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Rotation center handle
by Tavmjong Bah 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

Hi, The Rotation center handle is currently only visible and movable when the Selection tool is active and in Skewing/Rotating mode. This made perfect sense when only rotating and skewing via dragging the rotating and skewing handles utilized the Rotation center handle. Now that the rotating and skewing via the Transform dialog and via the keyboard also utilize the handle it seems to me that the handle should be visible and movable anytime an object or group of objects is selected. BTW, there seems to be bug in updating the handle when shift-clicking on it to restore it to the center of an object. The XML editor shows the change but the old position is still displayed and used for rotations until the object is unselected and reselected. (Checked with today's SVN.) Tav

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by MISS BLESSING PAUL 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

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Translation impacted by file rename?
by Jon A. Cruz 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

I was wondering if the translations are going to be negatively impacted by file renaming. Anyone know? Here's the outstanding change I have to POTFILES.in to get 'make check' happy again: Index: po/POTFILES.in =================================================================== --- po/POTFILES.in (revision 11430) +++ po/POTFILES.in (working copy) @@ -172,7 +172,6 @@ src/node-context.cpp src/nodepath.cpp src/object-edit.cpp -src/object-ui.cpp src/path-chemistry.cpp src/pen-context.cpp src/pencil-context.cpp @@ -252,6 +251,7 @@ src/tools-switch.cpp src/trace/potrace/inkscape-potrace.cpp src/trace/trace.cpp +src/ui/context-menu.cpp src/ui/dialog/aboutbox.cpp src/ui/dialog/align-and-distribute.cpp src/ui/dialog/document-metadata.cpp

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translation lost in save
by Aaron Spike 28 Apr '06

28 Apr '06

It seems that the translation portion of my Fit Page to Selection function doesn't properly weather a save and open cycle. Can anyone offer suggestions as to how I might fix that? I suppose I need to translate each child of the document instead of translating the doc root. Yes? Aaron Spike

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ok, sorry that's only a idea
by Jairo Gonzalez 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

I know that the way to do shadows is using blur filter (in my graphics I do shadows exporting a png of the figure and I use gimp to make the blur effect) I only try to do a shadow using the tools available in inkscape today, for this reason I thing in the degrade attribute, it's a bad idea, sorry about that. the next time that I will write something here will be a good idea. I thing in use the border too, because y don't know how to do inside shadow. its all thanks

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: vectorsection vs native PDF?
by Charles Moir 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

These are a few reasons why, from the outside, I think it makes sense for Inkscape to adopt UberConverter (UC) and not to 'hard-wire' each new filter, such as PDF export, directly into Inkscape. * If you write ONE filter to talk to uber-converter then you get ALL file types it supports. * Each new filter type that's added to UberConverter, Inkscape will be able to use with NO additional work * Each new filter type that UC supports benefits at least two open source projects, and possibly more. So immediately it avoids re-inventing the wheel and duplicating effort (surely one of the core principles of FOSS) * Developers can write new import / export filters without having to know anything about the internal code of Inkscape or Xara. It's thus, hopefully, considerably easier to write new filters for Inkscape and Xara. In a nutshell UC works by having one master 'uber-format' that's a superset, as much as possible, of all common vector standards. This is the hub-format. You write one filter to convert to and from that format. UC then has lots of separate independent plug-in filters to convert to and from this hub format. So now if you add say, a DXF converter into the hub, all others types can be converted to and from DXF. The goal is to have, as much as possible, a lossless conversion between types and to retain important meta information such as group structure. No other platform has an agreed open standard for vector conversion (commercial considerations make it difficult to imagine), but the benefit to the FOSS platform of having one solution for all products wanting vector conversion seems to be very considerable. And finally, we (Xara and Inkscape) have spoken about ways to cooperate, to avoid competing, and it seems this is a classic example where with a little planning we can do just that: cooperate, not compete. We all have limited developer resources and so immediately the benefits of our two projects pooling to solve the same problem once strikes me as a huge gain. And if a third project, say Scribus, started to use UC, then for each filter, or even each little minor improvement, three major projects get the immediate benefit. A 300% return on your developer investment. We both require PDF export. Recently there's been discussion about ODG support and EMF/WMF. These are important vector standard file formats. It would obviously benefit both our projects to have EPS support, CorelDRAW CDR and CMX support, Adobe Illustrator - I could go on. Let's solve the problem once. Now having said that it's early days for UC. It's a mostly a plan, not a fully functioning reality. But right now we're putting a lot of effort into integrating UC into XaraLX, and we hope within a few weeks to have this working and demonstrating the first UC filter (Xar <-> SVG). And yes this means if you guys integrate this you get the ability to read and write our .xar files. So I think Eric's project deserves Inkscape's support. It even seems a good candidate for SoC support since it's an independent project that directly benefits multiple other projects. Charles > -----Original Message----- > From: inkscape-devel-admin(a)lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:inkscape-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf > Of Eric Wilhelm > Sent: 26 April 2006 22:59 > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: bulia byak > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] Re: vectorsection vs native PDF? > > # from bulia byak > # on Friday 14 April 2006 05:53 pm: > > >- Implement > > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Required_PDF_Support (I know > >of UberConverter, but PDF is the most important interchange > format so > >we should better support it natively) > > bulia, can you explain why this needs to be native? Short of > animation and the exact placement of things like transforms > in the DOM (if pdf would even allow that) the Chromista hub > should express enough of the SVG structure to round-trip PDF > conversions as well as anything native. > > If it gets implemented natively in inkscape, I would just use > that as a hub attached to chromista to get things like xar -> > pdf, but going through svg is going to be lossy from that perspective. > > Thanks, > Eric > -- > Peer's Law: The solution to the problem changes the problem. > --------------------------------------------------- > http://scratchcomputing.com > --------------------------------------------------- > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web > services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make > your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on > Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057& > dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >

