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Developer Meeting Dec 12th 2025
by Martin Owens 12 Dec '25

12 Dec '25

Hey devs, Big meeting today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte, Ltlnx, Marc, Mikekov, René, Pbs, Regie, Ishann, Tav, Vaibhav # The 1.4.3 Release ltlnx is managing the 1.4.3 release and talks about the task list which is almost entirely done. * One item to do is the versioning which Marc will take care of now. * Documentation is in sync. * all graphics are up to date * Martin says Extensions are out of sync and won't be up to date in time for the release. Ishann asked about it. * We will directly pull from the CI for RC build which is scheduled for today. * There is a signing step which is now integrated which improves the process. * Tav concluded his Bug Accelerator program with the fixing of startup crashes on macOS * 1.4.3 RC will e released tonight, and given to vectors to announce so we can get testing. Vectors have asked for an announcement time for the RC, dev team will make the builds and would like as much time as is possible for users to download and test the RC to pick out any major breakage from various updates to libraries and various fixes. Marc asks about website problems for the release. Martin reports that the website is unstable and sometimes works well and sometimes get slow. We looked at some of the remaining critical and blocking issues. Charlotte looked into the keyboard switching issue which may have been fixed upstream, we'll be keeping an eye on it for the release candidate. Other blockers have all been fixed and we look like we're in a good place. René didn't get much of a response for his tofu fix, but knows it's fixed because of other apps that have all been fixed in the same way. # Translations problems Maren brought an issue about possibly AI or automated updates for Swedish and how we handle that Marc says it's all settled. PBS raised a problem with po file being updated frequently which leads to massive submodule repository every time we pull in master branch and update the submodules. the frequency can be adjusted and the old commits can be squashed when needed to save space. 7d day frequency for weblate sync. # Funding discussions We talked about the meeting we had with the owners of Audacity and some of the interesting ideas for funding models. This discussion covered a lot of ground but has not been recorded in the minutes so people could speak their mind. # Any other business We talked about the lack of announcement messages in rocket chat, Ben has fixed the crontab but it's still not going through. Rene talked about sorting out some of the build folders to make it easier to manage changes and remove dead files. Thanks everyone for coming, Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer meeting 5th Dec 2025
by Wen-Wei Kao 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Inkscape Developer meeting 2025-12-05 Attendees: Mc, Tav, MikeKov, ltlnx Mike, Mc and Tav talked about hatches support in the pattern editor. Mike proposed that the hatches be listed along with the patterns in the pattern editor, and could be marked as such. We can also have a feature to convert hatches to paths, so that it would be more useful for Ink/Stitch people. Mc asked about the string freeze, RC and release times, and wrote up a message to send to the translators mailing list. The metadata for release descriptions also came up; we would want to merge it before the string freeze, so that translators could translate them before the release. About the release dates, the consensus is to have an RC on the 12th, and release on Christmas. Tav was working on macOS bug fixes for 1.4.3, especially crashes related to the splash screen and opening files from the Finder. He has an MR for testing and debugging stuff. Willy also tried some debugging and determined that #ifdef-ing out the splash screen stops the crashes. Tav concurs that if it's not fixable we would need to disable the splash screen on macOS. Mike and Tav talked about the color font rendering MR. There are some edge cases to consider before merging. Thanks everyone for coming! -- Willy

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String freeze for 1.4.3
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 Dec '25

04 Dec '25

Hi devs, hi translators, With about three weeks to go before 1.4.3 release, we are now in */string freeze/.* If we find critical mistakes, they will be communicated to translators, but you should consider that the translatable strings in weblate (for Inkscape 1.4.x component : https://translate.inkscape.org/projects/inkscape/1-4-x/inkscape/ ) should not move before the release. If possible, can you submit potential updates before Dec 19th ? If you need a few more days, please contact me so that I know that some translation is in the works. Thanks everyone ! Best, -- Marc

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Developer Meeting: Nov 26th 2025
by Martin Owens 26 Nov '25

26 Nov '25

Hey everyone, New time for this week's developer meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mikekov, Vaibhav, ltlnx, René The meeting time had changed but the website has issues sending out reminders to everyone. A reminder here that you can subscribe the the ical for the developer team's calender here: https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar.ics add this as a remote calendar in your calendar software and you should get up to date reminders. Martin looked into why the website wasn't behaving and found the crontab on the new machine wasn't migrated. Sent an email to Ben who was contracted to do that work for the migration. Mikekov, Vaibhav and Martin talk about spin button we have a long talk about user experience. Screen sharing was done and we worked out the share of work between Mikekov and Martin who are trying to unify the widget experence. Mikekov has been working on the font selector which uses a preview and icon view which are going away. These are being replaced with ListView and GridView widgets. We also can hide certain styles to collapase families of fonts together. This also resolves some cut off preview problems. Viabhav, not doing too much, tried to replicate the extensions gallery crash. Not replcated on he's local linux machine. Had a discussion with Jabier about LPE archetchture, and wants to write an article about it to clarify the architecture. We talked about the problems in the lpe system and fixing issues with the defs. litnx has been pusing 1.4.x fixes, including the welcome dialog. Martin asked if he could take care of the backports. René has been busy with the prepartions for the 1.4.3 release with updates to the dependencies. Lots of deps because it's been a while. Currently investigating the macOS tofu problem, there are some problems with kerning which might be caused by a dep which might not be fixable. We talked about the release schedule and getting everything ready. The conservative updates to the deps might be a better way to update the macOS and Martin suggests René make an assessment about the work they might have to do vs. the benefit of updating the deps for the point release. René wants to revive the tests for the windows CI. Pbs asked if we could use clang, this was tested but doesn't look like it would work. Thanks everyone for coming everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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freeColour palettes available and ready for inclusion in Inkscape after a change of licence
by christoph-schaefer＠gmx.de 19 Nov '25

19 Nov '25

Hi there, I've been no longer active in Open Source or Open Content development/promotion for some years, mostly due to health reasons (Long Covid), but also some personal disappointments. However, one of the issues that are still important to me is the original mission of freieFarbe/freeColour (not its current incarnation). With respect to Inkscape and other FLOSS programs, the most important development is that after I resigned in protest, because they refused to honour an internal agreement to release all colour palettes under the zlib licence, they did it anyway, albeit much later (https://freiefarbe.de/en/licence/). What does this mean? It means that Inkscape can now choose to include any of the more than 300 commercial colour palettes from the Open Colour Systems Collection 2.0 and, more importantly, both versions of the free and open Pantone alternative HLC Colour Atlas (standard and XL) in one of the formats supported by Inkscape (https://freiefarbe.de/en/thema-farbe/software/). I would, however, strongly advise against including all OCSC files. A reasonable selection would be the HLC and CIE palettes for the fF CMYK colour fan (as opposed to the much larger Atlas) and the HKS palettes, since HKS is still being widely used for signage in Europe. As regards the rest, you could either provide a download + installation opportunity, as Scribus currently does, or simply leave it to users to download and install the palettes they want or need. With all of the fF content under the zlib licence, this should no longer be a legal problem. I wish you good luck and success for the future! Christoph

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Developer Meeting, Nov 18th 2025
by Martin Owens 18 Nov '25

18 Nov '25

Hey Devs! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Mike, Philip, Tav, Willy Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ (TIME HAS CHANGED!) Mike has been working on making the newer spin button widget used in the rest of the project. Migrating over the UnitTracker and various widget fixes. Willy is trying to fix 1.4.x: text tool pop-over Spinbutton changes, pop-over closes. and Command bar collapsing issue. Pbs talked about animation and live preview, some time was spent discussing the preview functionality and what we can do to allow changes to be previewed without modifying the document or abusing the rendering engine with extra changes at unexpected times. This discussion was quite long. RPATH issues in our build systems are ongoing. Tav has been working on macOS bugs and crashes where jpeg files are not accessable from finder, this involved learning a lot of how macOS works for depevelopers. and color font support and getting the tests all smoothed out. Talking about the late meeting situation, looks like the best time is 2 hours after the early meeting. Which is about 3 hours earlier than currently set. 6pm France, Noon in Boston, 1am Asia etc. Pbs and Martin talked about the filters engine work and the need for clearing up the premultiplicating situation in bilinear interpolation for various different spaces. Martin has been working on harmonising spin button user experience. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Nov 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 Nov '25

10 Nov '25

Dear Developer Team, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Tav, Charlotte, Martin, Mikekov, Jonathan Next: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Tav has been adding color fonts to Inkscape so we support all the various different formats. SVG, OpenType COLRv1, COLRv0 and Google Font thing. He's made some color fonts with the same glyph to test the font support going forwards. There's a couple of failing tests for some clipping and some pepper and carrot text tests. This test is useful for visually inspecting possible problems before committing the changes with slight differences. There's a slight problem with strokes not being rendered in Firefox which makes it hard to compare the SVG Font format. Martin talked about Conical gradients, which are needed for some css and COLORv1 Object to Path. Marc, not much, some updates for weblate and the translations stuff. Tav asked about how easy it is to add a new file, and Marc explained that it's all automatic now so is even easier. There's a security fix in librsvg which is a security problem, we're hoping that the new version will be able to fix it, but we don't know for sure if it will fix it. Marc has time to work on the 1.4.3 release and Martin points to the milestone page on GitLab https://gitlab.com/groups/Inkscape/-/milestones/19 for everyone to work from. Charlotte has been looking into the the bug for windows flashing back and forth in windows. But it's tricky because windows development is so much slower than on Linux even with a powerful CPU. She's also added a merge request and was concerned she has the ability to push directly to master but this isn't the case. Jonathan is still around and interested in working on funding projects but time is tight right now with his PhD. Martin talked about the website and taking payments, is in talk with Ben about putting together the second round of funded work to add that Stripe integration to the website. Martin has been working on widgets in the fill and stroke dialog and has been working on the harmonising the generic widgets so our programs looks more cohesive. And also has been working on some UX testing workflows with RDP and desktop sharing, but the technologies aren't great for disposable desktop sharing. Will share if it's figured out. Mikekov has been working on some UI improvements here and there, the next target is the spin button, we have developed our own based on Tav's work and now we need to remove all the older generic Gtk spin buttons with our more functionality such as unit support. We talked a bit about the design of this widget and all the possible ways of integrating units into the actual box itself. Next meeting we will decide the new meeting time for these later developer meetings. Thanks everyone who was able to come.

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Survey Results 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Nov '25

07 Nov '25

Dear Developer Team, Big thanks to everyone who filled out this year's developer team survey. These are the digested results as a summary, full results can be provided on office.inkscape.org Admin note: We'll use office.inkscape.org for next year's survey exclusively. There was no difference between google and nextcloud in functionality. 26 people responded, 77% claimed to be programmers, 65% were active, 70% were new (and didn't fill out the 2024 survey). For developer platform we have a fair split between Debian based (35%), Fedora or Arch based (35%) and macOS (23%). With Windows being 4% (1 person), so a considerable deficit in windows developer retention this year. Testing looks little better with 60% able to test on Wayland, 50% on X11, 46% Windows and macOS. Extra 23% Android and one person on macOS intel and one on ChromeOS. Most people who needed help are finding help in the chatroom. Only one person needed help and didn't find it. Build instructions were found by everyone except 2 people. And only 1 person couldn't get their build to work. Most people fixed issues they wanted to or was interesting. No one couldn't find issues to work on. Merge requests was our biggest failure this year with a lot of problems reported ion Slow Reviewing, Reviewers asking for too many changes (usually diverging from the original work with refactoring challenges) and also a new problem, merge requests getting stuck waiting for the UX/UI team to respond. This is the first time where we've tried to put a pause on merges until they can be checked by the UX team but we're going to have some rules about how long we can wait for volunteers to become available to check the work. (and how big the requested changes can be before it should just be a rejection) Testing was good. We're getting better at requesting people write tests. though most people didn't think testing frameworks were expressive or extensive enough yet. A direction the project is improving on this year. The majority of people work on Inkscape as Volunteers for Public Service (54%),followed by Education and Leisure (42%), 3 people were hired to work on inkscape and 9 people said "Other" mysteriously. What we should work on ranged from improving programmer documentation, tutorials and videos to help developers get started. To full breakdowns of all the various parts of the code. A big problem highlighted was the massive duplication of documentation on the wiki, website and code repository was highlighted by the vast majority of people. Other things of note were timing of meetings (see Tav's poll) and and paying more people to work on inkscape. Lots of people thanked the project for keeping everything moving and how helpful an friendly our community it. Well done everyone! That's it for this year. Thanks to everyone for responding and I'll see you all next year. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Measurement input UI suggestion
by Ray at Daylon 03 Nov '25

03 Nov '25

Hi everyone, I was wondering if it would be worthwhile to modify Inkscape's UI where input of measurement values are used. My apologies if this has been discussed before. Currently (version 1.4.2) measurement input fields use an edit box containing the number and a combo box to specify the measurement unit. My suggestion is to use an edit box alone, with the user indicating the measurement unit after the number by typing its name e.g. "4.2px". A space may be optionally used if desired e.g. "4.2 px" (current locale is used to interpret and display decimal points). Okay, but why? - Less UI widgets to place, show/hide/enable, reflect to/from, etc. - Less chance of accidentally using the wrong unit by forgetting to change the combo box selection. - Ability to use multi-unit measures e.g. "2p4" to indicate 2 picas and 4 pts, common in typography, or things like "6ft 2in". - Percent symbol (%) can be used where appropriate to indicate a percentage of some contextual distance e.g. a document dimension, lessening the need for users to figure out the computed distance. If this is of any interest, I have some C++ library code to help with implementation. Ray Gardener Daylon Graphics Ltd. www.daylongraphics.com

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Developer Meeting, Nov 2nd 2025
by Martin Owens 02 Nov '25

02 Nov '25

Hey Everyone, Sunday meeting this week, Monday next week, big thanks to everyone who came today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Willy(ltlnx), Marc, Philip(pbs), Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ There was a discussion about live path effects and merge requests. We reviewed a merge request which was stuck in review and got it un blocked by the consensus of the team. We talked about some of the difficulties with live path effects and getting things fixed while waiting to get lpe structures refactored. We talked about the release for 1.4.3 and some of the outstanding issues, the file opening in macOS and the language change crashes in windows. A review of a bunch of different issues depending on their priority on the milestone mostly between Itlnx and Pbs. We talked about a Gio security bug which can cause a security issue, but it's an upstream issue and it's only breaking on Windows. We tried to think up ways of testing the issue given out limited access to windows machines and experts who can help debug it. Marc will report a bug upstream to Gio / security gnome org. Marc has moved the translation work their own po files and communicated with the developer and translation mailing lists. Thanks Marc! Martin has paused working on the engine waiting for reviews, they're working to get a new paint order widget which is a restackable widget that allow values based on their order and is poking Gtk with the specific UX they want. Willy was working on the default canvas colors in the preferences and has been looking at some of the difficulties in Gtk4 widgets for color selection. Tav has been working on getting his merge requests merged and reviewing his color font work again. Martin will do the developer survey results next week. Thanks everyone for joining on this Sunday Evening/Morning. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New submodule: po/
by Marc Jeanmougin 31 Oct '25

31 Oct '25

Hi devs, po/ is now a submodule pointing to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/translations.git If you have any issues with this folder in your branches/MRs, make sure when you rebase to get the content with "git submodule update --init" to be able to build :) Apart from that, not much changes for translations on the dev side, just more automation. Small changes 1 : You don't need to specify a new translatable cpp or inx file manually - if you want to mark a new file with strings as NON-translatable, you will still need to add it into POTFILES.skip, now in the translations repository Small change 2 : If you fix a typo in the source code and don't want to fuzzy its previous translations, you'll need to do the po file search and replace into the translations repo If you have any questions, feel free to ask :) Best, -- Marc

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Developer Meeting, Oct 25th 2025
by Martin Owens 25 Oct '25

25 Oct '25

Hey Devels, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Martin, Elendil, pbs Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin asked everyone to fill out the developer survey. We first talked about adjusting the developer meeting times now that we have lots of new developer and people with new schedules. Tav was to create a survey for possible new times, Marc will follow up with Tav to get that poll. We talked about the data access API, Martin asked Ryan to do a DX (Developer Experience) test of the new API adding a dithering filter. Also added was a color transformation filter and Martin is looking forward to his working being code reviewed. Martin has added a multi page SVG update moving inkscape's custom inkscape:page element to the SVG2 view element. The attributes are pretty much the same. An update mechanism is added and lots of tests for various things. Testing with Firefox and Chrome this work should allow multi page support in other SVG viewers and editors. Marc is working on the translations repository. Finished migrating to weblate and moving the po directory with a submodule and clearing out all the merge requests outstanding. Creating CI jobs for updating and is weighing up an automated or manual process. Now to figure out if we need to remove the CI translator checker, Martin agrees. Elendil has been working on a regression with the version attribute which appears to be missing from the svg files that we are currently exporting from 1.5. Marc wants to talk about XSLT export hidden objects and the way the extensions don't current handle XSLT effect extensions, Marc will write this code to put it in. Martin talked about adding such a feature directly to the export dialog since it's already doing much of the same work for hiding objects off the page. The code already exists. Pbs has touched the recolor artwork google summer of code. Looked into a new packaging system called "Sharon", this might let us deliver AppImage type builds with Vulcan support. Martin and Pbs talked about the color access API and some of the direct and compile time problems between that and the color API itself. Martin answered questions and requested code review as the primary help needed. We talked about some of the llm influenced merge requests and how to handle people who don't even talk without using an LLM. Philip asked Marc about heap and symbol problems, and if plugins (compiled ones) have ever worked in windows because the issues if you need to access things outside of the inkscape binary. There was a discussion about how the extensions and various plugins should work and what is known out in the wild. We talked about the release of 1.4.3 and the focus on bug fixing. Martin would like more developers to consier working on things in the milestone to get it as good as possible. Marc wanted to know about capypdf packaging and what kind of packaging we should expect to see for the 1.5 release. Martin says we're likely to need an up to date version and Marc says he'll make a Debian package and make sure it's available mostly for the PPA. We talked about various packaging strategies. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. Next one is Sunday 2nd November. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2025
by Martin Owens 24 Oct '25

24 Oct '25

Dear Developers, As a follow up from last year's developer survey, could I get all developers to fill out this year's survey and your experiences with Inkscape as a programmer this year. The goal is to gage how easily it is to contribute, people's thoughts and the ongoing improvements in onboarding and making this work enjoyable: https://forms.gle/HPggfawPou2aHS6i6 Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin \owens

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Developer Meeting Notes: Oct 17th 2025
by Martin Owens 17 Oct '25

17 Oct '25

Hey Developers! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Mikekov, Martin, Jabier, Willy, Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We kick off with Willy who has two open open merge requests for the developer team to consider. One is the rotation snapping which is ready to be re-reviewed. It uses a regulr Spin Button instead of a Math Spin Button so it's got some regressions still. The second is a 1.4.x patch for the toolbars so the buttons dispear one by one instead of chunking entire groups at a time. We talked about the 1.4.3 issues and the open issues and when we can schedule the release. We suggest a December release with a project wide request to focus on fixing some of the remaining issues for 1.4.3 so make it a really stable release before 1.5 comes out. We talked about the 1.5 release and Martin's idea for releasing 1.5, 1.5.1 and then calling the 1.5.2 Inkscape's 2.0. This is in an attempt to promote stability an give users the time to field trial some of the new functionality before we make a big splash with the 2.0. We talked about freeze policy. Mikekov went through some of the remaining open issues in Gtk4. Martin asked if our Gtk upstream needs help or not or if things are progressing organically at the right speed for our release on macOS, windows etc. We talked about the dificulty of getting program admins who can organise projects that pay people to work on different aspects of our release issues. And our recruitment of volunteers that tends to depend heavily on programmers instead of people who might be more stilled in admin releated organising. Mikekov helped with the Dash2 issues, and doing merge requests. His currently thinking about the preferences dialog. He's been medidating on how to clarify the preferences to reduce the amount of duplicate code and depend on the glade file directly. There's a couple of routes to having preferences paths defined in glade files and widgets constructed with simple APIs, there's a refactoring pathway for how we would get there too. But the ultimate aim would be to remove most of the code until only loading of the glade file remains. We talked about how Gtk custom widgets work so we don't need to load each widget by Id. Tav has been working on color in CSS issues with export. He wants to have a meeting with Martin to talk about Color further. He's looking into the problem of integer artefacts and generating example files in 16bit to test how browsers are currently dealing with the older limitations and if they have been overcome. Some of these artefacts are actically used by filter designers as inputs to produce iteresting results. Report on Bug Accelerator Program, Tav has a few hours left. Martin talked about his engine improvements and walked through the entire plan for filters, color, memory surface management and the stepping stones that are being worked on to get everything in place for CMYK support. Tav and Martin talked about various details in support and what it means for SVG. Tav says that the attendance at the late meeting is very poor. Should we redefine a new time for that meeting so it's easier for other contributors. Martin asked Tav to make a survay for all the new contributors about their availability. Thanks to everyone who was able to come to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, Oct 1st 2025
by Martin Owens 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

Hey Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Youstena, René, Tav Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Martin starts off with a quick introduction, and a short update on the website updates and the downtime people may have experienced. René looking into windows CI, it felt so bad that he felt he had to work on it. The goal is to make it faster and usable as being so slow sucks the joy out of everythig. The 7z archive builder is now running on a persistant runner which René said he would never run one again, but it was required to make it much much faster. The mechanism for depedancies was switched from 7z packaged, to a Microsoft based format which has advantages which can mounted and doesn't need to be 'extracted' as well as being more windows native. There's a bit of work more to do which is how easily it is to build depedencies, moving the config back into the main CI builder itself. Martin Martin talked abut Gtk and the need to keep the version we are building with and targeting for 1.5 will have to be a future version because of the known bugs that will have to be fixed in time for release. Martin's work on filter rendering and unit testing and is currently working on Light sources after completing the ConvolveMatrix work last week. A lot of tricky decisions will have to be made about interpolating in other color spaces but the new code will give us the flexibility to choose. Some backwards compatability will be needed for Integer calculations too. Tav has been working on CSS Color parsing and some of the found bugs, checking over our support introduced by Martin in 1.5. The Lch color conversion was wrong and has now been fixed, case insenstivity, and a range issue on Lch. Tav has questions about the color picker, we're currntly using Luv in the color picker. Martin and Tav had talk about color, rendering, document color space. Talking about how to achieve backwards compatibility and various other issues between Inkscape and SVG for color support. Youstena is a student from Egypt who is interesting in contributing to open source and introduced themselves. We asked around if anyone still needed to claim from the SFC, Tav was waiting on something but he'd put it in later too. We may want to make sure per-deim and travel between events where there is more than one event happening should be in the next vote. Thanks everyone for coming!

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, Sept 15th 2025
by Martin Owens 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Hey everyone, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Tav, Martin Mikekov has been working on some beautifcation projects, various things like the roller, gradient editor etc. We collectively talked about the failures at the SFC regarding reimbursements and people who are still waiting on reimbursement for items months and months ago. Tav would like to get into fixing the LPE dialog and converting polylines and lines to paths. Martin is working on filter mechanics involving a new cairo surface image access class with unit testing. We reviewed some merge requests. Short meeting this week, Thanks everyone.

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Forbidden attributes in per-tool and last-used styles
by Henry Wong 15 Sep '25

15 Sep '25

Hello Inkscape devs, I'm looking through the code that sets/reads desktop and tool styles (sp_desktop_set_style, sp_desktop_get_style, etc.), and have some questions on some of the attribute filtering that happens. As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of styles (except the 3dbox oddity): * The "last used style": /desktop/style * A per-tool style: /tool/<tool_path>/style For these styles, certain CSS properties are forbidden and are filtered out (e.g,. "shape-inside", "filter", "stop-opacity"). Filtering happens both when reading from the style and writing to the style. For the filters when reading (in sp_desktop_apply_style_tool <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/desktop-style.cpp?re…>), the list of forbidden attributes are different for the global style and per-tool style. (More attributes are forbidden for the global style than the per-tool style). There is a different list of filters when writing the styles (sp_css_attr_unset_blacklist <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/style.cpp?ref_type=h…>, sp_css_attr_unset_uris <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/src/style.cpp?ref_type=h…>). The rules differ between the global and per-tool style, AND the rules differ from the ones applied when reading the styles. (More attributes are forbidden for the per-tool style than the global style?) Is there a reason the rules ended up this complicated? (Especially the part where the attributes that are writable to the style differ from the set of attributes allowed to be read back.) I'm wondering whether they can be simplified to something like: * Some set of attributes are forbidden from all default styles. Apply the same filter for both reading and writing. Or * Some set of attributes are forbidden for all default styles, and a superset is forbidden for the global last-used style. But the same filters are used for both reading and writing.

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Inkscape Meeting, Sept 7th 2025
by Martin Owens 07 Sep '25

07 Sep '25

Dear Devs, Another week and another great developer meeting: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Tav, Martin, PBS, ftOmara, MikeKov, Rafal, Ishaan Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ PBS asks Martin abou the page manager, we talked about manager objects, selected pages, and the intention of the manager and it's relationship to sp-page objects. The manager is designed to encapsulate the state of the selected page so most calls shouldn't need to know the selected page directly. PBS has been working on the GSoC project to recolor artwork project. There is a live preview mode which needs to be sorted out. the conflict between the SPObject, xml tree and the display tree. A big discussion erupts between many developers have input into how the functionality could be done. We talked about the way the xml tree and sp object tree works together. This created a debate about about abstractions and various other internal core elements for Inkscape. The general consenus is that we'd like the preview functionality split out into it's own merge request. Martin will ask Adam about the design implication of having the preview change in multiple places or just in one place at a time. Mikekov has been doing some UI beautifucation projects. And we talked about the missing event problems in macOS that might be something we need to get that reported upstream. Martin has continued to work on the rendering engine work. A long term project to improve the capabilities of the rendering engine color support. Ishaan reports that the all four people are going to India FOSS event. There's concerns about how long the process has taken with the SFC as friction continues between us voting to pay for events or materials and people getting reimbursed or getting travel booked in time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes; Aug 22nd 2025
by Martin Owens 22 Aug '25

22 Aug '25

Hey Everyone! Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Marc, Philip, Mikekov Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin is eliminating direct access to the cairo surface raw. Philip and Martin talked at length about the Surface API, how to render CMYK, how to deal with speed problems and some different parts of the code and functionality. Some ways in which the cleanup will hopefully open us up to replacing cairo, but maybe not, it depends. Philip has been porting UI extensions to GTK4, including Extensions manager and clip art importer, there's been some issues with the CI which needs to be updating. And working on the start screen lifecycle manager, it's currently held up with testing. He wants to ask Adam for testing but Martin is happy with the testing so far. Mikekov has been looking into the object properties dialog for text, which is a lot more involed than expected. Marc has been looking at the launchpad builds and why they seem to fail. There are test for the cms profile test. The team spend the rest of the meeting investigating the test failures so we can keep things moving. Philip wants to know if the Linux CI job, he wants to to merge it with the AppImage job to save space and CI time. Marc says that the Linux job is a normal build and the AppImage used to have some special sauce, Philip wants to check if this is still true. One builds in a debug and the other builds in release mode. We have decided to remove the linux build. The website releases app will be updated when it is done. Thanks for reading. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer's Meeting; August 6th 2025
by Martin Owens 06 Aug '25

06 Aug '25

Dear Developers, This week's developer meeting notes are below. Big thanks to everyone who was able to come. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Carlotte (cfcurtis), Martin, Tav, Ishaan, Jonathan, Mikekov Next Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Martin talked about his work on the rendering engine getting cairo surrfaces with multiple color space rendering. A lot converting, memory management, pre-multiplication, understanding lcms2 input and output limitations an doing a lot of test trials to work out how to effectively test the changes in the engine's handling of Cairo surfaces. Jonthan has been mentoring on the google summer of code project. He's been tracking a number of 1.5 issues which are upstream issue but don't have the required issue in the upstream project. There are some examples needed to be able to replicate the issues more easily for an upstream developer. Mikekov has been looking for various fixes to keep busy. Working on object attributes dialog related features. Tav asks about the speed problems with the Object dialog and being able to backport the fix to 1.4 if it's fixed in 1.5. We talked about node editing and making sure that we're not doing inefficient things. Charlotte haven't done a ton of work, but looking at PDF related issues for import and export. Tested the odf support in capypdf. Martin talked about a gradient export bug in capypdf. Jonathan asked if she's interested in PDF files which don't import cleanly. Ishaan has been working on selections and discovered that some things are not working on master, holding ctrl for example. And some inconsistancies with Alt. We talked about various selector issues. Martin and Mikekov recommend making event systems robust against order of events where possible. Tav has been back bug fixing for 1.4, Jonathan asked about releasing a 1.4.3 after the last blocker is fixed and we are in agreement. We have at leas 35 bugs fixed a bunch of things that are to be backported for 1.4.3 on our todo this. Martin asked Ishaan about the Indian event. They are ordering of travel arrangements and he will be meeting with pono to get the accommodations paid for tomorrow. We did a small tutorial for updating submodules and keeping things correct, sharing commands. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. See you all next time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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

30 Jul '25

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

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

29 Jul '25

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

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

21 Jul '25

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

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

13 Jul '25

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

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

05 Jul '25

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

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Bengaluru Summit 2025 Interest Form
by pulsar17 29 Jun '25

29 Jun '25

Hi all, Me and Vaibhav Malik are planning to host a summit for Indian Inkscape contributors around September in Bengaluru. If you'd like to join, please fill this Nextcloud form: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/apps/forms/s/CBnmTd2pLfjfDQ… (The criteria to attend is mentioned in the form along with more details about the summit). I'll keep the form open for 10 days, and based on the responses, ask the PLC for a vote. For any further questions/clarifications, feel free to reach out to me over e-mail. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting June 27th 2025
by Martin Owens 27 Jun '25

27 Jun '25

Dear Developer team, Meeting: June 27th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Martin, Adam, Ishaan, Mikekov, Philip Next Meeting: July 5th 2025 https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Mikekov has been working with Willy (ltlnx) to test and fix bugs in his MMR (mega merge request) for the object properties dialog and worked with René to fix a macOS issue with Gtk. Adam asked Fatama to test the branch too but was not able to run it on macOS. Philip has been working on building support for Inkscape and some Gtk and OpenGL bugs. Ishaan has been learning some more C++ this week. Adam has been guiding their Google Summer of Code project, it's working pretty good and are at the stage of deciding the user experience. Martin and Adam have a brief talk about color management and color experimentation workflows and how the two bits of work can fit together and hopefully build on each other. Martin has been working on the color interpolation and Cairo color rendering planning. Which is taking some time. Philip asked Mike what the estimated time of arrival for the properties dialog, no timeline specified, following the testing results. We talk about how to manage a large change and deciding on when to merge vs polishing it up later. For example the spin buttons and if they should be changed for all existing spin buttons. The project's experience is that updates should be done as globally as possible to avoid technical debt building up over time with half-implimentations and good intentions gone to waste as the project moves forward without the improvements being examples for new contributors. Thanks to everyone for coming! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting June 20th 2025
by pulsar17 19 Jun '25

