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[GSoC] kidscape and NFT dialog ideas!
by Jesus Mager 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

HI! My name is Jesus Mager. I am Computer Science Student in Mexico, and I wanna apply in this GSoC for Inskape. But I cant decide what idea I will choose to work on. May be the list can help me: Kidscape I was working with kids software, so: The kid-version of inkscape is a real important idea in the idea list so i con work on it? (In blueprint ti appear as a low priority) If yes: should it be a independent branch of the project, may be a separate project or should it be a option in the same inkscape. (I think the first is the best) The idea is make it for kids in what sense: easier, fashionable, lighter?? I saw the possible GUI: It only seems to do it for netbooks, and lighter platforms. But if the main idea is make it for kids: what about make a cooler kid-friendly interface... may be like tuxpaint (www.tuxpaint.org)? Any idea? New From Template dialog Is it a better option than kidscape? Should it only be the interface, or may be also a guitool to make new templates (dynamical)?? I hope you can give me a orientation to find the appropriate idea and clarify my questions. Bests Jesus Mager

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Rendering problem for an object with blur / 0.46 Official vs 209225 vs 20967
by worms invasion 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hello, I have opened a file which I had done originally with 0.45.1 with the latest win32 snapshot (rev 20967) and there is a problem of rendering in Inkscape. The most obvious object is a simple object with fill and stroke solid colours, and a blur of 0.3. You'll find, for each version that I tested: - the object extracted from the original file, in svg - a screenshot of the rendering in the chosen Inkscape verion - the PNG exported by the said version. In all three versions, the filters/blur parameters were set to average (the default). I'll put them on my server so everyone can see the differences. There is also a zip of the 9 files to download. In short: the exported PNG appears correct in the three versions, but the screenshots of the rendering in Inkscape look very (or very) different across versions. The file looks absolutely normal, as I draw it, in 0.46 official. In r20225, the object is already badly rendered in Inkscape. In r20967, it's awful... How will the user figure out what do draw, or what will happen when a file made with 0.46 will be opened in a later version? Which one is correct to draw? Regards. __________ The folder for the reported files: http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/ 0.46 official SVG / PNGexport / Screenshot: http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_046_officia… http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_export_046_… http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_screenshot_… rev20225 SVG / PNGexport / screenshot: http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_046_20225.s… http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_export_046_… http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_screenshot_… rev20967 SVG / PNGexport /screenshot: http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_046_20967.s… http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_export_046_… http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_ext_screenshot_… The zip with all files: http://www.corpsmoderne.net/~eve97/vertex/rocket_bug/rocket_bug_versions_co…

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Effects hotkeys
by Juho Viitasalo 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hey! Is it possible to somehow create hotkeys for effects? What should I add to hotkey .xml file? Cheers, Juho Viitasalo

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GSoC Mentors
by Aaron Spike 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

I'd like to give a shout out to all our prospective mentors: Get involved with GSoC 2009. The GSoC web portal can be found at: http://socghop.appspot.com/ If you think you would be willing to mentor a student this year please sign up. I know many of us have gotten busy these last few years. Even if you don't think you have the time and energy to mentor please sign in and help us rate proposals. Aaron Spike

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Logo for SVG Open 2009
by Jon A. Cruz 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Hello all, I just wanted to put out that SVG Open 2009 is looking for header graphics for their new website... which is about to go live. SVG Open 2008 had a subtle header with outlines of the castles in Nuremberg, so is probably not good for this year's conference in California. If anyone is interested, this is a great opportunity to showcase both SVG and Inkscape. I believe that the site will be able to serve SVG directly for browsers that support it.

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Filters zoom problem solved
by Ivan Louette 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

While cleaning up the filters from unuseful primitives I removed some blur redundanceswhich caused that some Bevel filters display badly at full page zoom. I commited the file some minutes ago. ivan

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Inkscape Linux test builds?
by Aurélio A. Heckert 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

Hi all, Who can back to update the linux autopackages at inkscape.modevia.com/ap/ ? The http://launchpad.net/~inkscape-nightly/+archive has only Ubuntu packages. No Debian or Fedora or anyother... :-/ Autopackages works good for inkscape in any Linux Distro (where i have tested). That is a good help to have more testers. Thanks! Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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(no subject)
by Wisnu Graf 25 Mar '09

25 Mar '09

i have a problem with the color profile can u put a CMYK color profile. this is important for printing in separations proses.

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Left ruler squashed:
by bulia byak 24 Mar '09

24 Mar '09

Has anyone noticed this? A recent regression? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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SVG Transforms 1.0, Part 2: Language, W3C Working Draft 20 March 2009 is out
by Alexandre Prokoudine 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi, Yesterday "SVG Transforms 1.0, Part 2: Language" working draft was released. SVG Transforms spec defines ways to transform two-dimensional objects using three-dimensional transformations. http://www.w3.org/TR/2009/WD-SVG-Transforms-20090320/ Alexandre

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Guide editing by mouse
by Maximilian Albert 21 Mar '09

21 Mar '09

Hi, as a kind of test for some other things I have in mind I added better support for editing guides by mouse. You will notice that the anchor point of guides is now displayed on canvas as a small dot. You can still move guides as you used to, but now you can also rotate them around the anchor as well as move the anchor along the guide. What I'm not really happy with, though, is the way in which the various functionalities are accessed. So I'd like your help in this respect. Currently it works as follows: 1) dragging the anchor moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it) 2) pressing Shift and dragging the anchor moves it along the guide (while the guide itself stays in place) 3) dragging the guide anywhere outside the anchor rotates it around the anchor 4) pressing Shift and dragging the guide outside the anchor bypasses rotation and moves the whole guide (as in 1.) Does this make sense to you? Do you have better suggestions as to which functionality should be accessed in which way/with which modifier? Thanks for your feedback, Max

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[NEW] Icon theming
by Krzysztof Kosiński 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

All icons used in Inkscape should now be themable. You can find out the names by looking at the IDs in icons.svg, at icon names in in share/icons/hicolor/scalable/*, or at the file src/ui/icon-names.h. All names are defined in a new file, ui/icon-names.h. This file should be used for all icon names used in Inkscape. I also removed stale files which attempted to do the same but weren't used universally (ui/stock.h, ui/stock-items.h, inkscape-stock.h). Right now Inkscape uses the discrete SVG icons. I timed "hot" startup (using "time inkscape --verb FileQuit" twice and noting the second run) and it seems that it's actually faster (9.281s) than using icons.svg (9.799s), probably because the RSVG renderer which renders the SVG icons in Gnome is faster than ours. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/-NEW--Icon-theming-tp22120443p22120443.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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markers
by jf barraud 20 Mar '09

20 Mar '09

Hi, I've had to use markers in inkscape recently and found them very frustrating: putting the markers in the middle of the semgents instead of intermediate nodes is much better in many cases. Consider a path made of horizontal and vertical segments: to show an orientation on it, you'd like to add little arrows at the middle of the segments, definitely not at the corners. I know this contradicts the svg specification, wich has good reason to do so (in patricular, I guess the middle of a segment is not so well defined...) Then I came to the following minimal suggestion: would it make sens to refine the svg spec to avoid/allow markers at smooth/angular points? Even in this case, this wont be a perferct solution: in many cases, I'd like to have only one arrow at the middle of each smooth piece, even if that piece requires many points to be drawn. I don't see any svg compilent way to achieve this. Any suggestion? we could have lpe generated markers, more or less like what "pattern along path" does, with improved placement of the pattern (= markers), but I don't like this solution, as it is not natural to use lpe to do a "stroking decoration"... Cheers, jfb.

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Draw freehand lines and Markers - Color
by Fantomas 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

Hi, why is it 'Draw freehand lines' 'Start Markers' and 'End Markers' only the color black? Markers should be the same color as the Line... or wrong? Thanks Martin honor your work

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Google's Summer of Code 2009 - Let's take the bull by the horns!
by Felipe Sanches 19 Mar '09

19 Mar '09

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Donna Benjamin <donna@...2156...> wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 18:15 -0300, Felipe Sanches wrote: >> # ICC Color Management for cairo outputs - Would allow Inkscape to >> produce CMYK PDFs and PSs with Cairo. >> That is an exciting feature and also a much resquested one. I've >> played a bit with icc in inkscape sometime ago. The only issue here is >> that we will probably depend on further developments in cairo API, >> right? > > Apologies in advance for jumping in without doing my homework but is the > Cairo project participating in GSOC this year? If yes, perhaps this > could be a cross project collaboration. > > Probably also worth looking at the OpenICC stuff > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/OpenIcc/GoogleSoC2009 > > CMYK, PDFs and ICC colour management is one of the BIG ISSUES not just > for inkscape but for lots of open source projects, so this is an > important area to focus on. > > If summer of code students could work directly with the other projects > with relevant dependencies this would be very very productive. > > ++ from me :) > > cheers > Donna it would be great if we had one student and mentor in Inkscape + one student and mentor in Cairo working on the same feature. These 4 people could then put some effort in the development of ICC, each one working on its own project and giving feedback to the other project. Last year I had to interact often with cairo and pango guys because my project did depend on a new feature of these libs (userfonts). But they didnt seem to have clear deadlines for this feature. Even nowadays we still dont have userfonts feature integrated into libpango. Having "sister SoC projects" could be a way of addressing this kind of issue. JucaBlues

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] Google's Summer of Code 2009 - Let's take the bull by the horns!
by Felipe Sanches 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

