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xlink namespace bug
by bulia byak 17 Jan '05

17 Jan '05

I was going to close this bug as invalid: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1102678&group_id=9… because the attached file indeed does not declare the xlink: prefix, which is invalid XML. However to my surprise both Batik and Adobe render it without a complaint. What am I missing? I thought that if a file is invalid XML it cannot be valid SVG. Are Batik/Adobe being unduly permissive? What are we supposed to do in this situation?

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jabber room?
by bulia byak 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Now when I log to conference.gristle.org I see no "inkscape" room listed. What has changed?

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object binding changes
by MenTaLguY 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

In order to remove the last of the veto callbacks (the only one used, in only one place), I went ahead and rewrote SPDocument::getObjectByRepr() so it didn't rely on ID lookups, then removed the change attribute veto callback. Two side-effects of this: 1. it is now possible to remove the id attribute from an element This shouldn't cause any problems, as I laid the groundwork for id-less operation a long time ago (this has been planned for a while). Note that objects still get ids by default. 2. manually setting a conflicting id now causes the original object to get a new id, rather than disallowing the change This should always have been at least possible through the XML editor. I'm not as sure about the properties dialog; if we decide it's best to disallow setting a conflicting ID again we can implement a check in the dialog. I think both changes are more in line with user expectations anyway. Test and let me know if I missed any breakage. I tried to be conservative about the change. -mental

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Q about Coordinates
by Joshua A. Andler 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

So, from tinkering with Inkscape recently I noticed that 0,0 is at the bottom left corner of the document. I was just curious if we're going to change it to the top left corner in the future... mainly, since Bulia had changed the unit stuff to better comply with the standard, I was just wondering if there were plans for this change in the future. Just a Q... no complaints or suggestions. =) -Josh

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another id change
by MenTaLguY 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

I've just comitted another tweak whereby non-elements (e.g. text or comment nodes) are no longer assigned IDs. By the way ... I just noticed we're still putting 2004 in the ChangeLog... it's 2005 now, people! ^_- (I went and fixed the dates) -mental

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icon calligraphic_draw not displayed
by vellum 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Win 32 2000 Build 15/1/05:1703. While trying unsuccessfully to reproduce bug 1102318 I noticed that the calligraphic icon was not displaying. Start up Inkscape and the error message comes up immediately. The calligraphic tool can still be used but the icon does not appear. I've logged the bug. vellum.

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removing veto callbacks
by MenTaLguY 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

I've been working on the repr code a bit lately, and it's becoming clear to me that the veto callbacks probably aren't such a good idea. 1. they aren't sufficient to implement document validation constraints (which was their original purpose) 2. they would get in the way of some useful multi-step transformations where the end result is valid but the intermediate steps are not 3. they aren't used anyway except in one place (manually setting element IDs) 4. the one place they are used, it would make more sense to accomodate the user's wishes (by re-iding the object whose ID has been taken) than to silently disobey them as we do now 5. they get icky with DOM So I'm working on removing them. -mental

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extension unloading
by Kees Cook 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

How about pegging the svg output in memory so that if we crash, we don't have to reload it to do the emergency save? -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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W32 build and Gtk::Socket
by Bob Jamison 16 Jan '05

16 Jan '05

Now that Ted has added the #ifdefs (yeah, I hate those, too) to prefsdialog.* the build is working again. Thanks, Ted! The Gtk::Socket docs say that it is implemented with X's XEMBED protocol, which of course will work on neither W32 nor native OSX. Kak zhal! Maybe Mozilla's source tree has a cross-platform way of mounting one process's gui in that of another. Gnome's Corba v.3 way (activation like ActiveX) of doing it is cross-platform, but of course that would lead to infinite dependencies. I couldn't reply to the mail thread here, since this work email account is not receiving all of the messages that my home account does. Anyway, the cvs build for this morning is: http://troi.hous.es3.titan.com/~rjamison/inkscape/builds/Inkscape0501130741… Bob

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localized plural forms
by Kees Cook 15 Jan '05

15 Jan '05

I just added a patch to fix up localized plural forms. Translators and programmers should probably read up on using ngettext. We should make sure no more plural strings sneak in. :) http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/html_mono/gettext.html#SEC150 http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TranslationInformation -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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