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GSoC Introduction and Proposal
by Witchi Kitti Kat 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hello everyone, My name is Kayla, I go by kpowkitty online. I have tried to reach out a couple of times on IRC about feedback on my proposal; I missed this emailing list. My apologies! I hope that does not take away from my standing with Inkscape. I have already made two patches: Patch 1 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/a4959939e11b0253fbbaf12c3e1f1…>, Patch 2 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/3501a56d3fcd66b8c89a0ea160e8a…> . I have also created a drawing <https://inkscape.org/~kpowkitty/%E2%98%85girl+1> with Inkscape. I have submitted my proposal to GSoC. Feedback would be much appreciated. I am proposing a refactor and renewal of Inkscape. Here is my project summary: Inkscape has been pieced together since 2003; a rocky C to C++ transition, the implementation of GTK (now GTK4!), and much more. Inkscape is sitting on a somewhat unstable foundation. To improve this foundation, the remaining C code will be transitioned to C++, redundant code and rough implementations will be reversed and renewed, and there will be documentation added. By implementing these things, Inkscape will have a better foundation for development, making it easier to expand upon. It will also bring better memory management and efficiency. Most importantly, the documentation will make it easier for new developers to approach Inkscape. All of these factors combined will not only help old developers, by providing them with a stronger foundation and reliable documentation, but it will also make Inkscape approachable to new developers, through shorter, clearer code and better instructions. Deliverables are: Refactored ui/tools/tool-base.cpp. SPDrawAnchor removed → SPKnot implemented. src/line-geometry.h/.cpp officially in lib2geom. Divided display directory. Inkscape’s handling of URIs and file names sorted. Inkscape::URIReference and derived classes simplified. Optional: Decide when and where to use Inkscape::URI / Inkscape::IO::UriInputStream and clean them up. Optional: Unified error/status message output. Reorganized file tree. Clear, concise directory names and file names. Doxygen commenting. One-line file descriptors. READMEs for all directories. Please let me know if there are any changes I need to make. Thank you for taking the time to look at my proposal, and I look forward to hearing from you all! Sincerely, Kayla Powell witchikittikat(a)gmail.com

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Hey Inkscape Developers
by Vineet Bambah 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

Hi, I have been a contributor and a user of Inkscape for about 6-7 months now. I have loved the active nature of this community and clear documentation and tutorials. I am a student right now pursuing my bachelors from NIT Jalandhar, India. Here is my introduction to all the Inkscape Developers. Signing off for now, Vineet Bambah

