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Inkscape Board Meeting, July 2nd, 2021
by Ted Gould 29 Jun '21

29 Jun '21

Howdy folks, We have a board meeting coming up to go over all the items the board is working on and get updates from the various parts of the project. Everyone is invited! Info can be found here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings Time in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210702T10&p1=202 Hope to see you there! Ted

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inkscape-1.1: exit during startup, problem loading svgs
by Thomas Klausner 08 Jun '21

08 Jun '21

Hi! I've tried updating the pkgsrc package from 1.0.2 (working fine) to 1.1. It builds and installs fine, but during startup complains about svg files and exits, without display a window. (org.inkscape.Inkscape:66): Gtk-WARNING **: 10:54:36.278: Could not load image 'resources/template_about.svg': Couldn’t recognize the image file format for file “/usr/pkg/share/inkscape/ui/resources/template_about.svg” (and many more like these, then ending with) Gtk:ERROR:gtkiconhelper.c:494:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/pkg/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/image-missing.svg: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3) Bail out! Gtk:ERROR:gtkiconhelper.c:494:ensure_surface_for_gicon: assertion failed (error == NULL): Failed to load /usr/pkg/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/image-missing.svg: Unrecognized image file format (gdk-pixbuf-error-quark, 3) gdk-pixbuf has SVG support, I tested this with: gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer /usr/pkg/share/inkscape/icons/hicolor/scalable/actions/image-missing.svg image-missing.png which successfully creates a png file. Now I'm not quite sure where else to look for the root of the problem. The pkgsrc files for 1.0.2 are here: https://github.com/NetBSD/pkgsrc/blob/trunk/graphics/inkscape/Makefile The files for 1.1 are here: https://wip.pkgsrc.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pkgsrc-wip.git;a=blob;f=inkscap… Please let me know if you have any ideas what might be missing or wrong. Thank you! (I've filed https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5111 about this and Nathan Lee suggested I should ask on the mailing list about this.) Cheers, Thomas

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Issue with Inkscape 1.1 snap and REALHOME / getent
by Douglas Paul 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Hello, I recently had a machine running Ubuntu auto-update its snap to version 1.1. In this version, there seems to be a new mechanism to determine the default config path using getent that is not functional on my system. Some particularities that I have: 1) passwd / groups of users come from a Samba AD using sssd 2) home directories are mounted on NFS The problem that I see is that the REALHOME variable is not set correctly, so it tries to look for the configuration in /.config/inkscape. This is what I see when launching: ==== $ LANGUAGE=en_CA:en inkscape /bin/bash: /home/doug/.bashrc: Permission denied /bin/bash: /home/doug/.bashrc: Permission denied /bin/bash: /home/doug/.bashrc: Permission denied Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused ** Message: 08:43:39.229: Cannot create profile directory /.config/inkscape. ** Message: 08:43:39.229: Inkscape will run with default settings, and new settings will not be saved. ** (inkscape:3501254): WARNING **: 08:43:39.395: Could not create directory '/.config/inkscape' ** (inkscape:3501254): WARNING **: 08:43:39.396: Could not create extension error log file '/.config/inkscape/extension-errors.log' ** (inkscape:3501254): WARNING **: 08:43:39.476: Fonts dir '/.config/inkscape/fonts' does not exist and will be ignored. ==== So, the first thing I tried is to add the following in the snap's apparmor profile: #include <abstractions/nameservice> #include <abstractions/bash> And this got rid of the bashrc access errors (which likely aren't fatal, anyway), and I could get a proper result with this: aa-exec -p snap.inkscape.inkscape getent passwd $UID So, I thought this would work. However, it still doesn't... With careful use of ctrl-Z and attaching strace (since it seems you can't strace directly), I was able to see that the /etc/nsswitch.conf being used by inkscape is coming from inside a chroot or otherwise remapped by snap, and it does not use the system /etc/nsswitch.conf. It looks exactly like this issue: https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/no-sssd-support-in-snaps-nsswitch-conf/10412/12 It seems like the only way around this problem is to use NSCD as a proxy, which is generally not recommended, it seems, but might be the only choice I would have. (Using unscd does seem to work, even with 0 cache ttls -- so I think this should be safe) All this to say -- would it be possible to have a fallback in the environment to use the old behaviour (was it to use $HOME as REALHOME?) in case the calls to getent fail? Or, at the least, it should be documented that using nscd/unscd is required when a different nsswitch.conf configuration is used. Thanks, -- Douglas Paul

