIFF, SVG) - Improvements to PDF export - Improvements with respect to tables (undo/redo, styles) - Improvements to the Story Editor - Improvements to the build system - Translation updates Technical/OS-related updates - Scribus 1.5.8 now includes Python 3 and is built for mac OS Catalina or higher. Additional Notes The complete changelog is available here: https://bugs.scribus.net/changelog_page.php?version_id=112. More details are available from the Scribus Commit Mailing List archive (http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus-commit/), beginning with revision 24637 in April 2021. Please note that while some bug fixes still may be backported to the 1.4.x branch, we do not plan an official release of this version anymore. If you think you need the changes, you have to check out the SVN repository and build 1.4.9svn from source. We encourage all Linux and *BSD distributions to switch from 1.4.x to this new version, since it's not only much more versatile but also more stable. Download For download links and checksums please visit: https://w.scribus.net/wiki/index.php/1.5.8_Release Credits The Scribus Team would like to thank Anduin.net and Modirum for their continued hosting of all of the Scribus websites. We are grateful to the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie for sponsoring. The Scribus Team is also honored to have Resene Colours (New Zealand), dtp studio Oldenburg (Germany), Scientific Illustration Services Corp. (USA), the Newspaper Association of America (USA), Software Consulting Services (USA), freieFarbe e.V. (Germany), bauwerk Kommunikationsdesign (Germany) as Special Supporters and donors of color palettes and other content since the 1.4.x release, just like we are grateful to the owner of Vector Portal for the permission to distribute some of his work as Scribus Templates. Finally, the Scribus Team would like to thank the many end users, translators, testers and contributors who helped us with this release.

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plantage sous win 10 Point critique
by Jean-Marc LELIEVRE 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Bonjour ami.e Inkspacer, Je ne peux plus exporter en png. Le message derreur : « point critique. un point d'arrêt a été atteint » Inkspace se ferme alors (plantage). Jai cherché sur la liste en anglais (inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.org <https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or g/> ) si cette erreur avait été rapportée. Apparemment non. Je travaille sous Win 10 Pro (ordi de linstitut). Merci à qui pourra aider. JML

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Re: [Inkscape-translator] Re: Call for translations for Inkscape 1.1.2 (bug fix release, stable branch)
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jan '22

16 Jan '22

Hi Firas, confirmed, it's an annoying GitLab issue that hasn't been addressed for quite some time. I think it could potentially be fixable by adjusting our Continuous Integration to not have the Windows builds in a separate pipeline and to just go by date instead or whatever. (or, of course, GitLab itself could fix it, but they have known about the problem for a couple years now, so I'm not hopeful.) The summary is that the additional, scheduled (so, resource-conscious) job of the Windows builds overwrites the build results listed in the dropdown and drops old build results from the 'latest' job. You can still always find the latest successful build for 1.1.x here in this list (don't choose those that are have the little 'Scheduled' badge, but the latest one of the others): https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/pipelines?page=1&scope=all&ref=1.1.x… Or, just wait a bit... (not a great idea at the moment). Or, currently, the po and pot files in the repository are up to date, too, but that is never guaranteed. I'm including the developer mailing list as this is something they might have a way to fix. Maren Am 16.01.22 um 15:31 schrieb Firas Hanife: > Hello, > > I'm not sure if it's only an issue on my side but I'm unable to get the > latest translation from 1.1.x branch artifacts. > The provided link leads to a "Page Not Found" message. > > Can anyone confirm? > > > Thank you! > > > Il giorno sab 15 gen 2022 alle ore 17:03 Maren Hachmann > <maren(a)goos-habermann.de <mailto:maren@goos-habermann.de>> ha scritto: > > Hello Inkscape translators! > > This is the official call for translations for the upcoming Inkscape > 1.1.2 , which is planned to be released in early February. > > 1.1.2 is expected to be the last in the 1.1.x series of Inkscape, and it > is bugfix release, so the number of updated strings is small. > > If you'd like to contribute to 1.1.2 translations, please coordinate > with everyone in your language's translation team, and get the latest po > and pot files from > https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs/artifacts/1.1.x/download?job=tr… > <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/jobs/artifacts/1.1.x/download?job=tr…> > > Further information is available from > https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Translation_information > <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Translation_information> and > https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Interface_translation > <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Interface_translation> > > -------- > > If you are a translator for any of the languages below, please also > check your 1.1.x branch po file for errors – either using the > translation tool of your choice, or by compiling it to a mo file on your > computer and reading the output – as they contain formatting errors and > / or do not properly indicate the language they are for (default value > is still set): > > as, az, doi, en_AU, en_CA, eo, es_MX, fa, hy, kok@latin, ks@aran, mk, > ml, mni@beng, mni, mr, or, sat@deva, sat, sd@deva, sd, ur, ta > > --------- > > Inkscape 1.2 (currently still the same as the master branch) is > approaching its alpha stage. Translations for 1.2 are already accepted, > but it is expected that especially the newly added strings will still > change until the release. > > –––––––––– > > Happy translating! > Maren > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Translators mailing list -- > inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-translator@lists.inkscape.org> > To unsubscribe send an email to > inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org > <mailto:inkscape-translator-leave@lists.inkscape.org> > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Translators mailing list -- inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org >