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Developer Meeting Notes; March 28th
by Martin Owens 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hey everyone, Big developer meeting this week, thanks to everyone who came and participated. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Meeting: Friday April 5th, 1pm EST Attending: Marc, Martin, Mikekov, René, pbs, Ravi Arora, Tamir, Vaibhav, Tav, Javier ------- (René) We have macOS Apple silcon for Gtk4. We don't have intel support and we don't have a full test suite run. René wants to merge them with about 4 tests failing to recruit some help from other people. The new version of Gtk4 will be out soon. There is a time out delay in the test suite which René was hoping would be fixed in the next Gtk release, but hasn't so it'll have to be looked into as the test suite takes too long. Martin wanted to know how the macOS version on Gtk4 is performing. René reports that there is plenty of bugs, but the speed seems compariable. The extensions don't work yet. Some objects aren't appearing when drawn and pbs thinks this is a missed events. René will work on Windows development/building when the MSYS2 libraries are updated. ------- Mikekov has been trying to fix some regressions with 1.4.x, and has been fixing Gtk4 every now and then. Mikekov wants to merge the "Font selector UX study" into 1.4.x, it would be switched off by default. He's making a version for the Gtk4 master branch before it would ever be switched on. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4578 The developer team are ok with it being merged. ------- Vaibhav has been working on the toolbars, specifically issues with the text toolbar. It's almost ready to go. Mikekov mentioned the size of combo boxes in Gtk4. PBS had some ideas for how to set group priorities using boxes in the UI file by having boxes in boxes. Designers/UX-team can now customise the toolbars in such a way that they can decide what should disapear first when the toolbars are too small. ------- Jonathan asked about the SFC getting in touch. Martin and Vaibhav have recieved information from the SFC about the Bug Accelerator project. But Tav's email might have gotten eaten by his spam filter. Martin has signed the contract adjustment and will start working on bugs on April 1st. Vaibhav is communicating his details which should be complete by next week. ------- Martin and René worked on fixing a double parsing mystery issue in the color parser on macOS which turned out to be a long standing difference between clang and gcc with the C++ specification. Martin wrote a custom double parser for macOS and PBS suggested a possible function in lib2geom which might fix it too. (Martin) Rebasing the color branch for gtk4 - "new code". Some adjustement needed, but thankfully few of them. UI conflicts were easy to spot and look doable (still a few things like sliders, color drag and drop, to fix). The branch is big, and tiring to maintain. PBS offers help ------- (jabier) split of the mega corners fix into a 7 MR. It add stability to this LPE seems one or the most crashing one, by the way I implement beabiours to work as expected in operations like Join,Combine, Brak Apart, alowing retain spected results. Fix also lot of issues with knots than usualy crash even away of the LPE system. Also fix a issue in the status bar toolbar, targeted to windows OS, that fix a big lag randomly dragging and creation cause by a upstream bug in probably Pango or Label Gtk3 implementation. Finaly I do a Linux issue about redrawing SelectorStyle in status bar afecting debian Adwaita when we change some labels from normal to bold. Whole app is resized. ------- Ravi is contributing to GSoC looking at the node based editor using an infinate canvas with widgets. Experimenting with the Gtk4 branch and has noticed a lot of issues. Marc makes sure what everyone has their two merge requests accepted. ------- PBS had an unmerge request with SPDesktop refactoring which will be coming soon. A bunch of changes which he's wanted to fix for a while. Fixing lots of issues with popups and their life times. PBS asks the AppImage tool yanks the old app images and we should pin the app images. Marc says we need to store things in a place that we control. There are some issues with AppImages, for example it doesn't have GPU support. A possible tool to try out is AppImageCrafters. https://github.com/appimagecrafters/appimage-builder ------- Marc has been managing the GSoC and wants to make sure that their merge requsts and proposal drafts are getting reviewed in time. He asks everyone if they'd like to be mentors with GSoC. Jabier asks how much time it would take and Marc says that it really depends on the student as it can be as low as just reviewing the merge requests but it could be a student that needs a lot more help. ------- Martin would like to remind everyone to keep reviewing all merge requests if possible. ------- René explained why the version of XCode tools is pegged to a specific version to pbs and mikekov after the meeting ended. So technically this part of the meeting notes is impossible, since it was sent before people finished talking. See you all next time!

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herramienta construcción de formas
by irelur1957＠gmail.com 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

He tenido el problema de convertir un trazo cerrado a objeto y la herramienta de construcción de formas me ha solucionado la vida, ya que seleccionas todo el trazo y luego la herramienta, posteriormente haces click en el elemento y MUY IMPORTANTE luego clikeas en la herramienta selector (cursor flecha) y ya se convierte el trazo cerrado en objeto

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Meeting notes, March 20th 2024
by Martin Owens 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Developer Meeting March 20 Present: PBS, Jonathan, Jabier, Mikekov, Tav, Vaibhav, Martin Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ ----- GTK4 branch: - close to getting merged - migrate existing threads into meta-issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4802 - Build documentation can be unchanged since it automatically buils GTK4.14 for you - 1.4.x was branched a few days ago - decision should be up to Marc, added as reviewer - do we need to review it in-depth? - testing is more important, but that can happen after merging - other CIs except Linux will be fixed in the future - CI situation should improve once GTK4.14 makes its way into the repositores - upstream Windows MR: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/20311 1.4.x backports: - if they target master, backporting will be a pain as soon as GTK4 is merged - instead forward-port, reduce risk of regressions in 1.4.x by rebasing "behind" GTK4 - Label to mark those "Forward port required" created Bugfix Accelerator Program and Inbox: - will happen with Vaibhav, Tav and Martin - 1.4 milestone needs more issues, and Inbox is not in a very good state - Inbox is not in a very good shape, 1000 issues that need attention for triaging - Bugfix Accelerator people need to help - Ask vectors to recruit help Device program: - Windows for PBS, Mac for Tav, Mac for Vaibhav - PBS plans to sort out Visual Studio integration to on-board Windows developers Google Season of Docs - Ideas are welcome! Needs to have measureable objectives, and we need a 3-4 page proposal within two weeks. - a lot of work to mentor someone if it includes the Inkscape codebase - Wiki clean up? - Vector's style guide? - Documentation for extension authors? - Replacing Tav's manual? Host Tav's manual on inkscape.org? - fine with Tav - needs to be done before 1.4 - it didn't support HTTPS before - could be put into a repository? https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/tavmjong-manual Legal issues need to be resolved, i.e. the license for contributing, but we can make it readonly for now source is in DocBook (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook) Toolbars issues in master: 1. Several expander next to each other 2. No icons for the expanders 3. Lots of hardcoded expanders in the UI files. I've managed to dynamically manage the expanders and in the coming days I'll be working on adding icons to the expanders dynamically. With the latest changes, to make a child move between popovers and the toolbar, just adding the "tag" style class would do. ----- Big thanks to those that came and took notes as the meeting progressed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape - Dev Questions.
by Eric F 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