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Developer Team Budget
by Martin Owens 07 Jun '21

07 Jun '21

Dear Developer team, Thank you to everyone who made the developer meeting today; we talked a lot about what the budget should look like from the developer team. I have comprised the ideas here which I will be bringing to the next board meeting to be held on June 4th 2021 ( https://inkscape.org/cals/event/2/) Current items to be requested immediately: * The Developer team requests a General Administrator who can take care of many of the organisational tasks which we currently struggle to. This is deemed more important than any funding for specific features. I'd like to invite everyone to join me for a meeting to flesh out what this would look like, we'll use previous work as a base and work from there. Please come to BigBlueButton next Sunday 30th May at 17:00UTC (https://inkscape.org/cals/event/25/) to make sure our proposal is detailed enough. * We would like to budget $5k on macOS speed problems; this is to be spent on analysis first, and then solutions second. The whole developer team recognises how dire the situation is with René specifically saying that without a fix we should not release for macOS in the future. Future budget requests which we do not have a consensus for, or details are missing: * CMYK support; Tav would like this, developers feel it's not important enough. A user study would be useful to know for sure. * PathFinder; Taking over, or working with the Linux foundation for their Rust based pathfinder is a great way to bring GPU rendering to Inkscape. Marc is to contact the linux foundation and Linkmauve about collaboration or taking over the project. * ARM Machine for René; If we continue to develop macOS, René will need one of the newer ARM based macOS machine which would be set up to do CI builds. Improving the ability to check and build testing builds for macOS. Thanks everyone for attending, we had quite a lot of the developer team there today and a lot of students so I feel good that we got to see a lot of different opinions. But let me know in this thread if you have details to add, or can't make the above meeting and want to make sure something is included. Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Team Hat

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Vectors' Meeting June 2021
by Maren Hachmann 03 Jun '21

03 Jun '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/219 and add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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TODAY: Meeting; hiring an administration position in Inkscape
by Martin Owens 30 May '21

30 May '21

Hello everyone, We have scheduled today's meeting to discuss the specific details of hiring an administrator who can help organise the inkscape project. This is a budgeting request from the Developer Team to alleviate a lot of the stress from running the project and better organise. Starting Questions * Should they be familiar with the project? * They probably shouldn't not be a developer? * Should they be part time or full time? * Should we ask the SFC to fill the role for us? The goal is to flesh out the request so we can offer the board a set of requirements and desires around what we (as the developer team) would like to have. Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/25/ Date/Time: TODAY, 1:00PM EDT (see above link for your local time) Video Link: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Hat