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s/UberConverter/VectorSection/
by Eric Wilhelm 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi all, "The UberConverter" is finally moving out of the "working title" stage. The new name is VectorSection, which may or may not be referred to as VectorX, VeX, or vx. http://scratchcomputing.com/projects/vectorsection/ Also a few updates to the page and a link to the install instructions. More to come. --Eric -- So malloc calls a timeout and starts rummaging around the free chain, sorting things out, and merging adjacent small free blocks into larger blocks. This takes 3 1/2 days. --Joel Spolsky --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] path effect grammar
by Martin Owens 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

attributes are a folly for data, they confuise too much. I'm glad my xml in programming never has them outside ids. On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 11:05:42 -0400 , MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote: >On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 22:40 -0300, bulia byak wrote: >> SVG paths use attribute grammar and work just fine. >> >> Why? Because they are flat. >> >> XML is good for hierarchical structures. I do not foresee any >> hierarchy in a chain of sequentially applied effects, each with its >> own parameters. > >That was just one example; XML nodes have other desirable properties >like being addressable via URIs (I'm thinking mostly local references at >the moment, like #id). > >I need to check, but if I remember correctly some of the original SVG >filter and vector effect proposals used flat attributes as you propose, >but obviously they decided not to do that. Our path effects have >similar design considerations, so I'd rather not repeat old mistakes. > >Among other things, non-sequential composition of filters/effects of >seem to be frequently desired for these sorts of things once they come >into widespread use (e.g. many interesting uses of SVG filters involve >trees rather than linear chains). I'd rather not close that door early >by making the filter stuff non-addressable in the document. > >> So, I remain opposed to the approach involving non-SVG child elements. > >I'm not fond of adding children to <svg:path> either, actually. > >I'd almost like to see something like: > ><svg:svg> > ... > <defs> > ... > <inkscape:path-effect xlink:href="x-inkscape-plugin:org.inkscape.effect.foo" id="path-effect2"> > <inkscape:param name="blah" value="foo" /> > </inkscape:path-effect> > ... > </defs> > ... > <svg:path ... inkscape:path-effects="#path-effect2 ..." /> > ... ></svg:svg> > >This is just a rough idea, though. I'm going to have a look at how SVG >vector effects are done; the architecture is very similar in some >respects; I think we basically want to mirror that approach. > >> IMO it's a case of overengineering, and given the general fragility of >> our XML tree, it's much more trouble than it's worth. > >Fragility? Howso? > >-mental -- #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::# #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::#

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inkscape history/timeline
by Eric Wilhelm 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

Hi all, Cornelius asked on IRC how long the feature freeze had been prior to 0.43, which got me thinking that it would be really useful to have a page on the wiki with a year-by-year history. I think this could be useful both as an internal reference and for other open-source projects to see how inkscape has progressed. I've bootstrapped this page with what I can deduce from the sourceforge release listings. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/InkscapeHistory If you have memories of particular milestones, it would be great to see a year-by-year timeline, maybe even links to progressive screenshots. Thanks, Eric -- Atavism n: The recurrence of any peculiarity or disease of an ancestor in a subsequent generation, usually due to genetic recombination. --------------------------------------------------- http://scratchcomputing.com ---------------------------------------------------

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Re: [Inkscape-user] saving palette settings and random tree positining
by bulia byak 27 Apr '06