These are the ideas that I am interested: # Font editing and creation features. to continue my previous SoC work. # Multiple Page support it is a much wanted feature in the users community, but it is not that much exciting at all for me to implement... # ICC Color Management for cairo outputs - Would allow Inkscape to produce CMYK PDFs and PSs with Cairo. That is an exciting feature and also a much resquested one. I've played a bit with icc in inkscape sometime ago. The only issue here is that we will probably depend on further developments in cairo API, right? I was also thinking about implementing support for the animation features in SVG. Anyone interested in mentoring me? Last year I got a bit frustrated with my mentor because we haven't had too much interaction. I'd like to be mentored by someone who is often available on IRC and willing to interact in a daily basis. I feel much more productive when I have constant feedback on my work. It would be good to see more detailed descriptions of the proposed ideas. JucaBlues

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Early freeze
by bulia byak 18 Mar '09

18 Mar '09

Hi all, for previous releases, we had a two-stage freeze: first, feature freeze (no new features, only bugfixes), followed by full freeze for a short time and then a release. This time, I propose that we start even earlier with an even milder freeze: a _refactoring freeze_ which blocks any wide-ranging, deep-going refactorings that are not focused on adding a specific feature or fixing a specific bug. In particular, this means no lib migrations, no rewriting and rearranging code "for general correctness", and no 2geom syncs "just in case" until the release. I realize this is all done for good reasons, but experience shows that each such wave of changes brings bugs that keep popping up long after the wave has passed. So, if there are no objections, let's finish and commit any refactorings that are pending, and set a date after which we will only be allowed to commit focused, easily testable features and bugfixes. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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circle and polyline elements
by Alexandre Prokoudine 16 Mar '09

16 Mar '09

Hi, Some of our extensions create polyline (WMF importer, IIRC) and circle (create_from_triangle.py) elements which are not directly supported, thought rendered in Inkscape. I wonder what the plan for suporting them is, because right now when you have e.g. a circle element, you cannot edit it and you cannot even change its style. Alexandre

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No blur on zero area bbox items
by unknown＠example.com 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hi all, In Jabber someone mentioned that no blur is applied on horizontal and vertical lines. I tried and it is true. I think it is caused by a 'zero area' geometric bbox for horizontal and vertical lines. Could someone with more knowledge of the whole filter rendering chain look into this? I think sp-item.cpp, line 648, "SPItem::GEOMETRIC_BBOX" should be changed to the bbox calculation including stroke width. Thanks, Johan

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LinuxFund work 2009 wiki page
by Milosz Derezynski 15 Mar '09

15 Mar '09

Hey, Just a quick note that I've created a wiki page for the LinuxFund proposal, which is explicitly meant for everyone to add comments or discuss propositions. The page can be found here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LinuxFund2009_1 Cheers, M. -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]

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Problem with our stream writing
by Jon A. Cruz 14 Mar '09

14 Mar '09

I was tracking down bug #340451 and it turns out to be more pervasive than I thought: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/340451 The problem is that things are casting 16-bit Unicode values to bytes by chopping all but the last 8 bits. I'm going to be working on fixing this, but it is such a fundamental issue that I'm surprised we're not seeing more issues. Also I'll need to test a few more things and make sure I don't break more than I fix. In the Java world they address this by having a very explicit difference between characters and bytes. Bytes are 'byte' and handled by "OutputStream"s whereas characters are 'character' and are handled by "Writer"s. So I'll just get some tests fixed and then clean up with proper transformations. If anyone can take a look for things that might be a problem, related bugs, things I should test, etc. that would help. Thanks.

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[FWD: [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats]
by unknown＠example.com 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Inkscape File formats
by Alexandre Prokoudine 13 Mar '09

13 Mar '09

On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 5:42 AM, John & Melonie Curwood wrote: > results. some file types I could load or save in my Ubuntu Linux > version of Inkscape but not in the Windows version. Yes, e.g. EMF is not supported on Linux. > 1) is there a plug-in that is needed for the .dia file type? You need Dia installed. http://live.gnome.org/Dia > 2) why are some formats only able to be saved or opened in the linux > version of Inkscape? Because the rely either on applications or API available on just one platform only. > Are there certain components or plug-ins that are installed with the > linux version that aren't with the windows version. Yes. The version 0.46, for instance, isn't shipped with UniConvertor which is used for opening CDR (v0.47 will). > I can send through a list of the file types in particular if that helps. Please do :-) Alexandre

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Google's Summer of Code 2009
by Joshua A. Andler 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hey all! Our application for this year's GSoC has been submitted. Last years info page has been rolled over to this year with a few minor updates. If people would like to take a look and perhaps edit the page as they see fit that would be excellent. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code_2009 As soon as there is any further info or news I will keep the list up to date. Cheers, Josh

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Batch conversion from raster to verctor (PNG/JPG to PDF/SVG)
by Chris Cinelli 12 Mar '09

12 Mar '09

Hi everybody, I am trying to improve the quality of printing of some low-resolution raster pics. I tried autotrace that has the ideal interface for me (i.e. "autotrace infile.jpg --output-file outfile.pdf"). However the quality is really low (especially on photos) because it generates random triangles and leave white spaces. I am very satisfied with Inkscape's quality using the item in the menu: "Path - Trace Bitmap." (multiple scans - Colors after adjusting some options). I wonder if I can convert the pictures that I have (they are in JPG but I can convert them to PNG) in PDF (or SVG) through some command line options or a batch script (that I don't have idea if it exists and how it works). The process should run on a OpenSolaris box that has not any X client configured. Is this feasible or I need to mess up with Inkscape's source code? Best, Chris

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Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects
by Ivan Louette 11 Mar '09

11 Mar '09

Hello Working on filters for one moment now I was asking myself if there are any progresses (or projects) about implementing Kernel Unit Length in Lighting Effects. Following this Niko Kiirala tutorial http://fedev.blogspot.com/2008/07/filter-effects-lighting-effects.html "Kernel Unit Length is not yet used in Inkscape. It is used to make the result resolution-independent. Now that it isn't used, with high zooms you can see odd plateaus forming." If that's not so important in daily web graphics, from an illustrator point of view that's a problem not only for zooming but also for scaling up some effects or using wide blurs as basic composites for lighting. Thanks for any info and thanks for so much fun with filter effects ! ivan

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Inkscape gave a Job for a brazilian gui
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Leon, a friend of mine, send a e-mail to the brazilian Inkscape user list to say about his new job. http://listas.softwarelivre.org/pipermail/inkscape-brasil/2009-March/004762… He was selected to be software interface designer and the new boos was glad to discover in the interview about the preference of Leon by the Inkecape. Leon made the selection test with Inkscape too, while other ones was using Adobe's software. Good news for Inkscape in Brasilian art market! :-) -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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where is the plugin developer's guide...
by stuart 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi... No promises, but I'm mildly interested in getting inkscape to cut directly to small craft Graphtec plotters on any platform that inkscape is supported on w/o installing additional interpreters like Python or PERL. I know this has been talked about before, but I don't think there are any technical discussions to be found here as to how to do it. Looking at the inkscape wiki, all I see are plugins that translate between formats. I'm not terribly interested in saving yet another format on my HDD and would prefer just to print to the plotter. However, I'm not sure this is even possible plugin or not. I assume this is the best inkscape plugin tutorial: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial ...but, as I suspected, this lends it's self to modifying existing Scalable Vector Graphics files. That is, inkscape understands the format it receives back. What happens if the format is foreign to inkscape? Will inkscape still be able to send it to the plotter (i.e. print it)? Let me know if I'm missing the boat, but, as far as I can tell, what is necessary is to place a " filter / plugin " between inkscape and the plotter. And, apparently, inkscape has no provisions for that. ...thanks

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the colour inx parameter
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

There are documented about the colour parameter type: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extensions#Parameters But that is not working: <param name="test-cor" type="colour" _gui-text="Colour"></param> That may be written by an other way? -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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graphtec
by Alexandre Prokoudine 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

Hi, FUI: https://answers.launchpad.net/inkscape/+question/35004 Apparently, CraftROBO vendor is interested in cooperation. Alexandre

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a daily Make Check Public Log
by Aurélio A. Heckert 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

This log will be updated every day: http://inkscapeBrasil.org/LastMakeCheck A script on my cron do this (with other little tests): svn update ./autogen.sh ./configure --prefix="$bin_dir" \ --with-perl --with-python \ --enable-inkboard \ --with-gnome-vfs make make install make check > update-the-web-page I may notify the community when a error appear after the start of a TDD politic. (or that can be done by the inkscape project server) Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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Windows nightly builds are still broken...
by Diederik van Lierop 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

The windows nightly builds are still broken... Can anyone look into this please? Diederik

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GSoC 2009
by Aaron Spike 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

The time has arrived to apply for GSoC 2009. Since I haven't heard otherwise I'm assuming I will be the admin? I will be completing an organization app soon. Bryce, since you've held this role previously please verbally confirm that you are passing the torch. :-) Aaron Spike

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plot graph from csv
by florian 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Hi, there is some few days a man on the French irc ask how to plot graph from data file with Inkscape and I can't answer. So I have quickly made this plug-in. I don't find a good place for share it, so I send it here,( I hope it's the good place for that). have a nice day. Florian

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release notes reminder
by bulia byak 09 Mar '09

09 Mar '09

Thanks to "speare" (sorry don't know your real name) for the fixes - please do not forget to update the Release Notes for any notable changes you commit: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes047 -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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snapping hints
by Alexandre Prokoudine 07 Mar '09

07 Mar '09

Hi, Snapping hints are awesome. However, there is one thing that worries me a lot about them: they are constructed with English syntax in mind. I foresee lots of complains from translators, including myself :) Take 'cusp node to cusp node' for example. It's fine for English, but in Russian these two 'cusp node' instances will be in different cases and thus have different case endings --- both 'cusp' and 'node'. Is there something we can do about that? Alexandre