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Re: Crash during Build - invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’
by Marc Jeanmougin 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi, I can confirm that gcc 7 appears to be too old to compile a recent Inkscape, sorry. Please use a newer compiler (gcc 9 (or later) works, or clang) -- Marc Le 28/05/2021 à 01:17, fi(a)igh.de a écrit : > Dear Marc, > > > > On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 12:03:11AM +0200, Marc Jeanmougin wrote: >> Hi and thanks for the report! What's your compiler and OS ? > - the compilers are gcc-7 and g++-7 (version 7.5.0) > - OS: OpenSuSE 15.2, Kernel 5.3.18 > > - below is also the output from cmake > > Thanks and best regards > > Torsten > > -- Creating build files in: /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/build > -- Found poppler: /usr/lib64/libpoppler.so > -- Found poppler-glib: /usr/lib64/libpoppler-glib.so > -- Found cairo-svg: /usr/lib64/libcairo.so > -- Found poppler-cairo: /usr/lib64/libcairo.so > -- Found Potrace: /usr/lib64/libpotrace.so > -- Checking for modules 'gtkmm-3.0>=3.24;gdkmm-3.0>=3.24;gtk+-3.0>=3.24;gdk-3.0>=3.24' > -- Found gtkmm-3.0, version 3.24.2 > -- Found gdkmm-3.0, version 3.24.2 > -- Found gtk+-3.0, version 3.24.20 > -- Found gdk-3.0, version 3.24.20 > -- Using gspell > -- Found Boost: /usr/include (found suitable version "1.66.0", minimum required is "1.19.0") found components: filesystem system > -- Checking for module 'readline' > -- No package 'readline' found > -- Did not find GNU Readline > -- Checking for module 'ImageMagick++<=7' > -- No package 'ImageMagick++' found > -- Checking for module 'GraphicsMagick++' > -- Found GraphicsMagick++, version 1.3.35 > -- Found gettext + msgfmt to convert language files. Translation enabled > -- Found xgettext. inkscape.pot will be re-created if missing. > -- Creating build files in: /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/build > -- Generating header and sourcefiles from sp-marshal.list (Glib-Marshal) > INFO: Reading /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/helper/sp-marshal.list... > INFO: Reading /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/helper/sp-marshal.list... > -- sp-marshal.h unchanged > -- Found Boost: /usr/include (found suitable version "1.66.0", minimum required is "1.60") > -- cython: FOUND > -- Checking for module 'gtk+-3.0' > -- Found gtk+-3.0, version 3.24.20 > -- Ragel NOT found. Using stale svg-path-parser.cpp. > INKSCAPE_DIST_PREFIX: inkscape-1.2-dev_2021-05-25_5448704355 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Configuration Summary > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > PROJECT_NAME: inkscape > INKSCAPE_VERSION: 1.2-dev > INKSCAPE_DIST_PREFIX: inkscape-1.2-dev_2021-05-25_5448704355 > > CMAKE_BINARY_DIR: /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/build > CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX: /vol/opt/inkscape-5448704355e03a97d2838e1ba30272db335f0dbb > CMAKE_INSTALL_LIBDIR: lib64 > PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR share/locale > CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME: Linux > CMAKE_SYSTEM_VERSION: 5.3.18-lp152.75-default > CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR: x86_64 > CMAKE_C_COMPILER: /usr/bin/cc > CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER: /usr/bin/c++ > CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE: Release > > ENABLE_LCMS: ON > ENABLE_POPPLER: ON > ENABLE_POPPLER_CAIRO: ON > WITH_GNU_READLINE: OFF > WITH_DBUS: OFF > WITH_GSPELL: ON > WITH_IMAGE_MAGICK: OFF > WITH_GRAPHICS_MAGICK: ON > WITH_LIBCDR: ON > WITH_LIBVISIO: ON > WITH_LIBWPG: ON > WITH_NLS: ON > WITH_OPENMP: ON > WITH_JEMALLOC: OFF > WITH_INTERNAL_2GEOM: ON > WITH_PROFILING: OFF > BUILD_TESTING: ON > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > >> >> >> On 27/05/2021 19:37, fi(a)igh.de wrote: >>> Dear Maintainers, >>> >>> after pulling revision 5448704355e03a97d2838e1ba30272db335f0dbb >>> I try to build inkscape according to https://inkscape.org/develop/getting-started/ >>> but I receive the following error: >>> >>> In file included from /usr/include/c++/7/memory:80:0, >>> from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/document.h:25, >>> from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use.cpp:27: >>> /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h: In instantiation of ‘void std::default_delete<_Tp>::operator()(_Tp*) const [with _Tp = SPCurve]’: >>> /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:263:17: required from ‘std::unique_ptr<_Tp, _Dp>::~unique_ptr() [with _Tp = SPCurve; _Dp = std::default_delete<SPCurve>]’ >>> /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use-reference.h:45:50: required from here >>> /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:76:22: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’ >>> static_assert(sizeof(_Tp)>0, >>> ^ >>> My questions: >>> - are there simple means to avoid that error? >>> - what information about my building environment is required? >>> >>> BTW: I am trying to build Inkscape because the AppImage crashes. >>> >>> Thanks and best regards >>> >>> >>> Torsten >>> >>> > > >

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Commit Access
by aryan jangid 29 May '21

29 May '21

Hi All, I am a newcomer to the inkscape project and successfully have a couple of patches merged into master. Hence, I am requesting you to grant me commit access to the repository. Links to my merge requests: 1. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/2133/ 2. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/3306 Thanks & Regards, Shubham

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Crash during Build - invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’
by fi＠igh.de 27 May '21

27 May '21

Dear Maintainers, after pulling revision 5448704355e03a97d2838e1ba30272db335f0dbb I try to build inkscape according to https://inkscape.org/develop/getting-started/ but I receive the following error: In file included from /usr/include/c++/7/memory:80:0, from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/document.h:25, from /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use.cpp:27: /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h: In instantiation of ‘void std::default_delete<_Tp>::operator()(_Tp*) const [with _Tp = SPCurve]’: /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:263:17: required from ‘std::unique_ptr<_Tp, _Dp>::~unique_ptr() [with _Tp = SPCurve; _Dp = std::default_delete<SPCurve>]’ /vol/pub/inkscape/linux/git/inkscape/src/object/sp-use-reference.h:45:50: required from here /usr/include/c++/7/bits/unique_ptr.h:76:22: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘SPCurve’ static_assert(sizeof(_Tp)>0, ^ My questions: - are there simple means to avoid that error? - what information about my building environment is required? BTW: I am trying to build Inkscape because the AppImage crashes. Thanks and best regards Torsten -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Torsten Finke fi(a)igh.de ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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inkscape | New release: INKSCAPE_1_1
by Martin Owens 25 May '21