19 Jun '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Ishaan, Charlotte, ltlnx, Martin, Mike Next Meeting: June 27th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Willy (ltlnx) and Martin discussed some parts of the UX Initiative proposal. Charlotte: Working on PDF Import, might have introduced a bug way back related to clipping. Only certain set of pages cause issues, the exact reason is not yet known. State tracking might be a possible culprit. Martin suggested a good way to test that hypothesis. Martin: Working on color stuff. Going to use reuse CSS colors from the CSS spec, some things will be an extension. Martin explained how interpolation would work in Inkscape in the future. Working on the standardization process so that it's not specific to Inkscape. Explained how colors are used in SVG to Willy. Worked on some cleanup MRs. Ishaan: Got into some refactoring work that branched from the selection work. PBS provided a better way to do that, so we'll use that. Mike: Working on Object Properties dialog, a lot of effort has been put into it. PBS suggested some changes, will implement those. Martin asked if spin buttons would be fixed by this MR, Mike answered that it is a GDK issue. Martin suggested allowing top-down as well with left-right, but that still has issues with popovers. Martin suggested to add more factors in deciding by how much numbers change, something like a curve. Mike would be very welcome if anyone wants to give that a "spin". Mike and Martin discussed how we should propose and implement UX improvements/new features. Willy explained some motivations behind Henrique's original UX video. People had some really nice things to say about PBS, everyone is glad to have him in the project. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting June 11th 2025
by pulsar17 11 Jun '25

11 Jun '25

Hi all, Here are the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Willy, Ishaan, Elendil (KrIr17), Mike, Marc, Tav Next Meeting: June 20th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Willy - opened some new MRs - one is for UX, another is Revert button replacement (!7260). Had a problem with another MR (about recent files) - can't make error message show without an active desktop - Elendil left a comment. Asked is it even possible to do it without a desktop for menus, Mike had some suggestions - printing, Gtk Revealer, and asking Martin. Elendil also offered a potential precedent in the code. Also merged some MRs Ishaan - Resumed work on Incremental Selections, currently stuck with a C++ issue, will need some reading/research to overcome. Also working on proposing an Indian Contributor Meet with Vaibhav. Maren is helping with stickers and other booth materials (thanks for that). Currently will create a doc containing all information, and then ask on the mailing lists/chat for interest, and submit the final proposal to the board. Mike - Working on Object Properties dialog - slow to open on Linux, very UI heavy, creating widgets takes time. Working with Dialog docking, it's working on Linux and macOS, needs help for testing on Windows. Willy volunteered to test on a Windows machine. Tav (joined late - dealing with wasps) - working with Hatches (discovered issues with them during Nuremberg Summit). Default Hatches are not defined right, but it's easy to fix. Also working on converting hatches to paths, will be very useful for plotters and laser cutters. Explained hatches to Ishaan. They're not editable on canvas, this was broken sometime back. When they're fixed, could be nicely integrated into the Fill and Stroke dialog like Patterns were done. Willy has some issues with OpenGL on Windows, and was in a meeting for the UX initiative, might discuss that in the next dev meeting. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting June 3rd 2025
by Martin Owens 03 Jun '25

03 Jun '25

Dear Devs, Here is the meeting notes for this week's meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Charlotte, Marc, Jonathan, Mikekov, Tav, Willy, Vaibhav Next Meeting: June 11th https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Tav at the summit he spent most of his time getting the right to left text working which has three different bugs. Everything from aligment, to the wrong buttons and a third unnamed issue. Also reproduced the windows bug with the grid flashing in and out but hasn't fixed it yet. Martin worked on SPCSSAttr and he wants to refactor it away, a small discussion on doing that. PDF input extension having it's own preferences and getting them to use the standard set of preferences. Also worked on the UX policy for toolbars and focus on click, making sure we can test our UI and help future developers keep things consistant. Mikekov, still working on the object properties dialog taking new designs from Adam and Henrique in the UX/UI team. There was a good preentation at the Inkscape Summit. Martin recommends doing more UX research on a more grand redesign that involves repositioning all the toolbars, Mikekov will be doing a smoke test with the internal community to find out if there's anything massively wrong with it before continuing. Charlotte, introduces themselves and has been poking around the PDF import and try and make the import process so groups reflect the PDF. Martin talked about PDF too. Marc talked briefly about LGM and it will be a discussion for the next LGM, the meeting is on June 11th. Willy hasn't been up to much because of the exams, but is involved in the discussion about PNG comments which have attribution. We talked briefly about if this feature is desired and the consensus is that we don't really want to allow the user to export a PNG without Inkscape attribution, even from the command line. Jonathan has a meeting on Thusday with the Google Summer of Code students open to all. Jonathan reports about the meeting to get 1.5 released, which will include external help to fix issues in Gtk4 especially for macOS and windows. Jonathan asked Elendil if we should have a 1.5 alpha just on Linux to get more test coverage. Has a proposal which needs some more work and will be brought back to the developer team next week. Vaibhav, has been working on context menu taking a long time to open but can't reproduce. And working on the adding stop color in gradients tool. The developer team expresses that only contiguous nodes should have new stops added. Some discussion of our steam contract and following up with the SFC. They are looking into it as they now realise how important it is to Krita and how important it could be for us. Thanks for joining everyone! Martin,

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Inkscape 1.4.2
by Marc Jeanmougin 12 May '25

12 May '25

================== = Inkscape 1.4.2 = ================== Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.4.2 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2025/05/12/2-in-1-release-inkscape-142-is-out/ , or read the release notes at https://inkscape.org/doc/release_notes/1.4.2/Inkscape_1.4.2.html Download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4.2/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.4.2 is a maintenance and bugfix release, which brings you fixes for many critical or irritating bugs, and even a few new features. Release highlights: a new splash screen, providing a visual cue while Inkscape loads in the background initial support for importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve files a new extension to Clean up Paths substantially improved Affinity Designer files (.afdesign) import 20 crash/freeze fixes, many of which affected PDF import more than 50 other bug fixes and small improvements, among them improvements to Boolean operations, layer selection, minimal window width and restoration of Spray tool buttons' functionality and 15 updated translations ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, May 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 May '25

10 May '25

Dear Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: RdH, Martin, Anu, Aarav Oswal, Tav, Adam Belis, Marc Next meeting https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ is the late meeting on a Sunday. Bare this in mind! Release scheduling; René and Martin talk about the building of the 1.4.2 macOSX release. The tag is ready so he'll be uilding those after the meeting. Marc says everything looks good when he looked two days ago, so he went ahead and made the installers and tags. There's over 50 commits of translations because of how weblate works there tends to be multiple commits for each user. We formalise that each protected branch has a translation branch with the pot file updated to that protected branch so translations can happen as soon as posible. Tav has been working on context fill and context stroke which fixes a bunch of issues for inheritance. Including some crashes. Martin and Tav had a disagreement about how tests should be done and did not come to an agreement. Some discussion around the PDF output with various issues that has been spotted. Tav has worked on a crash when text flowed into space and you export selected item. Marc has been trying to draft some stuff on the future of LPEs. Martin suggests meeting to talk about the design. Tav suggests using a switch statement. Generated Items is the more generic name. A discussion develops that goes into some of the possibilities and details. René has been working on the move to the new mac statium infrastructure. Master is already working on the new system. 1.4.x is currently stalled as there are some issues remaining. His next tasks is working on that after the release. Up next will be looking into providing remote access to developers who don't have a macOS machine themselves. René needs to work out how to do it network wise and will provide a proposal for everyone when ready. It can be slow for openGL and we should explain this to people who use the system. Martin asked RdH about the process for doing capypdf in macOSX. We expect a 1.5 release in a year so we have time to work it out at the very least we will have a version for the very latest version. We check upstream macOSX version limitations. Marc reports on the GSoC. We have 5 students who have been accepted. On-Canvas spell checking, UI-Free Inkscape, AI file format support, Recolor Art Work, lib2geom improvements. Martin has worked on some PDF fixes as well as the next steps in design for color management. Running a design meeting this week. We talked about the hotel being paid and the trouble with getting the SFC to make sure this important aspect is finalised safely. Thanks everyone for coming.

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Developer Meeting; May 2nd 2025
by Martin Owens 02 May '25

02 May '25

Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Martin, Tav, Jonathan, Willy, Velfel, Elendil Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ (May 10th) We start by welcoming Velfet; from Serbia. We talk about topics. They've started by looking into the code and getting familar with how things work. We share advice. Mikekov; Is back to working on the object properties dialog. Will be presenting at the Summit and will hopefully get something deliverable. Jonthan; Announces that he will be stepping away from Inkscape after the Nuerumberg Summit. He's also been working Illustrator work and waiting for GSoC. Tav; Has been working on context-fill and context-stroke issues in rendering and PDF export. Martin has also been working on context work for the new PDF output. Willy; Has got his first feature merged this week. Congratulations! A new settings component which allows a folder to be changed and opened. Has added a new async method for checking if files are valid. Elendil; Has been traveling. Martin; capypdf work and getting frustrated with the CI build system. We talked briefly about the OPSOSL situation and that the PLC is working with the SFC about solving it. We worked on merge requests for 20 minutes, reviewing tricky code requests. Big thanks to everyone! We talked about the introduction of an AI policy in the developer team. We want to know if the quality of contributions will impact review time. Martin brought the question of the roadmap team. He's collecting feedback in order to put together a proposal which can encapsulate the guardrails of what a team would do, and what it's limitations would be. It would involve meeting at least quarterly, and not being a closed team that made up all of the ideas itself, but would instead be responsible for sourcing and combining the ideas in our community into a roadmap. He's asked everyone to think about it and get back to him if they have ideas or want to talk further. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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1.4.2 release plan
by Marc Jeanmougin 17 Apr '25

17 Apr '25

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

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

16 Apr '25

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

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

15 Apr '25

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

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

31 Mar '25

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

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

23 Mar '25

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

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

16 Mar '25

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

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

07 Mar '25

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

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Developer Meeting; Feb 27th
by Martin Owens 27 Feb '25

27 Feb '25

Dear Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Adam Belis, Ishann, Jonathan, Marc, Mikekov Next Meeting: Release for 1.4.1, Marc compiling for RC and bug fixing is being prioritised. Inkscape was accepted into Google Summer of Code for 2025. Vectors has been informed so that an announcement can be constructed. First meeting of the Bug Accelerator Project has had it's first meeting. Jonathan asked about making sure Krlr17 is signed up to the milestone, but that appears not to be possible on GitLab. We'll have to just make sure we're watching the page. Mikekov asked about going to the Inkscape Summit and if we can start booking tickets. Jonathan said the timeline is tomorrow for submitting. Martin asked about information around who is going and when they will arrive to better aid the coordination. Mikekov was working on slicing his megga merge request into pieces. Especially his color okhsv work. Asked for a merge request on 6945. Martin has been working on the PDF work so it's finished in time to be able to work on the Bug Accelerator Program. The output is looking great and most of the issues are fixed and most of the features and done. Imbeded SVG images are next to support and will be rendered as vectors. The builds for Windows need help and the builds for macOS will be really questionable consider the XCode requirements for the llvm for C++23. Jonthan has been working on the async extensions work for inkstitch. W talked for a little while about how to make object-set selection saving and where that data should be saved. Adam has been working on some merge requests and back porting. Jonathan wants to talk about dong bug fixing on the master branch and doing work both local and upstream on Gtk issues and cleaning up the remaining problems for all platforms. He needs help with creating a list of work items. Adam was asked to help with the prioritisation and tagging. René negotiated a new agreement with MacStatium for better CI and a remote machine to be able to connect to and test development. Last minute chat about how to talk about UX issues, sometimes they are labeled as feature requests when they aren't really feature requests but valid UX problems. Figuring out if they should go into inbox or if they can go in the main tracker is sometimes a gray area. But UX is important enough for us to take them as real issues and not just features so labeling is important. That's it for this week. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Feb 19th 2025
by Martin Owens 19 Feb '25

19 Feb '25

Developer Meeting 2025-02-19 Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ Attending: Jonthan, Martin, Mikekov, Siddharth Mishra, Tav, Elendil (Krlr17), Ishann Next Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Jonthan presides and introduces the meeting, letting people know the format for the meetings. Martin takes notes. Firstly we tak about Nueumburg. There is a process for reimbursement when coing to an event. It can take a number of weeks although we can book travel with the SFC. Although Mikekov would like to book their own ticket as it's a long flight with connections and they want to be able to have control over that process. After $75 per per person per night a partiipant might choose to book their own hotel; but will be required to cover anything over the baseline cost themselves otherwise people can stay in the group booking at the hostal. Jonthan was in touch with Tracy about getting the grants program off the ground. It looks like we could with basically real time access to information about what is coming in. We don't need a real time banking, just information about when emails come in from stripe and paypal which will give us a lot more information to be able to run fundraising campaigns. There's progress here. Bugfix accelerator, the hiring comittee is Jonthan and Floryan put out the call for applications and confirmations will be going out soon. Jonthan also worked on afdesign format support.Creating complex objects is producing good ideas for the filters and lpe structures in Inkscape. Martin has been doing PDF work, fixing various remiahing issues to get the merge request ready for review and testing. Glyph issues wih Chinese, raster images, markers and making a filter rasterizer that isn't dependant on cairo. Martin, Jussi, Jonathan ansd Tav has a meeting with the PDF Association about the quality of the PDF output we'll be aiming for and we were able to clarify a bunch of things in that meeting. Mikekov has been working on a replacement for the tab widgets used in the dialog panels. There were a bunch of issues with the Gtk default widgets we were using and since PBS has written a new implimentation Mikekov has been able to reuse it. Mishra s new and is looking into the project for doing Google Summer of Code has been busy recently but will be available the end of March. This would be a good time to check the projects list to make sure it's fit and if things should be removed or if you want to be a mentor. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/master/doc/gsoc/summerofcode.md… The developer team spent 15 minutes working on merge request reviews and deciding on how to unblock or categorise various code. People were able to claim review work to keep things moving. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting.

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[Apply Now] Bugfix Accelerator Program 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 13 Feb '25

13 Feb '25

Dear all, upon request of the Developer working group, the PLC recently voted [1] for another round of the bugfix accelerator program! Experienced contributors can now apply to fix issues for the 1.4.x release series, and get paid by the project! For the first time, we now also offer an administrator position to help with the triaging / issue selection workload, again targeting experienced contributors. As a rough guideline, we expect from developers to have 5 merged MRs in inkscape/inkscape since the 1.3 release (July 23, 2023). Please read the document attached to the vote carefully if you plan to apply. Contractors are expected to set aside at least 10hrs per week for the program (last year’s experience has shown that doing the contract in parallel to a full-time job is not sustainable). The application should contain: * your gitlab username * how much time per week you can allocate to the program * specific areas of expertise (developer) / experience with project management (adminstrative position) * experience with contracting work We do NOT need a full CV. Send your application to jobs(a)lists.inkscape.org (private mailing list) or use the reply-to function on this email. We will respond when we see it. While we will not offer both developer and administrator position to a single individual, feel encouraged to apply for both positions if you think you would be a good fit for any of them. Deadline for applications: Thursday Feb 20, 2025, 23:59 UTC The hiring team consists of Marcin Floryan and myself. We will announce the contractors shortly after the deadline. Best regards, Jonathan [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.or…

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[Register Now] Inkscape Summit in Nuremberg, Germany from May 24 - May 28, 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 12 Feb '25

12 Feb '25

Dear all, as you might have heard, I'll organize another Inkscape meetup just before Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM), which takes place in Nuremberg this year. The event starts on Saturday, May 24 (morning) and ends on Wednesday, May 28 (noon). Afterwards, you can opt to stay for LGM (May 28 - May 31), and I've reserved hotel rooms until Sunday, June 1st. If you want to participate: - Carefully read https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/qPNibLwCAbwpJ8a and apply as indicated in the document. - *If you need a visa, get the process started immediately. *Get in touch with the SFC to book flights (project_leadership channel on RocketChat), set up a visa appointment, give me the details needed for an invitation letter. This is somewhat urgent as I can only cancel rooms until March 21. Best regards Jonathan Neuhauser

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Developer Meeting Feb 11th 2025
by Martin Owens 11 Feb '25

11 Feb '25

Dear all, Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Elendil (Krlr17), Martin, Jonathan, Marc, Ishann Elendil reports that the Bug tracking tasks have caused less burn out since there are more people who can help with the work. Jonthan reports that the Frankfurt event went well. The presence of Kristina from Inkstitch and the availability of the contributors to talk about text support made the event useful. Overall the event was fairly good from a cost perspective. There were organisational challenges with people arriving and leaving at different times but this was to be expected. A vote has been created for the next event. We're waiting on plc members to vote so we can continue with that work. There is a 14 day window for paying for the hotel so it is timely. We talked about the 1.4.x contract and what the next steps. Marcin Floryan is helping with the candidate selection steps and will be put into a mailing list with Jonathan. Marc did that task during the meeting. Martin has been working on PDF support and was contacted by the CTO of the PDF association and will be meeting with them to talk about how to make Inkscape more compilient and consistant with it's PDF output. For example with atomic stroke/fill operations. Marc hasn't been up to much since the hackfest. Finished the weblate server for translations. It has been recieved quiet well by the translations team so far on the chat, there are decisions about how it should integrate with our current workflow. Elendil requests that a specific fix for PDF input be fixed for 1.4.1. Do we have a release date for the 1.4.1? We looked at what vectors might have said in their last meeting, but found nothing related to the release. There are some pending backports that should be merged before we cut the release but we're otherwise ready to go as soon as those tasks are completed or rejected. We reviewed the specific fixes that we would need to bring over. Ishann contiued with the markers refactoring and will be working on further tests for markers. Martin has rebased his PDF work on top of that. Thanks to everyone who came to today's meeting

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Meeting notes Dev Meeting Feb 03, 2025
by Jonathan Neuhauser 03 Feb '25

03 Feb '25

Dear all, meeting notes below. Best, Jonathan Developer meeting Feb 3, 2025 Attendees: Ishaan, ltlnx, Manpreet, Marc, Martin, Mike, Vaibhav, Kristina, Rhett (both InkStitch), Ravi, Jonathan Partially in-person in Frankfurt :) Ishaan: Worked on stroke to path for markers. Martin will help with tests. Jonathan: is currently working on a new extensions type (Preview extension). Will also work on some contracting proposals this week. Some discussion about whether we should have https://alpha.inkscape.org/bug-migration/leaderboard.htmlfor fixing instead of migrating bugs. Brief discussion about another contracting thing related to canvas performance. ltlnx will collect the issues and talk to pbs about it. Kristina and Rhett (InkStitch) have joined us, enabling relationship building with downstream and also talking about their needs and getting things done :) Manpreet: making good progress with Illustrator import Marc: cleared out pending merge requests, is working on improving the translations submission progress, making it more usable with issues in Gitlab. Martin: worked on the PDF exporter (text, transparent gradients, ...) Mike: worked on implementing the settings dialog proposal Ravi: works on getting the Filter editor ready for primetime Vaibhav: trying to finish the text on path merge request. Some comments from Ishaan and ltlnx. Performance issues with Text tool open are fixed. Next up: handle icons, some handle issues, adding the settings on the object properties dialog

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Inkscape Developer Meeting, 26th Jan 2025
by Martin Owens 26 Jan '25

26 Jan '25

Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Marc, Ishann, ltlnx, Tav Next Event: Feb 3, 2025, 3:00 PM UTC / https://inkscape.org/cals/event/64/ We talked about the LGM meeting and what time it was going to be held. Martin talked about various fixes in the past week as well as continuing work on the PDF exporter. There has been significant friction with upstream with font support and regressions for ligature support which is slowing things down. Martin also worked on color-font support in object-to-path after talking with Tav. The work is incomplete as the glyphs are not positioned correctly. Ishaan has been adding tests for the marker refactoring branch he's working on. Adding tests for paths with markers and bounding boxes and will next work on stroke to path tests. He asked about how to test markers in the stroke to path and we ended up advising Ishann to general small sp-item based pngs to test against before and after running the function. There was also a question about the size of markers in the object to marker and there were two possible problems. Tav suggested that it might be the stroke width itself and using UserUnits preference. Martin suggested that the viewBox might not be set and it is inheriting it from the document. ltlnx has been trying to fix the on canvas support for non-latin language. Looking into the font config situation and if it can be used. At one point the fallbacks did work in Linux but they all don't work now. Tav submitted a merge request for color fonts, it's VERY draft. All OpenType color font types will be supported. Martin talked with Tav about the object to path support and delaying it until Tav's work is complete. Thanks for coming everyone! Martin,

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Fwd: [Hosting] Help Recognize and Acknowledge Glue Work in FOSS Projects
by Maren Hachmann 24 Jan '25

24 Jan '25

FYI: -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- Betreff: [Hosting] Help Recognize and Acknowledge Glue Work in FOSS Projects Datum: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 09:06:07 -0800 Von: Lance Albertson <lance(a)osuosl.org> An: hosting(a)osuosl.org Hosted projects, I am reaching out to share an important initiative led by Professor Anita Sarma [1] from Oregon State University. The project aims to recognize and acknowledge "glue work" in Free and Open Source Software projects. Glue work includes essential tasks such as mentoring, maintenance code, bug fixing, and documentation, which are critical to the health of FOSS projects but often go unrecognized. Professor Sarma has a distinguished history of contributions to the FOSS community. Her work includes projects like Palantír, which raises awareness among configuration management workspaces [2], and Tesseract, an interactive visual exploration tool for socio-technical relationships in software development [2]. She has also focused on making FOSS more inclusive by identifying errors in user interaction design [3]. To better understand where glue work can be traced and how it can be appropriately acknowledged, a survey has been designed. Your participation in this survey would be incredibly valuable. It takes just */5 minutes/* to complete and will help spotlight the full spectrum of contributions that keep our FOSS projects thriving. Please take a moment to fill out the survey and share your insights: https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_72LK7QHqqCwoqW2 <https://oregonstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_72LK7QHqqCwoqW2> Thank you for your time and contribution to this important effort. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns! Thanks! [1] https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/people/anita-sarma <https://engineering.oregonstate.edu/people/anita-sarma> [2] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=shMjCasAAAAJ&hl=en <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=shMjCasAAAAJ&hl=en> [3] https://blog.communitydata.science/fossy-wrap-up-anita-sarmas-lightning-tal… <https://blog.communitydata.science/fossy-wrap-up-anita-sarmas-lightning-tal…> -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab

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Developer Meeting Notes: Jan 10th 2025
by Martin Owens 10 Jan '25

10 Jan '25

Dear Dev Team. Big thanks to everyone at this week's dev meeting: Cal: https://inkscape.org/cals/1/ Attendees: Marc, Mikekov, Rene, Tav, KrIr17, Martin, Ishaan, Jonathan Next Meeting: Early meeting, Jan 18th, Saturday Rene: Plans to move the MacOS pipeline stuff to the Infrastructure group; Also has been in touch with MacStadium, and setting up CIs for Gnome projects Garbled font issue ("tofu") has been identified and fixed in pango. We can finally get rid of it with a dependency update. Yay! KrIr17: Worked on fixing shortcuts in floating dialog windows Ishaan: Working on adding tests based on Rafael's proposal Marc hasn't worked on much and has been on holiday but finding it a little difficult to attend the new meeting times. Jonathan; Hackfest dates: - Hotel is booked from Sunday (2.2.)- Thursday (6.2.) morning for all participants that haven't told me otherwise (checkout 9:30 am). For those who have already booked flights, they can stay until Friday morning. - Conference room is reserved Monday (3.2.) - Wednesday (5.2.) evening. Projector available. - Hotel address is Haus der Jugend e.V., Deutschherrnufer 12, 60594 Frankfurt am Main - If you also want to attend FOSDEM, we can take a train to Frankfurt together: I’ll take the train at 16:25 from Brussels to Frankfurt, which arrives at Frankfurt/Main main station (2km from the youth hostel) at 19:31. - I haven't figured out the hotel reimbursement procedure with the SFC yet, working on that. Martin worked on a bunch of fixes, and some tentative features. Asked about doing 1.4.1. Jonathan says he would be in support of running a bugfix contract for 1.4.x if the testing team thinks it's necessary. Elendil reported on where we are on the project and some concerns about forward porting and back porting. Jonathan: Manpreet has been working on the AI import extensions, adding support for shapes and text. It's looking solid. Linearity Curve (ex-Vectornator) has locked out users by making the software paid. Someone has been working on a Curve->Svg importer, and wants to integrate it with Inkscape. Plus there has been a a lot of progress on Affinity importer, which would be nice to have in 1.4.1 Also worked on an extension showcasing automatic packaging and translation of extensions. Mikekov worked on the update modified signals. He tried a bunch of different possible techniques. Ishaan asked about markers and the transform tag on marker tags. Krlr17 asked about text attributes using pre and pre-wrap and older versions of the files. See you all next time!

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Developer Meeting: 2nd Jan 2025
by Martin Owens 02 Jan '25

02 Jan '25

Happy New year Inkscape, This is the first Developer meeting of 2025 and we spent almost two hours going through lots of different topics: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Elendil, Ishaan, ScislaC, Vaibhav, Tav Next: Jan 10th 2025, later meeting time. Organise an event in India? There's enough people in that part of the world to have people meet and pay for travel and hosting. There are FOSS events and Ishaan tried to organise an event but asking in Vectors but no one was interested. Martin suggested making community with other Asian contributors directly. India is a big country alone and travel can be longer than expected. Three hour flight to Bangalor from Dehli. Martin advises to get in touch with the plc when plans are known and we'd put together a funding. Elendil shared the contributors map from 2023 from where everyone was as an example for how spread out the contributor community is. Vaibhav and Martin talked about using the caps, scroll lock key. We talked about the comments and how we'd run a user experience study on the ideas and using them as modifiers in the code. ScislaC asked about AppImages and how we can best test and narrow down when an issue first happened. Martin explained his personal process of using release AppImages for older issues and pipeline results for newer ones. Vaibhav asked about releasing AppImages in the GitLab release. Elindil reports that AppImages from three years ago have been deleted, but anything newer are available. Martin knows that space on GitLab can sometimes be a problem and pipeline results are deleted. There are still issues with getting and retaining windows developers. The buld time is very very slow on windows and this is causing problems. We told each other stories of how we were introduced to Free Software, and the change in the community over those years and what technologies brought people into the ecosystem and community. Vaibhav has been working on text on path and it involves a lot of maths which can be quite complicated. We talked about the dificulty of fixing some of the problems in boolops, color and other parts of inkscape that need more of a computer science background. There are a bunch of new nodes which allow the text to path to be controlled better. Vaibhav worked on a few thigns at the same time, worked on pending reviews in GSoC. We're reaching the end for the node editing improvements but the pen editing functionality wil take more time to complete. We looked at the design and some of the ways the MR needs to be improved. Elendil has been working on shortcut handling. There is a GLOBAL vs. LOCAL setting which we have set to GLOBAL despite this not being the default there is no commit message or comments which explain why we have this setup. Ishaan has continued their work on marker transforms. Martin says he can help with the cairo use of the API with marker z-order data. There some other regressions in markers which are separate but could do with being tested. We went through the way to write unit tests. ScislaC brought to our attention an old issue with the modification keys where it used to be possible to change the scale of objects by hovering over one of the resize controls. Martin has said he will fix the issue if reported. See you all next time! Martin,

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Developer Meeting Notes, December 25th 2024
by pulsar17 26 Dec '24

26 Dec '24

Hi all, Following are the meeting notes for the Developer Meeting on 25th December 2024: Attending: Ishaan, Jonathan, Mike, Tav, Elendil (Krlr17) Ishaan: Working on Martin's centralised marker transforms refactor, stuck on definition of no stroke. Mike suggested to ping Rafael as he worked recently on markers. Some discussion on harlines. Mike: Comboboxes to dropdown replacement. Working on breaking Object Properties MR into smaller MRs for better reviewability. Also worked on Spin button implementation. Tav: Working on color fonts rendering with different font types with recent cairo and harfbuzz. A brief explanation of color fonts and their different types (very interesting!) Elendil: asked Tav whether the PDF text import fixes need forward-porting (they do). Some discussion on whether a newer pango version is required. Jonathan would like to use Inkscape's Mac that Tav is using during the Summit to check a file that only works on Mac. Jonathan also wanted to check if someone would like to submit a proposal for LGM from Inkscape - Supporting a Proprietary Format, GTK4 migration, CMYK work might be interesting topics. Some discussion of 1.4.1, Marc and Martin might be the right people to ask about that. Merry Christmas to everyone! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Dev Meeting notes Dec 9, 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 09 Dec '24

09 Dec '24

Dev Meeting notes 2020-12-09 Present: Elendil, Ishaan, René, Tav, Mike, Jonathan, Martin Elendil was fixing some bugs on master that interfered with testing. Ishaan has been working on https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6844. Martin also has been working on refactoring markers, so there's some collaboration possibility here. Martin: The CMYK Export supports most features now, except for text. Also some refactoring because markers code was duplicated all over the codebase, and went out of sync over time. Needs to talk to Tav about text. There are many different ways of writing out text. Tav prefers to use a method that is relatively easy to read back in. Tav has been working on fixing a PDF import bug where text was incorrectly positioned. Mike has discovered that the results from our LCH color picker differes from what browsers do when the color doesn't convert properly to sRGB. There is an iterative function defined in the CSS Colors Level 4 spec how to deal with those. Mike is working on integrating this into Inkscape. (https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-4/#binsearch) Martin remarks that this is related to "rendering intent" in LCMS2. Needs some more discussion on whether CSS reinvented this concept or accidentally fixed it to some specific value. Martin is looking into support for HDR colors in Inkscape. Some technical discussion about color spaces follows. Mike also added an experimental XYZ color picker. René contacted MacStadium again, they are in the final stages of drafting a sponsorship agreement (mostly their internal process), so we can get some more infrastructure. He will let us know if there is something to sign. New infrastructure is expected to be available for Christmas. The GNOME project is also in talks with MacStadium (as in, René is also running CI for them). Currently the infrastructure is not shared between GNOME and Inkscape, but René might suggest this again. He has also begun to rework how we package Python. Currently they are using custom shell scripts, but a build tool like jhbuild would be nicer. Hence, he's transitioning to Conan (https://conan.io/). This work will also allow to transition to Python 3.12 on Mac. Martin asks whether we should together a proposal to fund bugfixing for 1.4.1. Elendil agrees. - backporting - updating translation - updating graphics - fix some egregious issues reported since 1.4 Some additional discussion about asking for donations. Suggestions: Downloadable swag after you donate (e.g. some kind of file that makes the user interface shiny) or a dialog that pops up periodically like in Thunderbird. Martin remarks that this is not only about donations for the project, but also giving users means to participate (as contributors, or as decision-makers when contributing financially). Maybe even some kind of "Reddit Place" instead that it's a huge shape builder image where users can "buy" areas that they can draw on? Would be a nice experiment. The dev team plans to put together a proposal for an infrastructure project to update the website (Django) and add stripe integration.

