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

05 Oct '21

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

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BUG: Newer inkscape series crashes computer in heavy documents.
by xadaux daux 04 Oct '21

04 Oct '21

Hello, I'm currently working on a heavy .SVG document about almost 91 layers containing linked .PNG files in high resolution (300 dpi). While previous series (0.91) saved successfully individual layers as single .PDF-per-layer the latest 1.1 stands working when exporting pages and then crashes the whole computer after 20-30 seconds. Is not posible to kill the process manually by console. Just want to notify devels about this particular issue. Thank you, Xadaux

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Monthly PLC Meeting
by Ted Gould 02 Oct '21

02 Oct '21

Howdy Inkscapers, This week we have a monthly PLC meeting. These months where the first Friday is in the early digits really sneak up on me! It will be our usual status update and tracking of tasks throughout the project. It will be in the PLC room on Rocketchat/Libera.chat/etc. Agenda is available: https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Agenda The time in your timezone: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20211001T10&p1=202 Everyone is welcome. Hope to see you there! Ted

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Vectors' Meeting October
by Maren Hachmann 01 Oct '21

01 Oct '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/231 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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What's the Release process now?
by Ted Gould 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

I thought part of the release process was to email the packagers list about the tagging, but I don't think that happened. I guess I'm a bit behind as I only found out via: https://mastodon.art/@inkscape/107004517806832427 Ted

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GDI BUS Issues - constantly Crashing Inkscape.
by gjr 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Since V1.0 When opening ANY Non exported, Non embedded, Non Related image file with ANY other "GRAPHICS/RASTER" app causes inkscape to crash with a GDI BUS error if INSKSCAPE (NOT RESPONDING) is active in memory. Getting sick of it. For crying out loud - even attaching image to email crashes inkscape. I'm running Win 8.1 (yes, I know). I have tried assigning admin perms to Inkscape and gdibus.exe, to no avail. Here's what I think, you are lockcing the gdi bus memory, ASSUMING THAT ANY CALL TO THE GDI IS FOR YOU, THEN YOU RECEIVE A NULL RESPONSE AND YOU HAVE ZERO ERROR HANDLING. Not every gdi bus call is for inkscape. Fix this. Seriously, I have lost so much stuff because of this - it corrupts text areas and gradients and I am getting sick of it. For crying out loud, handling a null response is coding 101! Kind Regards, Gary -- ..................... Gary Rockley Tel +1 512 519 9593 Cel +1 651-216-4726

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Re: GDI BUS Issues - constantly Crashing Inkscape.
by Luca Bacci 28 Sep '21

28 Sep '21

Hello, I believe you’re experiencing two different issues, actually: * Crash on Win8 / Win8.1 when opening an image in another image viewing / editing program. See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5249. This is already fixed upstream so you can simply use the latest stable bugfix bundle: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1.x/?latest=1. * Memory leaks when having the Document Properties Dock open. See https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5667, https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/5363. That’s already fixed for 1.2, current workaround is to leave it closed. Luca

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Inkscape is participating in Outreachy!
by Martin Owens 08 Sep '21

08 Sep '21

Dear Developers, Inkscape is confirmed to be participating in Outreachy Dec-2021, the principle mentors are Kavya and Adam.Belis, but if you have a project you think would be good for an intern to work on, please do become a mentor or co-mentor too. The projects don't have to be development (unlike GSoC) so if you've been sitting on a documentation project and haven't had time to get to it, now is the time to do some mentoring and make Inkscape even better. Commitment is a couple of hours a week during the intern period. You can go to https://www.outreachy.org/communities/cfp/inkscape/ Scroll down to the bottom to the green "Submit a Project Proposal" button and fill out the forms. The outreachy coordinators (myself, Tav and Marc) will review all the project proposals and confirm them and then they'll be open to potential interns to select from. = Schedule = Oct. 1, 2021 - Contribution period begins Oct. 31, 2021 - Contribution period ends Nov - Lots of administration happens. Dec. 6, 2021 - March 4, 2022 - Internships period Let me know if you need any guidance or further details Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Crash Jam 111 (Sept 8th)
by Martin Owens 07 Sep '21

07 Sep '21

Dear Developers, Please join us tomorrow for the Inkscape Crash Jam 1.1.1, we're getting together for a few hours September 8th from 4PM UTC (for your own timezone, see calendar https://inkscape.org/*developer/calendar/ ) The goal is to go through merge requests and find crash fixes which should be back ported to the 1.1.x branch of Inkscape. Currently the 1.1 point release is quite thin, but we think there's useful fixes that could make it a nicer release, so if you can, please join us and we'll have some fun on the video chat socialising too. Best Regards, Martin Owens Developer Hat