25 May '21

Congratulations everyone! Inkscape 1.1 is tagged, bagged and ready for builds to start rolling out tomorrow. Don't go announcing anything, that's for the Vector's team to do tomorrow. And there will be a release party on big blue button! https://inkscape.org/*inkscape-vectors/calendar/ Best Regards, Martin Owens Forwarding Emails

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Inkscape 1.1 released
by Marc Jeanmougin 25 May '21

25 May '21

================ = Inkscape 1.1 = ================ Inkscape version 1.1 is now released. ---------------- You can watch our showcase at: https://inkscape.org/release-video-1-1/ and download it for your platform on: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/ then, if you want to support Inkscape, donate to the project at https://inkscape.org/support-us/ ---------------- Inkscape 1.1 is the latest major release of Inkscape, following one year of development after the 1.0 major release. The highlights of this release are: * A Welcome dialog, where the look of Inkscape can be selected, and some choices for the new document's size or file to open are available * A Command palette that opens when the '?' key is pressed, that allows to search and use many functions without having to use a keyboard shortcut or going through the menus * It is now possible to copy, cut and paste parts of paths with the Node tool * The dialog docking system has been rewritten, which resolves many issues with Inkscape's docked dialogs and allows you to dock dialogs on either side of the screen * New Outline Overlay mode that displays object outlines while also showing their real colors * Preferences options are now easier to find by using the new search field * It is no longer necessary to remember to click on 'Export' in the PNG Export dialog, as the exporting will already happen after the click on 'Save' in the file selection dialog. * Export as JPG, TIFF, optimized PNG and WebP directly from Inkscape * When pasting a copied object, Inkscape now pastes it directly on top of the currently selected object by default * An extension for updating extensions and installing additional extensions, called the Extension Manager (currently in beta stage) We also introduced a long list of new features outlined in detail and illustrated at https://media.inkscape.org/media/doc/release_notes/1.1/Inkscape_1.1.html . ----------------------------- Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors in various areas: code[1], translation[2], UX[3], bug triaging[4], or even outreach[5]! The main ways to get involved are listed on https://inkscape.org/contribute/ The preferred points of contact are: [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/postorius/lists/inkscape-devel.lists.inkscape.or… + https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_devel (or freenode/#inkscape-devel) [2] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_translation [3] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_ux [4] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/bug_migration [5] https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/team_vectors A warm thanks to everyone involved in making this release possible! -- The Inkscape team

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New dependency for Inkscape 1.2: python3-cssselect
by Jonathan Neuhauser 15 May '21

15 May '21

Dear all, Over the past week, I've implemented CSS support in the extensions repository. This means that if an extension asks what color an object is, it will get the correct answer regardless of where the style is defined, if it is overwritten or !important or defined by a shorthand somewhere in the cascade. It also introduces default values for common attributes as well a new functionality to get a parsed value (e.g. the reference to a gradient object instead of a string with its id) or to set an attribute to a parsed value. This feature has been merged this morning and will be released with *Inkscape 1.2*. Check out the branch here: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/extensions/-/merge_requests/294 In order to avoid writing a CSS3 parser, I had to introduce a new dependency for parsing, computation of a style's specificity and the conversion of a selector to xpath. This is handled by the python package https://github.com/scrapy/cssselect. I've already opened MRs to add this dependency to deb, snap, appimage and windows packaging (https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/3239, https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/3238). If you are responsible for packaging Inkscape in some way, please have a look if I did this correctly or missed a packaging type (MacOS is still missing, for example). Again, this is not relevant for the upcoming 1.1 release. Best regards, Jonathan

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Inkscape Board Meeting this Friday
by Ted Gould 05 May '21

05 May '21

Hello Inkscapers, We've got the monthly board meeting this Friday at Noon Texas Time. Check on what time that is for you here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210507T10&p1=202 Agenda: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Board_Meetings#Agenda Everyone is invited! Ted