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PLC Meeting this week!
by Ted Gould 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

Howdy Inkscapers! We have a PLC meeting this Friday at Noon Texas time. You can figure out that time in your local timezone and get info on the agenda here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Everyone is invited! Hope to see you there! Ted

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How to get started with contributions
by Pranjit Kakoti 13 Jan '22

13 Jan '22

Respected Sir/Madam I am Pranjit Kakoti, an undergrad. I am in my first year at NIT Silchar. I am new to open source contributions but I am well aware of C, C++, Python and a little bit of data science and machine learning. I am open to learning new technologies.I would love to contribute to your organisation but could you please tell me how to get started? Hoping to hear from you soon. Regards Pranjit Kakoti

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Vectors' Meeting January
by Maren Hachmann 07 Jan '22

07 Jan '22

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/236 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Also note that the Chemnitzer Linuxtage Intro meeting will be starting after the Vectors meeting. Maren

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Dev Environment Setup
by Aashutosh Konge 03 Jan '22

03 Jan '22

HI, it would be a huge help if anyone could resolve my issue with the dev env setup as mentioned in 'Getting started with inkscape', specifically with the executable build. Whenever, I try to install the build dependencies on Ubuntu 20.04 using '*bash install_dependencies --recommended'. *I seem to be getting the same error for each dependency: *"**Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/....... <http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/.......>."* I've tried to find answers on the internet but none of them work out. It would be a huge help if someone could help me with figuring out a workaround. *System specs*: OS: Ubuntu 20.04.3 OS type: 64-bit GNOME Version: 3.36.8

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Help us staff a booth at the largest German Online Linux event (English/German)!
by Maren Hachmann 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

Hi everyone, the Inkscape project is planning to host a virtual booth/stand again at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage (CLT), on March 12 and 13 (Sat/Sun) 2022! Usually the largest Linux and Open Source event in Germany, CLT are going to be an online-only event in 2022 again. The CLT (Chemnitzer Linuxtage) are an all-day event and we could use your help answering user questions about how to work with the program, how to contribute to it and about what is going on in the Inkscape community, by being available for questions and chatting at our virtual booth. The other thing we plan to do again is a series of short, 10 to 50 min topic-focused sessions – show other users how you use Inkscape, how to use your Inkscape extension, how people can help the Inkscape project or which cool things you made with Inkscape (and they can, too!). A live drawing session, a demonstration, a tour through your maker lab - anything that has to do with Inkscape is possible! So, no matter if you're 'just a user', a developer, a forum member, a regular user support provider in our chat channels, an Inkscape translator or other contributor – if you have some time available to spend helping the Inkscape project on that weekend in March, we would very much appreciate your help! Start by introducing yourself at the GitLab issue report where we're discussing the event organization! ****************** Please get in contact with us as soon as possible and find more info at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/235 Let us know how you can help make the booth an interesting place for visitors to drop by! ****************** We're going to have a first chat meeting with all those interested on Saturday, January 8, 2022 at 17:30 UTC (18:30 German time, after the Inkscape Vectors' meeting) at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors Hope to see you, it's going to be fun! If you are not able to join us at the booth, consider visiting us there! Kind Regards Maren ------------------ More info: Chemnitzer Linuxtage: https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2022/en/ What we did last year: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/192

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Inkscape PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 10 Dec '21

10 Dec '21

Howdy folks, I forgot to send out a reminder, hopefully folks have it on their calendar, but it is the first Friday. I've updated the Wiki to show that. https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates Everyone is invited to come. Ted