> Can someone in this group assist with these questions? My company requires > these answered before allowing this install. > > 1. > > In order to assess any potential risk, provide a list of all required > pre-requisite software (e.g., SQL Express, Visual Basic. In addition to > providing a list of pre-requisite software, provide confirmation from the > vendor via email that the product does not contain vulnerable third-party > applications including but not limited to Log4J or MSXML for risk > assessment purposes. > > 2. > > Please contact the vendor and request a Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) > in SPDX format. > > The Software Bill of Materials is a list of all of the components in a > piece of software. Nowadays, it is quite common for software vendors to > create products by assembling open source and commercial software > components. > > For this reason, SBOMs are created to provide transparency and identify > all of the risk-prone components. This information is needed in order to > conduct the security review for all software. >

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Developer Meeting Notes: March 12th 2024
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Dear Developers, Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. We had a short meeting and then worked through a bunch of really old merge requests. If you had an MR which was not marked as draft but had it's last activity more than 7 months ago, we might have closed your MR to keep things clean. Reopen branches and mark them as draft if you are still working on them. Some were also reviewed and approved. We're down to 58 open merge requests. ---- Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Jonathan, Martin, Tav, René, Vaibhav, Elendil (Krlr17) # Bug Accelerator Program Jonathan Has tried to contact pono who is the third people in the hiring committee to finalise the process. May have to create tickets and move forwards as best as we can. # Machines for Developers Sent out a poll if people need a windows or macOS machine for their work. 2 responses. Will be approved case by case basis by the PLC since there won't be very many requests. # Website issues Martin was working on spam protections this morning. No further issues with DDos this week. # MacOS Rene has made it possible to get log files in the macOS tests on the CI. Probably an oversight in how it was created. The good news is that it's as fast as it used to be, under 5 minutes instead of 20 minutes. Achieved by downgrading to a previous os version likely a gtk issue. # Windows Wants to work on the Gtk4 windows builder. It's not ready yet, but expected int he next couple of days. # Gtk4 Tav has started working on a couple of different things. Doing the preview in the export dialog in the Gtk4 branch. Vaibhav is working on bug fixes on the Gtk4 branch this week. # Release Mikekov is looking at discrepencies between master and 1.3.x to see what is happening and what might need be fixed. Especially for the migration work. Made some MRs to adjust those small things, maintly cosmetic. Elendil - Reports an unstream windows issue with Pango which is fixed upstream but needs to make it's way to our msys2 builds. Will report it to msys2. # Other items Martin continues his work on the Color branch, not breakthroughs to report as of yet. Thanks everyone, see you all next week!

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Announcement: The Inkscape 1.4 About Screen contest is upon us!
by Maren Hachmann 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

For each new version of Inkscape, we invite all Inkscape artists, newcomers and seasoned professionals, to submit an artwork for the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen Contest is about more than the About Screen. Contest artwork is also frequently featured in news articles about the release, on the inkscape.org download page, and in other locations. Each and every submission also helps us test the newest version of Inkscape. The topic for this year's contest is "GROWTH". We're excited to see what great art is submitted this year! We're looking forward to your contributions, to helping spread the message about the contest, and helping us select a winner! Learn more here: https://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/ Your Inkscape Vectors Team