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Inkscape 1.1 release candidate is available !
by Marc Jeanmougin 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi to all Inkscapers! We just launched the Release Candidate of Inkscape 1.1, with a plan to have roughly three weeks of testing for a release around May 24th. You can get it here: ================================= https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1/?latest=1 ================================= (source tarball, linux appimage, windows installers and macOS dmg are available) We encourage you to use it as you would use Inkscape 1.1 stable, in order to find any problems people may encounter with the release. In particular, if you find any regressions, please do submit a bug report as soon as possible on https://inkscape.org/report : if nothing major is reported, the state of that release candidate should be close to the release. If you want to help with the translations to your language, it's still possible to submit those until close to the release date. Thanks to everyone involved in this release ! -- Marc

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Please help check release notes for any larger changes missing
by Maren Hachmann 04 May '21

04 May '21

Hi everyone, the release notes for 1.1 are progressing here: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Release_notes/1.1 We're not sure if we've succeeded at including all major new features and important changes. I'm currently still working on looking through the commit history and merge requests. Please browse the linked page to check for any major features that you have contributed to. If you find the current description lacking detail, or if the big (or even small) thing that you've been working on is missing entirely, please let us know in https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/documentation You can help tremendously with documenting your changes through good commit messages that include how your change affects the users' experience and that include full links to related bug reports. Version tagging when closing a bug report and linking back to the original MR/Bug report in cherrypicks is also super helpful in knowing which version(s) a change ended up in (i.e. currently the main question is: is it in 1.0.2, too, or is it only in 1.1 + master). I've also seen some very good merge request descriptions (with before - after pictures), and found them to be very helpful - thanks to everyone who helped their reviewers and the users understand what they've been up to with the code in this way! All of this doesn't only make it easier to document changes, it also makes it easier for other developers (including your future self) to understand and search the commit history. Kind Regards Maren

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Please add your names to the AUTHORS and TRANSLATORS files
by Maren Hachmann 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi everyone, if you have contributed to the upcoming 1.1 Inkscape release, please add your name to the AUTHORS and/or TRANSLATORS files (these are not auto-generated currently and lacking lots of entries!). You can find the files for the 1.1.x branch at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/AUTHORS or https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/TRANSLATORS respectively. Thanks! Kind Regards Maren

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Meeting Now
by Martin Owens 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear Devels on List, The weekly developer meeting is happening today/now to discuss the last run up to the 1.1 release, come join us: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Libre Graphics Meeting looking for talks, live demos, lightning talks - Deadline April 19th 2021
by Maren Hachmann 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi everyone, our friends from Libre Graphics Meeting have asked us to let our community know that submissions are open for talks, live demos and lightning talks for the event, which takes place 27-30 May 2021, mostly online. Whether you're an experienced Inkscape user, a professional using Inkscape, an Inkscape developer or an active community member - or have knowledge around any other free and open source graphics software that you'd like to share with the world, please visit their website at https://libregraphicsmeeting.org and submit one or more proposals for their different talk formats. Submission is still open for a week, so hurry, and make an impact in the free + libre graphics world! Maren

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P6.Refactoring
by Nilesh Aditya 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

Hey! I am Nilesh Aditya, a 2nd year undergrad from Delhi Technological University, India. I have been programming in C++ for quite a time now, and want to make my mark on open source software! *PROCESS* : *Description : *There are many approaches and techniques to refactor the code. - Usage of unnamed namespaces - XML Refactoring *Expected Outcomes: * - Remove direct manipulation of XML from as many places as possible and replace it with SP tree methods. - Reduce source code line count - Make the codebase more convenient to code in. *Skills Required:* experienced in Modern C++ , JS, OOP, experience of Inkscape I had done quite a significant amount of research regarding the idea which included reading the official wiki docs present online, reading and understanding the Inkscape code base. I would love to get in touch with a mentor who would be interested in guiding me with this idea!

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Discussing proposal's idea for GSoC
by Osama Ahmad 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi, my name is Osama Ahmad and I'm planning to join GSoC this year. As stated here <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals>, it's encouraged to discuss ideas for GSoC before submitting. I'm planning to improve symbols dialog. The improvements are: - The symbols are loaded from the dialog itself, not form a background process. making it asynchronous will make the start time (if the dialog is opened before the last exit) or the runtime response (if the dialog is opened for the first time while the program is running) faster. - To be able to open, edit and save the symbols from the dialog. If the symbols are loaded from a read-only folder, or if the user intends to save as a new copy, the user can save the edited symbols as new ones. By edit, I mean to edit the svg itself or edit the tags and other properties of the symbols. - To be able to load/save symbols from/to a folder. Any opinions or changes that can be done? Is it good enough for a proposal?