27 Apr '06

On 4/26/06, Gijsbert Stoet <stoet@...1250...> wrote: > I really like the new palette at the bottom of my screen. But..., I > noticed that Inkscape does not remember my Palette settings after I > have quit Inkscape. Is that intentional? Jon, is it too difficult to store this in prefs? Another question from me: What if we reduce the height of the palette a bit? Since it's not yet resizeable, we need to choose a good default, and right now IMHO it's too high. > Another question: Why does the random tree (as in effects) always > appear (at least in my latest CVS inkscape version) at the top left > corner *above* the page boundaries, instead of the center of the > page. The latter would IMO be more user friendly. To _really_ fix this, it should be ideally inserted into your current view, appropriately zoomed. Ted: can you tell me how difficult it will be to add several new command line parameters passed to the effects: - the bbox of the selection - the bbox of the visible part of the canvas - the current layer Even if currently effects don't use this, it will be very useful for effect authors, and can potentially make all effects much more usable. > Finally: When I select to fill an object with a radial gradient, > Inkscape always selects to have the full transparency at the borders > of the object and the none-transparency at the center of the object. > That is fine, but often I just need to have it the other way around. > What I do it manually edit the radial gradient to get it my way. It > there a 'one-click' way to quickly reverse the gradient? Yes, Shift+R in Gradient tool. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Would a translator mailing list be an appropriate tool ?
by Martin Owens 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

I would recommend English British as the default English setting, it is used by Europe, Africa, Middle East, China, India, Australia, South East Asia and Canada vs US English which is used by USA, parts of south America and Japan. It's important to standardise on the variation which most of the world have standardised on, and I do feel that because most developers are in the USA they will favour a us-English default (such is the problem with all software). I also agree that neutral word variations should be used were possible. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:42:32 +0200 , "Josef Vybiral" <newsgroups@...1135...> wrote: >On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:32:04 +0200, Alan Horkan <horkana@...44...> >wrote: > >> >> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Josef Vybiral wrote: >> >>> I agree that inkscape-translators list would be helpful. It would be >>> good to discuss about meanings of translated strings, >> >> A translators list is probably a good idea but it is important that >> translators tell the developers about difficult to translate strings >> rather than doing things the hard way. >> >> Many people use English as a second language and also use software >> through >> English so it is very important the English be crystal clear. >> (Differences between British and American should be avoided if a suitalbe >> "interenational english" phrase works for both, and so only smaller >> spelling issues like color/colour should ever need to be translated.) >> Feedback from translators can be very important. > >Yes, if the string in English is clear then the translation is perfect and >simple(in the most of cases). This kind of feedback and discussions about >used terms would be good to clarify the UI even for users without any >graphics experience before. > >I've said "in the most of cases" in previous paragraph because there are >exceptions. E.g. "Inset/Outset" terms are examples of clear terms in >english but there were some problems to find suitable translation for(in >Czech). After consultation with czech GIMP translator we finally decided >to use terms which are suitable. This kind of discussion with another >translators could be helpful, at least to see what terms/synonyms they >have used. ("CW" and "CCW" terms are similar example where the discussion >was helpful ;) ) > > cheers > > cornelius > >-- >Josef Vybíral a.k.a. cornelius >-------------------------------- >gimp.cz's second editor in chief >web: http://cornelius.gimp.cz >mail: cornelius@...1135... >jabber: cornelius@...1136... > > >------------------------------------------------------- >Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > -- #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::# #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::#

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Re: [Inkscape-user] saving palette settings and random tree positining
by Martin Owens 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

It's better to have DOM hooks or SVG filter hooks, I'd like SVG DOM hooks for Perl, there is a way to provide a module writen in C++ or C which acts like a perl module, I'm sure there are similar things for Python. On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:39:03 -0400 , MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote: >On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 16:36:04 -0400, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: >> On 4/26/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote: >>> I hope we can hookup python extensions with access to inkscape internals >>> before this is necessary. Starting to build to much complexity, IMHO. >> >> Not all extensions need or want to access Inkscape internals. The big >> advantage of the current implementation is exactly this - that any >> developer knowing only Python and SVG can write an extension without >> any Inkscape knowledge. So I don't want the current system to be >> completely replaced by the new "internalized" one; I'd prefer to have >> them both at the same time. > >It's also worth noting that anything tied to the Inkscape internals too directly is going to break as the codebase continues to change and be improved. > >-mental > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? >Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier >Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo >http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 >_______________________________________________ >Inkscape-devel mailing list >Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > -- #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::# #::.. http://www.doctormo.co.uk/ ..::# #::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::#

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Re: [Inkscape-user] saving palette settings and random tree positining
by bulia byak 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

