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CFV: Performance measuring/testing
by Bryce Harrington 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

Here's a much more techie task we need done. Over the past several releases there's been some observations of slowness in the Inkscape renderer. We'd all like Inkscape to be nice and snappy, even for huge documents. However, we've not really had good, standardish ways of measuring performance. A good way of measuring it would be helpful in several ways: It'd help developers quickly see if a change improves or degrades performance; it'd enable us to track performance from release to release; and, it'd be a tool we could add new performance "Problem Cases" to as we go. The task is to create a collection of scripts that one can run on a copy of inkscape, that exercise it in some different ways and records the speed it did each thing. Right now, you can do some testing by just running Inkscape in cmdline mode on a large .svg file, and time how long it takes for Inkscape to startup, create the .png, and exit. (Later, maybe we can add some testing triggers inside the code so we can better measure performance of particular pieces (like just the startup time, just the gui init, etc.) Also, later hopefully we'll have some internal scripting or Atk support to allow further automated testing of the app. But static runs should be enough to give us some good info to start with.) It would be interesting to run this performance suite against older versions of the software, and measure how performance has changed over time. It'd be especially cool if this could produce an SVG graph. :-) Bryce

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CFV: Update Roadmap
by Bryce Harrington 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

Here's another task... This one needs to be done fairly soon; I'm hoping to get to it later this weekend if nobody else can. We've decided to have an accelerated 0.41 release in mid to late January. This means that we need to shuffle the roadmap. Wiki skills are needed. Some knowledge of Inkscape's development activities would be helpful, but if you're good at asking questions you won't need much depth. http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap * Tasks related to gtkmm need to be moved from Milestone 7 (0.41) to milestone 8 (0.42). * Most development tasks for 0.41 will also need to be bumped forward to 0.42 (speak with bulia, mental, etc. if you have questions - or ask them to update their tasks directly) * Most or all tasks listed for Milestone 8 (0.42) need to be bumped up one number, to Milestone 9 (0.43). Also bump all the subsequent tasks up one release number, too. * Also update the website copy of the roadmap: http://inkscape.org/roadmap.php Thanks, Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-user] proposed change to icons
by Ben Crowell 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

After posting on inkscape-user and increasing the sample size, it seems to me that there is a clear consensus in favor of the new style. Bulia wrote: >There's no need to argue. Ben, you can continue working on the new >icon set, and when you are ready we will ship your icons.svg alongside >the old one, so people can choose whichever they like. Trent, the same >for you: you are welcome to develop a set of icons that work best for >your black background, and we'll ship them also. When there's at least >one complete set besides the old one, we can make a preference with a >UI to choose one of them on load. The real issue is whose icons will be the defaults. Since most people seem to like mine better than yours, I think mine should be the defaults. I would like to request a clear decision on this from the core developers before I invest a lot more time on the icons.

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about inkscape in FreeBSD
by Albert 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

Dear developers, I have found that surprigsingly the new ports tree for FreeBSD 5.3 can only install and run inkscape 0.38 The mantainer claimed that there are several memory leaks issues because of the usage of boehm-gc, as explained here : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2004-December/ 009256.html Are the developers aware of this issue? Is there any hope to have a FreeBSD running 0.40 version any time soon? Thank you. Albert

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proposed change to icons
by Ben Crowell 31 Dec '04

31 Dec '04

I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, and next to them you can see the lower and raise icons in the original style, with the greenish-yellow color. My idea here was to tone down the colors a little, and also use transparency to create more of a visual impression of the object rotating. It's meant to look like the new Gimp 2.0 icons, which IMO are very professional looking.

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Help needed with UI work in Gtkmm codebase
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

If anyone's interested in contributing some time to the new Inkscape UI work, we can use some help with setting up the menus. It's extremely straightforward work, there's just a lot of it to do. Basically, for each menu item we need to write code to establish things like handlers, signals, descriptions, etc. I've coded up a examples for several menu items, so you'd just copy and extend that for all of the menu items. If you're interested in working on this drop me a line and I'll fill you in. The task writeup is in the PLAN document in the 'experimental' module in CVS, under bryce/inkscape_gtkmm/. Bryce

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Volunteer needed for bug prioritizing
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

One of the first tasks needed in the lead-up to the 0.41 release is to go through the new bugs in the bug tracker and prioritize them. This is a straightforward task, and takes one evening to do. I usually tackle this myself but since I've been rather busy with gtkmm lately, I'd love to encourage someone else to take it on. The new bugs are the ones that are listed at Priority '5'. The task is read them and then change their priority to 3/6/9 depending on if they are low/med/high. High priority bugs are those that cause data loss or application crash. In addition, if the bug reports are too terse I try to add a note requesting more info. If it looks easy to reproduce and I have some extra time, I sometimes give it a shot and comment if I see the problem too. That's pretty much it. If you'd like to help with this task let me know, and I'll set your admin privs for the bug tracker so you can do this. Thanks, Bryce

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Newsforge Inkscape article (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 07:16:33 -0800 (PST) From: Jiaxiang <jwasheville@...36...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> Subject: Newsforge Inkscape article Good day, Bryce. Did you catch this article about Inkscape on Newsforge.com? http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/12/23/1638201 -Joshua __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Dress up your holiday email, Hollywood style. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Inkscape-user] proposed change to icons
by bulia byak 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

There's no need to argue. Ben, you can continue working on the new icon set, and when you are ready we will ship your icons.svg alongside the old one, so people can choose whichever they like. Trent, the same for you: you are welcome to develop a set of icons that work best for your black background, and we'll ship them also. When there's at least one complete set besides the old one, we can make a preference with a UI to choose one of them on load. As for me, I prefer the crisp, bright, and laconic style and, when I create new icons in my set, I will continue developing that style. Everyone can use what they like.

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proposed change to icons
by Ben Crowell 30 Dec '04

30 Dec '04

On inkscape-devel, I've proposed some changes to some of Bulia's icons. Some people seemed to like the new versions better, and some didn't. We didn't seem to have a statistically significant sample of opinions, so I'm reposting now to both inkscape-devel and inkscape-user. I've made some changes to the icons in the copy of Inkscape I have running on my own machine. If other people agree that this is an improvement, I'll do some more work in the same style. Here is a screenshot: http://www.lightandmatter.com/proposal.png The rotation and flip tools are my new versions, and next to them you can see the lower and raise icons in the original style, with the greenish-yellow color. My idea here was to tone down the colors a little, and also use transparency to create more of a visual impression of the object rotating. It's meant to look like the new Gimp 2.0 icons, which IMO are very professional looking. The svg from which the icons were constructed is here: http://www.lightandmatter.com/icons.svg Please give an on-list opinion in binary, 0=don't change, 1=change. (The icons can be tweaked more later, of course, if there is a consensus for it.)

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