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Developer meeting, Nov 15 2024
by pulsar17 15 Nov '24

15 Nov '24

Present: Ishaan, Elendil, Martin. Mike, Tav Tav: Incorrect implementation of text pickboxes, the code seems wrong. It does the calculation many times and doesn't cache the result We looked at various boxes related to text picking and selecting and if they were using these data. The goal is to be able to get color fonts like emoji to display. Also worked on an MR replacing FileDialog with new GtkDialogs. These new dialogs check when you're overwriting a file. Some things might need to be moved from "Save As" dialog to the Export dialog. Martin: Tuning test suite for PDF export, an HTML table to see the tests better. Some discussion on different color spaces as they relate to SVG and the PDF export. PDF Exporter doesn't need to be too clever. Mike: Mostly working on mega Color MR - roundtrip color conversion, etc. Some discussion on what should be present in the XML document when user selects the color in a different color space. Martin suggested that the picker should save to the default color space. The picker should also say which space it's saving in. Users should also be able to select different color spaces if they want. Some discussion on what happens when you select the color with a picker and how inkscape saves that in XML. Ishaan is looking at the page tool for selection cues as it does a similar thing when you drag around the page. It creates an outline and it covers a lot of cases for example markers. Though Ishaan found some bugs for example missing start markers on a closed path. Mike suggested to show some visual cue when objects are locked, maybe less saturated node handles and selection cue. Martin informed someone is helping with the website tests. Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer meeting, Nov 7 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 07 Nov '24

07 Nov '24

Present: Elendil, Ishaan Arora, Martin, Mike, René, Jabiertxof Elendil reports that the bugtracker has been pretty healthy recently. Ishaan continued working on selection cues, working on the design. Some discussion about how to implement this. Jonathan briefly presented three proposed contract development projects: 1) GTK4 cross-platform fixes, 2) Improving Windows developer experience / dev documentation, 3) Website upgrades / better use of the CDN. Help is appreciated to formulate the goals of these projects, please contact him if you can help. Some discussion on 2). The prime goal is to improve the developer experience on Windows, to attract Windows developers. Questions: How much effort is necessary to build Inkscape with Visual Studio? Can we do it with GCC, or do we need to patch msvc? Martin raises the point that another compiler increases complexity of the codebase. René thinks that we should offer a native build experience, that means using msvc. He will look into whether there is a convenient way to hook up clang or gcc with VS to make sure that's not an option. There is a certain risk that this doesn't pay off - if we fail to attract Windows developers, this infrastructure would rot. René: how many wrappers would we need to create? Martin is working on PDF export as a C++ internal extension, and is improving the new upstream Library CapyPDF at the same time. This work will occupy him for some time. He describes the relationship with upstream as good. Mike has worked on the way we develop themes; they can now be written on SASS. He's also worked on decoding LAB colors from Adobe Color files. Some technical discussion between Mike and Martin about the Color API. René has been phasing out jobs on the Intel runner. He's on a bit of a break, waiting for the new MacStadium infrastructure, so he can set it up. The donated infrastructure would be valued around 700 USD per month. On the Windows side he's looking for cloud hoster that can provide Windows infrastructure for us. Martin thinks that this is important for programs like the Bugfix Accelerator. After the meeting, we've looked at some MRs.

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Seeking your thoughts on LLM-generated contributions
by Daniel Pono Takamori 04 Nov '24

04 Nov '24

Heya Inkscape Developers, Following up on an issue that came up a few months ago about code and other uses of LLMs; we at Software Freedom Conservancy have been hearing from member projects that people are asking whether they can submit code to these projects that was generated by large language models (LLMs), sometimes called AI coding assistants. We'd like to better understand the nature of these requests, how much LLM-generated code has been offered to these projects, and generally how you're feeling about the situation. To do this, we will be holding three different sessions, where you are welcome to join and share your thoughts and any details so far on these types of contributions. The sessions will all be run in the same way with the same topic - we are running three in order to hopefully allow as many people from around the world to attend as possible. Our Director of Compliance, Denver Gingerich, will be hosting some sessions at the times below for all our member projects to discuss the issue. date -d "2024-10-29 20:00 UTC" date -d "2024-11-01 14:00 UTC" date -d "2024-11-06 04:00 UTC" We'll be meeting in this room for the sessions: https://bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/oss-nnj-obi-jea We are excited to see some of you there and are looking forward to drafting appropriate recommendations based on what we hear! Thanks, -Pono

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Inkscape 1.4 released!
by Marc Jeanmougin 13 Oct '24

13 Oct '24

================ = Inkscape 1.4 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.4 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2024/10/13/inkscape-launches-version-14-powerful-… and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.4 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following more than one year of development after the 1.3 major release, and paving the way for the next version of Inkscape. The highlights of this release are: - Filter Gallery: it has never been so easy to find the best filter for your needs! This new dialog features previews, categories and search. - Modular grids & improved axonometric grids: set the grid angle by ratio for isometric designs and use modular grids to plan layouts and make icons! - Swatches dialog and palette file handling improved: quick access to dialog layout controls, search for colors, and open different palette file formats! - Unified font browser preview: when activated in the preferences, use it to quickly browse through your font collection. Try it out and give your feedback! - Customizable handles: Power users with CSS knowledge can now customize the styling and basic shape of all the handles! - Fast image clipping with the Shape Builder: raster graphics can now be clipped into multiple sections using the Shape Builder. - Affinity Designer File Import - Support for internal links in exported PDF files - A whole new icon set - There's even more: faster extensions, new templates for folding booklets, additional options in Ruler and Taper Stroke LPE, new keyboard shortcuts, changed node deletion behavior, preview in Spray tool, many new command line options, more supported color palette formats (e.g. CIELAB, Adobe Color Book and Adobe Swatch Exchange), updated translations and many bug fixes. The new features are showcased and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.4/Inkscape_1.4.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Re: SVGs from Inkscape do not display correctly in Firefox or EoG
by Shlomi Fish 08 Oct '24

08 Oct '24

Hi Fernando, please reply to all / the mailing-list next time. On Mon, 07 Oct 2024 12:51:25 -0300 Fernando Lozano <fernando(a)lozano.eti.br> wrote: > All advice in this thread was misguided. Using WebP or PNG is nonsense, > I need and want vector graphics. SVG is the web standard for that and > the reason Inkscape exists. The fact that it failed with multiple > browsers and also with a standalone viewer (eog) was a clear indication > it is something with inkscape. > My advice to use WebP was given after someone else mentioned using JPEG instead of PNG. So it wasn't "nonsense" in its context. I should note that https://github.com/tdewolff/minify and similar can be used to try to minify SVGs and use them as smaller bandwidth SVGs. Despite that, I realised that the minified SVG for the logo of https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Terminator/Liberation/ was prohibitedly large, and used webp instead, so there's that. > It was not a bug fixed many years ago, it was working fine on 1.1.1, > appeared on 1.3.2, and looks like fixed with 1.4 beta. > > Em 28/09/2024 02:59, Shlomi Fish escreveu: > > > Hi Steve / all, > > > > On Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:49:06 -0400 > > Steve Litt <slitt(a)troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > > > Fernando Lozano said on Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:28:56 -0300 > > > > I opened 2313610 - SVG files from Inkscape don't render in a web > > browser (nor eog) 4 [1] on Fedora bugs about this issue. It contains > > two test files, one the export from google slides, other after edits > > by Inkscape. > > For the most part, I've stopped rendering SVG inside browsers, for > > performance reasons. On anything but the simpler SVGs, the time it > > takes the browser to go through all the transitions on transitions on > > transitions takes seriously finite time. > > > > I convert to JPG, or if I need more quality PNG, and show the converted > > file in the web page. > > Note that there is also WebP and similar formats, which are smaller than > JPEG > and PNG, and look better and crispier than > JPEG: https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/site_loads_quickly.xhtml . > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > > > http://444domains.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Inkscape Users mailing list -- inkscape-user(a)lists.inkscape.org > > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-user-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org -- Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/ https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-computer-settings/ - my dotfiles Chuck Norris helps the gods that help themselves. — https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - https://shlom.in/reply .

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Meeting Oct 6th 2024
by Martin Owens 06 Oct '24

06 Oct '24

Dear Developers, This week's developer meeting was a quiet one; it was Rene, Martin, Tav and Marc. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ We talked about the release and making sure everything is lined up. Marc is happy about the translations system he's created. Rene has one final commit to update the windows build infra, nothing for macOS. For the future, Rene is not going to upgrade the macOS version but is going to keep the intel machine so it can be booted up during releases, We looked at a merge request outstanding which was all about tanslations. There have been a couple of crashes which have been fixed and merged in time for the 1.4.x We reviewed the locations for various projects in gitlab and if things are organised correctly. Martin has been working on the capypdf integration, between C and C++ APIs and upstream headers. The next meeting is Monday the 14th October. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2024: Results
by Martin Owens 02 Oct '24

02 Oct '24

Dear devs, Big thanks to everyone who filled out the survey. I'm attaching the PDF of the results here so we can have a saved record of it. There's some really interesting comments and results. TLDR; 1. We need more windows devs 2. Build instructions are too unreliable 3. People aren't finding mentors 4. Merge requests aren't being reviewed quickly enough What prompted this survey was a view that people were bouncing off contributing this year and I wanted to know for sure what was going on. I think we certainly have build issues, but it's not the only issues new contributors are facing. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Layer issue
by Alexander Roalter 30 Sep '24

30 Sep '24

I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I have the following issue and I’m not sure if it is supposed to work that way: I have a document with nested layers, let’s say + Layer A | +- Layer B | +- Layer C + Layer D +- Layer E For editing purposes, only layer A and B are visible, C, D and E are hidden. If I now use the command line interface of Inkscape to export the image in various configurations, I do the following: select-all:layers; selection-hide; select-clear select-by-id:D selection-unhide select-by-id:E selection-unhide and then export as png... Through this I want to initially hide *ALL* layers and only turn on the layers I want. But apparently, select-all:layers only selects the topmost layers A and D, but does not change the settings for B, C and E. I know that nested layers were only introduced later, could it be that select-all:layers was never updated to reflect this? Or would a new option for select all (e.g. select-all:nested-layers, or select-all:layers:depth=... ) be a sensible option? My main point is: I want to be able to switch on individual layers (because I know their ID), but I want to be able to switch off *ALL* layers before doing so, without knowing all their IDs. And I don't want to store the original SVG with all layers switched off, because in editing, I usually have some of the layers switched on (latest/last configuration I’m currently working on). -- cheers, Alex

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Developer Meeting 28/09/2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 28 Sep '24

28 Sep '24

Dear all, here are the notes from today's meeting. Dev meeting Sep 28 2024 Present: Tav, Mc, Jonathan, Martin 1.4-rc was uploaded to the website. Ravi is supposed to restart his GSoC in the upcoming week. Tav hast been working on the File dialogs. Opening: saving is working on his PC. Preview is handled by the file browser instead of ourselves. Saving is difficult, because it relies on the extension of the target file name to chose the format. There is no option to add custom fields. Tav proposes to let the export dialog decide the format to save to, and the file chooser there only decide about the filename. The settings button there can be used to set all options specific to a file format (e.g. SVG: save as plain SVG, clean up css, and so on). In general, the Import / Export system is way over-engineered. At the same time, a rework of import/export on the command line is in order. PBS's MR does the "minimum in order to get it to work", but doesn't address the proposed architectural / UX changes, so it goes into a different direction. Jonathan has worked on the Extensions system. The final target is to completely separate out python dependencies - nothing is installed by default, and extensions authors needs so specify their dependencies same as in any ordinary Python package. This makes extensions more backwards-compatible with older Inkscape versions, and allow authors to request any dependency they want. For now, the first step was splitting out inkex into a new repository (svgpie) and setting up a new pipeline and build system there. Martin is compiling Inkscape master on the new Pop!OS, seems to work. Marc has worked on the translations system, trying to simplify the workflow for translators. Some discussion related to pre-release checklists. Need to unify them - there is one written by Nathan, one written by Vectors, and one on the Wiki. After the end of the meeting, Martin and Marc worked on this Martin has received a few more responses on the Developer Survey (24 in total). Almost everyone identified as a programmer. Half of them were active in 2024, almost all of them work on Debian or Fedora/Arch. Build instructions are found, but they only work for 1/3. The vast majority of contributors are motivated by public service and personal learning. Issues raised: - developer documentation is all over the place - Python extensions need more how-to's - Windows should use the native toolchain (msvc) - Merge request take too long to approve / merge. - Code base is well-organized, but is a lot to understand. Detailed results follow on the mailing list. Martin proposes to move all developer documentation from website & wiki into the repository, to get more contributions to it and make it more organized. The website still needs to provide the required information to get started with contributing, e.g. how to check out the repository and linking to the compile instructions (then a md file in the repo). There is general agreement with this idea. We discussed (lack of) Windows developers. Consensus is we need to invest into the infrastructure - building using Windows-native tools, giving Windows dev the experience they are used to, and updating the documentation. Maybe conduct developer experience interviews? This would be target developer experience, not CI. Martin wants to talk to René first. Marc will update the install_dependencies script to not break if libspelling is not found. Best regards Jonathan

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Weird PDF export issue (page size)
by Alexander Roalter 26 Sep '24

26 Sep '24

Hi, lately, I came upon this weird beavior when exporting to PDF: I have to base documents of size A4, the only difference is that the 2nd document has a page definition. If I open the 1st document (empty.svg, without the page definition), and export it as PDF, I get a PDF of size A4. Uncmpressing the PDF with pdftk shows a mediabox of size [0 0 595.275591 841.889764] (divide 595.275591 by 72 and multiply by 25.4, we get 210mm, as expected) If I now open the 2nd document (page.svg, with the page definition), and export it with exactly the same settings, I get a PDF which is slightly larger. In the Acrobat reader, it shows up as 210.3×297.0 mm, and looking at the uncompressed PDF the mediabox now has a size of [0 0 596 842], i.e. rounded up to the next integer. (596 / 72 * 2.54 = 210.25555mm) The PDF export options about rounding do not have any effect. This is with Inkscape 1.3.2, I checked back with yesterday’s devel snapshot: now the empty.svg is also exported oversized (rounded up), the mediabox is now always rounded up to the next integer. -- cheers, Alex

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Developer meeting 20th Sep 2024
by Martin Owens 20 Sep '24

20 Sep '24

Dear inkscape developers, Our meeting this week is as follows. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Marc, René, Jonathan Next date: September 28th Martin wanted to try populating a "Roadmap" which documents in the meeting what the developer team as a whole is doing. This is an effort that KDE uses to encourage contributors and gives them a way to know what's important to the whole project, even if people can work on anything they like to. The way this would work is to have a graphic in the meeting with he roadmap and some space to draw. Jonathan thinks this kind of thing can go on our website too, with the idea that we can frame it as a direction of travel for the whole project and what we'd like to be able to do in the future. Release for 1.4 release candidate. Marc, Martin and Rene talked about the issues still outstanding and what kind of risk we would be taking. Everyone present was happy enough with the quality of the beta3 to continue with the rc schedule: Wednesday September 25th for the RC, this is the last day for any extensions patches. October 7th is the last day for translations, and October 9th is the scheduled date for release. Rene and Marc talked about a window packaging bug which adds windows CRLF end lines to all text files in the repository, this should be fixed so the release no longer shows up as a custom version. Martin wanted to embody the user's needs by saying that having a custom string in the version shouldn't block or delay the release. Marc has a patch for 1.4.x which solves the problem with gitattributes, although this doesn't cover all future cases so René we continue researching the problem. Marc has made a new process for submitting translations and it's currently in testing. And this is how it works: For each Release, we create a single merge request in gitlab targeting that branch. For example 1.4.x. This merge request is the URL we send to translators, who can then submit their translations to the merge request by creating a new comment with the po file attached. Marc has made a system which consumes the comments, adds them as a new commit to the merge request with a credit to the author and then submits a reply comment with the total statistics so users can see if they have submitted correctly. When ready, the translations will be merged into the branch. This can be done multiple times, so we can progressively add translations for betas and release candidates as we move alone the process. The 1.4.x and master branches will be tested and the translation team will be brought in to make sure everything is set up and working correctly and the new system works as a contributor experience. Marc will ask Maren to compile a message for the translations team at the weekend when this live test will be ready to deploy. Jonathan Sent an email to the SFC on the hiring team for the Adobe Illustrator file format and is waiting to hear back. Marc and Jonathan talk about Hactoberfest, it's a way to get first time contributors into open source development; if they contribute a certain number of commits then they get a t-shirt. Except this year, there's no more t-shirts. They have decent ways of dealing with spam so we can add the tag. Marc already added the tag and we part of the program now. spam and accepted tags allow us to tag things positively and negatively. All contributions are welcome, not just code. Because they've ran out of t-shirts we should fund our own. We need to order some t-shits so that we can have them for this event, but also for other things. Martin will make some generic t-shirts and ask for reimbursement if the project decides to fund them, he says that he can use them for his own supporters and projects if not so there's no risk either way. Martin talked about the color stuff and including capypdf into inkscape directly with the C++, Marc recommended including the library as a submodule and gave instructions for how to do this using mason. The gtkmm4 build is an instructive example. Martin explored the developer survey results so far; 21 people responded, the survey will be kept open another week for any stranglers to add their thoughts to it. We'll document the final results after that. Thanks to everyone who came to today's meeting.

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Inkscape Developer Survey 2024
by Martin Owens 13 Sep '24

13 Sep '24

Dear Developers, Would you please fill out this quick survey about your experiences with Inkscape this year as a programmer? We're trying to gage how easy it is to contribute and people's thoughts on how we can improve retention and onboarding: https://forms.gle/T2P5m2vGcGdMGj9FA Thanks everyone. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape is hiring: Python developer (internal position)
by Jonathan Neuhauser 09 Sep '24

09 Sep '24

Hi all, As discussed in the recent developer meetings, the Inkscape project is hiring a contractor to finish the AI import. For details, look at the proposal: https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.or… Please submit your applications to jobs(a)lists.inkscape.org **until Sunday, Sept. 15, 23:59 UTC** if you are interested. In the email, make it clear how you fulfil the requirements, and give your motivations for applying. The hiring team will respond to serious applications after the end of the application period. Best regards Jonathan

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Developer Meeting, Sept 4th 2024
by Martin Owens 04 Sep '24

04 Sep '24

Hey everyone, Time for our regular developer meeting notes. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Eledil, Jonathan, Marc, Mikekov, Tav, Ishaan, René Next Meeting: September 12th, (but there is also a PLC meeting on Friday) Beta3 is not perfect because it produces a custom string in the version string which needs to be cleaned up. Marc's certificate expired and needs to renew it. We don't have an official certificate, there is a way around that if we used Azure as a CI builder. We are releasing beta3 today, we had it on draft by accident and have now got it out the door for windows testing specifically. There is an outstanding vote, for hiring a contractor to finish the ai extension. Please make sure you get your votes in for today. Jonathan and Martin talked about the color extensions refactoring branch that is ready for review. Martin will proceed to work on the pdf out extension to add all that color support that now exists. They talk a bit about extensions progress bars and how to get pdf and other things. Jonathan is worried about the speed with a large text file. And how to treat text. Mikekov, has continued work on the object dialog and working on styles. There are a bunch of issues to do with signals and propagation and Martin suggests using signal keys to identify where an update modifier signal has come from. We will discuss this issue further in the chat room. Tav has been working on an Importance Critical bug; when you right click on a spin button it would pop up a menu, that was not the case in 1.4. The menus were mostly used for when the toolbar got too small and there was a menu for each thing that fell of the bar. During the refactoring this feature got removed as not being important. He has a merge request to put them back. An empty call will generate a few useful values even if it's empty. Martin will review. Elendil, if you have an svg file with a css file. The CSS dialog is currently parsing the CSS itself manually and could do with refactoring. The patch code with a comment explaining it should be ok for now as it retains more functionality than retaining the comments would. René is continuing his work on the cross-compiling and Martin's MR to improve that capability. And will help with the version thing. Ishaan will be giving a workshop on Inkscape at a FOSS conference, Bangalore, India. Mikekov; some of our tools are very special. The sp-desktop-style setting and getting is quite broken right now. There's a lot of issues with how these styles are processed before dialogs get access to them. Tav and Martin talk about text object selection with tspans. Ishaan asked about tablet code in master, it had to be removed and now had to be reimplemented. We may need to just review it and make sure we are using the new APIs as intended and that those features are available to windows and macOS users. See you all next time. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Crashe with pencil tool
by micric * 02 Sep '24

02 Sep '24

Hello, I just tried the same manipulation but on another PC, and the problem does not occur. So the problem I'm having comes from my PC... Thank you for your help. Sincerely, Michel De : W. Robert J. Funnell, Prof. <robert.funnell(a)mcgill.ca> Envoyé : dimanche 1 septembre 2024 20:48 À : inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org <inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org> Cc : micric * <micric(a)hotmail.fr> Objet : Re: Bogue version V.1.3.2 I don't know why Inkscape crashes when you open a new document and use the Pencil tool. It works for me. Does it crash as soon as you select the tool, or only when you start using it? Are you able to open and modify an existing document? I'm using Windows 11 Home 23H2, with an Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz and 16 GB. - Robert Bonjour, Je constate un plantage du logiciel lorsque je suis les étapes suivantes : * lancement d'Inkscape V.1.3.2 * ouverture d'un nouveau document * utilisation de l'outil crayon A cette étape le logiciel plante systématiquement. Ce problème n'apparaissait pas avant la dernière mise à jour. Merci de me préciser si une solution existe. Voici les spécifications de mon PC : [cid:9b45fd0b-ac73-42c8-bc9c-e03709e6f50c]

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Bogue version V.1.3.2
by micric * 01 Sep '24

01 Sep '24

Bonjour, Je constate un plantage du logiciel lorsque je suis les étapes suivantes : * lancement d'Inkscape V.1.3.2 * ouverture d'un nouveau document * utilisation de l'outil crayon A cette étape le logiciel plante systématiquement. Ce problème n'apparaissait pas avant la dernière mise à jour. Merci de me préciser si une solution existe. Voici les spécifications de mon PC : [cid:bf9f6c11-91d4-4066-b8f6-a64c4ff2bf0b]

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Developer Meeting Augus 27th 2024
by Martin Owens 27 Aug '24

27 Aug '24

Hey everyone, Thanks to everyone that came to today's meeting. A lot of focus on the release and the tasks needed to get us over the line today. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: René, Martin, Jonathan, Mikekov, Marc, Tav Next Most exciting thing from René, he has seen the future of macOS CI, because after having talked to someone who is doing this for gstreamer, the tech that allows having the virtualised runners which means you don't need to spend time on build and installation configuration because that's baked into how that would work. The only down side is it requires more hardware resource than we currently have available. the hardware we currently have from mac stadium is currently the smallest size. Though we do want to move towards this virtualisation. René is going to meet with Macstatium tomorrow to explain why we need an upgrade to our hardware setup. If that doesn't pan out René will probably make the setup by himself. René has an open MR which is holding up beta3. We had a look at how important it was to have this fix in time for beta3. We've decided to make a beta3 without the raster image extensions so we can get things tested. The pencil target for RC target for September 13th. Jonathan reports his mentoring of the GSoC project for the aidesign file format by Manpreet. The project is pretty much done and has a fantastic release ready code which will be in 1.4. There was a fraudulent zendesk help site which sent users to a fraudulent website. This was taken down. Jonathan gave the background to the previous adobe illustrator importer. He believes we understand what went wrong and we think we can continue the work with a known developer who knows how to develop these kinds of extensions. He will make a vote to fund the proposal after this meeting. Tav talked with pono yesterday about the rate and a base rate of $40 per hour extendable for local conditions. We're looking for 100 hours. The team held a vote to formally request the funding from the PLC. The vote was 6 in favor, zero against. Scour is now inside the inkscape project, if no one comes to help it it will be on the GSoC list of available project. It's not written with the new extensions system and has a lot of duplicate code. Mikekov is working on the popup editing feature for inkscape in the object properties. It's a work in progress. Martin suggests splitting out any refactoring so it's easier to review if there is any. Martin asked Tav if he could do an assessment on the open bugs for 1.4. Marc completely rewrote the debian packaging for the PPA, this only works on 24.10 because that is the first version that has all the packages we require for Gtk4. And only for AMD64 as there are some test failures on other platforms. There are a bunch of extra fixes for the debian packaging for language and extensions including splitting out inkex. We have a look at fininasing what's needed for 1.4 See you all next time! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Aug 19th 2024
by Martin Owens 19 Aug '24

19 Aug '24

This week we had a highly technical meeting with our core developers. Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Jonathan, Mikekov, pbs, Rafael, René Next Meeting: August 27th, 2024 Issue with the windows build for 1.4, a missing dep maybe for ImageMagic, Marc edited it just an hour ago. The way 2geom is imported has been corrected, but the CI builder doesn't do the right thing for testing. PBS presents the issue of using asyinc coroutines for the Gtk4 dialogs. There's a way to wrap the gtkmm calls to be coroutine compataible. PBS asked about using getThing() or jsut thing() in API design. Martin tends towards using get when calculating but goes for whatever is around it when editing code. Martin takled with René about the crossink status and how much work we have to do to get windows builds to work in wine. We talked about using a VM vs. using crossink and how important it is to get developers to comile and test issues with windows builds. We talked about getting fixes into upstream Gnome, Gtk project and some of the technical and social barriers to to doing that. Is Gtk portable or is it crossplatform? We need to know what Gtk thinks these mean to know what their mission is so we can best fit their expectations. Jonathan talked about mentoring his GSoC student for the afdesigner importer. The student needs to write up what he's done and most of the things are supported in the donated files. He found out what clipboard data is available, curiously afdesigner makes an x-inkscape-svg clipboard type. But we'd still use the afdesigner importer for that. Jonathan brought up how we want to re-organise extensions. Mikekov has gotten back into reviewing some of the designs and implimenting them for the object properties dialog. We talked about how the update process works which is too corse at the moment. Rafael was working on the marker tools and is doing a top down rewrite including the on canvas marker editing. Martin talked about doing the color stuff in python and support and testing it. Will support a couple of the new CSS module 4 color formats for exporting. That's it for this week. Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, Aug 11th 2024
by Martin Owens 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

Hey everyone! Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, skipper, Marc, René, Raven King, Ishaan, Tav, pbs Next meeting: 19th August We talked briefly about the hardware program and Adam leaving and the SFC's failure. Further details about this will be sent to the plc mailing list soon. # GSoC Skipper wanted to ask about problems with UX follow up now that Adam has left. Vaibhav is the mentor and suggested coming into the meeting to find out how to proceed. Martin talked about a similar issue currently being felt in the node delete tool. Suggested coming to the chat or post an issue where the discussion could be done. Marc recommends making a proposal and use that as a starting point, especially since people who are not happy about it will have to give their arguments. # Beta3 for windows The background is that we have a beta2 which is not functioning for windows users and since we have significant windows issues, then we need to make a beta3 as soon as possible. René says that if we need a beta4 or beta5 because we can't get it working, then so be it. René wants to know if some of the deps need to be updated or not. There are a few things to do. # Release procedure Moving everything to the CI builder so there's much less work to do and we can all know how a release is done. We're still building the 32-bit windows in order to have access to Arm builds. If we had a machine that built for Arm we wouldn't need this. We briefly talked about support and what Inkscape supporting users means. Pbs wants to talk about the broken Debian packaging link and how it's stopped working. We talk about how Debian packaging on launchpad is done and some of the details about how that system works for us as a sort of CI builder. He also fixed some issues with the AppImage builder, specifically to do with CJK support. But the fix isn't available to Inkscape 1.4 because of how it would be built with upstream libraries. Philip wanted help with the AppImage but there weren't anyone in the meeting who knew AppImage very well. Recommended to post to the mailing list. # Procedures We talked about how to create merge requests, and what is expected of developers. Assigning themselves to issues, reviewers and keeping their local admin clean to help other contributors. We talked about spaghetti code and various issues with trying to keep the code tidy. We talked about limiting the merges to master to people who have two factor authentication enabled on Git Lab. # Other items Is there still font issues on windows for user installed fonts? We think this is fixed, but we're not sure. Spellchecking has stopped working on master. It looks like an upstream issue. Philip was working on GUI free Inkscape and tab based Inkscape, which was too much to do at once. Tav did some of the groundwork for this with things like SPDesktop. # Activity We worked on merge requests for 1.4.x at the end of the meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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August Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 11 Aug '24

11 Aug '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/290 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Please also have a look at the Working Group Policy (see agenda) in advance. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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OEM Product!
by Ouyang Chunhui 10 Aug '24

10 Aug '24

Please see: https://inkscape.org/forums/cutplot/oem-product/ This is a post sent by my client to the community forum. Yes, I am in contact with this client. To be honest, we have worked together once. I developed a customized version of Flameshot for him. Now, he wants me to customize inkscape to meet his needs. I know it depends on me, although I am not sure I can do it completely. He and I found some interesting plug-ins that may solve such problems. I am exploring in this direction, but in the meantime, I may need some help from the community. If necessary, I am also willing to pay for it. If anyone is interested in HPGL's digital engraving machine and related functions and does know how to develop inkscape integration, I hope you can get in touch with me further. Thank you for your reply.