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libinkscape_base.so import INK_UNORDERED_MAP fatal error:
by ofsetb＠gmail.com 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

I am trying to import inkscape as library from another application but it notifies me an error: In file included from file_2.cxx:5: In file included from /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/main.h:93: In file included from /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/sp-namedview.h:23: /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/util/units.h:140:13: fatal error: no template named 'INK_UNORDERED_MAP' typedef INK_UNORDERED_MAP<Glib::ustring, Unit> UnitMap; The inkscape is compiled normaly and works normaly. But I cannot import it into another clang++ application from library file /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5-build/lib/libinkscape_base.so clang++ -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \ -Wold-style-definition -Wfatal-errors -std=c++17 -o \ /<path>/otpremnica-racun-institut-C \ otpremnica-racun-institut-C.cxx \ file_2.cxx \ ... -L /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5-build/install_dir/lib/inkscape \ -I /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src \ -L /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \ -I /usr/include \ `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gtkmm-2.4 gdk-2.0 gdkmm-2.4 libxml-2.0 \ pangocairo pangoft2 fontconfig gthread-2.0 gsl gmodule-2.0 \ x11 lcms2 cairo-svg libcdr-0.1 \ `;

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March Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 29 Feb '24

29 Feb '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/283 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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Developer Meeting: Feb 25th 2024
by Martin Owens 25 Feb '24

25 Feb '24

Dear Devs, Big thanks to everyone who came to our meeting and all the new faces who came to talk about their work this week with us. Also thanks to everyone who stuck around for 2 HOURS! We got through some deep talk and a bunch of merge requests in our backlog (see below) Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Martin, Mansi, Marc, MikeKov, pbs, Rafael, Siddhant Agarwal, Tav, Vaibhav Malik, Ishaan Next Meeting: March 4th 2024 = Website DDOS Situation Martin talked about the DDos attack against the website and reported what happened and what things have been put in place to help bring it back. The website is still being attacked today. (two days) = Gtk4 Work PBS builds a Gtk4 app image and we can get the CI to build it. Currently we use an old ubuntu for app image and a newer ubuntu for other builds. We can actually get over this if we use a new tool introduced for building app images. Philip would like to hand this work onto another developer if we can find someone who's interested in the work. Some bugs fixed in the gtk4 branch. There's some bugs which were fixed in gtk4 branch but not merged into master and he's working on finding them and porting them. = Testing PBS reports that since we upgraded to C++20, the 2geom code coverage isn't working any more. It'll need to be fixed or disabled. = Release Schedules We talked a lot about release schedules, if other teams are seeing our plans and are in sync with us. How hard our deadlines are and why we use strctured releases in our project to help keep things moving and keep contributions going out to users etc. Many more details were covered casually. Vaibhav wanted to talk about test coverage and how we can improve our automated testing. He's also been working on some regressions related to toolbars migration and regressions related to context menu selection logic. = Packaging Marc is working on a complete rework of the debian packaging stuff, separating stuff in multiple packages, no more "inkscape-trunk" incompatibilities, no more "separate branch" with deps. = Color Refactoring PBS, Mikekov and Rafael helped reviewing Martin's large color refactoring merge request and work through some of the issues as well as explaining how it's structured. Martin made a video to explain the outline and the other developers were able to review the various issues and how it needs to be improved going forwards. = Other Work PBS wants to finish the command line bitmap tracing branch for 1.4, somebody made a fork of inkscape and replaced the gui with a command line and someone else then tried backporting that back into inkscape to give us command line bitmap tracing. Mikekov has pushed a bunch of small bug fixes. There are so many things that have changed in 1.4 and there's some concerns that the refactoring will cause instability and we may not have the bug fixing resources. Mansi will be wrapping up revamping of filter gallery with one more mr :) (most of them have been fixed). Apart from them diving deep into rendering of selection tool and trying to figure out the cause of the issue - selection tool corner handles off by a small amount Siddhant wanted to ask about livarot functionality and the lib2geom GSoC and wanted to know what work had already been done. = Group Activity: Merge Request Review We work on our merge requests backlog as there is a large number of merge requests (90!) that need to be either merged or closed. We got through 9 of them today. --------------------------- Best Regards, Martin Owens

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[Call for applications] Bugfix accelerator 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 21 Feb '24