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Vectors' Meeting September
by Maren Hachmann 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/230 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape PLC Meeting this week
by Ted Gould 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

Howdy Folks, We have our monthly PLC meeting to go over items and get updates. I'll be this Friday at Noon Texas time, find the time in your locale here: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?iso=20210903T10&p1=202 Agenda items (mostly standing): https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/Leadership_Committee_Status_Updates#Working_… Everyone is invited to participate. Ted

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Inkscape Matrix Space
by Ted Gould 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Hello, There is a new beta feature the Matrix folks are working on, and after being pinged about it by jabiertxof I setup Inkscape to use it. It basically allows grouping of the Inkscape rooms to get a UX that is closer to Slack/Discord/etc. Feature description: https://element.io/blog/spaces-the-next-frontier/ Generally, since it is a beta feature, I don't want to put it on the webpage/social media/etc yet. But it would be useful if folks who have Matrix accounts and are willing to enable the beta feature could test it out. I believe if you click this, you will be able to join: https://matrix.to/#/#inkscape:matrix.org If you have any issues joining or any recommendations on how to configure it you can reply here, ping me in one of the chats, or DM me on Matrix, @ted:gould.cx Ted

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Meeting Today
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Aug '21

12 Aug '21

Dear all, Our Leadership Committee meeting is today¹ and it would be great to have you attend. Each meeting will be recorded so people who can not come will be able to watch the discussion later. This meeting's focus is going to be on making sure we can include more people in the definition of "The Inkscape Community" for the purpose of voting. I've put together this agenda: 1. Moving the canonical membership list to the website 2. Requesting from the SFC a change in agreement to define this new list as the list of voting members. 3. The remaining time we can talk about the mechanisms by which people get added to the list (see continuation of previous discussions). I expect the second item will produce a vote which will be sent to the mailing list. But we'll see how the discussion goes. Thanks everyone! Best Regards, Martin Owens Inkscape Leadership Committee ¹ https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/

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PLC Meeting this Thursday
by Martin Owens 09 Aug '21

09 Aug '21

Dear all, A remember that this Thursday we have a big blue button meeting. This month I'd like to have us decide on the membership problem. The question is: "How should we ask the SFC to change our agreement, to include all inkscape contributors" the goal for the meeting will be to put together the vote email which hopefully will be sent at the end of the meeting. Times and links: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ Please do come if you'd like to be involved in the discussion of inkscape membership. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Vectors' Meeting August
by Maren Hachmann 05 Aug '21

05 Aug '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/228 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape Office Hours: Summary
by Maren Hachmann 29 Jul '21

29 Jul '21

Hi everyone in the Inkscape Contributor Community, thank you very much to those who had joined us for the first 'Inkscape Office Hours' meeting on July 16th! We had a great time getting to know each other and tossing some ideas around. You all can find the meeting log at https://inkscape.org/paste/28194/ During the meeting, we've all been working on a document together, where we've been collecting ideas for two of the major questions of the Inkscape Board to the community: https://pad.chaotikum.org/p/Inkscape_Office_Hours_1 For those who were not able to attend the live meeting, I will keep the pad open for another week, so you also have a chance to add your ideas there. Please mark your own ideas with the name you go by in the community, and also add a short suggestion about how you could help with making them reality! When the week has passed, I'll package the results up for handing them over to the Inkscape Board, so they can have a look at the feasibility, and we can continue from there. There's no established process for this yet, so we'll just have to try and see where we can get. There's no date set for the next Inkscape Office Hours meeting yet. Do you think this should become a monthly event? Or do you think it should be more frequent or less frequent? Thanks again everyone for your support of Inkscape, Maren