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recent change to packaging/macosx broke
by Ed Halley 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

In a recent commit, the file packaging/macosx/Resources/bin/inkscape was modified to support LaTeX files in the runtime path. This change broke the Inkscape.app invocation, due to a missing quotation mark. Review the delta with the link below. http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/packagin… Also, the new comment above the broken line is not indented in the same way that the other comments are indented. -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Well, there's probably a better way to do this, but adding the line export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin just before exec "$CWD/bin/inkscape" "$@" in /Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/script did the trick. Now I can start Inkscape.app by clicking its icon, without "losing" Render-->LaTeX. Note: I have pstoedit in /usr/local/bin, with latex and dvips in /usr/texbin. Without the added line, the value of PATH is only /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin, rather than the value of PATH in my login shell. Thanks again for the help. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> To: "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 1:16:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? Thanks, JiHO. Apparently, if I start Inkscape by clicking on the Inkscape.app icon, then my PATH variable is not read. However, if I start Inkscape by typing /Applications/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape in Terminal, I do have Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX (and it seems to work correctly). Now I need to figure out why my first method failed. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "jiho" <jo.irisson@...400...> To: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:01:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? On 2009-March-05 , at 13:28 , Zulli, Louis P wrote: > I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg > on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including > LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the > textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX > had now been built into Inkscape. > > Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks. I have built this snapshot. I initially saw the same here = no Latex extension. Nothing has changed in the .inx file itself so my best guess is that something changed in the loading of extensions. However, now, after running different versions of Inkscape including the release one, I see the option in the devel version. No idea what happened. One thing I did and you may try, is to open Inkscape.app (right click, show package content). Navigate to Contents/Resources/extensions and open eqtexsvg.inx and remove the lines: <dependency type="executable" location="path">latex</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">dvips</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">pstoedit</dependency> it may be that Inkscape does not find these executables when it checks them before loading the extension, even though they are on your system (but in exotic places such as /usr/texbin or /opt/local/bin). Removing the lines removes the check. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Thanks, JiHO. Apparently, if I start Inkscape by clicking on the Inkscape.app icon, then my PATH variable is not read. However, if I start Inkscape by typing /Applications/Contents/MacOS/Inkscape in Terminal, I do have Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX (and it seems to work correctly). Now I need to figure out why my first method failed. Louis ----- Original Message ----- From: "jiho" <jo.irisson@...400...> To: "Louis P Zulli" <zullil@...2149...> Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 9:01:56 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist? On 2009-March-05 , at 13:28 , Zulli, Louis P wrote: > I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg > on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including > LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the > textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX > had now been built into Inkscape. > > Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks. I have built this snapshot. I initially saw the same here = no Latex extension. Nothing has changed in the .inx file itself so my best guess is that something changed in the loading of extensions. However, now, after running different versions of Inkscape including the release one, I see the option in the devel version. No idea what happened. One thing I did and you may try, is to open Inkscape.app (right click, show package content). Navigate to Contents/Resources/extensions and open eqtexsvg.inx and remove the lines: <dependency type="executable" location="path">latex</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">dvips</dependency> <dependency type="executable" location="path">pstoedit</dependency> it may be that Inkscape does not find these executables when it checks them before loading the extension, even though they are on your system (but in exotic places such as /usr/texbin or /opt/local/bin). Removing the lines removes the check. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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pledgie
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

Hi, I'm not really best guy when it comes to PHPO and stuff, so could somebody please put the banner from http://pledgie.com/campaigns/2926 to our main page to help collecting more money to finance Libre Graphics Meeting? Alexandre

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Creating fonts
by ryrych＠...400... 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

hello :) Guys, can you tell me how to create font with Inkscape? I use SVN version but can't see any menus/option for them. Maybe SVGFonts hasn't implemented yet? I've created my first font (rather vector objects yet) and I'd like to covert it to SVGFont and finally to truetype. How to deal with it? cheers, Wojtek

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Extensions-->Render-->LaTeX doesn't exist?
by Zulli, Louis P 05 Mar '09

05 Mar '09

I just installed the latest snapshot of Inkscape-20809-10.5-i386.dmg on my MacBook. There does not seem to be an option for including LaTeX formulas. With the stable version of Inkscape, I use the textext extension. However, I thought the ability to render LaTeX had now been built into Inkscape. Am I missing something, or is this feature not available yet? Thanks.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] gdk_pointer_ungrab() not working in middle-mouse-drag
by Ed Halley 04 Mar '09

04 Mar '09

<message ignored, maybe due to attached patch> For some reason, I've been having a lot of mouse hangups in Node and Pen (Bezier) tools in the SVN. I found it easier to reproduce in some drawings than in others, but I was able to reproduce it even on a blank canvas. Mid-drag, the canvas stops being dragged around, but now all mouse buttons are ignored forever, and the mouse cursor remains in Inkscape's shapes even outside Inkscape's window. Some people say they figured out work- arounds that released the mouse buttons, but none worked for me. (I'm on MacOS X using X11.app.) I found https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/291795 and it seemed similar, so I started trying to determine how the panning feature worked. I appended my one-line patch to that bug report. In essence, some versions of Gdk seem to be unreliable at maintaining the button state while middle-mouse dragging. There is a check for this in the src/event_state.cpp to account for this, and it aborts the drag for safety reasons. But it calls gdk_pointer_ungrab() with a specific time that *should* match the time it was grabbed. In most cases, this appears to work, but not always. http://ftp.moblin.org/moblin/releases/test/alpha1/doc/gdk/gdk-General.html#… I found that giving the generic GDK_CURRENT_TIME is more reliable in actually releasing the mouse, than trying to remember what time was given to the gdk_pointer_grab(). Since this is a safety-oriented release, I think that ensuring the mouse is ungrabbed is more important than the bookkeeping of time values. Any comments? Any reason not to commit the patch? -- [ e d @ h a l l e y . c c ]

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static compilation
by Bruno Contreras Moreira 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Dear all, I am having lots of trouble to get the dependencies of inkscape sorted in a server, and was thinking of compiling it static in my machine and the just move the binary. Has anybody ever compiled a static binary of inkscape? I haven't seen any such options in the configure script, any help in this direction is welcome, Bruno -- Bruno Contreras Moreira Estación Experimental de Aula Dei /CSIC Av.Montañana 1.005, 50059 Zaragoza (España). Tel:(+34) 976716089 Fax:(+34) 976716145 bcontreras@...2147... http://www.eead.csic.es/compbio

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infinite loop by referencing
by unknown＠example.com 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

Hi all, I just added an infinite loop testcase to our testsuite. The essential SVG part looks like this: <g> <rect id="rect1" style="fill:#000000;fill-opacity:1" width="491.42856" height="357.14285" x="137.14285" y="169.50504" filter="url(#filter1)" /> </g> <defs> <filter id="filter1"> <feImage xlink:href="#rect1" /> </filter> </defs> Note how rect1 refers to filter1 that refers to rect1... I don't know how Inkscape should handle this. Already a warning is reported: ** (inkscape.exe:2592): WARNING **: More than 32 iteration while updating document 'D:\gsoc-testsuite\tester\.\testcases\basic\infinite-loop-01.svg' But no further action is taken, so this warning is spammed until the program runs out of memory and aborts execution. Any ideas how to solve this? cheers, Johan

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New book about Inkscape
by Cédric Gémy 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

lo guys,just a message to tell you that a new book about Inkscape is published in France. I hope everyone will like it and that is will be useful. After Yemanja's, tav's plus the one we've done thanks to flossmanuals last summer, available documentation is growing. !beer inskcape :) pygmee http://www.amazon.fr/Inkscape-efficace-R%C3% A9ussir-dessins-vectoriels/dp/2212124252

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [libcroco-list] Generic cascading in libcroco
by bulia byak 03 Mar '09