21 Feb '24

Dear dev team, upon request of the dev meeting, the PLC recently voted [1] for another round of the bugfix accelerator program! Experienced contributors can now apply to fix issues for the 1.4 release, and get paid by the project! As per the vote [1], 5 merged MRs in inkscape/inkscape since the 1.3 release (July 23, 2023) are required. *Please read the document attached to the vote carefully if you plan to apply.* Contractors are expected to set aside at least 10hrs per week for the program (last year’s experience has shown that doing the contract in parallel to a full-time job is not sustainable). The application should contain * your gitlab username * how much time per week you can allocate to the program * specific areas of expertise * experience with contracting work Send your application as reply to this email (directly to me). I'll respond when I see it. *Deadline for applications: Wednesday Feb 28, 23:59 UTC* Best regards, Jonathan [1] https://lists.inkscape.org/hyperkitty/list/inkscape-board@lists.inkscape.or…

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February Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/281 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ Maren

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How to integrate gtk3 in my gtk2 inkscape project.
by ofsetb＠gmail.com 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

I hava a plentu of my code written into my inkscape-0.92.5 version of source code. If compile it with "-DWITH_GTK3_EXPERIMENTAL=ON" the option inkscape not work properly. if I do cmake it gives me the message: -- Empty package name in Requires or Conflicts in file '(command line arguments)' Using EXPERIMENTAL Gtkmm 3 build Using external GDL -- Checking for module 'gtkmm-3.0>=3.10,' -- Empty package name in Requires or Conflicts in file '(command line arguments)' -- Checking for module 'gdl-3.0>=3.6' -- Found gdl-3.0, version 3.40.0 Using GDL 3.6 or higher -- Checking for module 'gtkspell3-3.0' -- Found gtkspell3-3.0, version 3.0.10 Is there a log file? How to see what exacly is Requires or Conflicts in file?

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Meeting notes: February 1st 2024
by pulsar17 01 Feb '24

01 Feb '24

Hi All, Here are the meeting notes for today's dev meeting: Attending: Mike, Jonathan, Skippr, Mansi, Tav, Rene, Ishaan Jonathan informed that we can start planning for the Bug Accelerator Program based on the responses on the mailing lists. Mansi worked on bevel filters and is working on other filters, also asked for any areas where help is required with Gtk4 migration. Tav suggested to start with Dialogs - comparing them with their Gtk3 counterparts, and trying to make them work if they don't work in Gtk4. Mike suggested to compile the Gtk4 branch and start using as a daily driver to identify any issues. Skippr worked on Snapping of Ellipse tool. Mike and Skippr discussed how to add an icon. Tav has been working on Drag and Drop and TreeLists. It might be closer to being a solved problem. Tav and Mike discussed about potentially converting the deprecated TreeView dialogs to the Gtk4 counterpart - TreeLists. Mike started to work on XML Dialog, focusing on the Attribute Editor. Potential conflict with Tav's work on XML Dialog was discussed. Rene has been working with build systems and Gtk4, and also rebuilt the CI environment. Rene also reduced CI timeouts to more sane values. Windows CI timeout limits being lower than required for Non project-member user forks was mentioned. Thanks to those who were able to make today! Best Ishaan Arora > A man’s not dead while his name is still spoken.

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Developer Meeting: Jan 24th 2024
by Martin Owens 24 Jan '24

