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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango Icon Theme - Renewed - NEW ICONS and complete SNAPPING TOOLBAR ICONS.
by jEsuSdA 8) 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

El Lunes, 12 de Enero de 2009 21:03:22 escribió: > On 01/12/2009 08:40 PM, jEsuSdA 8) wrote: > > Please, use the 1.16 version to update the svn. ;) > > I noticed the newer v1.17, which was probably created after you send > your e-mail. Shouldn't I use that one? Yes! Whith the last version (1.17) I solved a bug related with paint-bucket tool and dark themes. (http://jesusda.com/files/inkscape-tango-theme/preview-tango-paint-bucket-bu…) > BTW, are you aware of this: > http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/HowToEditIcons ? > > This does make the file smaller, but I don't know if it really helps in > speed. Apparently Bulia thinks it does make a difference. Or even you > already did it that way? Well, whatever, I don't really care, I just > wanted to inform you :-) Thanks for the info. I did not know about that. If I have time, I will try it. ;) > Thanks, > Diederik Thank you! ;)

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Tango Icon Theme - Renewed - NEW ICONS and complete SNAPPING TOOLBAR ICONS.
by jEsuSdA 8) 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

El Lunes, 12 de Enero de 2009 18:52:31 escribió: > On 01/12/2009 05:16 PM, jEsuSdA 8) wrote: > > The second one is that I add the new snapping toolbar icons to the theme, > > then now is 100% complete. > > Wow, that's fast! It's only a day old! And they look great! > > There's only one minor detail though: the dashed blue lines for the > bounding boxes should stop at the bounding box corner. The dashed blue > lines for the grid/guides (in the rightmost icon) are OK though. But as > I said, that's only a minor issue and might not even be noticed on a > pixel level. Ok! I see! I fixed it., a new version is uploaded. ;) > I can change it for you if you want, because I don't know if you've got > direct access to SVN. Thanks! Please, use the 1.16 version to update the svn. ;) INKSCAPE TANGO ICON THEME: http://jesusda.com/files/inkscape-tango-theme/ > Diederik Salu2 de jEsuSdA 8)

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Inkscape20490-0901102133 crashing on startup
by Mourad Mokrane 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hi, On Vista Home Premium SP1 Inkscape20490-0901102133 crashes on startup with an "encountered internal error" message. Looks like the windows test builds are not being produced for 3 days now, when Can windows users expect a new one? Best regards, Mourad Mokrane Art director Lumen Media s.r.o. www.lumenstudio.net

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Shift + Draw Improvement
by Ivan Louette 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

Hello ! As a designer I am a fan of the Shift + Draw feature which is so useful for example when using the Calligraphy tool. As a svg filter effects designer and because objects groups management is promised to increase in importance in this area I would suggest an improvement to it. At the moment if you select a path, press Shift and draw, when you release the Shift key the newly created path combines with the previously selected one. What I would suggest is : - if the selection is an object it would work like it does now, combining the paths ; - if the selection is a group, then when you release the Shift key your new path (or any newly created object) is simply added to this selected group. That could add a new functionality to this feature without changing anything in the UI ! kindly, ivan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Intrested student
by Felipe Sanches 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