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Inkscape 1.4 beta2 available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 02 Aug '24

02 Aug '24

Inkscape 1.4 beta2 =================== Inkscape 1.4 beta2 is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release this summer. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.4beta2/ New Features ------------ When testing, please try out the major upcoming features, such as: * Filter Gallery: it has never been so easy to find the best filter for your needs! This new dialog features previews, categories and search. * Modular grids & improved axonometric grids: set the grid angle by ratio for isometric designs and use modular grids to plan layouts and make icons! * Swatches dialog and palette file handling improved: quick access to dialog layout controls, search for colors, and open different palette file formats! * Unified font browser preview: when activated in the preferences, use it to quickly browse through your font collection. Try it out and give your feedback! * Customizable handles: Power users with CSS knowledge can now customize the styling and basic shape of all the handles! * Fast image clipping with the Shape Builder: raster graphics can now be clipped into multiple sections using the Shape Builder. * There's even more: new templates for folding booklets, a new icon theme, additional options in Ruler and Taper Stroke LPE, preview in Spray tool, many new command line options, updated translations and many bug fixes. See the release notes draft for more information: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.4 What's new compared to 1.4. beta? --------------------------------- Compared to the first beta release, the second beta contains: * A number of new strings: Strings not meant for translation were removed, some translator comments have been updated, and new strings were created. If you're a translator, please revise your .po files. * Unified Font Browser updates: The "All fonts" label is now hidden, a new "Font Scaling Factor" slider is added to avoid font clipping. and the settings are now in the Interface > Window category, font filtering works better. * Build fixes: The extensions and lib2geom submodules now point to newer commits to fix build errors, building with Poppler newer than 24.05.0 now works, and the libsoup dependency is removed. * Dash icon theme: A new icon theme is included in this beta release. * PDF export fixes: PDF exports now only contains items visible on the page, and anchor (link) tags now have more accurate click areas. * Help menu update: The Help menu is updated to categorize the links and tutorials better. * New About Screen integrated: The contest winning image by Inkonic is now part of the release. * Other features and bugfixes: A number of UI alignment issues are fixed, some crashes have been fixed, the Export dialog UI has been adjusted for clarity, various page-related bugs have been fixed, the Spray tool is now faster, and several translations have been updated. See the full list on GitLab. Report Bugs ----------- Use at your own risk, and please report all bugs you find in our Inbox bug tracker on GitLab ! If you find any issue with this beta version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this beta release! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Meeting, July 18th 2024
by pulsar17 20 Jul '24

20 Jul '24

Hi all, Following are the meeting notes for the Developer Meeting on 18th July 2024: Attending: Rene, Tav, Ishaan, Elendil (Krlr17), Ravi, Jonathan, Marc, Ravi Martin and Tav went through Bugfix Accelerator MRs. 1.4beta2 can be tagged and release files can be done basically whenever. A tentative date is 1 August (for release files / installers), to give enough time for people to get fixes in. When we have installers, Vectors can decide when to actually announce. Some discussion on getting some MRs in before the beta2. Jonathan suggested to get afdesign import into extensions for Into 1.4.0. Some issues in building exe version of Windows, CI is failing. Items to BACKPORT for 1.4.0: - Remove LPE from Pen icon - Fix orientation bug while printing - Fix crash on aligning text when nothing is selected. - Updated context menu selection logic - Fix ghost page when deleting the first page from the XML dialog - Update ja.po Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting, July 10th 2024
by pulsar17 10 Jul '24

10 Jul '24

Hi all, Following are the meeting notes for the Developer Meeting on 10th July 2024: Attending: Rene, Tav, Ishaan, Elendil (Krlr17), Ravi Rene worked on dependencies and engaged in a few Windows related MRs. Also need to work on Documentation CI Tav working on bug report where there are no tooltips on menus. MacOS might not support tootips on menus. Elendil (Krlr17) informed Snap version is broken badly, so we shouldn't have it as default on Ubuntu. Export dialog does not work. A lot of issues reported for the snap version. We can ask Ted to join the next dev meeting to discuss the future of the snap. Ishaan managed to report a few bugs on MacOS. Was busy otherwise ^^ Ravi continued work on his GSoC Project (Node based filter editor). Opened an MR as well. More discussion on tooltips. Some history about Objective C and Swift from Rene. Rene discussed about not stopping jobs/pipelines on master as it breaks links. Next Meeting: Thursday, 18th July Thanks for everyone who was able to make it to the meeting! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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July Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 04 Jul '24

04 Jul '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/289 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Please also have a look at the Working Group Policy (see agenda) in advance. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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Developer Meeting Notes; 2nd July 2024
by Martin Owens 02 Jul '24

02 Jul '24

Hi Everyone, A quiet meeting this month, most issues were chatting about details, some omitted here. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Mikekov, Martin, Tav, René, Ishaan Next meeting: July 10th 2024 * Martin and Tav reviewed the Bug accelerator program, making sure hours and tasks completed are reported and how the program might be improved next time. Finding issues to do was an issue for Tav who didn't have the link to the milestone page. * René wanted to review the release plan with Marc taking a break. We won't know more about if we'll have a tag this week or next but we'll try and keep everyone up to date. * Several people now don't have access to the Rocket Chat, because we are hesitant to upgrade it but at the same time need Jonathan and René and others to be able to continue to access the chat from their phones. * Tav reviewed the GSoC projects and each of the students. * We talked about macOS and some os the issues there now Tav has had a chance to look at some os the issues. We talked about the way the recent files' menu doesn't have tooltips and how to help remidy that. Some issues with fonts, some issues with Gtk4 were discussed. * Mikekov has been working on the supplimental color pickers and color wheel improvements. He's added a new color wheel type and has been looking of the speed issues with the new code. * Several people have had issues compiling on windows linking errors. Mikekov gave up trying to do development on windows for now. * We all reviewed the terrible delay in getting computers bought by the project and how we can work around the issue by buying the machines are getting reimbursed from the SFC instead. This is the action that Tav has taken, and Adam may also do this. Though we are aware of the restrictions this places on people who don't have the capital to purchas machines out of their own pockets. So we need a better system in any case. * Ishaan got a macOS from work and has been testing various things in 1.4 and 1.5. 1.5 seems to have the best experience on macOS. Has continued to work on selection changes, currently stuck on a problem with units. Martin helped walk through all the different coordinate systems in inkscape. * Ishaan also wanted to ask about a new contributor who is having issues building windows but is always communicating in private messages despite being asked not to. Ishaan wanted advice on how to handle it. Martin gave some advice about being clear and setting boundries and explaining why it's a problem to ask in the wrong channels. Hopefully it won't need more moderation. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting, June 24th 2024
by Martin Owens 24 Jun '24

24 Jun '24

Today is a combination SFC catchup and developer meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Ishaan, Mc, MikeKov, pono, Ravi, René, skippr, Tav, Vaibhav Next event: 2nd Jul 2024 First SFC item was computers for Adam, Tav and Vaibhav. Pono said he'd work on these items today after his two other meetings. Second pono mentioned that the SFC is on it's way to being able to set up Patreon for us. There's some questions about how we should position ourselves on the platform if we wanted to join, and we defer the discussion for later. Third SFC item is about reviewing our trademark policy after the last time we touched it with Chris Roger's book and he thinks it's time to review now while there are no issues outstanding. Update on the release and the beta2 so we can continue the process. René and Marc are happy to make a release in the coming week and Martin suggests Friday the 28th. Marc says he'll be able to tag on Thursday the 27th and then René and others can build and publish the beta2 release over the weekend to have the final beta2 published by Sunday 30th. We will inform Maren and the other people who are involved in documentation and release notes and how much time they might need for the final release. Tav has been getting inkscape to work on his new Inkscape provided mac mini. Eventually using the René is holding off buying an Arm processor surface windows machine as it's quite expensive. Despite the promises of them being better machines. René had a look at the gimp code and how they are building Gtk3 for macOS. There's still some issues with our build and there may be things we can learn from them. Though what we can learn in time for any Gtk3 release we plan to do is an open question. Mikekov has been working on color sliders and the replacements for the spin buttons. Incorperating Tav's spin button widget work on top of Martin's color slider replacement work alongside much improved visual representation of the widgets. Mike wanted to know if he'd covered everything in the new widget needed. Martin suggested inviting in an accessability person in to review the new widget and tell us what kind of accessability is needed. Mikekov and Martin talk about colors, the need for color module colors and what's available in CSS. Color wheels and the way we handle colors per document or per object. Vaibhav worked on text on path UX improvements to add handles to be able to change how the text on path is working on canvas. Exciting work. Ravi has been working on their Google Sumer of Code project the Node based Filter Editor. Nearing completion of the base of the editor, and hoping to have all the basic functionality in terms of usage to be completed by the next two weeks. Skippr has been working on GSoC on the pen tool improvements; they are working with Adam to decide the key bindings for the functionality. The first part was editing nodes during drawing with the pen tool the next part is switching to the node tool while using the pen tool which is more tricky. The team thanks René for his work in ensuring our community is writing good commit messages and is teaching new contributors how to write better commit messages. Ishaan got the rubber bans and select tools all merged, and is now working on the selection ques styles. The styles are controllable in a basic way via a css theme file. He has a question about the thickness of the lines and the difference in handle position on master might need to be fixed. Thanks everyone for comming to this week's meeting. The next one will be July 2nd.

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] Small error in the 1.4 release notes draft
by Maren Hachmann 12 Jun '24

12 Jun '24

Hi José, thanks for letting us know, it's good that people look out for issues with documentation and help us out by informing the project. However, the location for the setting has recently changed, the text is correct, you'll see in the next beta. The mailing lists require a subscription to work properly, without subscribing, this is causing some amount of extra work for list administrators. Please subscribe if you'd like to use the mailing lists for informing the community. Otherwise, you can also use the chat at https://chat.inkscape.org (and for documentation, specifically, https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation). Kind Regards Maren Am 12.06.24 um 03:38 schrieb contacto(a)geodestinos.ar: > Hi, sorry I did not know who to contact for it so I am mailing to the lists. > > > In the https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.4 > <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.4>, under *New User > Interface - ( Experimental and Optional )*, where it says "If it is > activated under Edit > Preferences > Interface > Dialogs : Text and Font > dialog" should say "Edit > Preferences > Tools > Text Tool : Text and > Font dialog". > > (at least for the released official beta, the option is there) > > > Kind regards. > > -José > > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape Docs mailing list -- inkscape-docs(a)lists.inkscape.org > To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-docs-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Developer Team Meeting, 8th June 2024
by Martin Owens 08 Jun '24

08 Jun '24

Dear developers, A big thank you to everyone who attended this meeting since it lasted two hours to do the drafting of the charter and all the other discussions as normal. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending Martin, datalot, HendrikRoehm, Ishaan, Marc, MikeKov, Rafael, Ravi Arora, Tav, Vaibhav, Jonathan Next Event: Sunday June 16th Finalised the Developer team's new working group charter. This took most of the meeting, Jonathan will post the vote to the plc soon. We have tagged release 1.4 of lib2geom. Rafael is going to write release notes for it. Still to do: check out lib2geom submodule at release 1.4 in Inkscape repository, perhaps to be done in MR 6532. The team made a decision to release another beta. We reviewed all the merge requests targeting 1.4.x before we cut the beta release. Hendrik has an open merge request for master, he's new to the release and wants help to get it merged (backported) for the release 1.4. This was a fix for issues regarding to print settings and specifying page orientation as Portrait vs Landscape. We have looked at the Merge Request, decided that it's ready to merge, and merged it into the master branch. We talked about the beta release checklist and the possible dependencies being corect. One item on the checklist should be ensuring that all pending backports are integrated into the release branch. We mentioned the Python dependencies and discussed the way the versions of dependency packages are communicated. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/issues/575 Ishaan has been working on the selection user interface, making the "rubberbands" and the selection cues look prettier. The code is done and waiting for MR review (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6336). Mike, Rafael and Marc were all busy at their day jobs and didn't contribute much during the last week. Tav has been travelling which left him in a similar situation. For Vaibhav it was a light week, he fixed small problem with font selection in the Text Toolbar. Also started working on some on canvas TextPath improvements https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6534 Martin managed to make a few fixes despite trying to take a mental break. He mostly worked on the Color Refactoring MR and starts to feel that the MR is ready to be merged. Although the MR is big and therefore risky, he believes that we should merge it instead of asking him to cope with comments that he views as sometimes overly strict and nit- picky. Although valuable clean-ups and theoretical future features were suggegsted, Martin believes that it might be more manageable to merge the MR first as it is and consider delivering those future improvements in later, smaller MRs. He pledges to be responsible for fixing any follow-up issues that may result. In addition, he fixed an issue related to URLs attached to semi- transparent objects during PDF export as a part of the Bug Accelerator program. Ravi is a GSoC member and is getting established and will be working on their project. Kyle (Vectors team) came to ask a question on whether any developers would be interested in participating in the creation of a video which highlights the fact that Inkscape is a project run by people, respects users' privacy, as opposed to commercial products. Martin and Marc agreed to participate and record short self-recorded clips the aim of which will be to further this message. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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June Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/287 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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call of 'virtualenv' with option 'p=python3' syntactically wrong
by fi＠igh.de 04 Jun '24

04 Jun '24

Dear Maintainers, after pulling revision 5448704355e03a97d2838e1ba30272db335f0dbb I have built inkscape according to https://inkscape.org/develop/getting-started/ Trying to manage extensions (Extensions -> Manage Extensions) I receive the following error message: There has been a problem creating the python environment: Return Code: 3: b'' b'The path =python3 (from --python==python3) does not exist\n' args: ['/usr/bin/virtualenv', '-p=python3', '/home/xx/.config/inkscape/extensions'] Indeed the call is syntactically wrong. Instead of '-p=python3' the option '-p python3' ### without equal sign should be used. As far as I understand, the problem seems to exist in inkscape/share/extensions/extension-manager-bootstrap.py:69 call('virtualenv', TARGET_DIR, p='python3') which then in inkex/command.py:to_args() is evaluated to the wrong sytnax. According to the (very good) comments in to_args() :Keyword Arguments: * *name* (``str``) -- Becomes ``--name="val"`` ... * *n* (``str``) -- Becomes ``-n=val`` ... it should become ``-n val``. I do not know whether a change would result in problems using other programs that want -n=val. Which should that be? Best regards Torsten -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Torsten Finke fi(a)igh.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Developer Meeting Notes 31st May 2024
by Martin Owens 31 May '24

31 May '24

Hey fellow Developers, Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Adam, Martin, Ishaan, Jonathan, Mikekov, Vaibhav, Rafael Next event: Sat June 8th We talking about quotation marks and spelling reform in European languages. This was just a bit of fun while wiating for people to join. --------- Jonathan starts of the meeting by sharing a link to the Working Group policy document. The PDF file was missing from the website so Martin is adding it to the PLC team on the website so everyone can download it and follow the template. Martin talked about the two pots of powers that the working group policy wants to help define. The first is the powers that the project leadership comittee vests int he team regarding things like spending money and using the trademark. Jonathan adds that making a release for example is using (or trading) on Inkscape's mark. The second set of powers are things that anyone from any team could do, but that we want to monopolise those tasks and decisions into the team. For example making and "official" facebook group could be done by anyone, but the vectors team would probably want to monopolise the decision making process for that. Jonathan: If you want to initalise something, it should be clear who you have to ask and who doesn't have veto power. Martin wants the list of reponsibilities to be more definitive if possible. The team works through the template for the working group policy to make a draft, each developer was invited to partipate and suggest things: ----------- DRAFT CHARTER -------------- Name of the Working group: Development team Purpose: • Development of the Inkscape software Delegation • Manage and maintain the Inkscape git repository (i.e. deciding what gets merged, creating protected branches) • Decide about the build system (which systems developers can work on, which systems are supported) • Decide about dependencies, technical consultation with up- and downstream projects • Schedule, perform and publish all release stages, assess the stability of the release • Paid development affecting the Inkscape git needs to consult the dev team first before going to the PLC Additional Responsiblities: • Manage the CI infrastructure and configuration • Point of contact for vulnerability reporting • Onboarding new developers who want to contribute, provide developer mentorship (internally or through programs like Google Summer of Code, Outreachy) • Maintain developer-facing documentation, including Getting Started resources Interactions with other teams / working groups: • informing the Documentation team about relevant changes for releases, such as new or changed features • coordinate with the Testing team to maintain the bugtracker(s), make decisions about available tags, priorities / schedule • changes in the user interfaces should be coordinated with the UX team Meetings and (internal) communication: approx. weekly meeting as video call, announced at least a week prior on the project calendar; regular communication via chat.inkscape.org in team_devel Decision making process: by consensus of a quorum of 3 or more people Membership criterion: Initial members: Jonathan Neuhauser, Marc Jeanmougin, Martin Owens, Mike Kowalski, PBS, Rafael Siejakowski, René de Hesselle, Tavmjong Bah, Vaibhav Malik New members are confirmed by at least two current members. After two years of inactivity, members can be removed. ----------- END CHARTER -------------- The plan is to draft this over the comming week and make a decsion about the WG charter. Please get in touch if you have comments and suggestions. -------------- Developer activity: Vaibhav wanted to talk with Mikekov about the font collections, the team discusses how stable 1.4 is and what issues we're fixing and targeting for the release. He worked on a bunch of UI fixes. Addressing a freeze in the file selector dialog. Most of the program hours are consumed, will be reporting to Martin tomorrow for the blog post. Jonthan is jumping into fixing C++ bugs and is mostly done with the work he wanted to do on extensions. Martin has been working mostly on the color branch and fixing some issues with the bug accelerator program, not many hours used this month. Mikekov asked about clipping colors. Mikekov trying to work on the proposal from adam for fill and stroke styles. A couple of MRs and Martin wanted to talk about sp_desktop_style Rafael, some time into the sp-marker refactoring. Rewriting how sp- shapes create markers with about half the amount of code. The goal is to fix a lot of the issues and write tests and also improve the speed of the drawing system. There is still a lot of work for future reafactoring. Ishaan has been investigating how cairo draws lines. How the device scaling works. Big thanks to everyone who came and stayed the extra time to process the charter with us. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Team Meeting Notes, Thu May 23rd 2024
by Martin Owens 23 May '24

23 May '24

Hey everyone, Big thanks to the large number of people who were able to come to this week's meeting. We went long again because of how many great conversations we had about all sorts of things you can read below. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Tav, Mikekov, Adam, René, ScislaC, skippr, Vaibhav, Ishaan. Marc Next event: Friday May 31st 2024 Tav wanted to talk about merge request 6446, a clarification and icon improvement set of changes to improve how icons get in toolbars get collapsed togther. Tav talked about the functionality and adam expressed how important it was to UX for this merge request to get in to 1.4. The developer team will ask translators to make sure the four extra strings won't be an issue. René has fixed the CI again for 1.4.x, the extensions were updated without checking if the tests were passing. René expresses his anger at having a broken CI for a couple of weeks and wants to make sure that everyone makes sure not to force merges in with test failures. Next week will be looking into the extensions deps requirement for FontConfig and text parsing. Martin talked about the review of the new text features in python/inkex extensions. This will likely get into 1.5 considering the large numbers of changes that will be needed in order to get it to the quality expected of the inkex internal API. Vaibhav, last week most of the week has been working on issues with the FontCollections dialog. Has fixed a bunch of issues and collected them into one MR. Adam has been testing a lot of merge requests and the developer team and we thank him. Vaibhav, Adam confirm they got an email from pono about the hardware purchases. Tav left early so we don't know, but assume he also got one. Marc, tried to find a good way to build master on all operating systems. Josh tested it on 24.04 and confirmed that this should now refix it. Marc is now 800 emails behind in his commitment to read all the activity because of the exceptional bug triaging by Adam these last two weeks. Mikekov, wants to thank Josh for testing his merge request finding an issue in the export dialog. It throws an exception because of it, but the display code keeps crashing out and hiding the real cause. Martin also got caught out with the problem since a thrown error doesn't show in the backtrace any more. Catching the error might be sensible. Marc wants to know when to when we should publish the next beta. Adam thinks there's still time. René asks if we should have a slot for bug triage for the bug accelerator program. Adam agrees. We still have some regressions, some blockers but we are making good progress. Jonathan has put some thinking into how to make released more fun to work on, especially bugs. Maybe some mugs and t-shirts to fix bugs. Jonathan fixed a third of the issues in tthe extensions tracker when he first joined and it's fun, it can be be for people to fix issues. Thought people do have different motivations. A good conversation was had by various people about how to improve developer attention on bugs in general. Jonathan and Adam have been thinking about how to ask users to help us fund these activities more and being more up front with our needs as a project. We've been looking at Thunderbird as a model for how to present these requests to users. Jonathan wanted to add it in for 1.4, though Martin and others suggest that with string freeze an exception might be required to get it in for 1.4 and a meeting with Maren would be a good idea. Martin suggests that spending the time and getting it right then releasing it as 1.4.1, and making sure we're coordinated to measure what the impact will be. We want to know what kind of response we get from users when we explain the situation we're in and designing the interface properly. Trying hard to get credit card transactions lined up beforehand if possible. Ishaan has had a slow week but was able to fix an issue with updating tiles with his new make selection in inkscape prettier merge request. Mikekov has some questions regarding colors, and mikekov and adam share their work on their ux issue which will take a while to get all working. Martin talked a little about the color branch and how this will all fit together. Jonathan wants to highlight the completion of the new working group policy. We will formalising how teams exist and their reponsibilities. We will be transforming the developer team to the developer working group, wwe need a charter which will be submitted to the plc. We'll review and spend next week's meeting May 31st. See everyone next week!

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Developer Meeting Notes, May 15 2024
by pulsar17 16 May '24

16 May '24

Hi All, Following are the meeting notes for the dev meeting on 15th May: Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Ishaan, Adam, Elendil (Krlr17), Martin, Mike, ScislaC, Tav, Vaibhav, Jonathan Next Event: May 23rd 2024 Martin: Some color refactoring work suggested by Mike Asked for some attention of the proof of concept and the method of using cairo and lcms2 to do the CMYK rendering. Ishaan: Integrated CSS support in rubberbands, some weird artifacts but some suggestions on how to fix that - look in _update, setting cache to 0 Adam: created MR to reduce size of spin buttons. Reviewed lots of MRs too. Some discussion on working color space vs rendering color space. Tav raised a concern that blending should be done in sRGB according to the SVG spec. Martin is aware that this is a departure from the spec but is required to render in CMYK. Martin asked after the Hardware program. Pono needs to contact Vaibhav and Adam Belis and has been poked. Tav and adam talk about wacom hardware crashes and the differences between 1.3 and 1.4 issues. Some discussion on automated testing of Inkscape, some suggestions. Some discussion on priorities - small papercuts over large time accumulate. A different program like BugFix Accelerator for such lower priority UX papercuts? Inbox is filled with duplicates which are not tagged as duplicates, Jonathan stumbled on clusters of those issues. Vaibhav: - Fixed some alignment and padding regressions in the toolbars. - Worked on some regressions in the star toolbar. - Spent a lot of time to implement selection across different hierarchical levels in the layers dialog. See you all next time! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting Notes, May 7th 2024
by doctormo＠geek-2.com 10 May '24

10 May '24

Hey devs, Sorry for the delay getting these notes out, hectic week of waking up early to attend the summit live feed video. Big thanks to the Renesse folks for keeping that live for the summit for Me, Jonathan and Rene. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Marc, Adam, Mikekov, Tav, Rafael, Martin, Rene, Ben, Ishaan, Frederico Mana Quintero Next Event: May 15th 2024 Team "Renesse" at the Inkscape hosted summit in France: very busy with lots of things :) Some of them being: - Improving the UX of asking users to donate in Inkscape application and website - Discussing a possible hover based workflow for fill and stroke - Possible Fill and Stroke dialog simplification - PDF Text Import Improvements - SPMarker refactoring Rene: worked on fixing Windows CI for some breaking changes introduced by Gitlab Ben: introduced themselves and asked for suggestions on programming for Inkscape, various useful suggestions offered. Martin: asked for review of his color work. Is working on bug accelerator program. For the bug accelerator program, the quality of the prioritisation of the issues is concerning and we may need to hire a triage specialist for future programs to get better use out of our programmers. We updated the extensions in 1.4.x to the latest versions during the meeting. Ishaan: The fix custom user css for handles is ready for review. Asked for a review of Styling hierarchy in "Selection improvements" Frederico was invited to talk about the work he's doing on librsvg rendering. https://gnome.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/librsvg/devel-docs/render_tree.html some of the same issues apply to inkscape's renderer with cairo. Frederico was shown our renderer stack in case there's things to learn from the way with do bounding box calculations. See you all next time! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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About Screen Contest: Inkscape Contributor Voting
by Kyle R. Conway 06 May '24

06 May '24

Calling all Inkscape Contributors! It's time for you to cast your votes for the Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest! Round one has elevated 5 artworks into top contention as favorites from the Inkscape community with 855 total ranked votes from 251 voters. As Inkscape Contributors, you are the final panel of judges to vote for their favorites to award the next winner of the About Screen Contest that will be featured in the next release! Voting begins Monday, April 22, 2024 and ends at 11:59 UTC on Monday, April 29, 2024, so be certain to cast your vote soon! How does this work? We're using ranked choice voting, which means you can vote for many artworks. Click the checkbox on any artworks you'd like to vote for from the ones you like the most to the ones you like the least. They'll be re-arranged from your top selection to your bottom. Vote for as many or as few of the entries as you'd like! (Each Inkscape Contributor may only vote for each artwork once). Cast your vote here: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… These are the 5 items the community voting elevated for the final round (in alphabetical order): - "Creative Growth“ by Chris Hildenbrand - "Expand Your Creative Universe" by Chris Hildenbrand - "Inkscape's Path-Artist's Blossom" by Inkonic - "Draw your world" by Kess - "Vibe On Creators" by NDIM DONALD Step 1: Make sure that you are an Inkscape Member (see previous message or link below), and if you're not one yet, apply for membership and ask 3 of your team mates or other contributors whom you have worked with to confirm your membership. More info: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/ Step 2: Visit https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-14-about-screen-contributor-… and rank the 5 images by clicking on the little circle right below them in order of preference (most liked first). Thanks for all of your work on Inkscape! Kyle

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 03 May '24

03 May '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/285 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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Developer Meeting Notes: April 29th 2024
by Martin Owens 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

Hey All, Thanks to everyone who came to this week's meeting. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Ishaan, Marc, MikeKov, pbs, ScislaC, Tav, Vaibhav, Adam, Jonathan Next Meeting: May 7th Started talking about LGM/fest organisation. Five people are coming. Marc: - Published beta, now announced by vectors on social media - Looked into and discovered the issues with a bad graphicsmagic package. - Wrote a guide for new developers who want to help https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4855 - Marc wants to be able to inform translators to help do the translation process now. We do have a number of MRs with string changes, but most are minor except for one of mikekov's which will me merged soon. Next week will have a string semi-freeze to help with this. ScislaC: - The last trunk PPA build I have from over a month ago can open/import webp files and the current AppImage for 1.4.x fail. Marc thinks pillow needs the libs available. Martin: - Continuing the bug accel program. Will be writing the first monthly report on Wednesday. Jonathan: - Asked Tav, Vaibhav and Adam if they've managed to get their funded machines yet. Philip: - Will be building 1.4.x to help go through the backlog. - Polishing off last two merge requests. Document cleanup and boolops will be merged into master. - Has some ideas about where to go with writing Mikekov: - Font collections and font browser issues have been fixed. - Improvements to symbols dialog, it uses the clipboard which on macOS isn't currently working. Will publish their MR and pbs will look at it. Ishaan: - Continued work on selection improvements. Every tool should be able to set it's own style. There's some issue, it might be a race condition with the style that gets destroyed at the end. - Will publish the broken code so everyone can look at it and it can be reviewed. Vaibhav: - Last week update, Continued working on their open MRs related to gradient issues and a selection issue in the Layers dialog. Adam helped with testing and opened couple of new reports related to selection improvements in the layers dialog. Will be spending the coming week working on some of those and will try to update the open MRs. Tav: Fixing x/y attributes in pdf import to fix the editability. It's a bit of a cascading issue that causes more issues as things get fixed. The glyph table issues with combined glyphs and non-latin languages cause some issues. See you all next week. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 21 2024
by pulsar17 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

Hi All, Here are the meeting notes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Martin, Adam, Ishaan, Marc, Michèle, Rafael, René, skippr, pbs, Vaibhav # Beta Release Marc asked about when to release a Beta since there's not that many changes. Martin thinks an Alpha might still be useful, especially considering how much refactoring has happened in the meantime. But is unsure. Michèle thinks users will expect there be an Alpha and that if. Multiple betas are possible and considering the lack of critical issues in the bug accelerator milestone indicates that we could jump directly to beta. Martin says we should be ready in case the release has serious issues to pull it. But this is a very unlikely senario. Marc has time this week to put together the Beta and René says he should become available on wednesday. We are not going to do an alpha. (alpha/beta is semantics / communication only) We'll tag the 1.4-beta tonight # Contest Website isn't working so well, we're pointing people to vote. Some contest entries are fantastic, we're not openly sharing who we're voting for for fairness, but it's not a secret. # GSoc To be discussed in another place : gsoc selections and status of eligibility # Other Items [Marc] Minor packaging stuff, MR reviews [Rafael] Some work on PDF export - differences in output with rsvg. Make a progress bar for slow exports ? [René] still ongoing work from last week & update to appimage creation (with go-appimage) [skippr] I worked on some UX features suggested by Adam but they required further discussion among the UX team, so they were marked as drafts for now, other than that I did not get much work done due to my practicals. I have exams till 4th of may I will try to help in issues and testing but it is highly unlikely [ishaan] Fixing fill patterns in selection modes [Philip] spellcheck almost ready, boolean operations ok [Martin] Refactoring color and split out the more agressive UX/signals changes into a future merge request. It's close to being able to be tested. [vaibhav] This week, I spent most of the time working with gradients and meshes. Proposed some minor fixes for the objects dialog, icon preview dialog and an issue related to the node toolbar. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Inkscape 1.4 About Screen Contest: Community Voting until April 21!
by Maren Hachmann 15 Apr '24

15 Apr '24

We've received some excellent entries for the About Screen Contest! Community Voting is open now through April 21 (ends 23:59 UTC)! The topic for this years' contest was "Growth". This first round of voting is the Community Round. Voting will be ranked choice voting, so click the checkbox next to each artwork to vote for as many ― or as few ―artworks as you'd like. Vote from your top choice to your lowest choice. No need to vote for every work, just as many as you'd like to see elevated to the final round of voting. Remember, each voter may only vote once. Voters must be logged into their Inkscape accounts. Cast your vote: https://inkscape.org/gallery/=about-screen-contest/contest-for-14/ Thanks so much for your participation! (and in case you're asking yourself "Am I allowed to vote? Am I a part of the community?" - if you're reading this, the answer is YES!)