24 Jan '24

Hey everyone, Attending: Martin, Tav, Mikekov, Krlr17, NPJ, Mansi, Jonathan, Marc, René ------ Mansi - introduced themselves, they are from India and are a computer science and interested to help with Inkscape with the filters. Tav - XML editor rewriting it for Gtk4 compatibility trying to add drag and drop but it's a bit of a nightmare. The code hasn't been touched much in 20 years. There's a couple of different options, and he's going for the tree view. He copied the code from the object dialog, but it turns out the drag and drop wasn't working in the object dialog and it was segfaulting with an asserts. But even fixing those wasn't fixing it. We discussed the details further for ten minutes. Mikekov - Been on vacation but recommends studying the Gtk4 which details all the new concepts and it's going to be important for our developers to learn them and get comfortable with using it properly. Krlr17 - Martin wanted to know how the issues tracker is going, they said they could do with some help. On bug fixing they think a bug accelerator program would greatly help. For the triaging side, we should do a mentorship program where we spend some time getting new people into the project. People on the forum might be a good source of potential candidates. Jonthan - Bug accelerator program, has a draft but is not ready to be submitted. The goal is to have people apply for the position. We talked briefly about the way the new project should be run. We created a poll to ask people who would be interested in joining the hiring committee. Marc and Jonathan said yes. Everyone else abstained. Another poll for who would be interested, and there were people who answered yes (named withheld). A third poll about if we should run the program again came back with a 100% in favor vote that we should do it. Jonathan will set up a PLC vote at the weekend. René - Martin asked about a testing bug on macOS and René will look at it and will be able to run the whole test suite locally to find out what's going on. René is reviewing the mac-statium article and keep in touch with those guys. Also working on Gtk building stuff in general. We talked briefly about rocket chat, matrix and alternative chat, we will continue to have this chat to make sure we're doing the right thing. We're not going to rush into making a change at this time though. Thanks to everyone who came and talked about developer issues. It was a full and fun meeting today. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Chat Room
by Martin Owens 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

Hey everyone, Inkscape has hosted our own chat services at chat.inkscape.org since 2018, we've been using the open source server RocketChat in order to provide the project communication for both internal use and for interacting with users and answering their questions. The Rocket Chat upstream organisation has recently become hostile to it's users and admins, developing all sorts of covert design patterns to push self-hosted instances into signing up to expensive per-user licenses and proprietary extensions. It's also sending information about our server back to rocket chat themselves. The most recent upgrade has left us with a difficult and problematic path ahead as we can't really continue to use rocket chat as a server software. But this has to be a community wide discussion as the service is the most used internal communication channel and is used by many people and many teams for lots of things. These are the questions I need you to answer, please reply here or send me a personal email or message with your answers: == Questionnaire == 1. Do you think we should move away from rocket chat? This is a nominal question since I don't think we can administratively support it going forwards, but we should know your thoughts anyway. 2. Should we reverse engineer the rocket chat database in order to try and keep the history? There are no known tools of retaining the history and if we move to another chat system, our history will be wiped clean. How is history important to you or the project? 3. What replacement chat systems have you used with other projects that you think might be a good fit for our use cases? (see below) 4. Can you expand upon our use cases with the ways you current use, or know that our rocket chat is being used? (see below) 5. Any other comments? == Use Case == I'm drafting a use case document to guide the decision on what to move towards. This might take us time to develop the solution so don't worry about any rash movement, for now we have time to work through the problem together. You don't have to edit this document yourself, I'll digest answers where I can, but if you want to have a direct hand in drafting I'm inviting people to go to this document and help out: https://office.inkscape.org/nextcloud/index.php/s/FcTg4QsdstnDeMA == Final thoughts == Sorry to spring this problem on the project. After talking with Marc about the way rocket chat is behaving and how their upgrade paths are causing us issues, we believe this process needs to start now. Best Regards, Martin Owens Project Infrastructure Hat

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Sending email to get added to list
by Mansi 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

mansins168(a)gmail.com

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Installing build dependencies on Ubuntu using APT
by Thomas Larsen Wessel 16 Jan '24

16 Jan '24

I am trying to build inkscape (master) on Ubuntu 22.04. The list of dependencies is long, and for each of them I am "guessing" the package name I need to install in APT. Thanks to a tiny bit of experience, googling and APT autocompletion, this is possible, though it takes 10sec to a few minutes for each package. But I feel I am missing something. Is there no smarter way than this guessing? Sincerely, Thomas

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Inkscape 1.4 preparations and schedule
by Marc Jeanmougin 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

Hi all ! As you could see in Martin's email, we've been discussing release-related topics earlier in the developer meeting. We have mostly decided to carry out a release this year as usual (with a release in May), which will be using *GTK3*. Hence, later this year the master branch will lead to a 1.4.x branch, and after this point the gtk4 branch will be merged into master. We have this year a more modest amount of big shiny features into the release, but that's not an issue, and certainly not a reason to not make them available to our users :) However since it means that master is currently fairly stable, this gives some leeway to add simple features and changes if needed. If you plan to do "big" changes for 1.4 (or changes to the "core" (rendering, etc)), please get in touch on the chat as soon as possible to discuss them (before middle of January), otherwise for things like UX improvements or new isolated functions, feel free to work on them until the beginning of March, at which point we'll branch and produce a Beta (and then, only bugfixes until the release, as usual) Bugfixes are always welcome until late in the release process to get a polished release. Thanks everyone ! -- Marc