03 Mar '09

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Thomas Wood <thos@...45...> wrote: > I'd be really interested in getting some patches from you guys. I tried > retrieving diffs from your SVN server, but it didn't want to co-operate. Here are my fixes collected. Others in src/libcroco may be useful too, but it's too far into the night right now to look into them closely... Here are the comments (sorry for profanity but i was very angry to have to fix that bug :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r14470 | buliabyak | 2007-03-14 21:42:54 -0300 (Wed, 14 Mar 2007) | 1 line Changed paths: M /inkscape/trunk/src/libcroco/cr-tknzr.c gosh, what shitty coding - reading delimited string failed when it was at the very end of buffer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r14469 | buliabyak | 2007-03-14 20:55:00 -0300 (Wed, 14 Mar 2007) | 1 line Changed paths: M /inkscape/trunk/src/libcroco/cr-declaration.c even if one declaration is broken, try to still read all others per http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#declaration; fixes bug 1266843 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r14467 | buliabyak | 2007-03-14 20:52:02 -0300 (Wed, 14 Mar 2007) | 1 line Changed paths: M /inkscape/trunk/src/libcroco/cr-tknzr.c typo fix from libcroco list -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape Export to "JavaFX 1.0 FXD/FXZ Content file" format
by Sergey Esenov 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hi, all Last year Sun Microsystems released JavaFX Production Suite (together with JavaFX 1.0) which have Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Illustrator CS3 plugins for exporting graphical assets into JavaFX format. The output (.fxz) is a ZIP archive containing 'content.fxd' file representing vector graphics picture in JavaFX format. Optionally, this archive may contain images and fonts referenced by the 'content.fxd' file. The content file can be viewed in netbeans IDE (JavaFX plugin should be installed!). The netbeans has UIStub generator for building a JavaFX class based on content.fxd and users may manipulate graphic objects by changing object properties, moving them, animating, making them visible/invisible and so on. The objects you want to control in JavaFX should have special prefix in naming of Inkscape "id" attribute like "jfx:object_name". Others will be anonymous in JavaFX. I propose that this plugin for Inkscape be used. It is based on the work of B.Jamison, S.Neto and J.Clarke for JavaFX Export (javafx-out.h, javafx-out.cpp). My updates to it were posted a few weeks ago. Personally I consider the "FXD/FXZ Content file" format more useful and I am going to use this actively in future projects, which explains my motivation. Implementation. ---------------------- The implementation is obvious: scan the object's tree and write the corresponding JavaFX constructs. The output has all attributes embedded in line therefore the information about gradients, filters and clip-paths are stored (only pointer information) and then used when actual graphic objects in the scene are built. Embedded images are decoded and external images are copied into the output ZIP archive automatically. Fonts should be handled in the same way (any volunteers!?). Like Illustrator plugin I always try to recognize simple objects (circles, ellipses, rectangles) behind the paths to reduce the output size. As a zip library implementation I used http://www.nih.at/libzip. Actually I am working with Linux, openSUSE 11.1 distribution, where this library is known as libzip1. It seems that Ubuntu distribution supports it as well. The Windows platform is also supported: http://www.nih.at/listarchive/libzip-discuss/msg00009.html While I might agree that introducing a new dependency into inkscape may not be welcomed, my attempt to use inkscape/src/dom/util/ziptool.[h,cpp] was unhappy: extremally slow! (~ 30 secs on some pictures). Testing. ----------- It is checked on the following pictures: http://chrisdesign.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/simple-metal-orb-using-gradient… -- gradients http://howto.nicubunu.ro/shiny_web_buttons_inkscape/ -- gradients, embedded images http://openclipart.org/people/Chrisdesign/Chrisdesign_Golden_mask_Tutancham… -- large picture with clip paths and I have used this simple tutorial to check clipping mask handling http://www.bestechvideos.com/2008/07/12/screencasters-episode-064-bitmap-ma… Installation. ---------------- The installation is simple if you are able to build svn version of inkscape on your platform. 1. Make sure you have libzip1 + libzip-devel packages installed in your system. Or you should have this installed from sources. See the reference above for instructions. 2. Get SVN version of inkscape: svn co https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/inkscape/trunk inkscape 3. Copy 'javafx-fxz.h' and 'javafx-fxz.cpp' from attachment into 'inkscape/src/extension/internal' 4. Create build directory: cd inkscape mkdir build 5. Add 'javafx-fxz....' entries just above 'javafx-out' entries into po/POTFILES.in src/Makefile.in src/extension/internal/Makefile_insert src/extension/internal/CMakeLists.txt src/extension/init.cpp and in the last file (init.cpp) put just before "Internal::JavaFXOutput::init();" line the following... Internal::JavaFXZ::init(); 6. Go back into inkscape (top) directory and do ... ./autogen.sh cd build LIBS="-lzip" ../configure --prefix=/opt/inkscape or CFLAGS="-g -O0" CXXFLAGS="-g -O0" LIBS="-lzip" ../configure --prefix=/opt/inkscape if you want to build inkscape with debug information then make && su -c "make install" 7. Use /opt/inkscape/bin/inkscape executable and enjoy! Of course, I am interested if some person(s) from development team might review the code and make a decision. Anyway I hope it will be useful. Cheers, Sergey

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NEW: UniConvertor in Windows bundle
by bulia byak 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

I tried to use CDR import on Windows with UniConvertor and found out that: - you can only install UniConvertor into a separate installed Python, not into Inkscape's own Python, - even if you do that, it won't work because Inkscape insists on using its own Python, even to the point of prepending it to the system PATH, so it is simply impossible to run the separate Python unless you know exactly where it is. For these reasons, I decided that the best strategy would be to include a copy of UniConvertor to our Inkscape Python in devlibs, which I did. I think supporting CorelDraw formats out of the box is an important enough feature to justify a few extra megabytes to the distribution. P.S. Inkscape on Windows compiles and runs fine, except for the missing icons. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Windows test builds are broken on http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D
by Mourad Mokrane 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

hi, On http://inkscape.modevia.com/win32/?M=D, the last 4 build are broken (6.3 Mb in size) Molumen

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no color swatch in the palette:
by bulia byak 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Thanks for adding it! Two comments: - Can we please make the cross black, not red? The red is too bright and distracting. - Dragging this swatch onto canvas objects does not work, sets them to black instead. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Little mistake in the wiki regarding the font cache on Windows
by worms invasion 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Hello, In the page: http://www.inkscape.org/faq.php#Inkscape_does_not_see_some_of_the_fonts_.28… I think there is a little mistake when it says: This was a bug in versions of Inkscape up to 0.43, caused by using an obsolete font cache. This cache is stored in the file called .fonts.cache-1. This file may be in your Windows folder, or in your Temp folder, or in "My documents" folder, or in the folder listed in the $HOME environment variable. Use file search by name to locate this file. On my Windows XP system, the font cache is called FNTCACHE.DAT and is located in c:\windows\system32 I also have in C:\Program Files\InkscapeDev20090217\inkscape\etc\fonts fonts.conf fonts.dtd I couldn't find a .font.cache-1 file anywhere, and all the references to it point to Linux OSs. Could someone with editing rights edit this particular section of the FAQ? It looks like there is no section regarding the font cache for Linux, maybe that is what is missing or where the confusion lies? Thanks :-)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango icons as default set
by Guillermo Espertino 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

Plácido Sousa sent an improved version of the current default icon set to the user list. It's a clear improvement over the current, and in my opinion, it should be made the default set since there is no consensus about the Tangoified theme and the default has some evident problems. The proposed set from Sousa is a polished version of the same icons we have now, so the familiarity won't be a problem and the people -like me- who think the current set needs desperately some love will be more comfortable with the new look. What do you think?

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Global 'static' dialogs
by unknown＠example.com 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

Hi all, Please help me test the dialogs import from OCAL and export from OCAL. I just fixed bug 241390 [1]. Some dialogs are defined 'static', so they are not recreated when opening the dialog more than once. The problem is that they have a parent window defined that links the dialog to a specific SPDesktop. So when the dialog is called from another desktop..., crashes might happen. I am fixing this (making the dialogs non-static, recreating them every time they are needed) for the following dialogs: import from OCAL, export from OCAL, and the new export dialog that is not used at this moment. I cannot test whether these dialogs still work with my fix. I'm very sorry if they are broken now, but I feel this is a very important fix for stability. If it's broken now: let me know, or revert rev 20804 fully. cheers, Johan [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/241390

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inkboard abandoned files? cleanup needed.
by the Adib 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

I commited small patch in order to be able to compile using the "./configure --enable-inkboard" option: rev 20788 It looks that the files that I commented out have no effect in the code and are not in use. Could one please investigate in this? Using this patch inkscape opens the connect dialog. I can not prove that it works because I do not know how to connect. Thx, Adib. --- file: src/ui/dialog/Makefile_insert adib@...2145...:~/Projekte/Inkscape/inkscape_dev/src/ui/dialog$ svn diff Index: Makefile_insert =================================================================== --- Makefile_insert (Revision 20786) +++ Makefile_insert (Arbeitskopie) @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ ## Makefile.am fragment sourced by src/Makefile.am. if WITH_INKBOARD -inkboard_dialogs = \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.cpp \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.h \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.cpp \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.h \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.cpp \ - ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.h +## inkboard_dialogs = \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.cpp \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-connect.h \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.cpp \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithchat.h \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.cpp \ +## ui/dialog/whiteboard-sharewithuser.h endif ink_common_sources += \

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [NEW] Icon theming
by Engelen, J.B.C. (Johan) 01 Mar '09

01 Mar '09

For clarity, my remarks are meant for Windows only. ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht ----- Van: J.B.C.Engelen@...1578... <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> Verzonden: woensdag 25 februari 2009 0:35 > -----Original Message----- > From: Krzysztof Kosiński [mailto:tweenk.pl@...400...] > Sent: dinsdag 24 februari 2009 23:09 > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [NEW] Icon theming > > I guess you run Inkscape from the build tree without installing it. Of course. > Regardless where you run Inkscape from, it looks for icons > and other assets in the place it was installed. You need to > install a daily build from after the change so that the icon > files land in the appropriate places. Pretty sure Inkscape's daily builds cannot be installed. (it's just a zip of the build dir, afaik). > Otherwise it won't > work, just the way it wouldn't work if you built Inkscape and > tried to run the built executable without having it installed > in the regular location as well. I can put in some hacks to > allow Inkscape to see the icons from the source tree, but > this could make testing harder. Inkscape never needed installing; let's keep it that way.