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 13 2024
by pulsar17 13 Apr '24

13 Apr '24

Hi All, Here are the meetingnotes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Tamir, Vaibhav, Mike, Rene, Jonathan, Ishaan Rene: Reactivated Windows CI for master branch. Not satisfied with the artifacts, window drawing in Windows is weird after the switch [no pun intended], might need to look into it. Vaibhav: Working on Bug Fix Accelerator, starting from easy to complex. Ishaan: Working on Selector Tool, Rene suggested to ask questions in the dev chat. Mike: Continuing work on the Symbols dialog. Jonathan: Failed to build master on 22.04, but got it working on Windows. No spot of Google Summer of Docs for Inkscape. Planning to ask about end user applications since most accepted projects are libraries. Generic Discussions: GTK4 Inkscape works for Tamir on Windows, yayy! Some discussion on Windows support since Windows 10 will be EOLed in 2025. Cursor icons are bigger than they should be, and then some discussion on GTK4 cursors and high dpi screens. Rene asked a question about Google Summer of Code students - Since they targetted pre-gtk4 versions of Inkscape for the 2-patch rule, are they able to work on post-gtk4 master. A public announcement might be required to ask them to rebase their work on master. Discussions about Developer role and how to minimize privileges. It might be difficult to disallow just a single person or person(s) from the Approval settings, that setting seems like it is group based. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Inkscape Summit - Rennes May 6th - 8th
by tavmjong＠free.fr 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

Hi all, Just a reminder to sign up for the Inkscape Summit to be held just before LGM in Rennes, France. Travel support of up to $2500 offered to current Inkscape community members. Details at: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Inkscape_Summit_2024_Rennes Tav

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win32 build working again
by Bob Jamison 08 Apr '24

08 Apr '24

The win32 build, which was broken for the weekend, is working again. I just made a "manual autobuild" again, so that we can see how it looks on Windows: http://troi.titan-aeu.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/ Bob

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 5 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear all, please see the meeting notes below. Best regards Jonathan Dev Meeting April 5, 2024 Present: Jonathan, Marc, Martin, MikeKov, PBS, René, Tav, Vaibhav === Important for all === - If you fix stuff for 1.4, target 1.4.x and auto-close the issue + forward-port tag. - Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ If you need hardware for your Inkscape work, please ask. === Individual Developer summary === Jonathan helped with GSoC student and getting a student set up with the tools for the sfdesigner conversion and get their application sent in. Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ Martin: Fixed some issues on the bugfix accelerator program (about 9h this week). Tried to work around an issue where in one distribution ImageMagick doesn't have JPG support by adding a test for it, and also adding tool-specific shortcuts to the preferences interface. Mike: Tried to adapt Look & Feel of master to GTK3, adjusting differences PBS: Brought Spellcheck back. Is looking into GTK4 regressions, and working on speeding up the Font dropdown. Some discussion about how to implement this best in GTK4. For rendering, waiting on feedback on cross-platform support for OpenGL. René: Tries to fix master CI for Windows. Helpful contributions by Max Gaukler. Next version for MacOS is in the works as well, xz fallout. Is checking the GSoC 2 patches for formal criteria. Marc suggested that the cutoff for the 2 patches is close to the decision date. Tav: tries to come up with a solution for editing text in imported PDFs, as there are currently only manual kerns, no spaces. Vaibhav: This week, I worked on fixing some regressions in the text and font dialog on master. Most of the regressions in the font tab are fixed, but I'm confused about the placement of the font size selector without breaking the symmetry of the dialog. Any inputs are appreciated. Link to the MR: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6303

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/284 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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Introduction land project proposal for Paint Server Dialog Improvements
by Julia Nguyen 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Dear Inkscape Developers, I hope you are doing well. My name is Julia Nguyen, and I am a passionate software developer with a keen interest in contributing to open-source projects. I recently came across Google Summer of Codes program which has an Inkscape project, and I am impressed by its commitment to providing a powerful and accessible vector graphics editor to the community. I am writing to introduce myself and express my interest in contributing to the development of Inkscape. I have a background in C++ and Java programming. I am particularly drawn to the project of improving the Paint Server Dialog, which I believe presents an exciting opportunity to enhance the user experience and functionality of Inkscape. I am interested in the project proposal for the Paint Server Dialog improvement that is available in the Google Summer of Codes Program, and I would greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions from the community before finalizing my application. Here is some ideas that I have for the project: Gradient Support: Implement functionality to allow users to select and apply gradients for fill and stroke. This includes designing a user-friendly interface for creating, editing, and applying gradients within the dialog since it is a bit weird when I use it. Solid Color Integration Improvements : Enhance the dialog to include options for selecting and applying solid colors for fill and stroke. This involves designing intuitive controls for choosing from a palette of colors and applying them to objects. I thought of this because when I tried go fill a color, I noticed a line on the edges of the pictures that is not part of the stroke. I believe that these improvements will significantly enhance the usability and versatility of the Paint Server Dialog, ultimately benefiting the entire Inkscape community. I welcome any feedback, suggestions, or questions you may have regarding this proposal. I am eager to collaborate with the talented developers and designers in the Inkscape community to make this project a success. Thank you for considering my contribution, and I look forward to your feedback. Best regards, Julia Nguyen

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GSoC Patch Confirmation
by Witchi Kitti Kat 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Hello all, I was informed that my patches need to demonstrate my ability to program in C/C++. I have tried to scrape together what I can in the time that I have had today. Here they are: Merge 1 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6306> Merge 2 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6305>. They relate to my GSoC proposal. I know it's not much. I am very short on time today due to class. I want to do more, but the deadline is coming fast, and my proposal could be refined more. Any advice on what my next steps should be? If I can get any confirmation on these merges to know what I need to do for the rest of the night... Either I can get better merges tonight or focus on finishing my proposal. I would prefer to finish working on my proposal, of course, but if I need to do more merges, I can. Thank you for your time, I really appreciate it. Sincerely, Kayla Powell witchikittikat(a)gmail.com

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GSoC Introduction and Proposal
by Witchi Kitti Kat 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hello everyone, My name is Kayla, I go by kpowkitty online. I have tried to reach out a couple of times on IRC about feedback on my proposal; I missed this emailing list. My apologies! I hope that does not take away from my standing with Inkscape. I have already made two patches: Patch 1 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/a4959939e11b0253fbbaf12c3e1f1…>, Patch 2 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/3501a56d3fcd66b8c89a0ea160e8a…> . I have also created a drawing <https://inkscape.org/~kpowkitty/%E2%98%85girl+1> with Inkscape. I have submitted my proposal to GSoC. Feedback would be much appreciated. I am proposing a refactor and renewal of Inkscape. Here is my project summary: Inkscape has been pieced together since 2003; a rocky C to C++ transition, the implementation of GTK (now GTK4!), and much more. Inkscape is sitting on a somewhat unstable foundation. To improve this foundation, the remaining C code will be transitioned to C++, redundant code and rough implementations will be reversed and renewed, and there will be documentation added. By implementing these things, Inkscape will have a better foundation for development, making it easier to expand upon. It will also bring better memory management and efficiency. Most importantly, the documentation will make it easier for new developers to approach Inkscape. All of these factors combined will not only help old developers, by providing them with a stronger foundation and reliable documentation, but it will also make Inkscape approachable to new developers, through shorter, clearer code and better instructions. Deliverables are: Refactored ui/tools/tool-base.cpp. SPDrawAnchor removed → SPKnot implemented. src/line-geometry.h/.cpp officially in lib2geom. Divided display directory. Inkscape’s handling of URIs and file names sorted. Inkscape::URIReference and derived classes simplified. Optional: Decide when and where to use Inkscape::URI / Inkscape::IO::UriInputStream and clean them up. Optional: Unified error/status message output. Reorganized file tree. Clear, concise directory names and file names. Doxygen commenting. One-line file descriptors. READMEs for all directories. Please let me know if there are any changes I need to make. Thank you for taking the time to look at my proposal, and I look forward to hearing from you all! Sincerely, Kayla Powell witchikittikat(a)gmail.com

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Hey Inkscape Developers
by Vineet Bambah 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

Hi, I have been a contributor and a user of Inkscape for about 6-7 months now. I have loved the active nature of this community and clear documentation and tutorials. I am a student right now pursuing my bachelors from NIT Jalandhar, India. Here is my introduction to all the Inkscape Developers. Signing off for now, Vineet Bambah

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Developer Meeting Notes; March 28th
by Martin Owens 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hey everyone, Big developer meeting this week, thanks to everyone who came and participated. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Meeting: Friday April 5th, 1pm EST Attending: Marc, Martin, Mikekov, René, pbs, Ravi Arora, Tamir, Vaibhav, Tav, Javier ------- (René) We have macOS Apple silcon for Gtk4. We don't have intel support and we don't have a full test suite run. René wants to merge them with about 4 tests failing to recruit some help from other people. The new version of Gtk4 will be out soon. There is a time out delay in the test suite which René was hoping would be fixed in the next Gtk release, but hasn't so it'll have to be looked into as the test suite takes too long. Martin wanted to know how the macOS version on Gtk4 is performing. René reports that there is plenty of bugs, but the speed seems compariable. The extensions don't work yet. Some objects aren't appearing when drawn and pbs thinks this is a missed events. René will work on Windows development/building when the MSYS2 libraries are updated. ------- Mikekov has been trying to fix some regressions with 1.4.x, and has been fixing Gtk4 every now and then. Mikekov wants to merge the "Font selector UX study" into 1.4.x, it would be switched off by default. He's making a version for the Gtk4 master branch before it would ever be switched on. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4578 The developer team are ok with it being merged. ------- Vaibhav has been working on the toolbars, specifically issues with the text toolbar. It's almost ready to go. Mikekov mentioned the size of combo boxes in Gtk4. PBS had some ideas for how to set group priorities using boxes in the UI file by having boxes in boxes. Designers/UX-team can now customise the toolbars in such a way that they can decide what should disapear first when the toolbars are too small. ------- Jonathan asked about the SFC getting in touch. Martin and Vaibhav have recieved information from the SFC about the Bug Accelerator project. But Tav's email might have gotten eaten by his spam filter. Martin has signed the contract adjustment and will start working on bugs on April 1st. Vaibhav is communicating his details which should be complete by next week. ------- Martin and René worked on fixing a double parsing mystery issue in the color parser on macOS which turned out to be a long standing difference between clang and gcc with the C++ specification. Martin wrote a custom double parser for macOS and PBS suggested a possible function in lib2geom which might fix it too. (Martin) Rebasing the color branch for gtk4 - "new code". Some adjustement needed, but thankfully few of them. UI conflicts were easy to spot and look doable (still a few things like sliders, color drag and drop, to fix). The branch is big, and tiring to maintain. PBS offers help ------- (jabier) split of the mega corners fix into a 7 MR. It add stability to this LPE seems one or the most crashing one, by the way I implement beabiours to work as expected in operations like Join,Combine, Brak Apart, alowing retain spected results. Fix also lot of issues with knots than usualy crash even away of the LPE system. Also fix a issue in the status bar toolbar, targeted to windows OS, that fix a big lag randomly dragging and creation cause by a upstream bug in probably Pango or Label Gtk3 implementation. Finaly I do a Linux issue about redrawing SelectorStyle in status bar afecting debian Adwaita when we change some labels from normal to bold. Whole app is resized. ------- Ravi is contributing to GSoC looking at the node based editor using an infinate canvas with widgets. Experimenting with the Gtk4 branch and has noticed a lot of issues. Marc makes sure what everyone has their two merge requests accepted. ------- PBS had an unmerge request with SPDesktop refactoring which will be coming soon. A bunch of changes which he's wanted to fix for a while. Fixing lots of issues with popups and their life times. PBS asks the AppImage tool yanks the old app images and we should pin the app images. Marc says we need to store things in a place that we control. There are some issues with AppImages, for example it doesn't have GPU support. A possible tool to try out is AppImageCrafters. https://github.com/appimagecrafters/appimage-builder ------- Marc has been managing the GSoC and wants to make sure that their merge requsts and proposal drafts are getting reviewed in time. He asks everyone if they'd like to be mentors with GSoC. Jabier asks how much time it would take and Marc says that it really depends on the student as it can be as low as just reviewing the merge requests but it could be a student that needs a lot more help. ------- Martin would like to remind everyone to keep reviewing all merge requests if possible. ------- René explained why the version of XCode tools is pegged to a specific version to pbs and mikekov after the meeting ended. So technically this part of the meeting notes is impossible, since it was sent before people finished talking. See you all next time!

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herramienta construcción de formas
by irelur1957＠gmail.com 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

He tenido el problema de convertir un trazo cerrado a objeto y la herramienta de construcción de formas me ha solucionado la vida, ya que seleccionas todo el trazo y luego la herramienta, posteriormente haces click en el elemento y MUY IMPORTANTE luego clikeas en la herramienta selector (cursor flecha) y ya se convierte el trazo cerrado en objeto

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Meeting notes, March 20th 2024
by Martin Owens 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Developer Meeting March 20 Present: PBS, Jonathan, Jabier, Mikekov, Tav, Vaibhav, Martin Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ ----- GTK4 branch: - close to getting merged - migrate existing threads into meta-issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4802 - Build documentation can be unchanged since it automatically buils GTK4.14 for you - 1.4.x was branched a few days ago - decision should be up to Marc, added as reviewer - do we need to review it in-depth? - testing is more important, but that can happen after merging - other CIs except Linux will be fixed in the future - CI situation should improve once GTK4.14 makes its way into the repositores - upstream Windows MR: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/20311 1.4.x backports: - if they target master, backporting will be a pain as soon as GTK4 is merged - instead forward-port, reduce risk of regressions in 1.4.x by rebasing "behind" GTK4 - Label to mark those "Forward port required" created Bugfix Accelerator Program and Inbox: - will happen with Vaibhav, Tav and Martin - 1.4 milestone needs more issues, and Inbox is not in a very good state - Inbox is not in a very good shape, 1000 issues that need attention for triaging - Bugfix Accelerator people need to help - Ask vectors to recruit help Device program: - Windows for PBS, Mac for Tav, Mac for Vaibhav - PBS plans to sort out Visual Studio integration to on-board Windows developers Google Season of Docs - Ideas are welcome! Needs to have measureable objectives, and we need a 3-4 page proposal within two weeks. - a lot of work to mentor someone if it includes the Inkscape codebase - Wiki clean up? - Vector's style guide? - Documentation for extension authors? - Replacing Tav's manual? Host Tav's manual on inkscape.org? - fine with Tav - needs to be done before 1.4 - it didn't support HTTPS before - could be put into a repository? https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/tavmjong-manual Legal issues need to be resolved, i.e. the license for contributing, but we can make it readonly for now source is in DocBook (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook) Toolbars issues in master: 1. Several expander next to each other 2. No icons for the expanders 3. Lots of hardcoded expanders in the UI files. I've managed to dynamically manage the expanders and in the coming days I'll be working on adding icons to the expanders dynamically. With the latest changes, to make a child move between popovers and the toolbar, just adding the "tag" style class would do. ----- Big thanks to those that came and took notes as the meeting progressed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape - Dev Questions.
by Eric F 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

> Can someone in this group assist with these questions? My company requires > these answered before allowing this install. > > 1. > > In order to assess any potential risk, provide a list of all required > pre-requisite software (e.g., SQL Express, Visual Basic. In addition to > providing a list of pre-requisite software, provide confirmation from the > vendor via email that the product does not contain vulnerable third-party > applications including but not limited to Log4J or MSXML for risk > assessment purposes. > > 2. > > Please contact the vendor and request a Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) > in SPDX format. > > The Software Bill of Materials is a list of all of the components in a > piece of software. Nowadays, it is quite common for software vendors to > create products by assembling open source and commercial software > components. > > For this reason, SBOMs are created to provide transparency and identify > all of the risk-prone components. This information is needed in order to > conduct the security review for all software. >

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Developer Meeting Notes: March 12th 2024
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Dear Developers, Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. We had a short meeting and then worked through a bunch of really old merge requests. If you had an MR which was not marked as draft but had it's last activity more than 7 months ago, we might have closed your MR to keep things clean. Reopen branches and mark them as draft if you are still working on them. Some were also reviewed and approved. We're down to 58 open merge requests. ---- Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Jonathan, Martin, Tav, René, Vaibhav, Elendil (Krlr17) # Bug Accelerator Program Jonathan Has tried to contact pono who is the third people in the hiring committee to finalise the process. May have to create tickets and move forwards as best as we can. # Machines for Developers Sent out a poll if people need a windows or macOS machine for their work. 2 responses. Will be approved case by case basis by the PLC since there won't be very many requests. # Website issues Martin was working on spam protections this morning. No further issues with DDos this week. # MacOS Rene has made it possible to get log files in the macOS tests on the CI. Probably an oversight in how it was created. The good news is that it's as fast as it used to be, under 5 minutes instead of 20 minutes. Achieved by downgrading to a previous os version likely a gtk issue. # Windows Wants to work on the Gtk4 windows builder. It's not ready yet, but expected int he next couple of days. # Gtk4 Tav has started working on a couple of different things. Doing the preview in the export dialog in the Gtk4 branch. Vaibhav is working on bug fixes on the Gtk4 branch this week. # Release Mikekov is looking at discrepencies between master and 1.3.x to see what is happening and what might need be fixed. Especially for the migration work. Made some MRs to adjust those small things, maintly cosmetic. Elendil - Reports an unstream windows issue with Pango which is fixed upstream but needs to make it's way to our msys2 builds. Will report it to msys2. # Other items Martin continues his work on the Color branch, not breakthroughs to report as of yet. Thanks everyone, see you all next week!

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Announcement: The Inkscape 1.4 About Screen contest is upon us!
by Maren Hachmann 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

For each new version of Inkscape, we invite all Inkscape artists, newcomers and seasoned professionals, to submit an artwork for the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen Contest is about more than the About Screen. Contest artwork is also frequently featured in news articles about the release, on the inkscape.org download page, and in other locations. Each and every submission also helps us test the newest version of Inkscape. The topic for this year's contest is "GROWTH". We're excited to see what great art is submitted this year! We're looking forward to your contributions, to helping spread the message about the contest, and helping us select a winner! Learn more here: https://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/ Your Inkscape Vectors Team

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libinkscape_base.so import INK_UNORDERED_MAP fatal error:
by ofsetb＠gmail.com 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

I am trying to import inkscape as library from another application but it notifies me an error: In file included from file_2.cxx:5: In file included from /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/main.h:93: In file included from /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/sp-namedview.h:23: /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/util/units.h:140:13: fatal error: no template named 'INK_UNORDERED_MAP' typedef INK_UNORDERED_MAP<Glib::ustring, Unit> UnitMap; The inkscape is compiled normaly and works normaly. But I cannot import it into another clang++ application from library file /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5-build/lib/libinkscape_base.so clang++ -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \ -Wold-style-definition -Wfatal-errors -std=c++17 -o \ /<path>/otpremnica-racun-institut-C \ otpremnica-racun-institut-C.cxx \ file_2.cxx \ ... -L /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5-build/install_dir/lib/inkscape \ -I /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src \ -L /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \ -I /usr/include \ `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gtkmm-2.4 gdk-2.0 gdkmm-2.4 libxml-2.0 \ pangocairo pangoft2 fontconfig gthread-2.0 gsl gmodule-2.0 \ x11 lcms2 cairo-svg libcdr-0.1 \ `;

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March Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/283 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Developer Meeting: Feb 25th 2024
by Martin Owens 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Dear Devs, Big thanks to everyone who came to our meeting and all the new faces who came to talk about their work this week with us. Also thanks to everyone who stuck around for 2 HOURS! We got through some deep talk and a bunch of merge requests in our backlog (see below) Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mansi, Marc, MikeKov, pbs, Rafael, Siddhant Agarwal, Tav, Vaibhav Malik, Ishaan Next Meeting: March 4th 2024 = Website DDOS Situation Martin talked about the DDos attack against the website and reported what happened and what things have been put in place to help bring it back. The website is still being attacked today. (two days) = Gtk4 Work PBS builds a Gtk4 app image and we can get the CI to build it. Currently we use an old ubuntu for app image and a newer ubuntu for other builds. We can actually get over this if we use a new tool introduced for building app images. Philip would like to hand this work onto another developer if we can find someone who's interested in the work. Some bugs fixed in the gtk4 branch. There's some bugs which were fixed in gtk4 branch but not merged into master and he's working on finding them and porting them. = Testing PBS reports that since we upgraded to C++20, the 2geom code coverage isn't working any more. It'll need to be fixed or disabled. = Release Schedules We talked a lot about release schedules, if other teams are seeing our plans and are in sync with us. How hard our deadlines are and why we use strctured releases in our project to help keep things moving and keep contributions going out to users etc. Many more details were covered casually. Vaibhav wanted to talk about test coverage and how we can improve our automated testing. He's also been working on some regressions related to toolbars migration and regressions related to context menu selection logic. = Packaging Marc is working on a complete rework of the debian packaging stuff, separating stuff in multiple packages, no more "inkscape-trunk" incompatibilities, no more "separate branch" with deps. = Color Refactoring PBS, Mikekov and Rafael helped reviewing Martin's large color refactoring merge request and work through some of the issues as well as explaining how it's structured. Martin made a video to explain the outline and the other developers were able to review the various issues and how it needs to be improved going forwards. = Other Work PBS wants to finish the command line bitmap tracing branch for 1.4, somebody made a fork of inkscape and replaced the gui with a command line and someone else then tried backporting that back into inkscape to give us command line bitmap tracing. Mikekov has pushed a bunch of small bug fixes. There are so many things that have changed in 1.4 and there's some concerns that the refactoring will cause instability and we may not have the bug fixing resources. Mansi will be wrapping up revamping of filter gallery with one more mr :) (most of them have been fixed). Apart from them diving deep into rendering of selection tool and trying to figure out the cause of the issue - selection tool corner handles off by a small amount Siddhant wanted to ask about livarot functionality and the lib2geom GSoC and wanted to know what work had already been done. = Group Activity: Merge Request Review We work on our merge requests backlog as there is a large number of merge requests (90!) that need to be either merged or closed. We got through 9 of them today. --------------------------- Best Regards, Martin Owens

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[Call for applications] Bugfix accelerator 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

Dear dev team, upon request of the dev meeting, the PLC recently voted [1] for another round of the bugfix accelerator program! Experienced contributors can now apply to fix issues for the 1.4 release, and get paid by the project! As per the vote [1], 5 merged MRs in inkscape/inkscape since the 1.3 release (July 23, 2023) are required. *Please read the document attached to the vote carefully if you plan to apply.* Contractors are expected to set aside at least 10hrs per week for the program (last year’s experience has shown that doing the contract in parallel to a full-time job is not sustainable). The application should contain * your gitlab username * how much time per week you can allocate to the program * specific areas of expertise * experience with contracting work Send your application as reply to this email (directly to me). I'll respond when I see it. *Deadline for applications: Wednesday Feb 28, 23:59 UTC* Best regards, Jonathan [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.or…

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February Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/281 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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How to integrate gtk3 in my gtk2 inkscape project.
by ofsetb＠gmail.com 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

I hava a plentu of my code written into my inkscape-0.92.5 version of source code. If compile it with "-DWITH_GTK3_EXPERIMENTAL=ON" the option inkscape not work properly. if I do cmake it gives me the message: -- Empty package name in Requires or Conflicts in file '(command line arguments)' Using EXPERIMENTAL Gtkmm 3 build Using external GDL -- Checking for module 'gtkmm-3.0>=3.10,' -- Empty package name in Requires or Conflicts in file '(command line arguments)' -- Checking for module 'gdl-3.0>=3.6' -- Found gdl-3.0, version 3.40.0 Using GDL 3.6 or higher -- Checking for module 'gtkspell3-3.0' -- Found gtkspell3-3.0, version 3.0.10 Is there a log file? How to see what exacly is Requires or Conflicts in file?

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Meeting notes: February 1st 2024
by pulsar17 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

Hi All, Here are the meeting notes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Mike, Jonathan, Skippr, Mansi, Tav, Rene, Ishaan Jonathan informed that we can start planning for the Bug Accelerator Program based on the responses on the mailing lists. Mansi worked on bevel filters and is working on other filters, also asked for any areas where help is required with Gtk4 migration. Tav suggested to start with Dialogs - comparing them with their Gtk3 counterparts, and trying to make them work if they don't work in Gtk4. Mike suggested to compile the Gtk4 branch and start using as a daily driver to identify any issues. Skippr worked on Snapping of Ellipse tool. Mike and Skippr discussed how to add an icon. Tav has been working on Drag and Drop and TreeLists. It might be closer to being a solved problem. Tav and Mike discussed about potentially converting the deprecated TreeView dialogs to the Gtk4 counterpart - TreeLists. Mike started to work on XML Dialog, focusing on the Attribute Editor. Potential conflict with Tav's work on XML Dialog was discussed. Rene has been working with build systems and Gtk4, and also rebuilt the CI environment. Rene also reduced CI timeouts to more sane values. Windows CI timeout limits being lower than required for Non project-member user forks was mentioned. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting: Jan 24th 2024
by Martin Owens 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Hey everyone, Attending: Martin, Tav, Mikekov, Krlr17, NPJ, Mansi, Jonathan, Marc, René ------ Mansi - introduced themselves, they are from India and are a computer science and interested to help with Inkscape with the filters. Tav - XML editor rewriting it for Gtk4 compatibility trying to add drag and drop but it's a bit of a nightmare. The code hasn't been touched much in 20 years. There's a couple of different options, and he's going for the tree view. He copied the code from the object dialog, but it turns out the drag and drop wasn't working in the object dialog and it was segfaulting with an asserts. But even fixing those wasn't fixing it. We discussed the details further for ten minutes. Mikekov - Been on vacation but recommends studying the Gtk4 which details all the new concepts and it's going to be important for our developers to learn them and get comfortable with using it properly. Krlr17 - Martin wanted to know how the issues tracker is going, they said they could do with some help. On bug fixing they think a bug accelerator program would greatly help. For the triaging side, we should do a mentorship program where we spend some time getting new people into the project. People on the forum might be a good source of potential candidates. Jonthan - Bug accelerator program, has a draft but is not ready to be submitted. The goal is to have people apply for the position. We talked briefly about the way the new project should be run. We created a poll to ask people who would be interested in joining the hiring committee. Marc and Jonathan said yes. Everyone else abstained. Another poll for who would be interested, and there were people who answered yes (named withheld). A third poll about if we should run the program again came back with a 100% in favor vote that we should do it. Jonathan will set up a PLC vote at the weekend. René - Martin asked about a testing bug on macOS and René will look at it and will be able to run the whole test suite locally to find out what's going on. René is reviewing the mac-statium article and keep in touch with those guys. Also working on Gtk building stuff in general. We talked briefly about rocket chat, matrix and alternative chat, we will continue to have this chat to make sure we're doing the right thing. We're not going to rush into making a change at this time though. Thanks to everyone who came and talked about developer issues. It was a full and fun meeting today. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Chat Room
by Martin Owens 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Hey everyone, Inkscape has hosted our own chat services at chat.inkscape.org since 2018, we've been using the open source server RocketChat in order to provide the project communication for both internal use and for interacting with users and answering their questions. The Rocket Chat upstream organisation has recently become hostile to it's users and admins, developing all sorts of covert design patterns to push self-hosted instances into signing up to expensive per-user licenses and proprietary extensions. It's also sending information about our server back to rocket chat themselves. The most recent upgrade has left us with a difficult and problematic path ahead as we can't really continue to use rocket chat as a server software. But this has to be a community wide discussion as the service is the most used internal communication channel and is used by many people and many teams for lots of things. These are the questions I need you to answer, please reply here or send me a personal email or message with your answers: == Questionnaire == 1. Do you think we should move away from rocket chat? This is a nominal question since I don't think we can administratively support it going forwards, but we should know your thoughts anyway. 2. Should we reverse engineer the rocket chat database in order to try and keep the history? There are no known tools of retaining the history and if we move to another chat system, our history will be wiped clean. How is history important to you or the project? 3. What replacement chat systems have you used with other projects that you think might be a good fit for our use cases? (see below) 4. Can you expand upon our use cases with the ways you current use, or know that our rocket chat is being used? (see below) 5. Any other comments? == Use Case == I'm drafting a use case document to guide the decision on what to move towards. This might take us time to develop the solution so don't worry about any rash movement, for now we have time to work through the problem together. You don't have to edit this document yourself, I'll digest answers where I can, but if you want to have a direct hand in drafting I'm inviting people to go to this document and help out: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/FcTg4QsdstnDeMA == Final thoughts == Sorry to spring this problem on the project. After talking with Marc about the way rocket chat is behaving and how their upgrade paths are causing us issues, we believe this process needs to start now. Best Regards, Martin Owens Project Infrastructure Hat

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Sending email to get added to list
by Mansi 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

mansins168(a)gmail.com

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Installing build dependencies on Ubuntu using APT
by Thomas Larsen Wessel 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

I am trying to build inkscape (master) on Ubuntu 22.04. The list of dependencies is long, and for each of them I am "guessing" the package name I need to install in APT. Thanks to a tiny bit of experience, googling and APT autocompletion, this is possible, though it takes 10sec to a few minutes for each package. But I feel I am missing something. Is there no smarter way than this guessing? Sincerely, Thomas

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Inkscape 1.4 preparations and schedule
by Marc Jeanmougin 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Hi all ! As you could see in Martin's email, we've been discussing release-related topics earlier in the developer meeting. We have mostly decided to carry out a release this year as usual (with a release in May), which will be using *GTK3*. Hence, later this year the master branch will lead to a 1.4.x branch, and after this point the gtk4 branch will be merged into master. We have this year a more modest amount of big shiny features into the release, but that's not an issue, and certainly not a reason to not make them available to our users :) However since it means that master is currently fairly stable, this gives some leeway to add simple features and changes if needed. If you plan to do "big" changes for 1.4 (or changes to the "core" (rendering, etc)), please get in touch on the chat as soon as possible to discuss them (before middle of January), otherwise for things like UX improvements or new isolated functions, feel free to work on them until the beginning of March, at which point we'll branch and produce a Beta (and then, only bugfixes until the release, as usual) Bugfixes are always welcome until late in the release process to get a polished release. Thanks everyone ! -- Marc

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Developer Meeting, Jan 8th 2024
by Martin Owens 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Thanks to everyone who came today; Attending: Marc, Jonathan, Martin, René, Tav, James, Mikekov Next Meeting: Tuesday January 16th Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ # FOSDEM We started by talking about FOSDEM, confirming which days we would be available. We need to book train tickets, Mark will be asking his employer, Martin will be asking pono. # Release Planning We spent the end of the meeting planning out the 1.4 release and what this would look like. We have decided that we will have one more Gtk3 release with fewer features for 2024 to give us extra room to making the Gtk4 release as good as it can be. There will be a refactoring freeze in a about a week and a feature freeze in a couple of months. So if developers have plans for features and fixes, now is the time to focus on getting them into 1.4 The Gtk4 branch merge will be posponed until after the 1.4.x branch split to make this process easier. # Developer topics Marc - Needed to update the windows store version of Inkscape Martin - Working on color refactoring, including a mass of tests and talked about using gtest in advanced ways James - Continuing work on fixing issues with the sp-grid and dealing with older files and making sure we're not corrupting old files too much. Marc and Martin pointed james towards an old archive on openclipart svgs to search for wild data. René - Has been working on the Gtk4 building for windows 7zip and will proceed from there into macOS building. It now compiles thanks to some fixes from pbs. - Additionally, MacStadium will release an article about us we don't know the contents but they've been friendly. - Is thinking about what we will do at LGM in Ren, France. It's not close to much. We talked a bit about the cutural ameinaties of various european towns. Mikekov - Has been working on a path specific element in the object attribute dialog. Designed by adam, It's requiring a refactoring and it'll take a bit of time to complete. - Found a new book for Gtk4 which describes the way the data model works and thinks others should read it too. GTK4 Rust book: https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/book/ Tav - Fixed a bug with the dash code using the Gtk grid view, the cursor would reset to t he start when editing in that box which made it hard to use. - The Gtk4 work is going slow at the moment. Thanks everybody! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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How is the automatic/background font substitution implemented?
by Thomas Larsen Wessel 06 Jan '24

