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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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