On 4/26/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote: > I hope we can hookup python extensions with access to inkscape internals > before this is necessary. Starting to build to much complexity, IMHO. Not all extensions need or want to access Inkscape internals. The big advantage of the current implementation is exactly this - that any developer knowing only Python and SVG can write an extension without any Inkscape knowledge. So I don't want the current system to be completely replaced by the new "internalized" one; I'd prefer to have them both at the same time. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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a idea
by Jairo Gonzalez 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

hi, I am not a developer yet, I am a student of informatics engineering, now, I have a idea to do shadows, using the border attribute of objects, in theory use a parallel degrade, started in the inside part of the border, and go to transparent at the end of border for shadow to out and reverse to shadow in. this is my idea (I don't speak English well), I will develop this option someday and bring it to you, now I bring you only a idea, if somebody developed this thing, tell me please, bye, PD:this shadow is something like the shadows of gimp or fireworks, this kind of shadows give realism to a image in svg

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Visual feedback while snapping
by Mathieu Dimanche 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Hi everyone Since it's my first attempt at trying to make things improve in a software, using cvs, and trying to understand a whole project (and written in c++... sometimes), please don't be too harsh on me and on my english level, I'm just a little frenchy :) Very used to illustrator, I miss some little things that make life easier, like moreeffective snapping. So I tried to understand the whole object tree, reading both the doxygen and the code (...when there were comments) and finally managed to have a patch made. The functionnality is a pretty little one, I just made guides highlight when moved objects snap against them. For now, this only works for dragged objects and rectangles being drawed. I post this for anyone to check if I do right, naming functions, indenting, thinking the whole problem, so please, feel free to over-comment my "work", for me to know if I can go on with these kind of updates. This is the first patch of my life, I hope I've made it well. Could you test that ? Next things I could look at could be : - Snapping modes (enable/disable) Bounding box and dots snapping. I thik it could be great too temporarily disable bounding box snapping, just to make sure only dots do it. - Providing visual feedback of which of these is used now (you grab a rectangle, its bounding box snaps a guide, the guide turns red (default highlight color), and a little text appears along the guide saying (snapping to boungbox). If you drag farther, the boundingbox will stop snapping and it's the corner dot that will do, so the text'll be "dot snapping" or something like this... maybe snapped dots could be highlited too - Making grid lines highlight when snapped, just like guides (it was much easier for guides since they are separate objects and the color/hicolor alread existed) - Trying to make more snapping objects... maybe angled guides, objects themselves, middle of objects, etc... all these could be mode enabled/disabled. What do people think ? What feature would you like most ?

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outdated FAQ entry
by bulia byak 26 Apr '06

26 Apr '06

Can someone knowledgeable please update this FAQ entry which still speaks about CVS? http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ#What_is_the_Linux_command_to_do… -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Improved crispy icon set
by bulia byak 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Andre, As you know your icon set is now used as default in Inkscape SVN. But recently we reduced the size of the toggle buttons, and their icons now look less than perfect (e.g. the avoid/nonavoid buttons in the Connector tool). Can you please look into making these icons look better with the current size (e.g. by simplifying them)? Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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new packaging for OS X
by jiho 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi all, I updated the packaging for OS X so that when people open the disc image in which Inkscape is distributed they see this: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/inkscape_distrib.png and just have to drag and drop Inkscape icon to Applications in order to install it. Yes this is mostly eye candy but well... this is on the mac ;-) I took the header from the tutorials. is it ok? This requires a custom 80Mb disc image with its background modified by hand so I don't think it's a good candidate to commit. Is there anybody who knows about a command line to apply a background image to a folder of the Finder? (it's the last point that cannot be automated in a script and that requires the 80Mb disc image to exist already). A packaged version of pyXML was tested successfully on 10.3 and 10.4 so I planned to ship this as a separate package in the dev builds: http://jo.irisson.free.fr/dropbox/pyxml_distrib.png Maybe it should be included in 0.44 too if effects are to be activated by default. I sent an email to pyXML developers to know if they want a particular logo/mention of pyXML in the package. I'll be unavailable for the next two months so I won't be able to produce Inkscape dev builds for the testing phase of the release, nor will I be able to package 0.44. I guess people will be available to do it. If this new packaging is ok to everybody and worth bothering, I'll modify the wiki to explain how to do it and somebody (Michael? Ted?) could take over the builds. Cheers, JiHO --- Windows, c'est un peu comme le beaujolais nouveau : a chaque nouvelle cuvee on sait que ce sera degueulasse, mais on en prend quand meme par masochisme. --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Re: Fwd: [Inkscape-devel] layer manager
by MenTaLguY 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Thinking about this, aside from the compilation issues, there's not really much more to do on the LayerManager side of things -- it's essentially complete. We just need to hook it up so that each SPDesktop has an associated LayerManager, and then the rest is gtkmm work. -mental On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 12:02:11 -0400, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > Mental, the deadline is looming, please do what you can to speed this up! > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Daniel Genrich <daniel.genrich@...400...> > Date: Apr 24, 2006 10:20 AM > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] layer manager > To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > Hello! > > I only wanted to ask if there is more code than this ~50 lines in SVN > for layer-manager.cpp since i wanted to code on the layer manager. > > > Greetings. > Genscher > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel > > >

