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last change to gradients
by bulia byak 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I made the automatically created new gradients garbage-collectable. I hope this is the last change to gradients for this release, it was necessary because otherwise it was easy to grow the gradient list out of proportions (though it was also easy to shrink it by vacuuming defs, but this could crash Fill&Stroke; now it does not mind when gradients are deleted from under it). However when a gradient is edited (e.g. stops added), it is not autocollectable anymore. Please test this as thoroughly as you can. Here's the complete Release Notes entry for gradients: * When you switch an object to gradient fill or stroke, the new gradient is created with that object's previous fill or stroke color going from 1 to 0 opacity (instead of the hardcoded black-to-white fully opaque gradient as before). New objects do not share gradients now, except when you switch to gradient multiple selected objects with the same fill color (you can also explicitly set two or more objects to use the same gradient by selecting it in the list in the Fill and Stroke dialog, or by pasting style from one object to another). Newly created gradients are automatically garbage-collected when no longer used; however, when you edit a gradient in the Gradient Editor, it becomes sticky and can only be removed, when not in use, by the Vacuum Defs command.

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CVS build is broken
by Kees Cook 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

pjrm: I think you forgot to check in some new files included in common-style.h: fill-or-stroke.h build is currently busted. :( -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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[1057918] Crash when undoing bezier nodes
by Gustav Broberg 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

I've filed the following bug report: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1057918&group_id=… Can someone confirm this? 1. Select the 'Draw bezier'-tool [b] 2. Place out two nodes. (click, click) 3. Hit [backspace] (one node left) 4. Place out a new node (two nodes) 5. Hit [backspace] two times (zero nodes) 6. => segfault /Gustav

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Project Status 2004-11-01
by Bryce Harrington 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

We're in the run-up to another release, and as can be seen by the dent in the bug count since last report, things are going well. Some progress was achieved this weekend on the layer UI, but there is still work to be done. There's also now nearly a full year's worth of status data, and it's interesting to compare today's numbers with those we started from. To me the most striking number is the linecount. According to the statistics, Inkscapers have added almost twice as many lines of code and comments as we started with. The growth in documentation is also quite noteworthy. Also for the first time we have more subscribers to our announce list than membership on our devel list. I wonder if that indicates something? :-) Statistics Nov 15 May 15 Oct 15 Nov 1 ========== ====== ====== ====== ===== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 4391 1028 687 684 (68.5%) (92.7%) (95.2%) (95.2%) Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 62 36 124 62 (99.6%) (99.8%) (99.3%) (99%) Total SF Page Views * 475,000 1,339,114 1,487,659 Total SF Downloads * 27,400 63,869 69,078 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 746 * 11,465 11,849 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 16 74 124 125 Lines of Code in src/: 115,901 189,116 303,783 306,602 Code lines 147,471 216,027 217,198 Comment line 16,757 52,421 53,262 Blank 25,886 41,872 42,699 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 4,544 16,841 16,841 Lines of content in website: 1,173 6,008 7,840 8,121 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 3,700 18,638 22,459 18,977 Bugs open/total: 9/15 57/365 135/653 104/683 Features open/total: 18/18 183/238 263/406 279/426 Patches open/total: 1/ 6 4/ 83 7/126 7/130 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 481 3391 7,860 8,279 Inkscape-devel membership: 49 78 109 108 Inkscape-announce membership: 9 43 98 113 Inkscape-user membership: 71 138 144 Num Translations : 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 35.0% 38.5 * - Statistics unavailable

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Bug status 10/31
by Bryce Harrington 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Bug ID Pts Title ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1026260 (inv) crash at startup 1008895 6 invalid xhtml 1056845 9 Bitmap Images broken on Win32 955020 6 assert when quitting with dialog and duplicated window 993447 3 Wrong export area 1022832 3 File dialog glibmm Warning 994853 3 dialog title handled with wrong encoding 1029755 3 png resolution not imported 1039109 9 various problems with text after refactoring 980065 6 Garbled display in "pattern" fill dialog 1048802 6 2 find dialogs 1029530 (dup) WIN CVS: crash on file | import 1051350 (dup) Crash when open a file 990659 6 ill2svg fails without Image/Magick 1054270 9 Win32: Aligning objects causes crash 1048614 6 export: "selection" not toggled with text 931496 6 image URL not updating 998672 (dup) printing broken on Windows XP 1001279 6 Version: 0.39-suse91.0 rpm needs libpopt.so.0 1012089 6 CVS snapshots no longer available 996493 (dup) .39 Inkscape freezes 992962 3 Build Warning: Extensions warnings 992986 3 Build Warning: deprecated functions 992987 3 Build Warning: missing constructors 992985 3 Build Warning: unused variables/functions 1004134 6 'Changed' flag cleared when save not successful 1041643 3 Files fail to open on Gnome 2.8 1048151 6 Union destroy objects in some cases 984096 9 Assertion failures with calligraphy tool 1045067 3 --without-gui crashes if home dir not writable 1038932 6 Export silently fails when file cannot be created 984854 9 crashes with non-existent gradient in gradient editor 1000350 9 --print option can attempt to open dialogs and segfault 1041757 (dup) undefined symbol: gdk_threads_lock 993294 9 RDF improperly exported with plain SVG 1024915 9 glib-2.5.2: crashes on clicking fill and stroke dialog ======================================================================== Total: 174 Goal: 150pts (116% towards goal)

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typos, but this time in source code
by Arpad Biro 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Hi, The current CVS does not compile, possibly because of #include "extenstion/extension.h" lines in src/extension/init.cpp and src/extension/system.cpp. Arpad Biro __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo

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20 Third Party Apps You Can't Live Without
by Jon Phillips 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Cool, Inkscape made the list on osnews.com: http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=8717 FYI! Our app is publicly known and used! We are currently number 8 on gnomefiles.org as best rated app! Jon

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one gradient for multiple objects
by David Christian Berg 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

When you want multiple objects to have the same userpace gradient you have to group them now (was already this way in the build I had from cvs in mid october). That sucks, since maybe you don't want to group them because there are objects between them (z-order wise). Now, I think the problem is that for each object there is a new gradient created on switching to gradient from solid. Therefore right after the switch you have two objects with two different gradients selected and hence can't edit the gradient(s).

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windows builds?
by bulia byak 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Sorry to be pushy, but the crash on save Windows bug is very bad, and I want to check asap if JonCruz fixed it or not. Right now I don't have time to set up windows builds on my machine, so I rely on http://inkscape.org/win32-snap/. However the latest build there is from 29 oct. Is there a newer one somewhere?

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0.40pre1
by Ted Gould 31 Oct '04

31 Oct '04

Okay, I've made a tarball for 0.40pre1 so that people can make packages for testing. This is not feature complete for 0.40, but it would be nice if everyone could use this to find more bugs. We want to continue our tradition of having quality releases! Also, we'd like to find any packaging bugs that may have shown up. https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438&package_id=991… Thanks everyone for their help! --Ted

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