I don't understand a lot about it. But I would tell you that the basic need is to separate inkscape code in at least 2 threads: one for rendering and the other one for user interface (functional parallelism), so that the user interface dont get non-responsive when the user is dealing with a drawing too complex that requires a lot of cpu power. Another thing that could be interesting is to use multithreading to speed up inkscape's algorithms. There are algorithms that we use that can be separated in various threads (data parallelism) so that multicore users will benefit from better performance (each CPU core chews a piece of the data at the same time). There is already one feature in Inkscape using data paralelism. It is the algorithm that renders the gaussian blur filtering primitive. We have used OpenMP to implement the threading of this algorithm. It detects the number of cores you have in your machine and then decides in how many threads it will split the for loops. But it wasn't coded by me. I am just telling you what I heard here on the list and on IRC. I guess we should keep this conversation on the list so that other people could help you too. Juca On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Dmitry <dmitry.jurasov@...400...> wrote: > > > FS> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Dmitry <dmitry.jurasov@...400...> wrote: > >>> Hello inkscape-devel, >>> >>> My name is Dmitry, I'm a student from Russia. I'm interested in >>> developing your project and participating in next Summer of Code (2009). >>> I want to know about ideas, which I can take part in. And I'm going to >>> make this work to be my master thesis at University. >>> > > Monday, December 1, 2008, 7:17:16 PM, you wrote: > > FS> Maybe somebody could try to use openmp in all of the SVGFilters code, but I > FS> think that this would be too simple for your master thesis. > FS> Indeed, it would be much better if somebody ported the filtering code to > FS> cairo, and then used it in inkscape. This would be a bit harder since it > FS> would be necessary to define a cairo API for filter effects. > > FS> But if you wish to work on inkscape related stuff in your master thesis, > FS> then I think that it should be something really hard. The first thing that I > FS> can think about is the process of porting the SPObject and all of its > FS> derived classes to C++ > > FS> Also, another thing that is possibly hard enough for your thesis is > FS> implementing threading in Inkscape. > > FS> Juca > > Hello Felipe, I want to know more about thread implementing in > Inkscape. > > -- > Best regards, > Dmitry mailto:Dmitry.Jurasov@...400... > >

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More than two months of rendering tests
by Jasper van de Gronde 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

I've run the rendering tests for a bit more than two months now, usually roughly once a week. The results have actually been relatively stable, considering all the refactoring work going on. However, there have been a few notable changes. The good news: the number of passed tests has gone from 96 to 105 and the number of failed tests from 65 to 56. The bad news: we have three tests that crash at the moment (introduced between 2008-12-28 and 2009-01-04), and some of the changes in the number of passed tests were due to a rejudging of some the filter outputs (basically there appear to be at least one or two wrong references in the W3C test suite, and Inkscape currently simply doesn't handle the color-interpolation properties, while the actual filters are fine). You can get more details at: http://home.hccnet.nl/th.v.d.gronde/inkscape/ResultViewer.html I intend to continue running the tests as before in the near future, but am still most definitely interested in any additional help in further automating these tests and/or writing the tests. Specifically: - I currently run these tests by starting a batch file on my notebook, basically when I feel like it. A machine which could run this using a timer would be great (it would have to compile inkscape, run the tests and upload the result, possibly generating an e-mail if there are any regressions). - I currently judge any new results (so results which don't match any existing reference). Usually this is fine (most of the time there are only about 1-3 new results), but any help would be appreciated. Of course this would be a lot easier if the machine running the tests could also serve the output images (then a small on-line application could be made for letting people judge the new results). - I'd like to change the comparison algorithm used. Currently I'm using perceptualdiff, but I would like to use something which simply allows for a given error threshold (maximum error and/or rms error). Obviously extra bonus points for an algorithm that can do something sensible for comparing curves (the SVG standard says something about curves having to be within one pixel of the "true" curve or something). - Any additional tests (based on bug reports for example) would obviously be welcome. - I'd love to be able to link a bug report to a certain fail result (linking it to a file is probably not a good idea, as one test may exhibit different bugs over time). Any ideas and/or implementations for doing this would be great. Note that currently the system cannot distinguish between two fail references, so some easy way of specifying for which outputs the bug holds would be very nice.

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Color-interpolation properties
by Jasper van de Gronde 12 Jan '09

12 Jan '09

I found out at least one source of differences in rendering of filters between Inkscape and Batik/W3C test suite, and that's the color-interpolation-filters property. This property determines the color space used for filter operations (color-interpolation does the same for gradients and normal compositing), and Inkscape doesn't support it at the moment. The problem is that by default color-interpolation is set to sRGB and color-interpolation-filters to linearRGB (sRGB before the gamma adjustment)... There was probably some rationale for this, but it's a pretty big nuisance, as it means that we'll probably have to convert to and from linearRGB for each application of filtering (as the conversion is very much non-linear). Also, this means that pretty much any file that uses filters should actually be rendered differently from how it is rendered now (and often quite visibly different). So it might be a good idea to do something about this ASAP, to minimize the impact. So, now my question is: What to do about this? There are a number of possibilities. First of all, Inkscape could start setting the color-interpolation-filters property to use sRGB. This would probably be a very quick "fix" and at least ensure that any new files created with Inkscape will render the same in other (compliant) viewers. Obviously this wouldn't resolve problems with current files. The main other possibility is to add support for color-interpolation-filters. Obviously this is the right thing to do in the long run, but it's also tricky to do it right. Quality (and probably performance) wise it would likely be best to allow the conversion to be part of the filter, as for example gaussian blur already uses increased precision internally and could apply the conversions with little loss in quality. However, it would obviously be much easier to simply write conversion functions and call them before and after applying any filters. And even if support for color-interpolation-filters is added, it might still make sense to set it to sRGB (or set color-interpolation to linearRGB), as letting the settings be different results in non-intuitive behaviour like having normal compositing behaving differently from the equivalent feBlend and feComposite modes.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Clear Open recent?
by Felipe Sanches 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

