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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Adding tablet support to inkscape
by Danni Coy 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

On Wednesday 25 August 2004 13:33, inkscape-devel-request(a)lists.sourceforge.net wrote: > SPCanvasWidget should be the right sort of widget to do this with. > > Have you tried writing a small standalone program as a test case to make > sure that you're doing everything else you need to? (you might e.g. > have to set event masks and things) So far I have have gone through and played with Scribble... > > i.e. try it with your own trivial custom widget first ... I'm afraid > event flow with our canvas is currently rather convoluted Good Idea... Thanks Danni > > -mental -- "and i actually like debian 2.0 that much i completely revamped the default config of the linux systems our company sells and reinstalled any of the linux systems in the office and here at home.."

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Anonymous Bug reports and feature requests
by Alan Horkan 26 Aug '04

26 Aug '04

Anonymous Bug reports and feature requests are a bad idea. There are many anonymous bug reports and feature requests that are poorly explained some with no more than a summary and no description whatsoever. Without someone to follow up and provide a more detailed description I think these reports only waste people time. Many of the requests are wishlists, rather than specific enhancment requests. There are inevitably duplicate or overlapping reports. Vague suggestions and requests should be directed to the user list so that we at least have a contact address and can get people to clarify what they mean. If the suggestions are good and users are still unwilling to register to file a bug report some one else will be willing to put their name to the report. Openness is good up to a point but I think a minimum barrier is necessary, and that reporters are need to put their name to a report and take some responsibility and show they care about a feature before developers expecting developers to spend their time on it. I dont believe that many people are looking at the request tracker and it is difficult to manage so many vague reports. I think the system needs to be changed to require people to log in before posting feature requests and bug reports. Sincerely Alan Horkan http://advogato.org/proj/Inkscape/

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Milestone 16
by Teemu Ikonen 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

Hi all, Down at the bottom of the roadmap (http://www.inkscape.org/roadmap.php) there's a note about splitting the SVG canvas out of Inkscape. I'm wondering how far this goal is in terms of development effort. The canvas in Inkscape is by far the best looking and most functional I've seen in any free software project. I'm sure there are many projects which would benefit from a canvas with nice antialiased output to screen, good print quality by SVG->PS conversion and the ability to manipulate the figure by pointing and clicking in some way. Could someone familiar with the Inkscape code estimate if it would make sense at the moment to try to use the canvas this way in, say, another GTKmm-application? Or is the code just too much coupled with GUI right now? All the best, Teemu

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Adding tablet support to inkscape
by Danni Coy 25 Aug '04

25 Aug '04

I noticed that The UI is being upgraded from gtk+ to gtkmm I would like to try and get Pen Tablet support (it is probably a good time). My early experiments in doing this are not doing too well (considering that the GTK documentation is totally out of date). The dynadraw tool looks like the easiest to convert to use extended input But I don't seem to be able to get it to respond to this extra information. >From what I have managed to glean so far "gdk_input_set_extension_events" has to be called on each "gdk_window" you want to get receive extended event information. So far I have tried doing this with sp_canvas but it seams not to have worked. Which gdk_window(s) does the dynadraw context draw onto? Thankyou Danni -- Comparing software engineering to classical engineering assumes that software has the ability to wear out. Software typically behaves, or it does not. It either works, or it does not. Software generally does not degrade, abrade, stretch, twist, or ablate. To treat it as a physical entity, therefore, is misapplication of our engineering skills. Classical engineering deals with the characteristics of hardware; software engineering should deal with the characteristics of *software*, and not with hardware or management. -- Dan Klein

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MAC OS X 10.4 to be resolution independent
by Jon Phillips 24 Aug '04

24 Aug '04

You see it here: http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=610 You know what this is leading towards...SVG desktop or vector desktop? Jon -- Jon Phillips USA.PH.858.361.2811 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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libsigc++ problems in Yoper [Re: Please Help: Yoper linux packaging/compiling problems]
by tom b 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

From: Mike Hearn Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2004 13:19:51 +0100 >On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 11:40:01 -0700, tom b wrote: >> Hello, I'm having problems trying to RPM &/or compile >> inkscape in Yoper linux. I have a thread going on the >> Yoper site here: >> http://www.yoper.com/forum2/index.php?showtopic=1928 > >As Bryce said, there is an autopackage you can use here: >http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/0.39/inkscape-0.39.package >Alternatively if you want the bleeding edge of Inkscape >development try this: >http://navi.cx/~mike/inkscape/inkscape-0.40cvs.package I tried that, & keep getting "Could not find 'libsigc C++ callback library'" 1) There is no such package for Yoper yet 2) I config/make/make install libsigc-1.2.so5 (I think from Debian?) sucessfully, but inkscape-0.39.package still couldn't find it. 3) I I config/make/make install libsigc++-2.0.3 (from Sourceforge), but inkscape-0.40cvs.package still couldn't find it. both libs are in usr/local/lib Aside from switching distros (1 last go with Yoper), any other ideas? cheers ===== high-speed downtempo radio: http://live365.com/stations/infuzon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Update French translation
by Frederic Rodrigo 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hi, I have updated the French translation. Thank to the helpfull Peter Moulder Fred.

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svgs2pdf?
by Bryce Harrington 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

It occurred to me that for presentation purposes, it would be very handy to be able to generate one PDF file from a set of SVG's. Anyone know of a mechanism for doing this? Bryce

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Weirdness with new fileopen dialogue and gdb
by Carl Hetherington 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hi, I've just been trying current CVS with gdb, and I find that starting inkscape under gdb and then choosing File->Open results in Program received signal SIG32, Real-time event 32. 0x40c772e1 in sigpending () from /lib/libc.so.6 #0 0x40c772e1 in sigpending () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40c773a7 in sigsuspend () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x40131258 in pthread_getconcurrency () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #3 0x40130ac5 in pthread_create () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 0x4109ab41 in ?? () from /usr/lib/./libgthread-2.0.so.0 #5 0x08b09bd8 in ?? () #6 0xbfffd600 in ?? () #7 0x40b6de80 in g_static_private_free () from /usr/lib/./libglib-2.0.so.0 #8 0x40b6e0ec in g_thread_create_full () from /usr/lib/./libglib-2.0.so.0 #9 0x41081ef6 in link_thread_io_context () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #10 0x41081961 in link_exec_command () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #11 0x41081fe5 in link_set_io_thread () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #12 0x4107c6a5 in ORBit_ObjectAdaptor_set_thread_hintv () from /usr/lib/./libORBit-2.so.0 #13 0x411843a3 in bonobo_poa_get_threadedv () from /usr/lib/./libbonobo-2.so.0 #14 0x41184506 in bonobo_poa_get_threaded () from /usr/lib/./libbonobo-2.so.0 ... Does this happen for anyone else, or is it a quirk of my system? Thanks Carl

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compiling inkscape
by Martin Wiebusch 23 Aug '04

23 Aug '04

Hi, I would like to contribute to the inkscape development, but I have problems compiling the cvs checkout. I got the checkout with the command cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@...54...:/cvsroot/inkscape co inkscape running the autogen.sh script gives the following output > checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... yes (version 2.59) > checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.7.9) > checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.2.3) > checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.31.1) > > Running aclocal-1.7 ... > Running autoheader ... > Running automake-1.7 --add-missing ... > configure.in:25: required file `./ltmain.sh' not found > Please fix the error conditions and try again. The file ltmain.sh is nowhere to be found among the downloaded files. What am I doing wrong? Martin.

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