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Wiki cleanups
by Krzysztof Kosiński 27 Feb '09

27 Feb '09

I'd like to clean up the main page of the wiki a bit. It contains links to lots of outdated information. Some pages are also not needed anymore and can cause confusion, so I'd like to remove them. Can I have administrator access to the wiki? My login is "Tweenk". Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Wiki-cleanups-tp22230154p22230154.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Guide editing by mouse
by LucaDC 26 Feb '09

26 Feb '09

Maximilian Albert-2 wrote: > > Hi, > > as a kind of test for some other things I have in mind I added better > support for editing guides by mouse. You will notice that the anchor > point of guides is now displayed on canvas as a small dot. You can > still move guides as you used to, but now you can also rotate them > around the anchor as well as move the anchor along the guide. What I'm > not really happy with, though, is the way in which the various > functionalities are accessed. So I'd like your help in this respect. > Currently it works as follows: > > 1) dragging the anchor moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it) > 2) pressing Shift and dragging the anchor moves it along the guide > (while the guide itself stays in place) > 3) dragging the guide anywhere outside the anchor rotates it around the > anchor > 4) pressing Shift and dragging the guide outside the anchor bypasses > rotation and moves the whole guide (as in 1.) > > Does this make sense to you? Do you have better suggestions as to > which functionality should be accessed in which way/with which > modifier? > > Thanks for your feedback, > Max > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > These are my suggestions: 1) "normal"-selecting and dragging moves the whole guide (and the anchor with it); 2) shift-selecting the guide (in any place along it) moves the guide as in 1) but placing the anchor under the pointer, so you can snap it and place it wherever you want; 3) alt-selecting the guide outside the anchor rotates the guide around it (with ctrl fixed angles snapping); 4) alt-selecting the guide on the anchor moves it along the guide; 5) ctrl-clicking the guide, deletes it. Point 1) is intended to preserve the usual behavior. Point 2) is intended to make it easier to grab the anchor: guides are so "thin" for selecting that having also to get the little circle (not zoomable...) is a pain. And what about if some guides have their anchor all snapped to the same point? How could you select the one you want? Point 3) is for the great feature of rotating guides (with snapping!). Ctrl should be pressed after initiating the rotation, to distinguish from point 5) (deletion): if you start rotating a guide it means you don't want do delete it, don't you? Point 4) is not so essential to me, but could be useful and maybe not so difficoult to implement. Point 5) is the current behavior and should be kept as is. Tanks for all the improvements. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Guide-editing-by-mouse-tp21666562p22180095.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Tooltip on snapindicator is now zoom dependent?
by Diederik van Lierop 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

In rev. #20773 the distance of the snap-tooltip to the snap-indicating-cross has been made zoom-dependent by "speleo3". Now when I zoom in, snapping might occur at one end of the screen whereas the tooltip might show up at the other end of the screen. I think it should appear at a fixed distance from the snap-indicator, i.e. measured in hard screen pixels. Could you please explain why you think this is better? PS: Sorry for forgetting your real-name :-(. That's why I'm sending this to the dev-list. Diederik

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Absence from Inkscape work
by Maximilian Albert 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Dear fellow Inkscapers, on rather short notice I need to inform you that I won't be able to do any development work during the next 2-3 months. Also, I will have very little internet access (if at all) and therefore won't be receiving emails from the -devel list. I am aware that there are a couple of - in part quite substantial - things which I leave unfinished in the SVN repository and I truly apologize that due to my broken laptop (which left me with no personal computer at all during the last half-year) and both major upcoming changes in my life and a lot of very urgent research work for university, I so far haven't completed the tasks I was working on. I very much hope and am positive that things are going to be better in the second half of 2009 and I promise that I will complete all the unfinished stuff as soon as I can resume coding. Until then, please feel free to remove any code of mine which is not functional or not tidied up. You are also welcome to improve it but I will also do so when I'm back at my regular Inkscape work. For the guides stuff I committed a short while ago, I'm attaching a patch of recent work in progress which (partly) implements selecting and editing of multiple guides. You are welcome to clean it up and commit it - or to ignore it for now. Again, sorry for all the inconvenience. I'm very much looking forward to getting back up to speed with my work. Best regards, Max

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svg filters crash
by Alexandre Prokoudine 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hi, For last couple of days Inkscape crashes whenever an SVG Filter from Filters menu is chosen. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/334050 BTW, we have 37 more bugs tagged with "crash". If we are planning to do a release this year, maybe we should encourage ourselves to clean up the mess or at least leave several wet floor signs around :) Alexandre

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Export, Publish and Save As
by Martin Owens 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

Hi inkscapers, I was looking at a few bugs (#168504 and #168958) and thinking about some of my own personal grievances with the whole business of exporting and saving as. Currently in inkscape 0.46 (Ubuntu 8.10) there are a whole boat full of exporting, saving, loading menus in the File menu. Most of which seem to follow this logic: 1) File New/Load/Save * New > * Open ... * Open Recent > * Revert * Save * Save As ... * Save a copy ... 2) Import/Export * Import ... * Export Bitmap ... * Import from Open Clipart ... 3) Print ... 4) Vacuum Defs 5) Preferences * Document Properties ... * Document Meta Data ... * Inkscape Preferences ... * Input Devices ... 6) Application * Close * Quit This seems a bit of a mess, although I don't know if you've changed much for 0.47 so apologies if this has already been put through for refinement. My suggestions would be as follows: * Move Revert to Edit and have it as a function of the undo system. And/Or rename it to 'Reload from File' * Remove Save a Copy and replace with 'Publish ...' which would have a dialog specifically designed to export to pdf, plain svg or png and with options that make sense such as v1.1 svg, clean defs and no personal data (such as paths). * The document properties and meta data seem out of place, since they're more to do with the document object than the file object. Maybe a top level document menu? One that includes some of the edit menu items specific for the document? * Vacuum Defs seems like a plugin or something that could be a part of publish, or the doc menu. * Import and Export make sense, but perhaps having plugins that allow imports and exports to various places and removing the specific link for open clipart. Thoughts? Flames? Regards, Martin Owens

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Conversion of circular arc to Bezier curve
by Alvin Penner 25 Feb '09

25 Feb '09

This is a follow-up to LP332735. In the file \src\sp-ellipse.cpp there is a formula for calculating the length of a Bezier arm when converting a circular arc to a Bezier curve. The formula reads: len = 0.552*(e-s)/M_PI_2 where (e-s) is the angle of the arc. I think the formula should read: len = 4*tan((e-s)/4)/3 I've created a patch for this, at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/332735 , but I'm reluctant to commit it, because I don't actually compile the code myself, I work only from the Windows nightly builds, so it may be a few days before I can test it. Would anyone be willing to confirm that this patch will not cause a crash, or is it okay if I just commit it? (As to the formula itself, it has already been tested in the file cubicsuperpath.py and it behaves as desired.) http://www.nabble.com/file/p22179587/sp-ellipse.diff sp-ellipse.diff -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Conversion-of-circular-arc-to-Bezier-curve-tp22179587… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] website
by Jarosław Foksa 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hey, I've been working on inkscape.org mockup, but just like Joshua I somehow couldn't finish it for several months... >Do we have a new design? Do we have anybody to work on new >website? It's still work in progress: http://wstaw.org/p/4e95/ Please give me 1 week to finish header and main menu icons, maybe this will make it look a bit cleaner. If you have any ideas how this layout could be improved further then feel free to share them here.

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website
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi, I'd love to know about our plans for inkscape.org. Some time ago it was proposed to move to Drupal, and there was even a theme contest at DeviantArt. Right now I have here an experienced webmaster interested in Inkscape who could turn a ready-to-go design into PHP templates or whatever you want. Do we have a new design? Do we have anybody to work on new website? Alexandre

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] Helo
by Alexandre Prokoudine 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 8:38 AM, adam hyde wrote: > how many of the inkscape doc team are going to the LGM? I'm probably not present this year. Alexandre

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Videos from linux.conf.au
by Jon A. Cruz 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

The first of the Inkscape-related videos from linux.conf.au is up online now http://codewideopen.blogspot.com/2009/02/color-talk-at-linuxconfau.html Hopefully Andy's and Donna's will be up soon. Once they are, I'll send out another note.

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Gradient manipulation is crashing in current revision
by Yann Papouin 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hello, When you move one of the node of the gradient transform on the path of the polygon, inkscape crash immediatly (Win32). Maybe due to the snap code ? Have a good day! Yann.

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libgdl
by Joel Holdsworth 24 Feb '09

24 Feb '09

Hi All, Just to say that working on the Lumiera project, we've adopted the GDL library for panel management, same as Inkscape. We've found some shortcomings with GDL: it's got a few bugs, the documentation is sparse, and it lacks some features that we need. Right now the Anjuta guys are maintaining it, and I'm submitting patches, and other people seem to be contributing to it from time to time. I notice that Inkscape uses it's own forked version of GDL. I don't know who's maintaining that code, but can I suggest that someone take some time to try and move over to using the shared library? The Anjuta guys are very helpful, and seem happy to accept all kinds of patches, including feature additions, so there shouldn't be too many political problems in merging. If you can merge over, then Inkscape, Anjuta, and Lumiera will all benefit from shared maintenance of the code. The flip side is that I'm squashing bugs, and I'd like Inkscape to benefit from my work! Is this going to be possible, do you think? Best Regards Joel

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Issue with work on new font dropdown
by Milosz Derezynski 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Hello Everyone, I want to discuss one issue with the new font dropdown. I've already begun work on it and it can be seen in action in these 2 videos: http://futurepast.free.fr/out.ogv http://futurepast.free.fr/preview-text-update.ogv It uses threading for generating the preview as not to stall the UI/main application while scrolling, or take too long to startup when generating all the previews at startup of the application. My architecture for this is very pluggable, I defined interfaces for all the classes used and wrote a few sample implementations which you can see at work in those 2 videos. Now I've run into a problem: For the class that generates the actual thumbnails I've initially chosen Pango to render them. Now it seems that Pango is not thread-safe and I wrote another implementation using just cairo which seems to work fine so far. The issues is that with cairo, we don't get proper thumbnails for some fonts, or some scripts. Pango handles this on a higher level and much better. Bulia mentioned to me that tradeoffs might be possible, but I am not sure at which point to make these. I'm not an export on cairo or freetype2 to make this particular backend work properly with all fonts and all scripts/glyphs. Then, there is always the third option of not using threading, but I'd prefer to keep it since it works really well and is an ideal solution for the problem of time-consuming rendering of previews of complex fonts. Please don't worry about "threading" itself, I'm using libsigx in accordance with Bulia, which can be found here: http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/sigx and is a threading library based on libsigc++ and makes thread programming *very* safe. The question now is: - Keep the cairo-only backend with the tradeoff that we can not render everything properly - Try awkward things with Pango like dlopening() a 2nd ("private") instance of libpango and use this solely for generation of the previews - Drop threading(?) - Does anyone have a 4th solution? To those interested: The details in the problems with Pango lie in that some structures inside libpango are not properly locked or protected, and race conditions occur when simply running the thumbnail generation in a thread with the same libpango instance, and merely simply rendering the application's UI with Gtk+ which uses Pango for text widgets and/or rendering canvas text since layout-TNG uses Pango as well from what I've seen in the code so far. Any suggestions regarding this problem are appreciated. Regards, M. -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]