I have added a button to the Interface page in the Inkscape preferences dialog that will remove all items of the "File -> Open Recent" menu. The code was commited in the svn revision number 20503 and the feature will probably be in the next stable release, I hope. Could anybory review my code, please? It is the first time I deal with GtkRecentManager. Could you please review it, Bulia? Juca On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 2:51 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...2113...> wrote: >> Is it possible to clear the list of documents in >> File -> Open recent? > > Only by manual editing your preferences.xml - you need to delete all > children of <group id="recent">. Or just delete the file, but then you > will also lose all other settings). > > -- > bulia byak > Inkscape. Draw Freely. > http://www.inkscape.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It is the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/Xq1LFB > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-user mailing list > Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user >

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extension namespace
by Thomas Holder 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Hi there, is it possible to make the new namespace for inx files optional? I see no real benefit for the namespace, but it is a real drawback that all previous custom extensions will become invalid (until you add the namespace to the inx files). When we release 0.47 lots of users will be confused and will report bugs for this I guess. Thomas

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3D importing
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Hi, Since recently we have an OBJ importer in form of an extension. IIRC there was a debate how this extension should be implemented better (real importer vs. extension). So, I've just stumbled upon http://assimp.sourceforge.net/ -- Open Asset Import Library, which is designed to help importing various 3D scene files into applications. It covers not just Obj, but also 15 more file formats, including 3D Max and the like. Could be a good GSoC2009 project for somebody, especially if importing would come with live preview :) Alexandre

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Tr : Inkscape 0.46 Devel Dependencies
by Ivan Louette 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

That's allright now ! I did a mistake in the package source address... Inkscape 0.46 Devel runs now on my Kubuntu ! I am happy to be able to continue filters development. That will be a little bit slower because at the moment I am very busy to write a book. But these days I also tried the compatibilities between Inkscape and Fontforge and I am sure svg filters will add something new in my font creation ideas... Thanks to everybody here for the hard work ! Very friendly ivan ________________________________ ----- Message transféré ---- De : Ivan Louette <ivan_louette@...48...> À : Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Envoyé le : Dimanche, 11 Janvier 2009, 17h29mn 41s Objet : Inkscape 0.46 Devel Dependencies Hello ! This is my first message here. Sorry of it's not the appropriate place to post. When I try to install 0.46 Devel by Synaptic on my Kubuntu 8.10 I get this message : Dépend: libpoppler-glib2 (>=0.6) but it is not installable Dépend: libpoppler2 (>=0.6) but it is not installable I hope that can help ! ivan

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Inkscape 0.46 Devel Dependencies
by Ivan Louette 11 Jan '09

11 Jan '09

Hello ! This is my first message here. Sorry of it's not the appropriate place to post. When I try to install 0.46 Devel by Synaptic on my Kubuntu 8.10 I get this message : Dépend: libpoppler-glib2 (>=0.6) but it is not installable Dépend: libpoppler2 (>=0.6) but it is not installable I hope that can help ! ivan

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Calling init_gtkmm_internals()
by Jasper van de Gronde 10 Jan '09

10 Jan '09

I found that to make rendering of feImage filters work correctly I have to call Gtk::Main::init_gtkmm_internals() before trying to use Gdk::Pixbuf. If this is not done it complains about not being able to wrap GdkPixbuf. With this change it suddenly seems to work just fine. However, I have no idea where it should be put. At the moment I put it in nr-filter-image.cpp (because that was were the problem was occurring), but it would probably be better to do it while starting Inkscape. However, it should also be called for Inkview. And perhaps it should be called after/before some other things? So, if someone who is a bit more familiar with GtkMM (and Inkscape's initialization) could have a look at this, that would be great. This very simply change will make feImage's with references to files work automagically :) (There are probably still a few caveats, but still.)