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Vectors' Meeting December
by Maren Hachmann 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/233 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting (moved to Nov 12, 2021)
by Ted Gould 03 Dec '21

03 Dec '21

Howdy folks, I am late getting out this notice and folks in the chat mentioned it'd be easier for everyone if we shifted the normal meeting back a week. So we're planning on having it Nov 12, 2021 and high noon Texas time. I think this gets is out of the confusing week where everyone is on different daylight savings time as well. Timezone tool: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20211112T10&p1=202 Wiki page: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates I'll note that we have a few votes outstanding and if all board members could look and make sure you voted that would be helpful. I hope to do an audit on those tonight or tomorrow and it's a lot easier if all the votes are in! Otherwise you'll be shamed at the meeting 😉 Ted

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Emoji handling - a mixed problem of system font management and application behavior - what is the part of inkscape
by Stefan Lechner 22 Nov '21

22 Nov '21

Hello folks, I have a very special and obscure situation. I am using inkscape version 1.1.1 on Arch Linux with Gnome Desktop 41.1, but the problem is present since several years on different systems, but I didn't notice it for a long time. Some months ago the situation changed… It is related to Emojis. I am using svg-files with astrological symbols as text, the fonts I am using are covering this unicode symbols and I do not want to have them replaced with symbols from an other font. But exactly this is happening since some years (in nearly every application and in a very special way in inkscape). I think it all comes from the definition which symbols are emojis and which not. There is a hand full of symbols which are in use as emojis and as normal "letters" in text - in my case asterisks. Since 2016 the system-wide emoji support is interpreting this symbols as emojis and substituting them with an emoji-font even if the signs are available in the font in use. A behavior I dislike at all, but maybe it is wanted by others for chat applications and similar. From 2016 to 2020 my system lack a special bitmap-emoji-font and I didn't notice the on going substitutin in the background. I use the Libertinus Sans (former Linux Biolinum) font and the emoji-substitutin has been replacing the asterisks signs of this font with the Dejavu Sans font - it seems Dejavu Sans is in use as an Emoji-fallback font, because of the huge unicode coverage. Since 2020 a bitmap-emoji-font is present on my system as dependency of gnome-characters. So everything changed. Now I have ugly colorful graphics instead of normal text-signs in many applications including Firefox, Eye Of Gnome,… … and inkscape? Even worse! Inkscape can not handle the signs from the bitmap-emoji-font and is substituting once again the asterisks with normal letters from the alphabet. My workaround at the moment: uninstalling gnome-characters and the emoji-font to again fallback on Dejavu font. But this is not satisfying, I want back the signs from my Libertinus font. I have not found any solution yet. I think this is a misbehavior of the emoji-implementation. But what is the problem? A missing functionality on application side or a bug of the emoji-substitution on system side? In other words: is it part of the application to accept or refuse the emoji-substitution or is the undemanded emoji-substitution of the font-system a bug itself? No matter what - I think, as long as inkscape is not able to use the emoji-fonts, it should refuse all emoji-substitution functionality completely (if possible?!). It causes problems in every case. What do you think, am I right? Stefan

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Thank You Message for Bryce Harrington
by Ryan Gorley 06 Nov '21

06 Nov '21

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[BUG] Inkscape font are not antialiased on Ubuntu 21.10/Gnome 40
by Nicolás Abel Carbone 05 Oct '21

05 Oct '21

Sorry if this is the wrong place to report this. If there is a better place for bug reporting, please let me know. I recently updated to Ubuntu 21.10 and on it inkscape fonts are not antialiased. I am using the snap versión and I reproduced the bug on two different PCs both in the stable and the candidate channel. I attached a screenshot of the bug. Libreoffice had a similar bug, already corrected, that seemed to be related to changes in the location of gsettings attributes related to antialiasing. Here you can see other apps hitting the same problem, they had to be updated to point to another field in the config file: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3680 1 <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/3680> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1922464 <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/1922464> -- Nicolás Abel Carbone Doctor en Física - Becario Posdoctoral CIFICEN-CONICET-UNCPBA Research Gate <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicolas_Carbone> epsilon.h <https://epsilonh.com.ar> Bionirs <http://bionirs.com> *Mi horario de trabajo puede no coincidir con el suyo. Salvo que así lo indique el mail, por favor no se sienta obligado a responder este mensaje fuera de su horario de trabajo habitual.* *My working hours may not be your working hours. Unless otherwise specified in the mail, please do not feel obligated to reply outside of your normal work schedule.*

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