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Created a branch?
by Diederik van Lierop 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

Apparently I created a branch in our svn repository by mistake, I only intended to switch to another revision. I was using eclipse without paying much attention to which popup menus I was exactly in. See rev. #20751, we now have a trunk in our trunk :-(. Could someone please delete this? I'm not going to try to do this myself to avoid making even a bigger mess of it. I'm not very familiar with this stuff. Sorry. Diederik

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error compile svn revision 20749
by Valessio Brito 22 Feb '09

22 Feb '09

mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po depbase=`echo widgets/gradient-toolbar.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libwpg-0.1 -I/usr/include/libwpd-0.8 -I/usr/include/poppler -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 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-I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libwpg-0.1 -I/usr/include/libwpd-0.8 -I/usr/include/poppler -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/poppler/glib -I/usr/include/poppler -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -DPOTRACE=\"potrace\" -D_REENTRANT -pthread -I/usr/include/gdkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gdkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/glibmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/glibmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/pangomm-1.4 -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/cairomm-1.0 -I/usr/include/sigc++-2.0 -I/usr/lib/sigc++-2.0/include -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/directfb -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/gtkmm-2.4 -I/usr/lib/gtkmm-2.4/include -I/usr/include/atkmm-1.6 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -I/usr/include/gtkspell-2.0 -I../cxxtest -I./bind/javainc -I./bind/javainc/linux -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -MT widgets/gradient-vector.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o widgets/gradient-vector.o widgets/gradient-vector.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po depbase=`echo widgets/icon.o | sed 's|[^/]*$|.deps/&|;s|\.o$||'`;\ g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I/usr/include/freetype2 -pthread -DORBIT2=1 -I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libwpg-0.1 -I/usr/include/libwpd-0.8 -I/usr/include/poppler -D_REENTRANT 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-I./bind/javainc/linux -Werror=format-security -Wall -Wformat -Wformat-security -W -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -Wsign-compare -Woverloaded-virtual -Wswitch -Wno-unused-parameter -g -O2 -fopenmp -MT widgets/icon.o -MD -MP -MF $depbase.Tpo -c -o widgets/icon.o widgets/icon.cpp &&\ mv -f $depbase.Tpo $depbase.Po widgets/icon.cpp: In function 'void sp_icon_fetch_pixbuf(SPIcon*)': widgets/icon.cpp:227: error: 'gtk_icon_theme_get_default' was not declared in this scope widgets/icon.cpp:228: error: 'GtkIconLookupFlags' was not declared in this scope widgets/icon.cpp:228: error: 'gtk_icon_theme_load_icon' was not declared in this scope widgets/icon.cpp: In function 'bool prerender_icon(const gchar*, GtkIconSize, unsigned int)': widgets/icon.cpp:946: error: 'gtk_icon_theme_get_default' was not declared in this scope widgets/icon.cpp:947: error: 'GtkIconLookupFlags' was not declared in this scope widgets/icon.cpp:947: error: 'gtk_icon_theme_load_icon' was not declared in this scope make[2]: ** [widgets/icon.o] Erro 1 make[2]: exit... `.../inkscape/src' make[1]: ** [all-recursive] Erro 1 make[1]: exit... `.../inkscape' make: ** [all] Erro 2

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Bizarro Makefile_insert usage
by Krzysztof Kosiński 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

What is the purpose of using Makefile_insert to pretend that everything is in the src directory instead of using the SUBDIRS directive? I'm intending to change the Automake build system to link the executables from single object files instead of static libraries so that we may finally put files in the proper directories (e.g. remove widgets/ and dialogs/ and move those to ui/widget and ui/dialog/, as well as join helper/, util/ and svg/), and I would like to know whether I should also sanitize general Makefile usage while I'm at it. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Bizarro-Makefile_insert-usage-tp22120462p22120462.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Corel DRAW-like Snapping
by Diederik van Lierop 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Op Ma, 16 februari, 2009 01:47, schreef Krzysztof KosiÅski: > > > Diederik van Lierop wrote: >> >> Already implemented. Please select "only snap the node closest ..." in >> the prefs. >> > This is great! Why isn't it on the snapping toolbar though? I didn't find > it > at first because I assumed that most of the snapping options will be on > the I didn't want to put everything in the toolbar, because that would be way too much. Currently only the per-document snapping options are in the snap toolbar, and the prefs are not. Maybe we could just add a button to quickly open the preferences dialog, defaulting to the snapping tab? That would make them more easy to discover. > toolbar. Also of note is that the snapping options from the toolbar are > not > present in the prefs dialog - not very intuitive if e.g. someone disables > the toolbar to conserve screen space like I do. They used to be available in the document properties dialog, but it was difficult not make a mess of it using only checkboxes. Now we've got icons, we could use these in the document properties dialog too, but I do not like duplicating functionality (and code) unless really badly needed. > Another thing is that the visualization of the snapping isn't best - while > hovering over e.g. a rectangle, there is no indication of which node will > snap when I drag the rectangle - it only appears when I start dragging, > and > it isn't clear what this little circle means. We could indeed use some better graphics here, I just chose one from stock. The cross (displayed after snapping) is not very noticeable either. > The best thing to do would be > to display text over the node that will snap (e.g. "corner", "midpoint", > etc.) while the user hovers the select tool over the selected shape, and a > similar text when I think text would be a bit too intrusive, but it would indeed be useful to display what will snap in advance. > However, those are just small usability glitches. Again, thanks for this > incredible feature! Thanks. You're welcome! Regards, Diederik

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Inkscape + Boost == usage question
by Milosz Derezynski 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hey guys, In the course of doing the work in cooperation with LinuxFund, one question: Can I fully depend on boost? Regards M. -- Please note that according to the German law on data retention, information on every electronic information exchange with me is retained for a period of six months. [Bitte beachten Sie, dass dem Gesetz zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung zufolge jeder elektronische Kontakt mit mir sechs Monate lang gespeichert wird.]

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Typo in current svn - src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp
by Lucas Vieites 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Hi, I'm trying to compile from svn and while doing "make" it complained about not finidng a file. I think I've found a typo in "src/helper/sp-marshal.cpp". On the first line it says: ============================ #include "helperosp-marshal.h" ============================ but should be: ============================ #include "helper/sp-marshal.h" ============================ Cheers, -- Lucas Vieites <lucas@...1852...>

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Idea: Get rid of some .h files by using static signal binding
by Krzysztof Kosiński 21 Feb '09

21 Feb '09

Right now every dialog, extension, etc. has to have a header file - otherwise it's unusable. The underlying issue for dialogs is that there must be an action defined to open them. This means either including the dialog header in verbs.cpp, or wherever the dialog is used. I stumbled over OpenBabel sources some time ago and this gave me the following idea. We put this in some file, e.g. action-manager.h: class ActionManager { ... typedef ActionVector std::vector<Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Action> >; class GetActionsMarshaller { ... bool marshal(InType x) { _actions.push_back(x); } OutType value() { return _actions; } ActionVector _actions; } ... static ActionManager *get() { static ActionManager *am = new ActionManager(); return am; } Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::ActionGroup> get_document_action_group(Glib::ustring name) { Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::ActionGroup> ag = Gtk::ActionGroup::create(name); ActionVector actions = signal_get_actions.emit(); for(ActionVector::iterator i = actions.begin(); i != actions.end(); ++i) { ag.add(*i); } return ag; } sigc::signal<Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Action>, GetActionsMarshaller> signal_get_actions; friend class GetActionsMarshaller; }; template<typename T> class ActionManagerEntry { ActionManagerEntry() { ActionManager::get()->signal_get_actions.bind(sigc::ptr_fun(T::create)); } }; Then in the dialog file we put this: class ShowSomeDialogAction : public Gtk::Action { ... virtual void on_activate() { SomeDialog::show(); } static Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Action> create() { return Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Action>(new ShowSomeDialogAction); } } ActionManagerEntry<ShowSomeDialog> ame_show_some_dialog; And to construct the action group we do this: ActionManager *am = ActionManager::get(); Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::ActionGroup> document_actions = am->get_document_action_group(document_name); What happens here: Each ActionManagerEntry adds a callback to the ActionManager object. This way, the actions are not actually created until GTK is initialized and a document is opened. When we want to create an action group for a document, we send the get_actions signal. The GetActionsMarshaller class marshals the responses we get from the registered callbacks and creates a vector of actions, which are then added to an action group and returned. A similar approach can also be used to get rid of headers and centralized initialization for e.g. extensions What do you think of this approach? On one hand, it scatters the action definitions across many files, but on the other it removes the need for centralized initialization and improves modularity (everything pertaining to a given dialog is in one file, including its actions). Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Idea%3A-Get-rid-of-some-.h-files-by-using-static-sign… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Generic cascading in libcroco
by Robert Staudinger 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Hello, I've finally gotten around to add a generic interface to the libcroco selection engine. Pretty much just exchanging libxml calls to invocations on an vtable provided by the API consumer. On top of that I reinstated the libxml-based API and made sure the tests (the selection engine is only used by test5) work as before. Are you inkscapers still interested in eventually using upstream libcroco? Your internal copy seems to have deviated pretty much from upstream, it would be good if we could at least exchange fixes, things were not quite obvious looking at the raw rdiff. We (Thomas Wood + yours truly) actually tried to extract just the selection engine patch(es) from your svn repository, but it proved quite hard to make any sense of it. My branch is at http://bzr-playground.gnome.org/~robsta/libccss-selection-engine/ but will go to trunk within the next few days, as the tests already work as they should. Best, Rob