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JavaFX 1.0 support
by Adam Giemza 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hello all, I know from this blog http://silveiraneto.net/2008/11/21/inkscape-and-javafx-working-together/ that there is JavaFX support build in the latest (0.46) build. BUT the problem is, that this support is for pre-1.0 releases of JavaFX. Silveira (the guy from the blog) postet in his todo list, that the 1.0 support will come on Dec. 2nd. But there is still nothing in this direction, right? I posted a comment on his blog, asking for the progres without any reaction. Maybe somebody here can take up this topic. Would be very much appreciated! Cheers, deradam (Also posted in the InkscapeForum -> http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=2091)

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Intrested student
by Dmitry 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hello inkscape-devel, My name is Dmitry, I'm a student from Russia. I'm interested in developing your project and participating in next Summer of Code (2009). I want to know about ideas, which I can take part in. And I'm going to make this work to be my master thesis at University. -- Best regards, Dmitry mailto:Dmitry.Jurasov@...400...

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Inkscape and good causes
by Josh Andler 09 Jan '09

09 Jan '09

Hey all, I decided to pass this along as it is in the same basic spirit of open source with the attitude of doing something for a cause greater than one's self (our global community). Recently there was a contest held on DeviantART to promote breast cancer awareness and early prevention that was sponsored by DeviantART, MGM (yes, the studio), and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation. With over 1,400 submissions spanning all kinds of art forms imaginable, the Grand Prize Winner chosen was by one of our Inkscapers on DA (and yes she used Inkscape for this), Loraine A. Baird, aka QuicheLoraine. The competition results are here (which contains a link to her winning entry, but also shows a few runners up for reference): http://news.deviantart.com/article/66804/ And her gallery which contains quite a bit of excellent work done in inkscape can be seen here: http://quicheloraine.deviantart.com/gallery/ Congratulations to her, and if you have a DA account it would be nice to drop by and leave her a comment. Cheers, Josh

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Where is the trunk?
by Kent Tenney 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

Howdy, bzr branch lp:inkscape returns revno 7159 dated 2008-11-19 Is this the dev trunk? Thanks, Kent

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compile error rev 20476
by bulia byak 08 Jan '09

08 Jan '09

pencil-context.cpp: In function 'void sketch_interpolate(SPPencilContext*)': pencil-context.cpp:827: error: no matching function for call to 'lerp(Geom::Piecewise<Geom::D2<Geom::SBasis> >&, Geom::Piecewise<Geom::D2<Geom::SBasis> >&, double&)' ./2geom/point.h:211: note: candidates are: Geom::Point Geom::lerp(double, Geom::Point, Geom::Point) ./2geom/linear.h:51: note: double Geom::lerp(double, double, double) please always recompile before committing... -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Inkscape logo Public Domain? Can't be right.
by Cory K. 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

I ran across this today. Is there no peer review on Open Clip Art? http://openclipart.org/media/files/baabullah/10665 -Cory K.

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Translating filters.svg
by Ted Gould 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Okay, So I think I just committed everything to make it so that filters.svg is translatable. Since I'm not a translator, it's hard to be 100% sure. Could a translator please try to translate the filters and reply? Thanks in advance, Ted

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New Mac Build(s)
by Henning Meyer 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Regarding CMake I'd like to say there's also CPack, which enables generation of Installation-Packages for different platforms alongside CMake. This also works for Macs. http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Component_Install_With_CPack > Hey, > I offered to do some mac builds on a more or less regular basis. I > got native to build (but could build x11 too), and now I'm in the > process of packaging it (there are still some issues with the app > bundle script) I hope to resolve these tomorrow, or maybe write my > own, simple script if that doesn't work. So anyway on irc verbalshadow > just told me to say hi to the list and that eventual problems / upload > possibilities would/could be handled here better. > I'll continue with the packaging tomorrow cause it's going to be 5 am > soonish, but currently I have the following issues if anyone has a > quick thought on one of those. I was under the impression I could use > osx-app.sh for native packaging too, but so far: > (note: in the paths below /opt/local/ is the macports install path > passed to "osx-app.sh" with --libraries) > /opt/local/etc/pango/pangox.aliases is not in my macports install > (which it tries to copy) so is this a file specific to x11 pango > (pango was installed with macports using +no_x11 ofc) > Also the script is looking for: > /opt/local/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.0.dylib > /opt/local/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.0.dylib > Only in a native version those would have to be: > /opt/local/lib/libgtk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib > /opt/local/lib/libgdk-quartz-2.0.0.dylib > And so far I'm not quite sure how it gets the impression that it needs > the x11 version, at first I thought it was hardcoded in the script, > but it's not.