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Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Lazur just let me know that I forgot to insert the location (duh!) We're going to have the meeting at https://chat.inkscape.org/channel/inkscape_board and might move it to audio/video chat, if that seems useful. A link to that will, in that case, be announced in the chat channel. Maren > Hello Inkscape contributors! > > The Inkscape project has grown so much in the last couple years, and we > have teams spread all over the internet, working on improving Inkscape > and helping the project and its users. Also, we have lots of exciting > new things to decide upon together as the Contributors' Team! > > For this reason, we've thought of trying out something new to allow > every contributor to also contribute their ideas for the future of the > project as a whole: > > The "Inkscape Office Hours"! > ============================ > > The first meeting of this kind will take place on > > Friday, 16th July (today!) > at 5 p.m. UTC (in your timezone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ ) > > If it is well received and productive, we'll make this a regular thing. > > We will have members from the Inkscape Board there, and also some of the > other people who are most involved with Inkscape matters on a day-to-day > basis. And YOU (hopefully)! > > ------------------ > > Don't know whether you 'count' as a contributor? Doubts? > > Well, that's one of the things we'd like to figure out together! We > really need to, it's required for voting rights. There's a Board vote > pending, because we haven't yet come up with a good definition. > We are planning to update our project charter to include more than only > developers, as is currently the case. > > So please come and join us, even if you're unsure whether you 'qualify'! > > Another important topic is collecting and finding help with ideas for > how to spend our donations. The pandemic left us with a lack of > opportunities to spend them. They need to be spent in a manner that > respects the charitable (non-profit) status of the project (if you > didn't know, we're a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy > (SFC)! [1]), and also needs to obey to high standards of honesty and > conflict of interest policies. All our ideas will need to be approved of > not only the Inkscape Board, but then also by the SFC. > > You can also bring other topics, as long as they have to do with the > Inkscape community as a whole. During the meeting you can get help with > implementing those ideas and making them a reality, from people who > already understand how the project works. > > NOTE: this is NOT about any software features / bugs! > For those, please use the bug tracker [2]. > > See you in a few hours (and sorry for the late notice, we hope you can > still make it)! > > Ted, Michèle and Maren > > [1] https://sfconservancy.org/ > [2] https://inkscape.org/report

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Invitation: INKSCAPE OFFICE HOURS TODAY!
by Maren Hachmann 16 Jul '21

16 Jul '21

Hello Inkscape contributors! The Inkscape project has grown so much in the last couple years, and we have teams spread all over the internet, working on improving Inkscape and helping the project and its users. Also, we have lots of exciting new things to decide upon together as the Contributors' Team! For this reason, we've thought of trying out something new to allow every contributor to also contribute their ideas for the future of the project as a whole: The "Inkscape Office Hours"! ============================ The first meeting of this kind will take place on Friday, 16th July (today!) at 5 p.m. UTC (in your timezone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ ) If it is well received and productive, we'll make this a regular thing. We will have members from the Inkscape Board there, and also some of the other people who are most involved with Inkscape matters on a day-to-day basis. And YOU (hopefully)! ------------------ Don't know whether you 'count' as a contributor? Doubts? Well, that's one of the things we'd like to figure out together! We really need to, it's required for voting rights. There's a Board vote pending, because we haven't yet come up with a good definition. We are planning to update our project charter to include more than only developers, as is currently the case. So please come and join us, even if you're unsure whether you 'qualify'! Another important topic is collecting and finding help with ideas for how to spend our donations. The pandemic left us with a lack of opportunities to spend them. They need to be spent in a manner that respects the charitable (non-profit) status of the project (if you didn't know, we're a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC)! [1]), and also needs to obey to high standards of honesty and conflict of interest policies. All our ideas will need to be approved of not only the Inkscape Board, but then also by the SFC. You can also bring other topics, as long as they have to do with the Inkscape community as a whole. During the meeting you can get help with implementing those ideas and making them a reality, from people who already understand how the project works. NOTE: this is NOT about any software features / bugs! For those, please use the bug tracker [2]. See you in a few hours (and sorry for the late notice, we hope you can still make it)! Ted, Michèle and Maren [1] https://sfconservancy.org/ [2] https://inkscape.org/report

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Regular Meeting
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Jul '21

12 Jul '21

Dear all, As discussed at the last video meeting, the committee/board did a poll to decide if we wanted to continue doing regular video meetings. There was a unanimous vote to continue (except for ted who had to leave before this discussion) and I was asked to put together the details. Generally people favoured a non-weekend date, any date so long as it had enough notice. This is the new calendar entry, it's set to the second Thursday each month, at 16:00 UTC https://inkscape.org/cals/event/30/ I've also created a room on big blue button. The aim will be to record each of the meetings and I can post the recording to the right places (probably here on the mailing list). The general agenda is to come together to talk about what we need to do next for the project. We'll still post all votes to the mailing list, so anyone who misses the meeting won't be left out. But we'll hopefully be trying to work through some of the tasks we have in the team going forwards. Thanks for everyone's input for configuring this meeting. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Vectors' Meeting July 2021
by Maren Hachmann 01 Jul '21

01 Jul '21

Hello everybody, our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Find the proposed agenda at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/223 and please do add your items to it. Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/3/ Maren

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Inkscape 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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