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Developer Meeting, Jan 8th 2024
by Martin Owens 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

Thanks to everyone who came today; Attending: Marc, Jonathan, Martin, René, Tav, James, Mikekov Next Meeting: Tuesday January 16th Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ # FOSDEM We started by talking about FOSDEM, confirming which days we would be available. We need to book train tickets, Mark will be asking his employer, Martin will be asking pono. # Release Planning We spent the end of the meeting planning out the 1.4 release and what this would look like. We have decided that we will have one more Gtk3 release with fewer features for 2024 to give us extra room to making the Gtk4 release as good as it can be. There will be a refactoring freeze in a about a week and a feature freeze in a couple of months. So if developers have plans for features and fixes, now is the time to focus on getting them into 1.4 The Gtk4 branch merge will be posponed until after the 1.4.x branch split to make this process easier. # Developer topics Marc - Needed to update the windows store version of Inkscape Martin - Working on color refactoring, including a mass of tests and talked about using gtest in advanced ways James - Continuing work on fixing issues with the sp-grid and dealing with older files and making sure we're not corrupting old files too much. Marc and Martin pointed james towards an old archive on openclipart svgs to search for wild data. René - Has been working on the Gtk4 building for windows 7zip and will proceed from there into macOS building. It now compiles thanks to some fixes from pbs. - Additionally, MacStadium will release an article about us we don't know the contents but they've been friendly. - Is thinking about what we will do at LGM in Ren, France. It's not close to much. We talked a bit about the cutural ameinaties of various european towns. Mikekov - Has been working on a path specific element in the object attribute dialog. Designed by adam, It's requiring a refactoring and it'll take a bit of time to complete. - Found a new book for Gtk4 which describes the way the data model works and thinks others should read it too. GTK4 Rust book: https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/book/ Tav - Fixed a bug with the dash code using the Gtk grid view, the cursor would reset to t he start when editing in that box which made it hard to use. - The Gtk4 work is going slow at the moment. Thanks everybody! Best Regards, Martin Owens

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How is the automatic/background font substitution implemented?
by Thomas Larsen Wessel 06 Jan '24

06 Jan '24

If opening a file using font "Times" in Inkscape on a Windows machine without that font installed, it uses Arial for rendering instead. For all the cases I tried, including generic font names such as "serif" and "sans-serif", it defaulted to the best replacement candidate that I know of. How is that implemented? Is this logic part of Inkscape itself? Does it use an external library? Does it use some service/interface on Windows (which other apps apparently don't use)? Most apps do this well on Linux, because they simply rely on fontconfig. But very few apps do well on Windows. Good job, thanks :) Sincerely, Thomas

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Re: Inkscape 1.3.x is very slow to import PDF file
by Jinsong Zhao 11 Dec '23