06 Jan '24

If opening a file using font "Times" in Inkscape on a Windows machine without that font installed, it uses Arial for rendering instead. For all the cases I tried, including generic font names such as "serif" and "sans-serif", it defaulted to the best replacement candidate that I know of. How is that implemented? Is this logic part of Inkscape itself? Does it use an external library? Does it use some service/interface on Windows (which other apps apparently don't use)? Most apps do this well on Linux, because they simply rely on fontconfig. But very few apps do well on Windows. Good job, thanks :) Sincerely, Thomas

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Re: Inkscape 1.3.x is very slow to import PDF file
by Jinsong Zhao 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Thanks for the reply and the links. I am sorry for the confusion in my previous email. What I really wanted were the Inkscape binaries between 1.2.2 and 1.3. Now things have moved a bit to the root. I got the 1.3-dev commit binaries from https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/pipelines. Although there are no binaries for every commit, I also tried my best to narrow the problem down to the commit between 3e2761dd (2022-08-23) and 89b3c1d1 (2022-08-22). I cannot find a binary for Windows between the two commits. 89b3c1d1 commit works fine, while 3e2761dd commit shows the problems I reported in the original post. Best, Jinsong On 2023/12/11 20:33, Nathan P. Johansen wrote: > Hm. I apologize that wasn’t the problem - but thank you for checking. > I’m not certain how Windows handles Fonts, but if you are certain that > you do not have many, then it shouldn’t cause the delay in launching. > > You can find past editions of 1.2.x here: > > inkscape-og-image.png > All Platforms for Inkscape 1.2.2 > <https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.2/platforms/> > inkscape.org <https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.2/platforms/> > > <https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.2/platforms/> > > Notice that you can explore the 1.3.x (and multiple versions for > nearly twenty years) by exploring the navigation links available for > all platforms from the release page, here: > > inkscape-og-image.png > Download Inkscape 1.3.2 <https://inkscape.org/release/> > inkscape.org <https://inkscape.org/release/> > > <https://inkscape.org/release/> > > I notice that I failed to reply to the developer list, so please feel > free to include our full exchange in a future reply and perhaps it > will assist one of the developers or Inkscape team members to offer > further guidance. > > Sorry you’re having issues but thank you for choosing Inkscape! =) > > Best, > Nathan > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 10, 2023, at 6:05 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao(a)yeah.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Nathan, >> >> Thanks for your suggestions. I don't know how to remove the installed >> fonts. In fact, I don't install any additional fonts except those >> installed by applications. >> >> Where could I find the Inkscape binaries for each of the 1.2.x >> commits? If I could get these, I might be able to find which commit >> introduced the problem. >> >> Best, >> Jinsong >> >> On 2023/12/10 23:30, Nathan P. Johansen wrote: >>> Hello! >>> Those versions introduced a variety of features, but given your >>> explanation, the first thing which comes to mind is to try >>> significantly reducing (or temporarily moving entirely) any >>> excessive number of installed fonts on your system to a bare minimum? >>> If your are able to then launch Inkscape in a more timely manner, >>> this may indicate the cause for the delay. I am hoping that other >>> readers with more experience on Windows systems will be able to >>> offer their suggestions and solutions as well. >>> Thank you for the references to your question being posed already in >>> multiple spots. Do you perhaps also use chat.Inkscape.org in the >>> #inkscape_user or #team_devel channels with any frequency? >>> Best, >>> Nathan >>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> On Dec 10, 2023, at 6:45 AM, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao(a)yeah.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Inkscape developers, >>>> >>>> I should report the following potential bug in GitLab, but I cannot >>>> do so because I am unable to register an account on GitLab. I am >>>> asking the question on the forums and the chat channel. I do not >>>> get a solution. >>>> >>>> The problem is reported and discussed here: >>>> https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/13-and-131-are-very-very-slow-opening-a-… >>>> and I think >>>> https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/the-pdf-file-does-not-open-in-version… >>>> reported the same problem. >>>> >>>> I also searched the issues on GitLab, there are several similar >>>> reports, for example >>>> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/8503 and >>>> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4597#note_1568155608. >>>> >>>> The OS I am running Inkscape on is Windows 10 and 11 Home Edition. >>>> I have encountered this issue with Inkscape 1.3, 1.3.1 and 1.3.2. >>>> Inkscape 1.2.x works fine. >>>> >>>> I hope someone here can reproduce this problem and fix it. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Jinsong >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 1.3.x is very slow to import PDF file
by Jinsong Zhao 10 Dec '23

10 Dec '23

Dear Inkscape developers, I should report the following potential bug in GitLab, but I cannot do so because I am unable to register an account on GitLab. I am asking the question on the forums and the chat channel. I do not get a solution. The problem is reported and discussed here: https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/13-and-131-are-very-very-slow-opening-a-… and I think https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/the-pdf-file-does-not-open-in-version… reported the same problem. I also searched the issues on GitLab, there are several similar reports, for example https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/8503 and https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4597#note_1568155608. The OS I am running Inkscape on is Windows 10 and 11 Home Edition. I have encountered this issue with Inkscape 1.3, 1.3.1 and 1.3.2. Inkscape 1.2.x works fine. I hope someone here can reproduce this problem and fix it. Best, Jinsong

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Integrating Skia as another rendering engine
by bens7372＠gmail.com 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Hi, What parts of the Inkscape codebase do I need to modify to incorporate Skia as a rendering backend, or are there limitations tying Inkscape to Cairo, and what approach should I take if it's viable? I've previously tried to hack on the codebase, but I'm a Qt developer, so found it difficult even to just modify UI dialogs, which will be important to provide an option to switch to GPU rendering. Even though I've started writing a new vector graphics tool with Qt, and gotten Skia working with OpenGL, I'd rather prefer not to re-incorporate Inkscape's functionality. Kind Regards, Ben Cottrell

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Inkscape 1.3.1
by Marc Jeanmougin 18 Nov '23

18 Nov '23

Inkscape 1.3.1 ============== Inkscape 1.3.1 is now released. You can download it at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at: https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.3.1 is mainly a stability and bugfix release, fixing lots of crashes and bugs, and improving on the node count when using the shape builder. You can find the full release notes at https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3.1 Thanks to everyone involved in that release! -- The Inkscape team

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You're invited to celebrate Inkscape's 20th Anniversary with us!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Nov '23

16 Nov '23

Hello Everyone! Please join us in celebrating Inkscape's 20th Anniversary on Saturday, November 18, at 12:00 UTC (Session 1) and / or 18:00 UTC (Session 2) in our BBB room [1]. You'll hear Inkscape stories from fellow contributors, learn about the history of the project, and ask questions, too! We look forward to seeing you there! https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/ink-5ky-kre-jar Inkscape Vectors 1) The Big Blue Button room (hosted by Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Télécom Paris) will open at the above times.

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You're invited to participate in Inkscape's 20th Anniversary Party – RSVP
by Maren Hachmann 11 Nov '23

11 Nov '23

Hello fellow Inkscape Contributors! We're planning a couple of informal online sessions on Saturday, November 18 to celebrate Inkscape's 20th anniversary. We'd love to know if you can make it. And if you might want to participate. Click on the link and let us know! Thank you! https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/apps/forms/s/PbZwCdJZoDiGTL… Inkscape Vectors

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Congratulations, Inkscape!
by Maren Hachmann 06 Nov '23

06 Nov '23

Dear Inkscape Contributors, today, the Inkscape project celebrates its 20th anniversary. 20 years ago, it started out as a fork from the sodipodi project, with this email from Bryce: https://web.archive.org/web/20140110200622/https://sourceforge.net/p/sodipo… For this special day, Vectors have given the Community the opportunity to send their messages to you, the contributors. Please find the community's messages to you here: https://inkscape.gitlab.io/inkscape-docs/awesome-web-pages/20th_anniversary/ Happy 20th Anniversary! Maren

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November Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 03 Nov '23

03 Nov '23

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/278 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Developer Meeting Oct 28th 2023
by Ishaan Arora 28 Oct '23

28 Oct '23

Dear Inkscape Community, Here are the meeting notes from today's developer meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Present: Martin, Tav, Jabier, Jonathan, René, pbs, Ishaan, Jabier Next Meeting: Nov 5th René: CI Updates for MacOS and Windows. Windows CI switched to Gitlab. We did not respond to MacStadium runners, Rene contacted MacStadium for Windows runners, waiting for their reply. Gitlab CI minute consumption might increase because of this. Might need to switch to manual pipelines, this month hopefully can be passed without going over limit. 2 MRs for 1.3.x - Final updates for MacOS and Windows An idea for cleaning stale branches in the repository. Tav: Worked on File Dialogs, and building a native dialog on Windows. Some things are not present in Gtk4, like combo boxes, they're substituted by drop downs. Also looked at some glib::ustring vs std::string issues. pbs: Worked on polishing Handles - auto-reloading, finer snapping for some handles. Jabier: Working on Gtk4 dnd file, some MRs for 1.3.1 need merging (unrelated to LPEs) Ishaan: Worked on more website stuff, this week was mostly setting up local VMs. Plan to try with new dependencies and Django on a local VM in coming week. Once that is done, a box can be asked from OSUOSL. Discussions: Discussion about Native Dialog MRs (by Martin and Ted). Do we need to drop File Previews or work with upstream. Is it better to use Native dialogs or our custom one which has a marginal maintenance burden. Jonathan suggested the preview on Windows can be offloaded to any program of our choosing by modifying Registry keys. Jonathan asked about some xaml submodule updates. Martin suggested to prepare an MR for 1.3.1 pbs mentioned Inkview is very close, blocked on one file for Gtk4 pbs asked about a main gtk4 branch and Tav mentioned that it should be created rather soon. Should it be a branch or an MR? No resolution as of now. branch might be messy - "dev within dev" - anyone can rebase on top of MR's branch pbs also asked about when should the gtk4 stuff be merged. Some questions about Color manangement work by Martin - is it GPU compatible? because copying from main memory to GPU memory would be very slow - relevant if we plan to use a GPU renderer. Some history about OpenGL and Vulkan by pbs, contouring, SVG WG history by Tav lib2geom is compiled using C++20 when compiled with Inkscape, stand-alone its compiled with C++17 - not too big of an issue according to pbs Best Regards, Ishaan Arora

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Developer Meeting Oct 20th 2023
by Martin Owens 20 Oct '23

20 Oct '23

Dear Inkscape Community, Here are the meeting notes from today's developer meeting: Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Present: S.Ouchene, Martin, Tav, Marc, Krlr17, MikeKov, Jabier, Jonathan, René Next Meeting: October 28th # Gtk4 Tav has been working on the File Fialogs. When investigating the code there appear to be so many classes which at first seem like it's too many, but it's actually a permutation of open, save, windows, gtk. The real problem is the mixed up way they're written. The new Gtk4 dialogs all return Gio::File objects, and we should be using these more within our own code to avoid the conversions between std::string and Glib::ustring. Issues with the filter drop-down, keeping things in sync. Probably get rid of the win32 dialogs. Martin suggests not spending too much time trying to keep functionality which we will probably have to redesign anyway or that would take a ton of work to support. Especially if it involves hacking the Gtk widget tree in the dialog which is prone to errors. # Building and Infrastructure Marc asked Rene why the macstatium runner doesn't any more, it's blocking the 1.3.x branch. Rene wasn't aware of any issues, but to cope with it we can migrate it to the normal windows runners. There are some permissions issues to work out between Rene and Patrick to make sure the machines are accessible by more people as Rene doesn't have access to the machine Checking out CI minutes. We're ok, but cutting it close with the amount of spare minutes. Marc wanted to ask about a specific merge request related to building and CI. A short explanation about windows docker. Although this is probably not available to GitLab, but worth checking out as downloads of depedencies take the longest time in our builds and cutting this part out would be very good. Rene has been working on dependency updates. Looking into Gtk3 and 4 deps. Especially regarding libadwaita which is complicated to build with deps that don't build yet on macOS. Working through the depedency stack, for example cairo has made all their symbols private like poppler. This is worth keeping in mind when we use private symbols. Brief talk about the use of font config and freetype uses in inkscape. Libjpeg-turbo claims to be much faster than regular jpeg library. It's supposed to be compatible and more capable. Rene is interested because jpeg is built really early. Mike says it has asembler instructions for intel and wonders if this would work on macOS. Rene will make a test to try it out. # Next Version (1.3) Martin talked about his 1.3.x backporting work, some basic requests for how to tag merge requests for the backport and the target dates. All work should be completed by the end of the month giving people enough time to test 1.3.1rc1 (or similar). Jabier has finished helping with the fixes for LPE crashes and offers to help with the backporting process. But he has some worries about possible regressions from his fixes in the LPE code and asks for help testing the LPEs. Marc provides a crash issue and asks about if it's fixed. # Color Refactoring Martin has been working on doing the color refactoring. There are two main ideas, the first is to make sure colors that use profiles are tied to their profiles using a URIHandler, so we can see what objects are in use and clean them up. We can also use this to make a list of used colors for the palettes. The second is to support different spaces and not convert everything to sRGB in order to store the numbers in our code. An icc profile is not required to specify a different color space, and we should be able to output css4 like colors (for example hsl(...)) Marc shared an older merge request with his work on refactoring and Martin said this would be useful to compare it all. Mike asked for a location for color profiles and we talked breifly about color profile data. # Other Business Mikekov has been helping with merge requests. Jonthan has been waiting on feedback for the grants proposal. We'll be meeting with pono on Monday after a two week gap in SFC meetings for various things. Big thanks to everyone who came to today's meeting. You don't have to dress up to attend next week's developer meeting. It's a Saturday and attendance is lower, so we might just have a social or may just talk about 1.3, depending on the crowd. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Meeting notes; October 4th 2023
by Martin Owens 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Hey Everyone, Thanks to those who were able to make today's develop meeting Attending: Alezzacreative, Jonathan, Marc, Martin, Krlr17, Ishaan, Tav Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Meeting: 12th October 2023 # FOSSSDem FOSSDem call for dev rooms. We need to decide if we're going to team up with another project, the room is mostly focused on presentation and on technical and development side. So we expect technical presentations and would need to be able to fill the room for at least half a day. Martin asked Marc to head up organing the effort so we have a main person who can act as the driver and ask other projects. # Packaging Marc has some packaging stuff to take care of for Linux; a bunch of issues to look at in the coming week. Martin wanted to know about the backports task, Jonathan suggested to do the testing for each of the issues to make sure it's all working. One month to go before the release and is still the plan, Martin will tell vectors so they have time. Krlr17 reports that the windows builds are not available on the website currently. Marc knows about the issue. # Grant Prooposal Jonathan reports back his meeting with pono about the grants funding project; he has found that we wouldn't ever be able to a hybrid system of allowing users to donate towards specific projects. But without that part of the proposal it would still be possible to attract donations for the global fund. # Gtk4 Migration Tav has been doing more Gtk4 stuff, trying to deal with some filename issues. It's much more particular about conversing std string and Glib::ustring classes. It's a bit tough as it's a windows specific issue because filenames are stored on windows as UTF16 but UTF8 on linux and mac. Tav is working on a script to make Images Gtk4 compatible. Daniel has been progressing on small items, still working on both his Gtk4 branch and bringing things into master when they can be. We reviewed the Gtk4 contract progress, the amount of money we're spending down and the type of work being done within the terms of the contract. Martin has talked about the merge conflicts that are happening, mostly he's holding onto large feature merge requests. Other developers might be waiting for the Gtk4 work to complete before developing new things. # Color Management System Martin gave a talk about his CMS work, the user interface, color picking the kinds of assumptions and workflows. And how to use color seperation. Other developers were very helpful in confirming if these designs and approaches are correct. Thanks for reading! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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October Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 04 Oct '23

04 Oct '23

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/275 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Developer Meeting Notes - Sept 18th 2023
by doctormo＠gmail.com 19 Sep '23

19 Sep '23

Dear Developers, Thanks to everyone who came to this week's meeting. Attending: Marc, Martin, René, S.Ourchene, Tav, Jabier, Ishaan, Amenzou Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Date: Tuesday September 26th, 2023 Portable Apps wish for us to distribute the windows64/32 build for Inkscape 1.3. The releases policy we talked about and seems reasonable is to offer trust to fellow members who are working within the project who document the scripts and process for how the release is put together. An email has been sent back to invite them to particpate more closely and document their work. Everyone took turns to ask Tav questions about text. It's ask Tav day! Some looking at merge requests and issues, one about how to process text in the layout. Tav worked on the toolbar Gtk4 work and researching all the items that are needing for all the new widget allocations. Marc wants the toolbar work to use a merge commit, instead of squashing the commit. Tav and Rene wants to do this work collectively at the next developer meeting. Ishaan has continued working on the updates for the website. Working through each of the possible breaking changes progressively in a private branch. Rene wanted to know when 1.3.1 might be released, Martin says he's expecting November time, Marc says we need to commit all our backports which is a task for Martin in the coming weeks. Jabier has a MR that is ready to be reviwed. 5763, it needs feedback from adam. Martin has been working on CMS improvements with a UI improvement merge request which is being reviewed by designers mostly. Good feedback about the process of desktop preference profiles vs. document profiles and future work needed on color pickers. Tav has some concerns that we wouldn't be able to build AppImages with Gtk4. Marc says that there are ways around the restrictions, but we may have to ask for some backports upstream to help us with the process. See you all next week! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting - Sept 10th 2023
by Martin Owens 10 Sep '23

10 Sep '23

Dear Devs, Thanks to everyone who came to today's developer meeting. Attending: Martin, Jonathan, Tav, Hendrick, Hash, Ishaan, Jabiertxo, PBS Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next meeting: Monday, September 18th # Extensions Jonathan has been completing his speed and API improvements to the extensions style based API. Martin has continued work on the CMYK PDF Exporter, is planning on producing a CMYK JPEG and TIFF exporter as part of the work needed for that, but it should provide extra functionality outside of the PDF work. It may need more packaging work for the binary Python Image Library or another color management library support, will know more in the coming weeks. # Improvements Hendrick - Second time in this meeting, really interesting starting work on Inkscape and like last time he's focusing on the maths side for offsetting paths. If one thinks about it from the maths side instead of the code side he sees a lot of room for improvement. In a process of discovery and keeping some attention on performance. Lib2Geom is quite nice because it's quite fast and they can be used for the pure maths construction. For example a cubic bezier curve it only checks a couple of points to test how good the approximations are and we can do better. Jabier worked on an improvement to the spray tool. Martin has a question about backporting tool improvements after all the event refactoring for Gtk4. Special merge requests will be needed and tested for each instance. # Gtk4 Work Tav and PBS has been working on Gtk4 stuff, getting very close to working on Gtk4 directly. The big project currently in the toolbar work. There are a couple of bugs with a couple of widgets which change size or that cause the window to change size when you change tools. But it's usable so we can merge it in sooner. PBS has been working on Gtk4 branch, we should keep to using a public shared branch to reduce the duplicate work if we're working from private branches. # Infrastructure Jonathan has been working on the paid projects work with pono and Martin, a small confusion has pono talk to Karen before we were finished drafting and he got the wrong idea of the proposal. We need to be clearer where in the process we are during drafting. We need to move to C++20 and use the CI builder to know if some feature is available in the build system. AppImage targets Ubuntu 20.04, Martin suggests using a PPA to install new Gnu tools, but Marc wasn't available so we don't know what the real limitations are. Ishaan has been working on improving the website to a new Django version. Wanted to know what kind of policy we should have for upgrading libraries when they are deprecated. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Meeting Notes for 2 Sep 2023
by Ishaan Arora 02 Sep '23

02 Sep '23

Hi All, Here are the minutes of the meeting that happened on 2 Sep 2023: Django Upgrade: Ishaan Arora has started work to upgrade the website to Django 3 from its current version, Django 2.2. They mentioned that the site is behind on security updates. C++20 and Gtk4: Tav wants to discuss moving to C++20 and Gtk4. Rene de Hesselle suggests using CI to test C++20 compatibility. Tav outlines a plan for transitioning to Gtk4, beginning with local builds. CI Changes: René de Hesselle mentions that transitioning to Gtk4 would require changes to the CI setup for both macOS and Windows.😁️ Tav suggested to skip weekends for the dev meeting. New suggested schedule (M->Tu->W->Th->F->M) Best Ishaan

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Meeting Notes from Rene
by Martin Owens 19 Aug '23

19 Aug '23

Hey all, Passing on the meeting notes from René from this week's developer meeting. Sorry for the delay: Martin - working on bug accelerator program 1/2 - as known: issues marked for 1.3.1 - low hanging fruit taken care of, now the difficult ones remain - some work on extensions in regards to release process of inkex to pypi; having a release schedule, Jonathan has further ideas in regards timing, Martin for the process/simplification - CMYK export 1/2 - based on a new PDF output library Hendrik - Welcome! - improve the offset feature in LPE - undesireable artifacts - fixing bugs with the offset functionality - What is the code /hwere to fix= - livarot - livarot is supposed to be deprecated and move things to lib2geom - talk to Raphael was intersted to move this functionality MikeKov - continuing on swatches dialog - addressing comments - sanitizing ID - can probably turned into a general thing we reuse in other places PBS - OpenGL mode doesn't work well in X11 and better on Wayland - something has changed in GTK? it works now in X11? - work on event system - work on text tool Tav - GTK4 migration prep - porting of tools - builder files (*.ui files) - simplifications/unification GTK builder tool(s), 3 to 4 conversion - very close to finishing up toolbars work Jonathan - inkex refactoring - clearer release cycle

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Developer Meeting Notes - Aug 9th 2023
by Martin Owens 10 Aug '23

10 Aug '23

Dear Developers, Very quiet set of weeks, there was no notes from last week's developer meeting. This week with have a couple of updates. Attending: Marc, Tav, René, Martin, Adam Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ # MacOS Pipeline A much quicker pipeline has been comitted and will reduce the number of minutes used in our development as well as speeding up the result. # macOS Re-Release René is going to re-publish the 1.3 macOS release for macOS for back2wards compatability for High Seira. Related to the python extensions when using an old version of macOS. # Bug Fixing Martin has been fixing issues with 1.3.1, hit on a problem with the bleed and margins that needed more attention to correct some data problems with unit handling. # Gtk4 Tav thinks we're coming to the end of the prep work for Gtk4, event handling specifically and we can not start planning for Gtk4 switch over. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes - July 24 2023
by doctormo＠geek-2.com 24 Jul '23

24 Jul '23

Hey Everyone, Thanks to everyone who came to the developer meeting this week. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Present: Rafael, Marc, Martin, Thomas Holder, Mikekov, Gre, Nicco, Rene, Jonathan Next Meeting: Tuesday, August 1st 2023 (1 hour after the SFC catch up meeting) # New Stable Release Congratulations everyone for the release. We've had about 25k downloads today. The responses in all the social media and news sites has been very positive so far. We're all very happy with the release, although we understand there are still some rough patches. Martin wants to say that he’s very proud of being able to work with everyone this last year and hopes everyone knows how much they rock. Request for the website developer: Add all the download numbers together from the releases into the download page. Maybe cache the number so it's not so over requesting. This time we made the RC and final installers days before the final release date so we have a lot more buffer than usual and could fix issues with the msi build without too much stress. Even the windows store creator didn't crash this time. So this year’s release went much smoother. Marc - Made the windows installers signed, self-signed so they still get a warning about trust. But the notice dialog will now say it's by "Inkscape" which is slightly better than "Unknown" # Ongoing Fixes The 1.3.x branch is unfrozen, so please apply fixes and things which you can apply to the 1.3, including backports which couldn't be applied to 1.3 in time. Don't spend too much time making features which can only apply to 1.3 even if we have some disruption with 1.4's Gtk4 migration. Rene wanted to ask that we keep 1.3.x issues tagged properly so Martin can work on them with his bug fixing contract. # Other Developments Nicco has been working on the AI contract extension. He's been working on live path effects for rectangles which works quite nice. He'll be working on styles next, gradients and other elements. Jonathan has been unavailable because of parental leave. Rafael has started looking at some problems in lib2geom, specifically to do with arcs, there was a good implementation which didn't have all the cases covered. We've worked on stabilizing the numerical stability of the current methods, but we're reaching the end of what can be done with these methods. There are some new mathematics which use a degree four polynomial the basis of which has been added already. This is all to fix the intersections of two ellipse/arcs. Rafael we may add a rotate box in the select tool. Marc has some concerns that it might be cluttering. Martin suggests that a configurable toolbar would allow non-default features which could be switched on. Although some users think this is essential, Marc thinks they could use the transform dialog instead. Thomas has joined us to congratulate us for the new release. He was trying out some new features and hit some limitations so has coded it. Martin hasn't been available because of a bereavement; wants to thank everyone for covering him while he’s been away. Has made a poll for his sponsors what they want him to work on for the coming year. He'll be focusing on CapyPDF for CMYK PDF output and the secondary project will be the connectors tool which has been waiting for a while. Jonathan joins us to congratulate us on a great release. # Gtk4 No one was available to talk about Gtk4 this week. # Infrastructure Marc reported our CI builder minutes usage on GitLab skyrocketed. There is some discussion about the possible future CI configurations, running them ourselves etc. Intel machines for macOS, Linux machines, etc. Rene reports that the Gnome project is having isolation problems in their CI builder but they don't have anyone to look after the machine. Rene has concerns that the Gnome project isn't committed to macOS and might not be trustworthy. So even though he could spend time helping Gnome, he fears it might be a waste of his volunteer time. There may be some interpersonal or cultural issues that need to be unpicked. Marin suggested we need to get together with the Gnome project and try and talk it out. He's got an open ticket so they can use his macOS CI runner for glib. # Events We have some interest in tracking FOSSDEM and LGM events. And seeing if we can run a dev room, or a booth or what might be possible. Lots of interesting topics for a dev room. Editable SVG, Gtk4, and other cross-project collaboration. Awesome meeting everyone. Lots talked about. See you all next week. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape 1.3 released!
by Marc Jeanmougin 23 Jul '23

23 Jul '23

================ = Inkscape 1.3 = ================ Thanks to all the work from our community, we are proud to announce that Inkscape version 1.3 is now released. ---------------- You can find out about the new features at: https://inkscape.org/news/2023/07/23/inkscape-launches-version-13-focus-org… and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.3 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following more than one year of development after the 1.2 major release. The highlights of this release are: * Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded rendering * Shape builder (NEW) - a new tool for building complex shapes (Boolean tool) * Improved On-Canvas Pattern Editing * Pattern Editor (NEW) * Page margins & bleed * Document Resources Dialog (NEW) * Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog and of an optional persistent snap bar * Font Collections (NEW) * Syntax highlighting in XML Editor * LPE dialog - Redesign * Better PDF import * Many crash & bug fixes We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.3/Inkscape_1.3.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], testing and bug triaging[4], documentation[5] or even outreach[6]! The main ways to get involved are listed onhttps://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1]https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or libera.chat/#inkscape-devel) [2]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_testing [5]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation [6]https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Meeting - July 16th 2023
by Martin Owens 16 Jul '23

16 Jul '23

Hey everyone, This week's developer meeting is all about the new release, which is next week! Present: Marc, René, Gre, Jabiertxof, Krlr, Mikekov, Rafael, Tav, Michéle, Jonathan Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Event: July 24th (after the 1.3 RELEASE!) # New Website Style for 1.3 Jabier's new website design has been deployed by Martin this week, please report any issues to Jabiertxof via the inkscape website chat channel or gitlab project. Jonathan and Martin briefly review the support-us links that come from the welcome screen. We need to do a full review of those pages to remove old content that points to launchpad for example. # The 1.3 Release About screen needs to be added to the repository. Marc is preparing the main release candidate and is adding the about screen in. News, version and RC tag. If everything goes right then tag it as 1.3. Michéle asks if we're on track; it sounds like we are. Vector's team is ready and waiting for the release itself. Marc says the date of the release can be between the 21st and 23rd in the release notes. Jonathan reports that the extensions are ready for 1.3 and no issues or blockers. Martin and Marc bump the extensions version 1.3 to make sure it's tagged correctly. The macOS build has a few commits to get in for the release. Specifically related to the ghostscript error. Regressions and the mingw issues with glib appaear to have been fixed. Reviewing the website download redirects and which versions we want to go where. Going through Nathan's release checklist: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/7983 Does the dev team think the 1.3 is stable? * 2 stable than ever * 2 votes for stable enough * 0 for unstable but ok * 0 for not stable enough. # The Next Version A short discussion about how to milestone issues for 1.3.1 and some of the merge requests which are not being packported for 1.3 but will be included in 1.3.1. Issues should have milestones so the bug accelerator contractor (Martin) can work on them. Marc asks Tav how the Gtk4 project is going. Tav says that things are going fine and they're slowly making their way through things with multiple people contributing. The actual Gtk4 build is a ways off, but the Gtk3 migrations will be merged sooner rather than later. Martin asks about the assessed scale of the project and if we feel like we've accounted for the size of the work correctly and if we're on track. Tav says that he feels at this stage we've done a good job of figuring out the size of the task. René asks if we should ask Microsoft to sponsor our signed certificate. It might help make Inkscape easier to install with fewer warnings. # Upsteam Relationship with Gnome René has been trying to get into the Gnome project's request for macOS assistance and them moving to "a best effort" rather than a comitment to it. Martin comments about how much we should be re-enforcing out relationship with Gnome and making sure we are a healthy downstream project. Helping them with things that they need to make sure the infrastructure and other components they need are in place. # Other Things Mikekov has been working on some blockers and his extension gallery user interface feature. Gre/Dilip has come with a few ideas. Rewards for getting involved, incouraging people to contribute to stock graphics. The dev team encourgae them to talk to the vectors team about specific ideas. The dev team can't do too much here. Jonathan reviews a few things in the AI importer. Nicco has official completed his contract time. And Jonathan has come to terms with the architecture which actually makes it easier to test things. The review is to go over how or if we're going to continue with the second half of the contract. There's a list of expected deliverable work and Nicco would be required to act more more self-sufficiently if we proceeded. Thanks everyone for coming. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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July Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 09 Jul '23

09 Jul '23

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/270 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Developer Team Meeting Notes, June 30 2023
by Jonathan Neuhauser 30 Jun '23