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] we lost an option
by Ralf Stephan 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

marco wrote > First i'll restore the lost option then i'll try to get some icons in the > preferences pagelist, and maybe then i can help you out on some more gtkmm > work? That's great. I think you should do what motivates you the most, so please decide yourself. My gtkmm work is waiting until after release. Also, I would need to address a problem in Desktop Preferences then, so I have not decided for me which dialog to convert next. But I just remember to ask you to add a button in Inkscape Prefs for "dialogs with/without close button" and maybe you want to expand what I wrote in the Wiki release notes about your work on that dialog? In any case, thanks for your work! ralf

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Native OS X build
by Jon A. Cruz 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Has anyone been looking at trying out building the native OS X version of GTK+? I've not quite gotten the time myself to get my dev environment switched over to try it, but it sounds like it might be getting close enough to give a shot. If nothing else, if we start trying to build an OS X native Inkscape with it, we'll be able to find problems that others aren't hitting yet. Anyone interested? Oh, and I'd talked briefly with Aaron Voisine who does Gimp.app about his experience getting the native GTK+ going, and he had these details: > It wasn't too bad, though you'll want a seperate fink installation to > play with. I moved /sw to /sw.orig and /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11R6.orig > to move back when I finished. I made a fresh fink installation and > grabbed the finkinfo files from > http://www.cat.pdx.edu/~mattw/vasi/fink/gtk-native > > This was my starting point. I had to copy several finkinfo files from > the unstable tree into local in order to remove x11 dependencies, > change a few configure options, change gtk+2 dependencies to > gtk+2-native, that kind of thing. I also had to modify pango1-native > to compile using freetype, since gimp requires that. I also grabbed > the latest from cvs, built my own tar.bz2 files and updated glib, > gtk+2-native, pango1-native and cairo-native to use them. >

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(no subject)
by Jocelyn Doire 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hi, ACSpike have added a "Fit canvas to selection" button, which is a great addition when creating SVG images for a web page. I have a couple of suggestions: 1) Should the numbers in the "Custom size" just above the button be updated? 2) Should the word "canvas" replace with "page", to be consistent with the "Page size" and "Page orientation" just above? 3) Would it be more logical to have the button inside the "Custom Size" box? Note also that: the "page size" menu has a big empty gap above the "custom", but when I scroll down, the gap disapear. I'm running Inkscape 0.43+devel, built Apr 22 2006, on Win2k. Joc

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windows builds broken
by Daniel Díaz 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello. The latest looks good. Greetings! Daniel Díaz yosoy@...31... On 4/24/06, Daniel Díaz <mrchapp@...400...> wrote: > Hello. > > > On 4/24/06, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > > The recent builds at > > > > http://mrchapp2.homelinux.net/~inkscape/ > > > > crash on startup. I'm not sure whom personally to contact about it, > > but this needs to be fixed ASAP, as it's linked from our download > > page. I tried other people's builds today and they work fine, so it's > > something with the build environment. This bug: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1472859 > > > > suggests that all that is needed is make clean. Please, can we do a > > make clean always on these autobuilds, or at least once a day? > > That can be arranged. > > Daniel Díaz > ddiaz@...1105...

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layer manager
by Daniel Genrich 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

Hello! I only wanted to ask if there is more code than this ~50 lines in SVN for layer-manager.cpp since i wanted to code on the layer manager. Greetings. Genscher

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./configure fails on Mac OS X 10.4.6
by Andrew Wilson 25 Apr '06

25 Apr '06

As of today, ./configure --prefix=$INSTALL_HERE On Mac OS X 10.4.6 reports: --- snip --- checking for pkg-config... /sw/bin/pkg-config checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape --- snip - no more lines of output from configure --- This is for a fresh FINK install as per: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingMacOsX ./configure ends without reporting a summary. I'm trying 'make' now but I'm not sure if it's proceeding with a previous 'good' configuration or a partialy written 'bad' one...

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