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Website news section CMS
by Jonathan Leighton 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

We previously discussed the idea of using a CMS such as WordPress to handle the news part of the Inkscape website. No real conclusion was reached, so I thought I'd send out this email asking for votes/opinions for and against. If we decide to go for it then I could probably get it done this weekend. Cheers, Jon -- Jonathan Leighton aka. Turnip http://turnipspatch.com/ | http://digital-proof.org/

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Donation received
by Bryce Harrington 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

I got a donation from 'OSDN / VA Software' for Inkscape the other day, in the amount of $3.54 ($5 less PP/SF fees). I'm not sure what to do with it... I'll hold onto it for now until we either get a general fund set up, or it's needed for something for the project. The breakdown of the transaction appears below: Donated amount...........................: $5.00 PayPal fee...............................: $0.46 SourceForge.net fee......................: $1.00 TOTAL TO YOU.............................: $3.54 Comment from the donator: make inkscape even better - be blessed! Thank you The SourceForge.net Team Bryce

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Inkscape Project Status Mar 1st
by Bryce Harrington 04 Mar '05

04 Mar '05

Well, SourceForge is still way behind in their stats, but here's the rest of the stats. Statistics Jan 15 Feb 1 Feb 15 Mar 1 ========== ====== ===== ====== ===== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 570 569 * * (96.0%) (96.0%) * * Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 59 * * * (99.6%) * * * Total SF Page Views 2,283,160 2,296,458 * * Total SF Downloads 114,695 115,645 * * Total Freshmeat URL Hits 14,634 15,108 16,448 16,885 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 151 156 169 173 Lines of Code in src/: 323,251 323,324 333,139 338,993 Code lines 227,965 227,872 234,651 238,641 Comment line 56,308 56,438 58,239 59,589 Blank 45,664 45,624 46,859 47,484 Lines of Docs in doc/: 17,901 17,918 26,848 26,848 Lines of content in website: 9,328 9,486 9,776 9,979 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 20,931 23,576 24,925 25,094 Bugs open/total: 145/858 148/917 155/972 177/1019 Features open/total: 353/530 352/556 370/579 384/ 602 Patches open/total: 6/148 7/154 5/167 6/ 170 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 9,625 9,975 10,312 10,600 Inkscape-devel membership: 131 143 151 152 Inkscape-announce membership: 155 166 169 171 Inkscape-user membership: 177 181 193 201 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 42.0 44.7 47.8 45.0 * - Statistics unavailable

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[osdl_staff] 2005 desktop developer's conference announced (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 03 Mar '05

03 Mar '05

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 09:57:55 -0800 From: Randy.Dunlap <rddunlap@...1...> To: osdl_staff@...1... Subject: [osdl_staff] 2005 desktop developer's conference announced http://www.desktopcon.org/2005/ -- ~Randy _______________________________________________ osdl_staff mailing list osdl_staff@...701... http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/osdl_staff

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URGENT BREAKAGE: preferences loading/saving
by bulia byak 01 Mar '05

01 Mar '05

Someone's recent change (likely the repr changes by swingincelt) broke preferences loading and saving. Now upon exit, a new <inkscape> element with all its children is nested at the end of the ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml instead of replacing the existing <inkscape>. Thus the size of the file grows by 13K on each run of the program, and any changes you make to the prefs are not read next time you run. Please fix ASAP.

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Adobe Illustrator CS SVG files + incompatibility
by Jon Phillips 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

My girlfriend just made all these images for the clipart library by tracing them in Inkscape (rock!) and then editing and composing them with Adobe Illustrator CS. However, they cannot be opened in Inkscape. I'm writing this to let everyone know that there are about 10 images available at this link, http://openclipart.org/submissions.php, done by Linda Kim that would be good for testing interoperability of Adobe SVG and Inkscape. I created a bug on this and a new category for import bugs. If this one fits your fancy, it should be easy to write a script to strip out what Inkscape doesn't support, as can be done by hand in a text editor. However, to get Inkscape to allow for various unsupported features, or compliant svg that we don't suppor yet, might be more difficult. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1153207&group_id=9… Also, if anyone needs more examples, I can get those created in Adobe Illustrator CS. Jon -- Jon Phillips USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) CVS Book (http://cvsbook.ucsd.edu) Scale Journal (http://scale.ucsd.edu)

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Inkscape.org and the image/svg+xml mimetype
by Bob Jamison 28 Feb '05

28 Feb '05

Could someone please add these entries to /htdocs/.htaccess on the web site? AddType image/svg+xml .svg AddType image/svg+xml .svgz Inkscape.org can't serve svg at the moment, which can potentially be embarassing. ;-) This might need to be added to the wiki code, too. Bob

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SVG+Xforms demo
by Bob Jamison 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

One of the guys on irc.mozilla.org/#svg (nick: woo) showed me a demo of svg-enabled Firefox with the xforms extension from mozilla.org. It is a little calculator demo, implemented using svg and xforms. Very nice. http://artforms.progressivex.com/mozilla/svgcalc.xml Bob

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web site proposals
by bulia byak 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

I'd like to propose two things regarding the Inkscape web site. Volunteers are welcome: 1 Create an RSS feed for the main page news. 2 Create a new header graphic to replace the boring white "Inkscape" on blue. As a graphic app, we are starting to deserve something more sophisticated. The web site itself is OK, I don't think we need to drastically change the entire design (although suggestions are welcome), but the top panel is decidedly dull and pathetic. Show off your graphic talent! Send your submissions to the devel list for people to discuss. The best one (if the winner is not obvious, we may need to do a voting) will make it to the site. One technical note: the banner cannot be fixed width, because our site is not fixed width - so it must be either one piece for the top left corner or two pieces for two corners, with some flat color fill between them. The minimum screen resolution is 800x600.

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Press: Inkscape in Linux User and Developer magazine
by Alan Horkan 27 Feb '05

27 Feb '05

[If you do setup an RSS news feed using open source tools like Word Press I like to be allowed to post information like this.] Press: Inkscape in Linux User and Developer magazine Issue 47 http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/ "Graphic designer Miriam Clinton investigates the free software tools of her trade with a look at the Gimp, Cinepaint, Quanta Plus, Inkscape and Sodipodi." One of the plus points mentioned in the article and in noticable contrast to other projects was the welcome Miriam recieved from the Inkscape community (and the efforts to get her involved). I'm very proud of this ditinction and I think a lot of it can be put down to the maturity of Bryce and the other developers who always moderate dicussions and keep things calm and in perspective. I think this is a valuable asset to the long term health of the Inkscape project. She expressed her disappointment at the Text functionality but as we all know it is a work in progress and the interface will inevitably improve and Ms. Clinton did note that Inkscape is a fairly young 'alpha' stage project and gave a largely favourable and optimistic report. In comparision I think she was quite critical of GIMP, CinePaint and Sodipodi which is quite fair from the point of view of a Graphic designer but usually Linux magazines are very forgiving of Open Source applications (Graphic design magazines are usually extremely critical -- freedom of source and free cost doesn't cut any ice with them -- a flamefest even by comparison to Miriams review). Gotta go. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/ Inkscape, Draw Freely http://inkscape.org Abiword is Awesome http://abisource.com

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