30 Jun '23

Present: Adam, KrIr17, Marc, Martin, MikeKov, PBS, René, Tav Mc: First pass on all translation MRs, ported to master. Also introduced three small MRs for translations, and updated the French translations. On the weekend, will look at everything with backport-proposed and decide whether they will be backported, then tag 1.3-RC. Jonathan will update the extensions submodule before 1.3-RC. Release currently targeted for July 21-23 (per Vector's meeting notes). KrIr17: Brings up https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4177#note_1348567353, which breaks CLI on Ubuntu 23.04. PBS mentions a complex history upstream, but will look into it. René will check whether it affects MacOS too. MikeKov: worked on https://gitlab.com/inkscape/ux/-/issues/205, will try to submit a draft soon. Jonathan: Some extensions API cleanup, created the vote for extending Martin's contract. René: working on the Windows side, windows CI in master is now completely running on Gitlab infrastructure. The 7z is built by every pipeline, exe and msi installer are created on-demand. Next, he will restore the "download latest dev build" on the website. Thinks about backporting the new Windows pipeline to 1.3.x. Upside: current set of msys dependencies also works on Windows 7, despite MSYS2 not officially supporting it anymore. René has dropped 32bit support. Windows pipeline is currently designed to fail after almost two hours and restart itself, because otherwise it would take too long. In June, we have used 18000/50000 "compute units". After the release, will move Mibap to deps group. Tav: Worked on the Device Manager and Input Dialog. Conclusion: need to be discarded. Overly complicated code with no documentation. Probably useful for the GTK2 era, not anymore in GTK3. Fixed a few crashes inside those dialogs regardless. Will have a meeting with Daniel Boles start of next week to plan their work packages. René asks to be informed when to look into GTK4 dependencies on MacOS / Windows. PBS: Working on event controllers. There was more GTK4 talk in the end, but I had to leave on time. See you all next saturday! Jonathan

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Developer Meeting Notes: June 22nd 2023
by doctormo＠gmail.com 22 Jun '23

22 Jun '23

Dear Developer Team. Date: 22nd June 2023 Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, René, Sanodhya, Tav, Mikekov, Nicco Next Meeting: 30th June 2023 Since last week's announcement from René that he was taking over the windows CI building process he wanted to walk us through the CI builds and demonstrating the builder on GitLab. There are two windows items in the build system list, a build step which builds all of the binary objects and then three parallel distribution steps for the nsis, 7zip and exe installer objects. Before this work the windows CI was the same as macOS, and it was disabled for people outside of the inkscape project itself. But now it's open to everyone who creates branches of inkscape. René asks where the best place to put documentation about the new system. The change in the deps collection means changing msys2installdeps.sh no longer changes the deps that the CI builder will use. Martin recommended putting breadcrumb links in the main repository and full documentation in the new windows CI deps repository to explain how everything works. Tav has worked on a couple of things. Replaced context menus with new Gtk4 stuff and it's been a little frustrating with things that are different. There's a units context menu on rulers, but it has one problem, it's using actions which are radio buttons and when you pop up a context menu with radio buttons it doesn't automatically pop down. We'll leave it like this for now. Everything has to be converted to using Gio menus and that will take some time. One context menu was removed from the svg font dialog which wasn't very discoverable. Next a drop down issue which was presented by mikekov where we have multiple columns and Tav looked into the new Gtk DropDown Gtk4 object and we can replace the Listview inside it with a GridView object. There's some fragility which might prevent us from replacing ComboBoxes correctly. There's a ListItem disconnection problem that he's trying to fix. The Interactive Gtk debugger is a god send for this work. The new Gtk4 expert starts on the 1st of the month. Nicco, trying to get into the work again and it's working out well. Has been working on parsing and doing a pair programming session with Jonathan and now have a complete raster support. Jonathan did some extensions refactoring trying to change the internal data structures for paths to improve the performance with numpy especially for large paths but keeping the API the same. Mikekov requests a fix to one of the extensions, the layout extensions needs one line added to fix missing deps problems. Martin says this extension should be moved from an effect extension to a template extension to prevent the crash and be more applicable. Otherwise he's been playing with grids, the new modular grid which is quite popular as a new feature on social media. Martin has been working on improving the shape builder tool with new semi-transparent canvas options controllable with a slider and a working shape builder fracturing process for raster images. These are in heavy draft and aren't ready for a merge request. Sanidhya has been working on their GSoC project. Pono is setting up a weekly meeting, but the details are yet to be confirmed. Likely after the SFC's conference. Martin will be in Barcelona next week at PenpotFest talking about Editable SVG. Jonathan is charged with running the next meeting, but it might be a quiet social if folk are unavailable. This week's group task was going through old merge requests; we looked at five WIP requests which are now old and possibly not useful. One was assigned to Martin to review and the rest were closed. Thanks everyone for coming. Hope everyone is having a great summer. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer meeting notes for June 14th 2023
by Martin Owens 14 Jun '23

14 Jun '23

Hi everyone, Date: Wednesday June 14th 2023 Attending: Martin, René, Mikekov, Nicco, Tav, Jonathan, Julia Johannesen Next Meeting: Thursday June 22nd 2023 Tav has been investigating color management as well as all the Gtk4 work. Tav, showed us a Firefox bug that doesn't apply the profile correctly, using the Red to Green profile on the screen showed only img tags were flipped. But the rest of the web page's colors are not flipped. Martin suggest that if the ICC profile is applied twice then you would get a complete inversion in Firefox showing normal colors. This may or may not be the issue in Firefox, but it brings us to Inkscape. Double correction may effect us in Inkscape when we set a screen profile. Between wayland, x11, win32, osx and how Inkscape transforms it's own canvas for rendering. Pulling in ICC profiles automatically from the screen seems like the wrong approach anyway since the screen should already be color corrected anyway and almost guarantees a double conversion. Tav would like us to eventually end up with multiple monitor support in our configuration settings and allow per monitor ICC profiles. But only manually. Some monitor features are only supported in Wayland, so x11 may not detect the monitor the app is on correctly, Tav is still researching the issues. Martin wanted to talk about a simplified story of color management to help himself and other developers understand what it is color management is for, and hopefully allow us to know the terms. He says at the moment he imagines three basic sections of color management in Inkscape. The screen Profile which is typically in RGB changes the canvas rendering, The Device Profile which is used for PDF output (when we support that) and showing out of gamut errors on the screen and the individual Color Selector profiles which aren't anything to do with either displaying colors and are only sometimes important for printing. Their first job is to allow the user to select colors within the color space, say selecting a CMYK color profile would allow the user to select a CMYK color reliably. The second function of individual color profiles is to select spot colors and unique inks, foils, etc. this information IS passed onto PDF output, but is also important to let the user select for example how much of that ink to show for example. Tav says everyone is confused about color management online, not just in Inkscape. So it's important for us to understand the whole system and hopefully write some documentation about it. René is assuming control of the windows CI builder. The last contributor who was interested was a long time ago, so René is taking control of it. For a first step he's taken all the tutorials, guides and all the things we tell users about how to do things for windows. This is used in René's new GitHub account which builds Inkscape using the msys2 on the GitHub CI builders. GitHub was used because the machines are more powerful and are set up is better. For example using ccache and take a lot less time to run and even then it's 20 minutes for each correction. A new project has been created in GitLab which collects all the deps into an archive so we have a mechanism to counteract the rolling release model in msys2 which causes us a lot of rolling pain. Pinning the versions in msys to make the builds more dependable during development processes. Martin asked that this new project be moved to the deps group in GitLab. René's GitLab now has a new build step which is being tested for a few weeks to get used to it. This should fix the hacky setup we currently have with rerunning builds when they quit half way through. We should end up with two separate jobs. Estimated time frame for improvements is between 3 and 6 months depending on how things go. Jonathan thanks René for taking responsibility for the windows builds and is wondering about how this effects Gtk4, which allows us to build with mvs c++ native compiler which should be much faster than msys2. He tried it with stock Gtk4 apps. Julia Jonannesen confirmed that she had also tried the Gtk4 windows compile and got it to work. Mikekov has been working on translations and improving the polish translations but worked on some things for templates. Martin thanked him for focusing on fixing the templating translations. Nicco is getting back into the work schedule after taking a break and is coming to the end of the contract and has only a week or two of work left. He's focusing on documentation and wrapping up where the project has finally ended up. We'll talk about a review meeting soon. Martin, after taking a week off, has been working on a draft feature that allows extensions authors to add pre-processing actions which take the svg and change it, or augment it with information only inkscape knows about. Like bounding boxes, text paths. As well as refactoring the svg2 to svg1.1 compatibility code which are all converted into actions. Also been working on tidying up remaining issues and focusing on bugs reported by his patreons for the 1.3 release. -------------- The team spent the last ten minutes of the meeting looking at merge requests. First on the back-port proposed requests and second on some older WIP requests which are now no longer marked as draft. These are being closed if they are very old, but can be re-opened if needed. Thanks for coming everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer meeting notes, June 06 2023
by Jonathan Neuhauser 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

Hi everyone, Meeting: Tue June 06 2023 Next meeting: Wed June 14 Attending: Tav, Nicco, Rene, PBS, Jonathan, Marc, MikeKov, KrIr17 *String freeze for 1.3* Marc has backported relevant commits to 1.3.x. Extensions are up to date in both branches. No objections to string freeze = now. We've checked the backlog together, no more MRs with backport:proposed that contain string changes. *Vectors update/ Release planning*: Usually 6 week window for translations -> release around July 23rd at Vector's discretion Tarball needs to be ready ~ July 14. Testing completeness of packages? -> testing script by Nathan Release video: Lazur is doing something Release candidate: early July(no more non-obvious fixes after that) Windows 7 support has been dropped by MSYS2, so Inkscape 1.3 will officially not work on Windows 7. *Discussion re: po/pot files* Translators are supposed to use the pot file from the pipeline, but some are instead using (outdated) po files from the repository. - Should we update them? ~5m LOC change. Maren supports it. [done] - How are other projects doing that? -> some are using weblate, which (at least previously) doesn't like big POT files. Nicco used transifex (free for open source) - Could be a student project to refactor the way we organize translations. *René * MacOS ARM test failures in 1.3 branch? There is a problem on the Gitlab side, which affects the file structure. Moved the pipeline back to our own runner. Struggling to find time to re-release 1.2.2 including the Ventura fixes. The Alpha/Beta are already Ventura-compatible. Has not bought the new Apple developer certificate yet, will do so later this month. *Jonathan* AI Extension:work on importing text+ code for the different coordinate systems seems to be mature *Nicco* Progress a bit slow at the moment, but the roadmap is clear. Some work on live shapes / rectangles. Checks again with SFC for April payment. *PBS* Added coverage support to 2geom. Currently 47% coverage. Trying to join the GKT4 migration effort, e.g. dialogs + mjakemans event controller branch. Few minor issues remain, e.g. double-click to select text Why is modal dialogs not available in GTK4? They have deprecated it in favor of gtk::Window and AlertDialog (4.10+). Both of them can be made modal. [+ additional discussion about the event loop, other GKT4 MRs] Clips / Mask: We treat it the same. Conceptually, clipping is a vector operation and masking a pixel operation, and in the spec, different child elements are allowed. Needs a little bit of rewriting. Backport MR with cache fixes? Can only break what was already broken -> Marc decides. *Tav* Most things on the list "before the switch" to GTK4 are done. Some don't make sense to do before, some "at the time of switch" can already be done now. *Mike* Symbols ID fix ready to go. (!5363) - some discussion ensued. See you next week! Jonathan

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June Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 02 Jun '23

02 Jun '23

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow (or today, depending upon your location)! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/269 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape 1.3 beta0 available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 30 May '23

30 May '23

Inkscape 1.3 beta0 =================== Inkscape 1.3 beta0 is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release this summer. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3beta0/ When testing, please try out the major upcoming features, such as: * Shape builder * On-Canvas Pattern Editing * Pattern Editor * Page margin & bleed * Document Resources Dialog * Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog and the (now optional) persistent snap bar * Font Collections * Syntax highlighting in XML Editor * LPE dialog user interface redesign * Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded rendering * Better PDF import Check out the news here: https://inkscape.org/news/2023/05/30/inkscape-reveals-tools-organizing-effi… or, if you want to know more, see the release notes draft in the Wiki at: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3 If you find any issue with this beta version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this beta release! -- The Inkscape team

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Developer Meeting Notes, May 29th 2023
by Martin Owens 29 May '23

29 May '23

Hey Everyone, This week's meeting notes might be incomplete, I had to leave before people had stopped talking. But I don't think these notes are missing too much: Meeting: Monday 29th May 2023 Next Meeting: Tuesday 6th June 2023 Attending: Jonathan, Nicco, Martin, René, Tav, Marc, PBS # Beta Release Marc has worked on and published all the beta release files to the website. A brief talk about the beta release schedule and how our scheduling works between the release manager (Marc) and the macOS release engineer (René). The new release for macOS is built today and is now live. René has informed vectors so they can schedule themselves as needed. More updates for macOS libraries to keep everything sharp for 1.3. Extensions needs to be branched to 1.3.x now though because of string freeze. Jonathan is going to push his menu updates forwards now. Though he will need to ask Maren if this is ok. The beta has the right welcome screens, but the wrong about screen. Marc will work on fixing this. René needs to write a short bit of instructions for an artist to be able to do it themselves. # Crossink René and Martin have worked on getting the cross-compiler working so linux programmers can generate windows builds. This functionality has atrophied a little since Jan. # GitLab Infrastructure Some issues with the testing stage on GitLab. It's a bumpy road to clear up. There's problems between how one's own machine works compared to their runners. # Color Management Tav has been working on some of the color management stuff but will put it to oneside for now so he can work on Gtk4. Marc, Martin, Tav and Philip talk about the color management support will work for Wayland. Trying and keep as much of the code as possible, but remove the bits that interact directly with Gtk3 and X11 only paths. # Other Items Nicco has been working on positioning and getting items in the right places. Martin's not been doing much beyond preparing merges and fixes for beta and helping out where possible. Tav and Jonathan talk mesh gradients wrt to the ai importer as well as Adobe's thinking on mesh gradients. GSoc toolbar refactoring is going to take a lot of discussion to make sure we get the best fix. The way widgets fall off the end of the toolbar is a design which we now have to do ourselves. Marc continued to work on the dithering patch. A discussion was had about the details of working upstream. Marc has talked about moving away from cairo. See you all Tuesday! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Branching and stuff
by Marc Jeanmougin 24 May '23

24 May '23

Hi everyone ! We've now branched off the 1.3.x series ! What this means, in practice : - The master branch is open for business as usual : new features, GSoC projects, gtk4 preparation, etc. The version number there will soon be "1.4-dev" - New bugfixes that affect 1.3 series have to be backported : make a MR for master if it affects master, and either put "backport-proposed" label on it, or another MR directly targeting 1.3.x with the fix cherry-picked. - Beta is happening soon, hopefully for this weekend. - String freeze is happening soon : after the first week of June, no MR to 1.3.x can contain string changes, so that translators can work with a stable pot file (Note to translators : we don't expect much new strings or changes until then). Exceptions can be made on a case by case basis but will be advertised by email to the translator list. Translations can be then submitted until beginning of July for the release. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out ! -- Mc

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Fwd: Election Project Leadership Committee: Results
by Martin Owens 23 May '23

23 May '23

Hey everyone, I'm sure you all got the attached message if you are an inkscape member. We now have two new Project Leadership Committee members and all seats are now filled. Thanks to Pono for being the proctor for this election. Congratulations to René and Jonathan and also thank you for stepping up and taking on the responsibilities. It's going to be awesome having you guys involved in the leadership committee. Ted or Pono, I think we need to send a message to the SFC and get the two new members inducted? I believe they need to be on the inkscape and sfc mailing lists. Is there anything else needed? ---- One personal note; we have regressed a little in terms of diversity on the plc. We used to have a non-programmer member, but now all members are from the developer team, white, male and western. Not for a lack of trying, but I think we should keep an eye on our diversity in the project and see if there anything we can do to help invite more people in and help them stick around so they get to be on the plc too. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes: May 21st 2023
by Martin Owens 22 May '23

22 May '23

Dear developer team, It was a quiete Sunday meeting today, here are your notes: Meetings: Sunday 21st May 2023 Next Meeting: Monday 29th May 2023 René, Tav, Mikekov, Martin, Jonathan, Nicco Week was eventful for René because GitLab announced their Arm builders are now available but also announced that they are decomissioning their intel runners within two weeks at the end of May. René had to run around to patch together a way keep our CI builders working. Various movements of machines had to be planned or re-planned because of this short notice from GitLab. We're having problems getting responses from Pono and the SFC for various issues. Tav hasn't heard back about the Gtk4 contract, a PLC candidate didn't hear back when they had questions about standing for the PLC election, Jonathan hasn't heard back in two weeks about questions he has regarding the bug accelorator program. To help figure out what's going on, Jonathan is going to try and talk with Pono after the hiring committee meeting later in the week. Tav worked on some demonstration code for multi column dropdowns and generally looking into the Gtk4 migration more. Mikekov looked into translations and is worried about the systems for polish translations and the quality of code reviews. Developers are struggling with the review of these requests. Martin suggests the po directory should be split out into it's own git submodule for portability, Jonathan suggests using special folder ownership to indicate which teams in inkscape can approve changes, Mikekov explores some tooling and what might have gone wrong in the past for the polish translations. Recommended that this conversation be moved to the translators mailing list so that team can make the decisions about what it wants to do. Jonathan has been doing some assumption checking in the AI importer project. Adobe has managed to create filters which in svg are three lines, but in ai files take a hundred lines. Nicco has been working on units and scaling and has written a lot of tests. Slow but stead progress. Chris Rogers is at Wilber Week, please let him know if you have any questions. Marc may be joining him but we don't know if he's going yet. There will be a beta branching event this week, 23rd May, if Marc is available. We need to follow up with the plans for the week. This isn't a beta /release/ as that can happen after. Any open merge requests will have to be duplicated in order to make it into 1.3 after this date. Jonathan has been looking into a contract extension for the bug accelerator project. Originally for three people, reduce to two. Rafael dropped out. Martin has been doing amazing work and we could do with more of his time to work on these issues. The issue will be raised with PLC members. Martin has been working on PDF importers and fixing various regressions. Adding more tests to make it harder to break various complex files. The developer team group activity this week was looking into a few old and new merge requests. Some MRs were approved, some older MRs which were still WIP were closed. Thanks for coming everyone, see you all Monday after next. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Team Meeting Notes - May 13th 2023
by Martin Owens 13 May '23

13 May '23

Date: Saturday, May 13th 2023 Present: René, Martin, PBS, Jonathan (presiding) Apologies: Tav We started talking about the live previewing functionality for the font tool and how the display and canvas items stacks might be modified to support displaying previews without changing the entire document. Extensions already have a live preview and use a whole new document which is fed in from the extension run. A document copy can be expensive, but might be the cheapest way to do it. The alternative is to create a kind of shadow item which would be tightly controlled by C++ destructors and modifier signals. But that was just an idea. Mikekov's font improvements branch is available for review. It contains a lot of nice improvements, but it looks a bit large. Jonathan is working with Nicco on the AI exporter. The rewrite is nearly complete and Nicco has been able to work 10-15 hours a week on it. The code structure is better and it's a lot faster, maybe an order of magnitude. Making good progress, we'll have to see as we get to the end of the project and then Jonathan will make a presentation for everyone. Gtk contracts; Tav was the only internal application and so he's been selected by us. It's with the SFC now, although no response from pono these past few weeks. We now have three applications for the Gtk4 external contractor. Details of who and what are withheld not to bias anyone's decision. PLC elections are coming up soon. There are 2 confirmed candidates and one person is still deciding. There's very few days left to put your name forwards! Please also review membership requests as soon as possible. Martin needs his merge requests approved. Paint order one is important since it contains tests to be used in another merge request. Jonathan was able to approve it before the end of the meeting. Martin changed the dev graphics for the windows builds. Mostly these won't ever be used, but it's better to have branch specific versions instead of the old 1.0 graphics in the branch. Jonathan highlighted a number of regressions and crashes in the PDF importer. Encouraged to tag them and push their priority up as crashes and regressions are top priority. PBS worked on the shape builder (well done!) and has now been working on the lib2geom problems. He's trying to read the entire mailing list archive for the whole lib2geom project as well as livarot and learn how it works, why it works, and getting in the head space of the people who were involved in building these libraries. He says working on some bugs is tricky but they need some more work to complete. But he has made a fork/branch which turns inkscape into a lib2geom toy which shows all the computational shapes and can show the output at each step. There's calculations for the geometric graph and there's parts of it that become out of sync he speculates. Visualiser branch is available here: https://gitlab.com/pbs3141/inkscape/-/commits/flattening-visualiser He's also thinking about caching in Inkscape. Seeing if caching is actually slowing us down and often turning off cache can actually speed things up. The problem is how often we don't use the cache, but spend time making the cache. He wants to look into ways of fixing it properly. Requesting feedback for these items. René discussed spellchecking with Moini and polygon. There's a lot of confusion about how the spellchecker is supposed to work on macOS. In Linux it's easy you just ask the os for one of the available spell checkers. macOS is baked in. But on windows there's a problem because we a building it with Aspell and there are no pre-built dictionaries which people can install themselves, they have to be compiled. We could ship Hunspell instead, and we can depend on what LibreOffice is doing and it downloads the available system. There's an issue in inbox which Maren created as a summary. René is encouraged to make a non-inbox issue and we can ask some people to help fix it since it's windows based. This is a sort meeting this week. The developer team activity was: Go outside and have a nice walk (when the sun comes up for those on the other side of the planet) See you all next week. Sunday May 21st, same time, same place. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 06 May '23

06 May '23

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is tomorrow! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/268 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Developer Meeting Notes, 5th May 2023
by Martin Owens 05 May '23

05 May '23

Dear Developers, Here are this week's meeting notes. This week was a bit lighter because the meeting happened at the same time as the PLC updates meeting. Attending: Tav, Martn, Marc, René Jonathan, Jabier, Nicco, Mikekov, James Next Meeting: 13th May 2023 Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ # Beta schedule There are a few high priority issues left to fix. A particular concern is the slowdown in start times on windows which is the only blocker left. The release seems really solid otherwise and no large issues remain. We have decided to put together a Beta release for the 23rd May when Marc is at the Wilber week and available to dedicate time to it. Jonathan wants an earlier beta fork so the Gtm4 migration can start as soon as possible and break master for that work. Briefly looked at the font collections issues and seeing if there's problems we have to pay attention to. Are we getting all the issues that we want fixed tagged for the 1.3 milestone? Notice to all developers to make sure you tag issues that you think ort to be fixed for the release. # Gtk4 Project Updates for the Gtk4 work happened in the PLC meeting, but basically there's two applicants so far. Though other jobs we've posted have more applicants towards the end of the period. # GitLab Infrastructure Gitlab is updating and everyone should have seen the various warnings. René has looked through the changes and confirmed nothing effects us. The CI builder for macOS was transitioned to GitLab's own machines, it's going to cost credits so we should keep an eye on that as it comes out of beta. It's slower too. There's some oddities in how the test builds works on gitlab it has to rebuild everything each time, so it's caching isn't as good. # Shape Builder PBS, Rafael and Martin have been working to fix shape builder issues. PBS has been leading the charge on the geometry problems. Martin has a shape builder templates addition which Jonathan thinks should depend on how well the feature works after the fixes. Otherwise we risk exposing those issues which are fairly bad. # Other work New fix for the object to path which preserves the paint order when converting. MR looks good but Documentation will need to be up to date for the object to path behaviour changes. Marc has been busy with his work, so wasn't working on inkscape this week. René has been working on the upsteam depedencies, fixes have been accepted upstream without any testing and this is a worry. This is just as true for library updates. Will keep us informed. Nicco and Jonathan have worked on the newer faster AI parser. Which works well. Completely parsed a whole document without any unknown lines in the AI file. Next is to create an inkscape logo and import that. Payment is recieved, so there's no issues so far. Mikekov, working on the object picker for 1.4, working well and thanks Martin for the code review which has fixed. # Bug Accelerator Project The program is going well, see burndown charts on GitLab. We talked briefly about what to do about Rafael bowing out and if he should be replaced at this late stage. We also looked at the rate of fixes and hours used for Martin. Martin recused himself of talking about what to do, but Jonathan wants to talk to pono about possibly moving some of the hours around because of the extended release schedule leaves us with a gap in bug fixing coverage at the very end of the release cycle. See you all next Saturday. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Leadership Election
by Martin Owens 04 May '23

04 May '23

Dear Everyone, Please be aware that the election process for the two empty seats has been created. Pono from the SFC is the proctor and you may invite people to stand in this election on the website page here: https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/elections/board-elections-2023/ Please be aware that you must be an inkscape member, if you are a contributor historically or newly; and aren't yet a member, please go to this page to join: https://inkscape.org/*membership You must join before the candidacy period ends for your ballot to be created. Please see the Committee Election Procedure for full details here: https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ If you have any questions, please sent them to the proctor Pono who can be found via email pono(a)sfconservancy.org or as pono on libera.chat in #inkscape-PLC or Rocket.chat in https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/leadership_committee (bridged channels) respectively. Best Regards, Martin Owens Community Hat

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Developers Meeting, April 27th 2023
by Martin Owens 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Dear Developers, This week's meeting notes are here. Next Developer Meeting in May 8th https://inkscape.org/cals/1/ Attending: MikeKov, Nicco, René, Jonathan, Martin, Vansh Uppa, Rafael, Tav Apologies: Marc René updated the build pipeline for macOS, mostly small cleanups which open us up to back-porting Ventura support to 1.2.x the target is this weekend and we can be finally done with the venture issue. Working on more automation to improve release procedures, upgrade openssl which is a little old now. Looking into contributing to the Gtk osx upstream. Jonathan has been doing preparatory work for importers, checking files are rendered correctly. Helping with the object structure importer. Dividing up the work. A single person so far in the Gtk external position, the prospect is an experienced gtkmm programmer. No one has yet applied for the internal position, the deadline is Sunday. Developers were all reminded of the deadlines. Martin recorded a user-session (a session where an Inkscape user and developer explore new functionality and locate bugs together). Also collected issues from his direct sponsors, this week Martin has been working through these lists of issues. Most are small fixes but some larger works including fixing a much needed Font Toolbar problem and import and export issues. Some are refactoring for 1.3.1 but others are scheduled for 1.3. Not many issues for the Accelerator Program this week as that wasn't a focus. Grid properties issues were worked on by Mikekov and Martin. Grids work to fix all the issues, happy with the refactoring overall, but even though users won't see any benefit, it's a good change under the hood. A refactoring branch is schedule for 1.3.1 Mikekov also has been cleaning up runtime warnings. Rafael has been helping out with various merge requests and bugs. He's dropping out of the bug accelerator program because he's feeling it's more pressure than expected and more like a job. He suggested perhaps a bug bounty program would be more casual and more comfortable for him. Jonathan thanked Rafael for his involvement and his feedback. Giving contractors the right information about how /working/ for Inkscape is different than volunteering should be included in future programs. Tav worked on the color management refactoring. There's a color profile element, which is a bit of a catch all and contains too much functionality so it will need to be progressively cleaned out over time. The developer shad a discussion about the differences between Display, Device and element icc profiles and what functionality is intended by each. More research is needed. Jonathan is interested in hosting a smaller, possibly European centric developer meet-up in the Autumn. Five people in the developer meeting indicated their interest. It would all depend on scheduling and booking places to stay. The Gimp project is hosting an event in May; Martin received an invitation to participate and talk about the integration potential between Blender, Gimp and Inkscape. The event is being hosted at the Blender HQ in Amsterdam. The invites have been forwarded to Marc and Chris R. as the people who are both physically close and with the most experience with the topic. Only travel funding would be required from our side as the Gimp project have hired a boat to stay in. ---- This weeks group activity was reviewing a merge request by Vansh Uppa, where Martin and Mikekov had a difference of opinion about interface design principles and a discussion was had about the best was of designing functionality so that it both safe, less disruptive and consistant. Rafael kindly offered to act as a tie breaker and review the merge request after both Martin and Mikekov defended and explained their positions. ----- Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Developer Meeting Notes: 19th April 2023
by Martin Owens 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Time for another meeting, big thanks to everyone who was able to make it today. Present: Martin, René, Jonathan, Mikekov, Nicco, Tav, Marc Next Meeting: Thursday 19th April 2023 Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ # Outreach The developer team would like to thank the tireless work of the vectors team; Tav asked is there a way we can do something for them? Martin suggested that we have mentioned in the past funding some food and drink for online events and the vectors team does like to do a release party event. Perhaps that's a good way to say thank you. Will need to reach out. There was a question about how to keep the alpha release on the website front page. We didn't know what the vectors team wanted to do, but the developer team didn't ask for anything specific. Though some developers were not even sure if we had released the alpha as they looked at the front page of the website for news. Nicco added a simple news article, we should make sure this is formatted ok with the people that update the news regularly. # macOS Not much happening with macOS dependencies, but the most important future task is migrating the build system from 1.3alpha to 1.2.2 but René is quite busy with real life at the moment. Was able to test a few things like the fonts and the tests. There was a question of macOS supports variable font support. It should be there if it's there in Linux, but we're not sure, it will need research to know if that's true. We do know that halfbuzz is not upgraded on macOS, so we may have to help fix the issues. We know that everyone uses halfbuzz for text rendering these days. Martin reported a problem with macOS tests on the CI builder related to fonts. Wrote a new svg file to test functions but it's 1.5% wrong and that doesn't pass the 1% fuzziness. May increase the padding to reduce the fuzzy problems. René did recieve the funding for the Apple building machine and now he would like a hardware policy to help make it easier to fund hardware for developers. He will ask various people for information and get back to use for it. # Font Refreshing Martin asked about including the font refresh merge request in 1.3. The consensus was that this is a new feature and most developers haven't seen this feature in other programs. But some programmers did express sympathy with users that this is a long standing issue in Inkscape but ask everyone to bare with us. Each operating system will need it's own implementation. There's two main issues one is the signal from the operating system that fonts have changed at all, and the second is asking pango/fontconfig to refresh it's font context. We know that these are not always available in macOS and Windows and so we may have to fix things upstream in order to enable them. # Windows Builds for Testers We have a conflict between the size of the zip files and the difficult to use 7z file format which requires the use of an external tool. The dev team concluded in a poll that we should move to zip files for the CI builds. This doesn't effect any releases, not even alpha/beta etc, only the merge request CI builds. We tested in the meeting with a screenshare and showed that windows will warn users to extract the files, running the main file will fail without extracting. The files still need extracting. Some other alternatives were proposed such as CAB and Portable Exe. Zip seems like the easiest to implement so Marc has added it as a task. # XML with Line feeds in Attributes Martin has a merge request to 1. write out xml files with any line feeds correctly translated to xml escaped chars and 2. To allow users to more directly add these in the xml editor using Shift+Return. There was no objection to the former, but the later needed some discussion. We concluded that since you can already add these lines using copy and paste, there wasn't anything to be gained by blocking a merge request with such a small risk profile. # AI Importer Nicco continues work on ai importer and rectangles and the new parser for speed. There's thoughts about how to reuse the work and package things with some forethought. Jonathan says they've been working on speed because the difference is so stark. How should the parsing and writing be structured? Reading through the file in a defined manner is the goal. # Gtk Hiring Jonathan reports that the current status is the job posting is out and people are being contacted by pono. One business contacted directly has an interested party who works on gtkmm and would quit his job and do the work, but he would need extra time to give notice and this might for example make some delay for the project's start. It's good news that there are people who are qualified and are available to work on this important project. We should be clear and careful about helping people who are not used to being contractors and offer guidance to anyone who ends up working with us. # Other work Tav wants to work on Display ICC (color) profiles which we need to look at because of the Gtk4 work. In the rendering of the canvas there's a step which applies a given icc profile. This depends on the screen/seat properties in Gdk/Gtk. Researching what's there and what might be needed is ongoing work. Some of this is code cleanup which will help going forwards. More to report next week. Mikekov is working on the item picker. Pono and Martin ran a test on the website to run an election as a trial run for the up and coming PLC election, it went well. Email issues were fixed. It's now waiting for pono to create the main election event. Martin did an run down of the new font collections functionality with a user, and may make a video of it from the big blue button recording. # Google Summer of Code (GSoc) Marc, we are missing a mentor for GSoC, 4 people who can be selected. 3 can be selected. Would Mikekov be available to help with a particular project? The specific subjects are withheld from the notes to not leak which projects are being selected before the time. The meeting was running late and we didn't get to any activities this week.