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Manually change language in preference dialogue
by the Adib 07 Jan '09

07 Jan '09

Hi all, I yust want to inform you that I commited some code to change the language of the user-interface within the preferences dialogue. thats all, happy new year!!! Adib.

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Inkscape release schedule and project items
by Josh Andler 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

Hey all, First, an official Happy New Year to you all! I'm breaking down this email into a few sections below. Releases: A newer release of Inkscape will be going into the next distro release cycle. Whether this is 0.46.1 or 0.47 is what needs to be determined. I know that with at least a handful of us, there is a great desire to make it 0.47. However, this may not be feasible (or preferable) for any number of reasons. A vote is definitely in order for this. We should have some sort of brief discussion about what are the most compelling reasons to either make it 0.47 or not 0.47. (I am aware that 0.46.1 has been discussed before, I've unfortunately had health issues preventing me from actively working on it, but with my current doctor downtime, should be doable) Build Systems: Discussion of the possibility of switching build systems to cmake or btool has resurfaced again recently. It seems like the obvious goals should be that we use one build system on all platforms and it be something that is maintainable by multiple individuals. From my understanding all three build systems in the mix are crossplatform. Is there an updated comparison list of the benefits and drawbacks of each? Personal experiences? Given that I almost exclusively build on linux these days, it doesn't impact me greatly and I don't really have a preference. Version Control: In the past we also discussed potentially switching to a dvcs such as git or bzr. I'm pretty sure we all know the benefits of using a dvcs, and it seems (I may be wrong) that a modern dvcs is a little friendlier with tags and branches (which would be nice to use more in the future). We have a handful of people who I know are working with bzr on a regular basis, would anyone like to chime in on if it seems like a good "successor" to svn for our project and if it would be a worthwhile switch? Bryce, Ted, Mental, Kees? Anyone think git would be a better choice? Future Releases: After this extremely long development cycle, and the amount of future refactoring we're still looking to do, I think we need a new stable/devel branching strategy for the future. Or at the very least, a bleeding edge branch for GSoCers and the like in addition to main devel. Also, it would be great to have regular releases that tie into the distro release cycles (with minimal benefit of easy PR). Anyone else care to chime in? That's all for now... I think the next release should be the top priority to vote on and discuss now, because if people want it to be 0.47, we need to get crackin'. Cheers, Josh

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views bound to rectangles
by Jody Palmer 06 Jan '09

06 Jan '09

I would like to be able to add svg view tags like <view id="myview" viewBox="34 38 92 99"> </view> and have the bounds of the viewbox be associated with a rectangle. Ideally it would be bound to the rectangle so that editing the rectangle size, shape or position would modify the view. The purpose is to allow me to link between SVG diagrams in a useful way. Is this supported? Is anyone working on it already? If not and I can find the time to implement it, would it be a useful contribution? Any suggestions or comments are welcome (remember that I have not yet seen the code base). - Jody

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intro for developers
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Jan '09

05 Jan '09

Hi, Recently a person reported to out bug tracker that the website doesn't provide good introduction information for new developers. So I've just taken a look at http://inkscape.org/doc/devdocs.php and I have several questions: 1. Do you find this information overall sufficient? 2. Last changes to http://inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/DeveloperManual date back to February 2007. Would anyone mind having a look and saying whether something needs changes? (btw, our wiki outputs errors again) 3. Does the flowchart at http://inkscape.org/doc/devdocs.php really reflect current state of source code? 4. Same question about class hierarchy image. Thanks! :) Alexandre

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