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cruft in prefs
by bulia byak 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

The "Latency skew" and "Pre-render named icons" options make absolutely zero sense for the user. Especially the former. For the latter, I can at least guess that it's something to do with icons. With "skew", I'm totally at a loss. What latency? Where? When? Tooltip only exacerbates the confusion. Can we please remove them and never, never again add such "options for the developers" to the UI? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Online Vector Editor
by Josh Andler 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

Just passing it on because I found it "interesting". http://www.aviary.com/tools/raven Cheers, Josh

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NEW: spell checker
by bulia byak 20 Feb '09

20 Feb '09

There's now a built-in spell checker. Press Ctrl+Alt+K or choose Text > Check spelling to check all visible text objects in your document (they need not be selected) in turn, going top-to-bottom and left-to-right. Once a misspelled word is found, a red frame around it is displayed, and the object with the misspelling is selected; if you are in Text tool, it also places the text cursor at the beginning of the misspelled word. In the dialog, you can choose one of the listed suggestions and Accept it (this button is disabled unless you choose something in the list); Ignore the word for the rest of this session; or Add the word to the local dictionary. Also, since the dialog does not lock Inkscape's window, you can simply edit the word with Text tool. Once you edit it to something acceptable to the speller, it will automatically turn off the red frame and continue checking the document. On Linux, you need to install Aspell and its dictionaries for the languages you want to check. On Windows, for now, only English dictionary is included with Inkscape builds. My questions: - how do you want to select the language - in the prefs or right in the spellcheck dialog? - should I make this compiled conditionally on linux - will anyone want to compile without spellchecker? - what other languages to include with windows installer? we could take all, but it's many megabytes... -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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OpenMP, encouraging developers, etc
by NoviceNotes℠ 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Admirable Inkscape Developers, and fellow Inkscape Enthusiasts: I'm writing as a proponent of best practices, respecting copyright ownership and ethical use of content, whenever I can not claim it as my own. I realize you are busy with real development issues, and this looks like a long-winded message (it is, sorry), but I imagine you are the proper contact for addressing this proposal. Having just read the the "OpenMP Is Coming" news byte at inkscape.org [ http://inkscape.org/archive.php?lang=en&year=2009&month=01 ] , I would like to make myself available to you-- not as an expert in multi-processor; multi-threading efficiency maximization for the application-- but as an additional resource for propagating information about Inkscape. I seek authorization-- ideally the blessing of Inkscape developers and primary contributors-- to publish an article (on my own web site, available at http://NoviceNotes.Net . NoviceNotes℠) containing text copied, verbatim (or, as recommended), from the aforementioned "News" section of Inkscape.org . Because I use Inkscape daily, usually for multiple, separate design or illustrative tasks, I have a vested interest in the gainful advancement of the Inkscape project. I appreciate your need for the most accommodating crew in the development team complement. Rest assured that I would not burden the team on my own whimsy; that my proposed use of inkscape.org content is bourne of a primary intent to act as an asset-- a disseminating agent, bolstering Inkscape's list of proponents. I have no interest in exploiting Inkscape that I might enjoy the privilege of association, favoring integrity over content padded in that ubiquitous manner. Please take a moment to read the article I wrote on Geany, a GTK+ text editor which I use quite often, as my enthusiasm for Inkscape inspires a similar viewpoint: http://tinyurl.com/NoviceNotes-on-Geany I hope this note reaches the appropriate party. I look forward to a reply. Respectfully, Jeff Sabarese Author: NoviceNotes.Net -- For beginner Web Technologists, and pros, their fees well-spent, For entertainment mixed in tutelage, I strive at NoviceNotes.Net

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Fwd: [CREATE] Categorizing resources
by Jon Phillips 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Here is an interesting proposal about how to handle resources. Please join the Create mailing list if you are interested in this and/or for Inkscape. It is a nice way to handle a quick way of organizing resources. Jon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aurimas Juška <aurimas.juska@...400...> Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [CREATE] Categorizing resources To: CREATE@...626... Hi, Resource tagging is now available in GIMP development version. Before it is released, I think it would be good to discuss possibilities how tags could be shared between applications and also how tagging could be implemented in other applications. Common (standardized?) tag storage format Currently GIMP tags storage format is minimalistic, but seems to work quite well. Tags are stored in a tags.xml file which can be easily understood and edited manually: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <tags> <resource identifier="/home/auris/gimp/trunk/build/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/confetti.gih" checksum="d136b60fdd9cf41693a485a329b32e95"> <tag>aaa</tag> </resource> </tags> Resources are mapped with entries in tags.xml using: * identifier - filename for resources stored on disk. Easy to understand, but can be different between computers and platforms. * checksum - uniquely represent resource. However, how checksum is calculated (which data from resource is used, algorithm) seem hard to standardize. Useless when user wants to edit tags.xml manually (or with a simple script). Currently identifier is used primarily to identify resources, and checksum is only used when identifier can't match actual resource file (file rename/move). Tag is a text string which cannot contain separator characters, newlines, tabs, etc. There is no additional information stored with a tag, such as language. However, tags provided with GIMP can be translated into various languages. Localized version is installed in user's home directory on the first run but is not changed when switched to a different language later. In order to make format useful for other applications and external tag editors as well, is there anything that should be added/removed ? It would be good, as always, to keep the format simple as possible. Common GUI elements It might be good for user if similar GUI element would be used for similar purposes. There is a small PDF available which shows more detail how tagging GUI elements work in GIMP: http://sites.google.com/site/aurijusk/gimp-resource-tagging/tagging.pdf?att… Code reuse for implementation, etc. Some code could probably could be used as starting point. It might be possible to put some functionality in places where multiple applications could take advantage of it. Best regards, Aurimas Juška _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@...626... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [libcroco-list] Generic cascading in libcroco
by Robert Staudinger 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Dodji Seketeli <dodji@...45...> wrote: > Hello, > > Robert Staudinger a écrit : > > [...] > >> I've finally gotten around to add a generic interface to the libcroco >> selection engine. Pretty much just exchanging libxml calls to >> invocations on an vtable provided by the API consumer. >> >> On top of that I reinstated the libxml-based API and made sure the >> tests (the selection engine is only used by test5) work as before. > > Sounds great ! Thanks for that. > >> Are you inkscapers still interested in eventually using upstream >> libcroco? Your internal copy seems to have deviated pretty much from >> upstream, it would be good if we could at least exchange fixes, things >> were not quite obvious looking at the raw rdiff. We (Thomas Wood + >> yours truly) actually tried to extract just the selection engine >> patch(es) from your svn repository, but it proved quite hard to make >> any sense of it. > > I don't know for inkscape, but I'll happily review the patch of that > feature if you for instance submit it to the libcroco bugzilla. > > >> My branch is at >> http://bzr-playground.gnome.org/~robsta/libccss-selection-engine/ >> but will go to trunk within the next few days, as the tests already >> work as they should. > > Could, would it be possible to extract a patch from that and slam it to > bugzilla so that I can have a chance to review it ? I don't intend to > nitpick, do not worry :) It's just to add some more eyeballs to the game :) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572454 - R

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Filters top-level menu?
by Felipe Sanches 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Felipe Sanches > <felipe.sanches@...400...> wrote: >> svn update; make; sudo make install >> >> And I still have the filters submenu inside extensions top level menu. >> And the list of pre-built filters does not appear at the filters top level menu. > > ah - and let me guess - the menus are not in English? Yes, they are in brazillian portuguese. And I guess prokoudine uses russian... Juca

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Filters top-level menu?
by bulia byak 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

I think filters are sufficiently complex, different from everything else, and have enough support in Inkscape now, so they deserve to be treated more like a top-level entity. In particular, I propose to add a new menu, Filters, before Effects. It would contain: - All the submenus with preset filter that are now in Effects > Filters. Ivan Louette is working on a huge and exciting expansion of that hierarchy, adding lots of powerful new filters. It's obviously too deeply hidden now, it deserves more visibility as one of the most important 0.47 additions. - The "Filter Effects..." dialog command which I propose to rename to "Build Filters" or "Filter Builder" or something like that. The current name is not very descriptive and even a bit misleading due to the word "effects" which refers to too many too different things in Inkscape (once again, let me reiterate my old wish: rename "Effects" menu to "Extensions", that is what they are!). The typical workflow would be to first choose one of the presets, then if needed, go to the Filter Builder to adjust the preset or start a new filter from scratch. - The Remove Filter command. Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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"no color swatch" resizing bug
by Felipe Sanches 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Revision 20710 by JonCruz broke resizing of "no color swatch". I dont know how to properly fix that. Could you please take a look at that, Jon? Juca

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Interpolate filters
by Mihaela 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

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Compiling svn on Opensuse 11 64 bits
by Lucas Vieites 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hi all, I am slowly becoming desperate. I have been trying to compile from svn the same way I always have: svn update autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/var/opt/ --with-perl --with-python --with-xft --enable-lcms --enable-inkboard --with-gnome-vfs make make install But now I have a new machine: a dual core 64 bit AMD running OpenSuse 11.1. When running ./configure ...... it keeps complaining about: ------------------------------ checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape ------------------------------ I have already installed all packages I thought might be useful: ------------------------------ # rpm -qa | grep png libpng-devel-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng-devel-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1 latex2html-pngicons-2002.2.1-604.27 libpng3-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng12-0-1.2.31-4.35.1 ------------------------------ But still no luck. Is the configure script looking for libpng's devel files somewhere strange? Thanks for your help, -- Lucas Vieites