11 Dec '23

Thanks for the reply and the links. I am sorry for the confusion in my previous email. What I really wanted were the Inkscape binaries between 1.2.2 and 1.3. Now things have moved a bit to the root. I got the 1.3-dev commit binaries from https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/pipelines. Although there are no binaries for every commit, I also tried my best to narrow the problem down to the commit between 3e2761dd (2022-08-23) and 89b3c1d1 (2022-08-22). I cannot find a binary for Windows between the two commits. 89b3c1d1 commit works fine, while 3e2761dd commit shows the problems I reported in the original post. Best, Jinsong On 2023/12/11 20:33, Nathan P. Johansen wrote: > Hm. I apologize that wasn’t the problem - but thank you for checking. > I’m not certain how Windows handles Fonts, but if you are certain that > you do not have many, then it shouldn’t cause the delay in launching. > > You can find past editions of 1.2.x here: > > inkscape-og-image.png > All Platforms for Inkscape 1.2.2 > <https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.2/platforms/> > inkscape.org <https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.2/platforms/> > > <https://inkscape.org/release/1.2.2/platforms/> > > Notice that you can explore the 1.3.x (and multiple versions for > nearly twenty years) by exploring the navigation links available for > all platforms from the release page, here: > > inkscape-og-image.png > Download Inkscape 1.3.2 <https://inkscape.org/release/> > inkscape.org <https://inkscape.org/release/> > > <https://inkscape.org/release/> > > I notice that I failed to reply to the developer list, so please feel > free to include our full exchange in a future reply and perhaps it > will assist one of the developers or Inkscape team members to offer > further guidance. > > Sorry you’re having issues but thank you for choosing Inkscape! =) > > Best, > Nathan > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Dec 10, 2023, at 6:05 PM, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao(a)yeah.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Nathan, >> >> Thanks for your suggestions. I don't know how to remove the installed >> fonts. In fact, I don't install any additional fonts except those >> installed by applications. >> >> Where could I find the Inkscape binaries for each of the 1.2.x >> commits? If I could get these, I might be able to find which commit >> introduced the problem. >> >> Best, >> Jinsong >> >> On 2023/12/10 23:30, Nathan P. Johansen wrote: >>> Hello! >>> Those versions introduced a variety of features, but given your >>> explanation, the first thing which comes to mind is to try >>> significantly reducing (or temporarily moving entirely) any >>> excessive number of installed fonts on your system to a bare minimum? >>> If your are able to then launch Inkscape in a more timely manner, >>> this may indicate the cause for the delay. I am hoping that other >>> readers with more experience on Windows systems will be able to >>> offer their suggestions and solutions as well. >>> Thank you for the references to your question being posed already in >>> multiple spots. Do you perhaps also use chat.Inkscape.org in the >>> #inkscape_user or #team_devel channels with any frequency? >>> Best, >>> Nathan >>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> On Dec 10, 2023, at 6:45 AM, Jinsong Zhao <jszhao(a)yeah.net> wrote: >>>> >>>> Dear Inkscape developers, >>>> >>>> I should report the following potential bug in GitLab, but I cannot >>>> do so because I am unable to register an account on GitLab. I am >>>> asking the question on the forums and the chat channel. I do not >>>> get a solution. >>>> >>>> The problem is reported and discussed here: >>>> https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/13-and-131-are-very-very-slow-opening-a-… >>>> and I think >>>> https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/the-pdf-file-does-not-open-in-version… >>>> reported the same problem. >>>> >>>> I also searched the issues on GitLab, there are several similar >>>> reports, for example >>>> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/8503 and >>>> https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4597#note_1568155608. >>>> >>>> The OS I am running Inkscape on is Windows 10 and 11 Home Edition. >>>> I have encountered this issue with Inkscape 1.3, 1.3.1 and 1.3.2. >>>> Inkscape 1.2.x works fine. >>>> >>>> I hope someone here can reproduce this problem and fix it. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Jinsong >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel(a)lists.inkscape.org >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Inkscape 1.3.x is very slow to import PDF file
by Jinsong Zhao 10 Dec '23

10 Dec '23

Dear Inkscape developers, I should report the following potential bug in GitLab, but I cannot do so because I am unable to register an account on GitLab. I am asking the question on the forums and the chat channel. I do not get a solution. The problem is reported and discussed here: https://inkscape.org/forums/beyond/13-and-131-are-very-very-slow-opening-a-… and I think https://inkscape.org/forums/questions/the-pdf-file-does-not-open-in-version… reported the same problem. I also searched the issues on GitLab, there are several similar reports, for example https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/-/issues/8503 and https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4597#note_1568155608. The OS I am running Inkscape on is Windows 10 and 11 Home Edition. I have encountered this issue with Inkscape 1.3, 1.3.1 and 1.3.2. Inkscape 1.2.x works fine. I hope someone here can reproduce this problem and fix it. Best, Jinsong

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Integrating Skia as another rendering engine
by bens7372＠gmail.com 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

Hi, What parts of the Inkscape codebase do I need to modify to incorporate Skia as a rendering backend, or are there limitations tying Inkscape to Cairo, and what approach should I take if it's viable? I've previously tried to hack on the codebase, but I'm a Qt developer, so found it difficult even to just modify UI dialogs, which will be important to provide an option to switch to GPU rendering. Even though I've started writing a new vector graphics tool with Qt, and gotten Skia working with OpenGL, I'd rather prefer not to re-incorporate Inkscape's functionality. Kind Regards, Ben Cottrell

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