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Inkscape is hiring: Developer for GTK4 migration
by Jonathan Neuhauser 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Dear developer team, as you know from the dev meetings, we've recently set up a plan to accelerate the GTK4 migration. This plan was then voted on by the PLC (https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.or…). Hence, we're looking for "a senior C++ developer with strong experience in developing Inkscape. They will perform some of the essential steps of the GTK4 migration for Inkscape including ensuring that the C++ bindings (gtkmm, pangomm, cairomm, etc.) are adequate, over a four-month time period." See the attachment for details. If you're interested, please send the required documents to jobs-internal(a)lists.inkscape.org until April 30. Best regards, Jonathan for the hiring team

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Fwd: Creating a wiki account
by Benjamin Loison 14 Apr '23

14 Apr '23

Hello, As written on this webpage: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin It is necessary to email the developer list to get a Wiki account, so here I am. I initially wanted to update a bit the LaTeX page: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/LaTeX If needed my username can be /Benjamin Loison/ (replace the space with an underscore if necessary) and my email can be /benjamin.loison(a)orange.fr/. Thank you in advance. Best regards, Benjamin Loison

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Developer Meeting Notes, April 11th 2023
by Martin Owens 13 Apr '23

13 Apr '23

Dear developers, Apologies for the lateness of these notes. Present: NPJ, Martin, Mikekov, René, Tav, Nicco, Marc, Jonathan Next Dev Meeting: Wed 19th April 2023 # About Screen About screen contest winner. General talk about the process, the winner, the runners up and the vote. René asked for the svg to use in the macOS release and we pointed him to the vectors channel. The vector's team social media version with text is really nice. # Alpha Alpha appears to be going well. People are reporting bugs using the alpha, but nothing critical has cropped out giving us hope it's a solid release. Martin completed his ALPHA TESTER video, which was shared through big blue button. It's a silly video but people have responded well to it. René, sorry for missing a few meetings. Nothing to report, alpha looks good on macOS. For reasons unknown the builder has some issues and needed to be rewritten in time for the alpha and René worked over time. Dev team thanked him for the extra effort pushing that through on a deadline. # General Work Martin has been working on a text fix for PDF output which he'd like Tav to review. It's reordering how text is rendered to cairo so strokes apear behind fills when needed. NPJ has been playing with the clang optimizations. Using a large export to test the results, using htop and watching the cpu and gpu. Mikekov, not much progress. Looking for things to do, Martin suggests working on the PDF linking user interface. # Gtk4 Research Tav has done a search for Gtkmm experts and exchanged emails with the main person at Gtkmm who does want to leave maintence, which we already knew. Finding an expert to work on it might be hard. Tav also looked in past Gtkmm contributors for names, some people might be contactable and looked at wikipedia to find people and programs that use Gtkmm or have upgraded to Gtk4. GNote is the only app that's Gtkmm and Gtk4 so far. Martin asked if we can find someone in Gtk main. Possibly. Someone asked how easy is maintaining Gtkmm, can it be automatically generated? Marc says if there is a rust version, which isn't far away from C++ Notice: Hiring team meeting on Thursday! # AI Importer Nicco, planning on implementing more features. Working on shapes. Reporting to a blog wasn't known at the start of the contract and so we're learning along the way. Open a requirements issue to describe what the targets are. The next month may be a bit slower. Bendchmark files are the guide for how much of the format we've supported so far. Jonathan has done more reverse engineering. Mostly text. There's some really interesting path interpriatation that AI must be doing with the data for backwards compatability since changing the lowest data on say a rectangles rounded corner doesn't change anything, but changing it's path does. Even if it has matricies applied to the path. Must be pretty fancy. # Activities We processed three merge requests and reviewed the memberships list for developers. Thanks everyone!

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Inkscape 1.3 About Screen: Contributor Vote results are in!
by Maren Hachmann 11 Apr '23

11 Apr '23

Thank you everyone for participating in the Inkscape 1.3. About Screen Contest! You've drawn, voted, organized, checked entries, encouraged other participants, helped with project memberships, and let people know about the Contest, and we are very grateful for your participation! Today, the second part of the vote concluded, and we have a winner! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Congratulations go to Denis Kuznetsky for his “Isometric Madness” submission to our Inkscape 1.3 About Screen Contest! The artist shared that Inkscape is their “favorite program for drawing vector graphics.” You can find Denis' original entry here: https://inkscape.org/~Denis_Kuznetsky/%E2%98%85isometric-madness ---------------------------------------------------------------- Enjoy Inkscape's upcoming version's About Screen - and maybe test out the latest alpha version! https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3alpha0/

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/266 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape 1.3 About Screen Contributor Voting until April 9
by Maren Hachmann 05 Apr '23

05 Apr '23

Hi Inkscape Contributors! It's that time of the year again :) We invite you to cast your vote on the 5 awesome About Screen Contest submissions that were favorited by 242 voting Community members. For this year's About Screen Contest, we have had 55 submissions from the Community, 49 of which met the requirements (licensing, branding etc.). These are the 5 items they liked the most: * "A long journey“ by Chris Hildenbrand * "Contest“ by Djelita Abderrahmane * "Creative Growth“ by Chris Hildenbrand * "Isometric Madness“ by Denis Kuznetsky * "Portal“ by Milad Moosavi (in alphabetical order) In this two-step selection process, it is now up to us, the Inkscape Contributors, to select the About Screen that we want for Inkscape 1.3. It's going to be a difficult choice, as they are all so cool :D Step 1: ======= Make sure that you are an Inkscape Member (see previous message or link below), and if you're not one yet, apply for membership and ask 3 of your team mates or other contributors whom you have worked with to confirm your membership. More info: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/ Step 2: ======= Visit https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-13-about-screen-contributor-… and rank the 5 images by clicking on the little circle right below them in order of preference (most liked first). The voting period starts NOW, and ends on April 9, 23:59 UTC. Voting is on the website only. The announcement of the winning entry is planned for April 11. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this year's About Screen Contest! Maren

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Application for GSOC
by Clair Brown 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Hello, people from dev mailing list! My name is Yousone and I'm submitting the proposal after reading some topics. Sorry about this late...

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Meeting Notes: April 3rd 2023
by Martin Owens 04 Apr '23

04 Apr '23

Dear Developers, Present: Martin, Jonathan, Marc, Nicco, Tav, Thomas, James Don't forget to vote for your about screen favorite! Developers briefly discussed their favorites. https://inkscape.org/gallery/=artwork/inkscape-13-about-screen-contributor-… The first alpha was released at the weekend. The developer team gave thanks to Marc, René and Maren for their hard work on getting the release out and everyone notified and coordinated. One thing to note is that because of a last minute crash fix (by Martin) the alpha tag is one commit behind the actual released code. We could re-tag it, but we want to avoid force pushing when possible. Martin is making a video to invite people to test the alpha. Hopefully including a demostration of the crash features and how to report a bug to the project. Martin will post a link when it's ready. Jonathan has been working on two things. Guiding the AI importer to help Nicco improve the speed of the parser, with more specific python code. Completing the decoding of how text is stored in the illustrator file format which is complex binary format which isn't documented anywhere so needs careful reading. Text is not on the roadmap for the ai importer currently, but it is ready to be implemented when the time comes. Nicco has been writing more custom parsers for the ai importer and gearing up for the next steps. The contract is aproximately 40% complete and we expect that now the parsing elements are coming to their conclusion that the rest of the implementation will speed up from here. Shapes with properties and colors. Martin wanted to know if there was a testing plan scheduled. Jonathan says there's no specific schedule, but in a aprox. two months they should be ready to open up testing to regular users and hopefully have most of the elements supported. Nicco had a question about translations using weblate. Inkscape tried it in the past and it was too slow. Recommending Nicco talk to Maren and the translator team specifically about what tools they need and their assessment of the weblate and other possible translation technologies since the dev team isn't the right people to ask. Gtk4 vote is waiting on completion. The hiring comittee will meet after the plc meeting and a new mailing list is being created to handle the two job parts. One for internal and one for external. Marc created a mailing list and invited all the prospective partipants in preparation for the comittees meeting. The proctor vote for the elections is going to take another two days, but has three votes in favour so has already passed. Elections should follow after that. GSoC proposals ends tomorrow. We have six proposals but some of them are not eleigable. We looked over several propositions and they will be formally ranked and we will select which ones we want to then push forwards. The GSoC team will meet at 7pm on Thursday to talk about the proposals. PLC review meeting is this weekend, Marc sends his appologies as he will not be able to attend. Tav made an attempt at converting the event controllers for Gtk4 and says he basically failed. The major reason is that this particular controller scheme has not been backported to Gtkmm3, when the C version was attempted it causes issues. This is the biggest bottle neck for Gtk development. He made a sandbox program to text each version https://gitlab.com/Tavmjong/gtk_sandbox/-/tree/master/gtk_event There's a GSoC Gtk4 proposal which can be coordinated with this work and the prospective contracts. Martin has published a blog post with Rafael and himself for the issues fixed in the accelerator program. Please see https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/march-bug-accelerator-2023/ We reviewed four merge requests in our meeting activity: 4396, 4105, 3938 and 5217. None were merged, but some tagged and commented on to push them forwards. Reminder: this acivity works by picking the four non-draft oldest updated merge requests. Currently we have 141 open merge requests, but many of them are drafts. Thanks everyone for coming to the meeting. Next meeting is Tuesday April 11th Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 available for testing!
by Maren Hachmann 01 Apr '23

01 Apr '23

Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 =================== Inkscape 1.3 alpha0 is now available for testing for all three supported operating systems (Linux, macOS, Windows)! Being a pre-release, this version is not intended for production use, but to help us smooth out any issues that should not show up in the actual release this summer. You can download it from: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.3alpha0/ When testing, please try out the major upcoming features, such as: * Shape builder * On-Canvas Pattern Editing * Pattern Editor * Page margin & bleed * Document Resources Dialog * Return of Search, opacity & blend modes in Layers & Objects dialog and the (now optional) persistent snap bar * Font Collections * Syntax highlighting in XML Editor * LPE dialog user interface redesign * Improved performance thanks to fully asynchronous, multithreaded rendering * Better PDF import … and more, see the release notes draft in the Wiki at: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Release_notes/1.3 If you find any issue with this alpha version, please report it to https://inkscape.org/report ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code, docs, translation, UX, bug triaging, or even outreach! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ and you can get in touch with us on https://chat.inkscape.org/ Thanks to everyone involved in this alpha release! -- The Inkscape team

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Become an Inkscape Project Member!
by Maren Hachmann 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

Dear Inkscape Contributors, it's time to make your Inkscape Membership official! With that come voting rights for all kinds of regular contributors - like translators, social media managers, forum moderators, documentation writers, testers, bug managers, ... - (not only developers anymore!). The first occasion we will be using that for is the Contributor Vote for the ongoing About Screen Contest (contributor voting starts tomorrow, and will end on April 9, 23:59 UTC, there will be a separate email for that!), which is also going to be a bit of a test of the membership system for the upcoming Inkscape PLC election. Read all about it here: https://inkscape.org/*membership/blog/inkscape-signs-new-fsa-sfc/ If you have any questions or are looking for people to confirm your membership request, please ask away in the #general rocket.chat channel. In some cases, it will be helpful to state the nature of your contributions to the project, or to approach those directly who know about your contributions. Please approve membership requests of those whom you know to be a contributor by first hand experience, and do not approve other membership requests, as in the worst case, when the person is not a contributor, that can get your own membership revoked. Thank you to the PLC and the SFC for getting that set up for us, to the website team for providing infrastructure for it, and to the Vectors team for writing about it! Maren

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Problem- (P6-Refactoring) Remove dependence on object-set.h in files in src/livarot directory.
by Kaustubh Kongile 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Hello, Thank you for considering me to present my suggestions for removing the dependence on object-set.h before submitting my proposal for gsoc 2023. Here are the steps we can follow to remove the dependence on object-set.h: Identify where object-set.h is being used in the code by looking for #include statements and code that directly uses classes or functions defined in the file. Determine the functionality being used from object-set.h to find suitable alternatives. Research and find alternative solutions or libraries that provide similar functionality. Modify the code to use the alternative solution or library, replacing any references to object-set.h and modifying code that uses its classes or functions. Once we have verified the changes, we can commit them and submit them for review. I hope this information is helpful. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.I am not sure about the amount of time required to resolve this issue, so I would appreciate your guidance and suggestions on the matter. Best regards, Kaustubh

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Developer Meeting Notes, March 26th 2023
by doctormo＠gmail.com 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Hi Everyone, This is our first online meeting since the hackfest. Last week's meeting was canceled, so don't worry, you haven't missed any previous notes. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Present this week: Lazur, Martin, Jonathan, Tav, Thomas, Jabier, NPJ, Marc, Mikekov, Rafael Next Meeting: Monday, April 3rd # Release Plans The alpha release has been uncertain because of reports of deadly crashes on undo. The reports have been a little anecdotal though. The general consesnsus at the meeting is that we should release the alpha right away and then re-release a new alpha if this issue can be confirmed in the latest versions after several fixes. Users can be asked to be brave so long as they understand the risks. Martin created the 1.3 and 1.3-alpha0 release objects on the website and Marc is planning on pushing the alpha out in the next two days. The mushroom about screen was used as the graphic for the alpha. We have a few outstanding merge requests which we can merge immediately. The developer team spent some time looking at these merge requests for our activity at the end of the meeting to clear the backlog for the release. # Jabier Wants to merge some branches, some are minor fixes but need to have better and more descriptions to help reviewers understand what they do, we managed to merge two and attach reviewers to three others. Martin wanted to make sure the corners LPE upgrade is scheduled for after 1.3 since it's quite large. # Jonathan Some reverse engineering of the AI format and helping Nicco putting together the ai importer. Progress is going well, text is likely to be supportable. Asked tav about the mesh gradient and having a number of nodes on the edges of the patches. Gtk4 proposal is ready and waiting to be sent to the PLC. An email got lost and has been resent to Marc and Tav was asked to push the PLC election, nominating the proctor Pono to run the election. # Marc Has been busy and sick, with appologies. # Martin Recovering from travel. Made a video for the hackfest which has been well recieved. Bug accellerator program fixes are submitted and merge request management and pushing for the alpha release. Some website fixes for the about screen contest voting. # MikeKov Looking at a bug #4186 with the new preserve path functionality and trying to work around a fitting alogorythem. We could detect when it's not going to work well and then try a different method, or try to remove the constraints but with bad output. Bug has been assigned and tagged for 1.3. #NPJ Experimenting with Apple archetecture. #Rafael Worked on bugs as part of the accelerator program. Fixed four issues this week, one fix actually fixed two issues. Currently looking into a regression in patterns, where you can't see a marker using a pattern as a context-fill. Pair up with Martin to look into the problem. #Tav Spent a little time in the last week playing with Gtk4, try out the new Gtk List View, it wasn't performing quite as expected. It only generates widgets for things which are on the screen, but this makes the scrolling weird. Made a lsit of 10,000 items, it would scroll for a little bit but then it would jump around. # Thomas Doing some experiments for how to fix menus in macOS, contuing the work from the hackfest to see if there's an upstream patch that can be created. # Team Activity We looked at five merge requests with the Approve Please tag, and merged two, and assigned the rest to reviewers for further testing. Thanks to everyone for coming to the meeting, see you all next week!

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Contribute / GSoC
by Mateus Krause 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Hello people from dev mailing list, My name is Mateus Krause and for a long time I want to contribute with Inkscape. I've been using the program for a few years now and really appreciate the work put into the project. I just found out that Google Summer of Code is open and maybe this could be a good starting point for me to help. Currently, I study Computational Mathematics at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) - Brazil, and I have some knowledge and practical experience in small-medium C++ projects, using Make or C-Make, external libraries, and I think Inkscape would be a good place for me to start contributing in a bigger project with code for the first time. I would really be grateful if someone can help me with my GSoC application. The suggested project ideas that catch my attention are: P9 - Path Library Improvements, I really liked this one because of my mathematics background, and it looks fun; P12 - Customizable Appearance of Canvas Controls, it's a part I interact very often and I really see how this can improve the experience, I also have a background in web dev, so dealing with CSS would not be an issue; P5 - UI-Free Inkscape, this looks interesting because of the challenge managing dependencies. I think I have the knowledge to complete any of this tasks, so at least for me it would be a great opportunity to be familiarized helping in a big community and learn with the experience. For now, I only have gone to the "getting started with Inkscape development" page and did the basics. As part of the application, I'm looking the bug tracker to see what can I complete. Either way, I want to contribute with this project, so any guidance would be awesome. Thanks in advance. -- Mateus Krause

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Hackfest notes from Pono
by Daniel Pono Takamori 17 Mar '23

17 Mar '23

Hey everyone, Here are some notes I took after collecting some questions from people at the Hackfest. I'll dump them here and here's a link to the markdown file on Nextcloud: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/62TS2K4obzat4Rd At the end of the week I asked the people here what they liked about the project, what could be improved, how was the Hackfest and what can SFC and I do to better support the project. After I presented these comments and some of my own thoughts about them, we opened the conversation up to discussion and the bits at the bottom are the resulting conversations. Thanks again for having me, and I'm looking forward to building out the in-person events so everyone can come or participate to the best of their abilities. -Pono ## Things to celebrate about Inkscape and it's community There's a good spirit of volunteering and people taking on tasks that are interesting to them. This goes both ways though and sometimes means there are tasks that get left behind for no one to pick up. Liberal code contribution culture which has enabled lots of innovation and creativity. Receptive to new ideas. People are empowered to express themselves, regardless of their position in the world. People focused project, doesn't require lots of technical expertise and has a low bar to picking up. Mature project with lots of good momentum. People love Inkscape! ## Improvements to be made to Inkscape and it's community Diversity of participants was something that came up a lot. Working to have better outreach to make sure all groups and teams are represented. How can we get younger users and contributors? Make it easier for people to contribute non-code (I'm not sure what the processes around documentation, how-tos, etc work). We need better onboarding docs so we don't have to explain "basics" over and over again. "Inkscape on Twitch" - related to other outreach efforts Spending money... we need to come up with a more formal budget to support all teams and I (pono) think that a budget will make it easier to get money to flow since when things are within an accepted budget, it's easier to get things moving. Listening and communicating with users - surveys, forums, Rocketchat, etc. We need more dialogue with users (technical and non). How are artists, scientists and makers using Inkscape? Formalizing subgroups - with fear of over administering, how do we codify the teams so that they can operate autonomously but be included in all decision making processes? **pono idea - seats for each subteam on the PLC and more communication between groups** How do we get Inkscape in schools? This is something SFC has been thinking about in general ## Hackfest ### Things that went well Relationship building is unmatched in person. This was a great opportunity to meet and chat and the travel being handled if needed, was great. Length was good, maybe a long weekend could get more people. In person communication makes it much easier to clear up miscommunications and intentions. The venue was great and everything was made easy to focus on work and relationships. ### Things to be improved Calling it a 'Hackfest' might've discouraged teams from participating and we *need* all teams to participate. 15-25 people would be a better group. More diversity among participants, *pono let's get some scholarships for new and minority contributors* Open space and loud conversations made it hard to focus, providing quiet spaces would help. More thought into how to include remote participants. Have one with users? Does it have to be this event? More regular cadence makes it easier to get people here. ## SFC - how can we do better and what have we done well being clear about our limits SFC is not just an anonymous thing to help with managing things, we need to establish a more close relationship rewarding volunteers financial help was great and improved attendance Pono/SFC is very helpful for networking between FOSS projects, like introducing the right people and thus increasing the chances of successful collaborations Be a sparring partner for discussing policy & fundamental issues, "outside" person that can help when an outsider is need. E.g. CoC issues within the PLC, election proctor Also to escalate things within SFC if progress is slow. SFC should monitor foundations for grant opportunities & forward them to potentially relevant member projects making sure contracts and money flow smoothly SFC done a good job with mediation and spending money ## Notes during discussion hackfest rebuilds energy 5-10 is good for hacking OutreachFest colocating an event? FOSDEM! https://libregraphicsmeeting.org/ conference in Northeast? develop PenPot relationship Jabier and Adam Belis what we need from Inkscape to use PenPot for UI Scribus? Blender? subteams marin - didn't like term leader, have an organizer, contact, representative can switch off! describe as not one person, but a team collectively divvies up responsibilities if you want to be a formal group, you need to meet a set of criteria jonathan and ted thinking about it community building things graphics for teams, hat or graphics mousepads :P vectors, developers, documentaion, testing, translation, UX https://inkscape.org/user/teams/ recognized groups have duties benefits: PLC can delegate technical decisions to dev team, outreach to vectors, etc formalize duties and expectations keep outside FSA probably partners program GNOME has a Sponsors section allows relationship management *ChromeOS* ?? maybe we can talk with Google? how to package for those chromebooks schools helps schools administer the program krita and blender are on steam maybe need someone android? google funding for gtk backend? putting out more video for exposure - Chris attractive to sponsors build up vectors to make more content budget for video how does krita do it? need to try more things what do people like from Inkscape? we don't really know Youtube channel? surveys! demographics working with TuxDigital presskit press list for SFC Plausible website is contributor friendly not marketing slick friendly branding is not a singular thing it's there to tell your story "the only vector software that is a community project" more concious of public image

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Proposal for accelerating the GTK4 migration
by Jonathan Neuhauser 16 Mar '23

16 Mar '23

Dear Inkscape developers, the Hackfest in Bensberg has been very productive and one of the outputs is a proposal to accelerate the GTK4 migration, as discussed during the recent development database. For this, we propose to hire two contractors for a span of 4 months, one GTK expert and one Inkscape expert. (Recently, on the PLC mailing list, I mailed around a version of the proposal including only the GTK expert. Feedback there and further discussions here have allowed to combine both into one proposal again.) Please find the proposal attached, including the job postings for both. I'll try to incorporate feedback until Sunday, March 19, so a PLC vote can be held afterwards. Feel free to contact me via email or on RocketChat. Best regards, Jonathan (joneuhauser on RocketChat)

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Draft for a refactoring and improvement of the test suite
by paolo fx 14 Mar '23

14 Mar '23

Hello inkscapers, I could contribute to the development of the code in my spare time if the following idea makes sense and is of value. While talking in the #irc dev channel and in the last developer meeting, it turned out that the test suite in testfiles directory is somewhat messy and a refactoring could be desirable for some reasons. Here's my proposal. First of all, tests should be grouped in coherent and standard categories. A standard classification is: end to end testing ---> integration testing ---> unit testing This classification, translated into a dir tree would be: ---------------------------------------------------------- testfiles |______end2end_tests | |_______gui_tests | |_______cli_tests | |______integration_tests | |______unit_tests | |______CMakeLists.txt | |______CTestCustom.cmake.in | |______README.md [SUBDIR] gui_tests: empty for now, just add a TODO/FILL-ME note inside it. [SUBDIR] cli_tests: *) rendering tests are made with CLI (as the CMakeLists.txt confirms), so they should be moved inside cli_tests. Therefore, move here svg files from "rendering_tests" and move rendering_tests/test.sh as cli_tests/rendering.sh *) leave here the current content of cli_tests *) add an "images" dir containing all the graphic files [SUBDIR] integration_tests: it will contain cpp or script files in the form: operation1_operation2_..operationN.cpp (or .sh, or .py etc). [SUBDIR] unit_tests: a software unit can be meant both as: 1) (see testfiles/src/curve-test.cpp) a self-referential "concept" 2) (see testfiles/src/uri-test.cpp) as a class, or even a single function, from the API. The important thing is to separate unit tests from integration tests, which are sequences of different tasks. From what I see, the "testfiles/src" dir currently contains unit tests (if cpp files perform integration tests, they should be moved to the testfiles/integration_tests dir) In addition, do move lpe images here (inside an "images" dir). Add a note on the README that lpe stuff is here (as it partially is, actually). [FILE] CMakeLists.txt [FILE] CTestCustom.cmake.in [FILE] README.md: note: only ONE readme will be used for describing this test suite. It will describe what the tests do and how to launch them separately. It will also contain a very short mention - one or two lines - of the model (e2e tests ---> integration tests ---> unit tests) used. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two possible concrete values/advantages in this new struct: 1) The reordered code would be much more readable, especially in the perspective of finding and running on the fly a specific test for a specific need or in the perspective of adding new ones, or deleting obsolete ones. 2) Integration tests could significantly speed up bug fixing, other than giving a more robust validation procedure of the released software. Let me show an example. An integration test could consist in the same steps described in a submitted bug: open a file ---> modify a curve ---> apply a filter ---> export to png In the integration_tests dir, there could be, together with test files, one (or more than one) file called "integration_test_template.cpp", which is meant as an example, with basic operations done sequentially (open, modify, filter, export etc.). Then, if another example called "integration_test_custom.cpp" is created by the developer (but not added to the source tree and added to .gitignore), it would contain code modeled on the basis of "integration_test_template.cpp" and it would be automatically compiled because as a part of the CMakeLists directives. In this way, we have a ready-to-use environment for testing the API. So, when a nasty bug is described together with its steps, a "integration_test_custom.cpp" file can be created on the fly by using chunks of code taken from "integration_test_template.cpp" in order to replicate the steps. What do you think? And do you think that the integration_tests template would be really useful? In this last case, could you share an example (or more than one) of a bug that can be managed with "integration_test_custom.cpp" so as to have a useful case study? If the idea appears good and collects approval, I can start making a fork and a new branch for it on my local clone.

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Developer Meeting March 10th 2023
by doctormo＠gmail.com 11 Mar '23

11 Mar '23

Hi Everyone, Another week, another developer meeting. Thank you to everyone who responded with enthusiasm for having these notes available. I'm going to see how long I can continue to write them for y'all. Present: Tav, PBS, Martin, Mikekov, Jabier, Paopre, Jonathan, René, Vaibhav # Hackfest The hackfest is in a few days! Most people will arrive early on Monday, two members are arriving late in the evening and will have to book a hotel for the night as there's pretty tight restrictions on arrival at the venue. René will be giving further details about meals and other details, check the wiki for full details. This goes for leaving the venue too. We will be expected to be entirely gone by Friday and 6pm. Several people will be making their way to the city to hang out, or book into their next hotels if they're leaving at a later date. We have a bunch of ideas of things to do during the hackfest. Several people will probably want to conference seperately or hack in their hotel rooms if there's too much activity in the conference room. # Release Alpha, is held up by a few merge requests, we're trying to unclog the delay. - Marc wasn't present, but we have some questions to ask about how the release process is going. - René has everything in thanks to Mikekov - Jabier has two merge requests, we reviewed them. A Drag and drop has been tested but should be defered as it's not high priority. - PBS has a few issues he wants to fix before the alpha is released, One is an async rendering issue with rectangles not being selectable immediately after creation. The other is a missing library on windows called 'libangle' detected by lb90. - Reverting the Undo changes is critical! We looked at a reported crash together in the meeting, but this seems unrelated to the reversion. - The opengl performance on default Gtk on X11 can go down to 1fps with serious issues. It's a problem in Gtk and upstream gives approval for simply forcing gtk to use the image backend renderer. Questions were asked about what was the right course of action. # Other Items - Martin has refactored the export dialog previews to not block on loading large files. Lots of improvements to the export dialog. - The font dialog has a small issue with folders in the font dialog being created, it's creating a system folder when it shouldn't be. - Nico has made good progress with the ai importer this week. He's working about 20 hours a week and progress is steady. - Paopre asked about his proposal to reorganise the test suites so each of the unit tests, integration tests, and others into more formal and defined directories. Advised to document the proposal and present it to the developer team so we can have time to look over it. # Group Activity This week we skipped doing the merge request review and instead did some code review. Walking through the changes involved in the export dialog changes. See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/5148 for details. Thanks everyone for coming. The next scheduled meeting will be after the hackfest, but we'll likely have one at the end of the hackfest instead. Keep up to date with the calendar at https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Developer Team

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

10 Mar '23

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

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First talk to mentors
by Clair Brown 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

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

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

03 Mar '23

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

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

23 Feb '23

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

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

14 Feb '23

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

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

06 Feb '23

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

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February Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 03 Feb '23

03 Feb '23

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/264 Please comment on items you think should be added! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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

31 Jan '23

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

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pdf hyperlink issue
by guilherme 18 Jan '23

18 Jan '23

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

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

15 Jan '23

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

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

06 Jan '23

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

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stop emails from inkscape
by Marie Pierre 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

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

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Guidance for GSoC Contributions
by Rishi Kejriwal 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

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

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GSOC 2023
by Yashashvi Mann 10 Dec '22

10 Dec '22

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

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OSC or UDP messags
by John Allsup 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

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

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Inkscape 1.2.2
by Marc Jeanmougin 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

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

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Wiki account request
by Kyungjoon Lee 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

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

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Vectors' Meeting December
by Maren Hachmann 30 Nov '22

30 Nov '22

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

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Inkscape PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

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

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Vectors' Meeting October
by Maren Hachmann 02 Nov '22

02 Nov '22

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/261 Please comment on items you think should be added! Note that the time has moved along with US time, so it's one hour later than usually in Europe. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Inkscape Hackfest 2023
by René de Hesselle 17 Oct '22

17 Oct '22

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

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

14 Oct '22

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

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Vectors' Meeting October
by Maren Hachmann 07 Oct '22

07 Oct '22

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

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

09 Sep '22

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

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Vectors' Meeting September
by Maren Hachmann 02 Sep '22

02 Sep '22

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

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