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Building ubuntu/debian package from svn
by Kalman KHIRALY 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Dear list, Im trying to build a .deb package to test out the greatest and newest feature of inkscape. I have read this documentation: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian I have downloaded the daily snapshot: http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/inkscape-current.tar.bz2 I followed the steps without success. I suspect, the documentation is outdated. There is no debian/ directory in the inkscape source. The inkscape does not use autoconfig but cmake if I see it correctly. So creating the debian/ directory using the dh_make command, and building the package fails. (make[1]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.) So can somebody direct me to an updated documentation? How can I create a proper debian/ directory, and building the package with help of this directory? Using this command: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot In summary a step-by-step tutorial would be really helpful! Im using ubuntu 8.10 currently. Thank you in advance, Khiraly

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Corel DRAW-like Snapping
by Krzysztof Kosiński 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

The current snapping mechanism is next to unusable when there are many places where a given thing might snap. The approach of snapping everything-to-everything is fundamentally wrong, because it simply doesn't work for many snapping points. I have a different idea, inspired by Corel DRAW, where snapping is much more useful than currently in Inkscape: 1. When snap is enabled, the Select tool displays a highlight and some text describing the snappable thing over which it hovers. The things that are highlighted are the same that are enabled in the snap toolbar. 2. During a subsequent drag the snapping point that gets highlighted is chosen as the only snapping point for the dragged object. Otherwise the object doesn't snap when moving. This way we don't have to snap everything to everything, because we know one of the points the user intends to snap. If someone could give me some pointers about how to implement it, I could work on this, because it's the only feature that I found really lacking when I switched to Inkscape from Corel DRAW.* I like my drawings to be perfectly aligned :) Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński *) fortunately the ability to easily specify alpha for gradient stops was more important :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Corel-DRAW-like-Snapping-tp22007175p22007175.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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fonts & printing to pipes questions.
by stuart 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi... I tried to search through the forum but I'm a newbe w.r.t. the proper terms and had trouble with my key words. Going on, at one point I remember being able to cut from inkscape sessions which included text objects. But now it's not working. I think the problem is with the post script files generated by inkscape. I am using a (little known?) utility called graphtecprint that I've modified for my own purposes. I am familiar with what it can do. Looking at the inkscape generated post script output I am sure graphtecprint can not handle a section of the post script file which starts with "/sfnts [". This is followed by several thousand bytes of what looks like pure hex (in ascii format). What I need are the cutting commands! I need inkscape to output instructions to cut the letter "A" just like it outputs instructions to cut a box or a circle. ---------- Another subject, printing to pipes. This feature saved me a lot of time and made placing utilities like graphtecprint between inkscape and the physical world easy. With out the inkscape printing to pipes feature I have to first print to a file. Are there any plans to put this feature back into inkscape? ...thanks

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Unable to convert "14,800000" to number
by the Adib 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

I get this error when I use the filter effect drop-shaddow using the dx, dy spin-control. g_ascii_strtod does not convert correctly. reding src/fixes.cpp it states: /* * until 2004-04-22, g_ascii_strtod could not handle having a locale-based * decimal separator immediately following the number ("5,4" would * parse to "5,4" instead of "5.0" in fr_FR) * * This is the corrected function, lifted from 1.107 gstrfuncs.c in glib */ So the question is: how to convert strtod locale independent? Adib. ---

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Themable icons wiki page
by Krzysztof Kosiński 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

I created a new wiki page that lists all the icons used in Inkscape and their proposed names. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Themable_icons It would be great if someone could send me the Tango theme for Inkscape as discrete 24x24 PNGs, or a monolithic SVG with IDs corresponding to the icon names in that list. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Themable-icons-wiki-page-tp22004008p22004008.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango icons as default set
by Guillermo Espertino 13 Feb '09

13 Feb '09

worms invasion wrote: > Well, re. the proposed Tango icon set for Inkscape... I do NOT want to be "forced" to test the Tango icons - let alone to be forced to use them. I hate the Tango icons. :-) The same argument that Tango people has: We hate that set, we don't want to be forced to that. > The main reasons are: > - they are unreadable, "undecodable". > I do not need to use a magnifying glass to "decode" the current (non Tango) icon set, the icons are "sharp" and "clear". Compared to them, the Tango icons are... "wtf?... which icon is that...?" I do not want to lose time wondering each time I need to click on an icon (and it happens quite a lot in Inkscape, because I don't use the shortcuts or F-keys). Honestly, I hardly *see* the Tango icons. Some of the current Tango icons need some contrast tweaking, that's right. Plus the non-black outlines give less contrast than black lines, but the problem with black and dark/black themes is an issue. Anyway, I don't think they are unreadable, undecodeable or that you need a magnifying glass to see them. > - they belong to the Linux world. They're intended to be multi-platform. Just as Inkscape and other free applications. Using an icon set created for that purpose is consistent to a free, open source, multi-platform program. Other people can argue that free software belongs to linux world and you shouldn't use it in Windows :-) > - I do not use any other "free" software which uses the Tango icon set, such as The Gimp or..., so I don't care about "being used" to seeing such or such icons. That's your point of view. You don't care, and since it's not your concern you don't consider if others do. I don't want to bring such discussion to the list, but I'd like to know why people is using inkscape? Just because it's free of charge? It's also free (libre) software, and a lot of people cares about that. Being part of a software movement that's created in a collaborative way implies to have a goal and work to make it happen. There are people who sees inkscape just as an application that costs nothing, but others see it as a part of something bigger. Theme changers are quite common in shareware/freeware apps for windows, so I don't think that would be a big deal if we put Tangos as default and let people change it back to the current set if they don't like it. That would be enough for them (they won't be forced to Tango) and would be nice for people who prefers Tango because they fit with the other free apps. In my honest opinion, for people who sees inkscape as a freebie, a UI option for changing the icon set will be enough. I don't want to make a political discussion about this, and I'm not saying that you are that kind of people (i can't speak, I don't know). > - I believe each application can have its own style, its own icons. I hate the "applications on a platform must all look alike" concept, it's sterile, it's boring, it's dull. Of course, and nobody denies that, and that's why we need an easy way to change icon themes from the preferences. You're talking about what you hate and what you'd love, what would be amusing, bright and happy and not a technical reason. People who back up Tango icons ask them to be default for technical reasons, not just personal preferences -A normalized icon set with clear design guidelines -More care about details (pixel alignment, for instance) -An unified look between free design applications -Better look in dark gtk themes. If the current set would cover most of these topics (well, the unified look with other apps wouldn't be possible) I bet most of the Tango people would find it acceptable and a easy icon theme changer in the preferences would suffice. > So, my user opinion is: if the Linux users are masochists and want to have Tango style icons for Inkscape, fine, give them a GUI to switch to Tango icons. Again, just change the "Linux" word for "Windows" and change the Tango word for "current" and that's the way I see it. This is matter of personal taste. I'd prefer to talk about technical reasons. Gez.

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Verbs
by Felipe Sanches 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

I dont really understand perfectly how verbs work. So, I would like my code to be reviewed. Could anybody review these verbs and related code, please? /* Color management */ SP_VERB_EDIT_LINK_COLOR_PROFILE, SP_VERB_EDIT_REMOVE_COLOR_PROFILE, /*Scripting*/ SP_VERB_EDIT_ADD_EXTERNAL_SCRIPT, SP_VERB_EDIT_REMOVE_EXTERNAL_SCRIPT, JucaBlues

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Checkboard background
by Yann Papouin 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi, I would like to try to add a chessboard background to the background canvas. Can you tell me where it could be drawn? I think it is at the same place where the pages border are drawn. Yann.

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Blur slider inserts feBlend???
by bulia byak 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Since recently, adjusting a blur of an object in Fill & Stroke not only adds Gaussian blur but also a feBlend. Do you have any idea of who added this and for what reason? I think this is a bug and must be fixed. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Supporting Inkscape Development
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hello, I have received an email from someone who is using Inkscape professionally in his company. He would like to support the Inkscape project but his company doesn't allow him to directly donate money. He is required to purchase something. He has pointed out that the Blender project (www.blender.org) has a shop where part of the proceeds go to support Blender. Is there interest in creating a similar Inkscape shop? Tav

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LGM and development opportunities
by Louis Desjardins 11 Feb '09

11 Feb '09

Hi all, This is an exploratory email for all teams participating at LGM. There are more questions than answers and everything is in discussion at present time. In the end we need the input of each team. Here's the punch! I had a very productive discussion with René Barsalo at the SAT on Monday about next LGM. Summary: For next LGM we could have at least two projects working a full day at SAT: Blender and Hugin. The SAT immersive projection equipment would be available to both teams for direct work, hacking, presentations, etc.. Starting at 11:00 the day would be followed by a LGM "5 to 7" where all the teams would gather for a beer. So far we have thought of Thursday to be that day. So, second day of LGM. We need to know if this would appeal to the development teams of Hugin and Blender. Although I trust this event can only add to the interest of LGM, and also noting that this is in no way competing with Polytechnique's facilities — only a big plus to have the SAT in Montreal and to have LGM in Montreal... I think we need to find out if there are any objection to this proposal. I ask Blender and Hugin people to step in. Guys! Tell us what you think. To all other, please do the same! Speak up! Cheers! Louis LGM 2009 main organiser Montréal GMT -5

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