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1.1-beta available
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hi everyone! We recently released Inkscape 1.1-beta, while planning to release 1.1 next month. You can get the release at https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1beta1/ for all platforms All testers are encouraged to test this version and report bugs at inkscape.org/report == Packagers == The tarball is not expected to differ much to the beta one, if you want to check that everything is all right for your platform :) == Translators == Thanks for your work! Strings have been frozen for a while, and it's not too late to submit translations until shortly before release date. == Developers == We have now branched the code repo. The new branch 1.1.x now only welcomes bugfixes, translations and easy-to-review changes; while features, performance, code improvements, or anything that was left waiting in prevision of 1.1 are free to go to the main branch. == All contributors == Thanks everyone for your contributions! All the work you're doing in various area, such as UX, outreach, docs, testing and bug triaging, and more, is what makes us a better project over the years :) -- Marc _______________________________________________ Inkscape Translators mailing list -- inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Board Meeting Delayed until Apr 9th
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Howdy Folks, Asked in chat if we wanted to delay because it's Easter Holiday for much of Europe — didn't get many responses so I'm taking that as "we're already gone." Let's move the meeting to April 9th. Those who have the day off work, enjoy it! Ted

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Discussing an initial idea for GSoC (inspired by vim's registers).?‏
by Osama Ahmad 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Hi, my name is Osama Ahmad and I'm planning to join GSoC this year. As stated here <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals>, it's encouraged to discuss ideas for GSoC before submitting. Inspired by vim's registers, I'm thinking of adding the ability to make multiple copies. But, unlike vim's registers which have a fixed name and are limited to several registers, I'm thinking of allowing the users to assign a name for each copy and be able to create as many as wanted. There will be an option under the "copy" option which will have a name like "add to copy list", and will have a text box for the users to enter the name of the copy. Later, when they want to paste a certain copy, they click on an option which has a name like "paste from copy list", when clicking on it, a list of the names of the previously made copies will appear and the user can choose from them. This will not modify the original "copy" and "paste" options. The program will have its normal copy and paste options, but will have the named copies as an additional option. To make things even more convenient, there can be a counter that starts from 1, if the user just wants to copy multiple objects without assigning names each time, they can just click on the third option which will have a name like "add to copy list as #x" where x is the current value of the counter. The counter is increased by 1 each time this option is clicked. I'm not planning to decrease it at all since it's very unlikely for users to make more than a 100 or even 10 copies anyways. Also, there will be an "X" button beside each item in the copy list to enable users to remove items they're not in need anymore from the list. Optionally, since there will be an option that says "add to copy list as #x", if the users have used it a lot, thus have a lot of items which all have a names of numbers, the users might forget what each item corresponds to, so, a solution will be to show (but not actually paste) the items when the user hovers over them. Probably this will complicate things, I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it. But in case I've finished the main project before the deadline, I think this will be a good addition. Problems: - It might slow the program if the user has copied a lot of items. Yet, we don't force the user to copy, if the user is in need of lots of copies, then being able to do it and have the program to be a little slower is way better than not being able to do it at all, so, I think this is not a big issue. If the idea is a good one to submit, where in the code should I start to read and grasp first (probably a good starting point would be where the copying and pasting functions are located)? And, if the idea is not good enough, I'd love to know why and how I can improve it. Thanks.

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Introducing my-self (introduction request)
by SIVALASETTY AKHILRAM 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Good Afternoon respected community, I am Akhil Ram, I am very new to this community. coming to me i had good programming experience with c , python( machine learning basics to average). I made some projects to showcase my knowledge in python and c programming. But, I have a very little knowledge about open source contributions. It sounds a bit weird but keep faith in me "because i had good progress while learning ". I had gone through the ideas list of Inkscape. I had gone through the project ideas mentioned on the page.I am willing to work on "P7. Tesseract OCR", Based on my past knowledge the word OCR makes me very interactive. Please help me get started on my journey(what else i have to do before submitting the proposal ).please ignore grammatical mistakes . If I am wrong to introduce myself to a different mailing list please let me know. thanking you, Akhil Ram Sivalasetty akhilram2001(a)gmail.com

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Introduction to Inkspace community
by Vikash Kumar 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

I am an open source developer looking to contribute to your organisation in GSOC 21. I am looking forward to contributing to Improvements to the Paint Server Dialog project. It would be great to hear from your end a bit more about this project and the mentors associated with this one.

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