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[Fwd: Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke]
by Jon Phillips 21 May '04

21 May '04

-----Forwarded Message----- > From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > To: bulia byak <archiver_1@...19...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke > Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 13:19:03 -0700 > > No it is useful to have the fill and color stroke more like swatches > that are compared against each other. The tabbed palette hides this > information too much (and yes you can see it on the canvas, but what if > you want to color mix without an object selected). > > Also, this request is not so much about saving space as about providing > a similar experience across applications. Please look at this > illustrator screen shot of how colors are handled: > > http://protofunk.org/projects/group/inkscape/reference/adobeillustrator/10/… > > Illustrator's smaller interface is brilliant and how colors can be dealt > with as foreground/background or stroke/line is brilliant as well. > > Jon > > > On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 12:38, bulia byak wrote: > > >Couldn't the Fill and Stroke tabs be condensed into one by having a > > >toggle between fill and stroke on the same pane with the color chooser. > > > > Don't see how this is drastically better than a pair of tabs. It's not > > likely to take much less space. > > > > >This is the most common use in Illustrator, Freehand and other apps. The > > >illustrator approach is pretty useful, because you can change a shape's > > >line and fill back and forth by hitting the 'x' key, and do it in the > > >interface as well. > > > > What do you mean by "doing it in the interface"? > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee Security : 2 months > > FREE* > > http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht… -- Jon Phillips Graduate Researcher Visual Arts Department PO BOX 948667 LA JOLLA, CA 92037 USA cell.858.361.2811 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] fill & stroke
by bulia byak 20 May '04

20 May '04

>Couldn't the Fill and Stroke tabs be condensed into one by having a >toggle between fill and stroke on the same pane with the color chooser. Don't see how this is drastically better than a pair of tabs. It's not likely to take much less space. >This is the most common use in Illustrator, Freehand and other apps. The >illustrator approach is pretty useful, because you can change a shape's >line and fill back and forth by hitting the 'x' key, and do it in the >interface as well. What do you mean by "doing it in the interface"? _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium with Virus Guard and Firewall* from McAfee� Security : 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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all-clubs bug
by bulia byak 20 May '04

20 May '04

I think i fixed the all-clubs bug in marker previews. Please test and report. The bad thing is that the dialog takes quite some time to show up initially. We probably need some kind of caching for the previews. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium: Up to 11 personalized e-mail addresses and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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Add new marker
by Tobias Jakobs 20 May '04

20 May '04

Hi, how can I add new marker to inkscape? I found the markers.svg and copied the last "<marker>..</marker>" and changed the "id" and the "inkscape:stockid". But it doesn't work. Can I do that without recompiling? One file for all Markers is not very user friendly because you can't share easily new markers with other users. MfG Tobias

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fill & stroke
by bulia byak 20 May '04

20 May '04

* The Fill and Stroke dialog is made simpler and more usable by removing some obsolete options, shortening labels, using smaller and more descriptive icons, and adding mnemonic hotkeys and tooltips. The dialog now remembers and reactivates the color selector tab you were using last. The channel entry fields are switched from the 0..1 range to 0..255 range for increased precision. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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C++ features with NRObject
by MenTaLguY 20 May '04

20 May '04

Just a quick heads-up to a change I made a couple days ago -- it's now safe to use any C++ feature with NRObject-derived classes provided that: * you still use NRObject functions to manage the object's lifecycle * there is an unbroken chain of C++ inheritance between the clas an NRObject * a class which is directly instantiated or used directly with RTTI needs to have NRObjectClass::cpp_ctor overloaded for it -mental

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] flipping with gradients
by bulia byak 19 May '04

19 May '04

>When I flip an object, I'd expect all gradients to flip the same way, but >they >don't! it's the same with "rotate 90 degrees" and rotation by handles; >gradients stick to the same orientation. As it works now, flipping an >object >horizontally does not give me the exact mirror image, since most gradients >now >look funny. Is there a technical reason for this behavior? I find it kind >of >counter-intuitive. Yes, I'm working on that right now :) This is the case only with "optimizing" objects, i.e. paths and rects. As a workaround, go to Inkscape Preferences (if you're using CVS), Transforms, and click on "Store transformation: preserved". This will fix this problem for all objects. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Premium includes powerful parental controls and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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flipping with gradients
by Johan Forsberg 19 May '04

19 May '04

Hello! When I flip an object, I'd expect all gradients to flip the same way, but they don't! it's the same with "rotate 90 degrees" and rotation by handles; gradients stick to the same orientation. As it works now, flipping an object horizontally does not give me the exact mirror image, since most gradients now look funny. Is there a technical reason for this behavior? I find it kind of counter-intuitive. Otherwise, inkscape is developing amazingly well! I'd love to contribute to the project, if only with examples of artwork. Cheers, Johan Forsberg

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Keyboard shortcuts summary (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 19 May '04

19 May '04

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 17:10:14 +0200 From: Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@...356...> To: xdg-list@...330... Subject: Keyboard shortcuts summary Hi, As some of you probably have noticed, one of the problems advanced users often encounter when using different applications is the lack of consistency between shortcuts. This problem is usually not visible when using applications by for your desktop (ie KDE applications when using KDE or GNOME applications when using GNOME) but it becomes highly visible when you switch environment or when you run one application in "hostile" (ie not its natural) environment. To try to resolve this problem, I've tried to grab the most often used keyboard shorcuts in GNOME, KDE, Mozilla and OpenOffice. The result are available at : http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~fcrozat/shortcuts/shortcuts2.gnumeric I'd like to put this table on freedesktop.org (maybe, on http://www.freedesktop.org/Standards/default-keys-spec) This way, we could start a discussion with developers of the different projects on how to improve the current situation. PS : I'll be offline for two weeks starting tomorrow, but don't hesitate to mail xdg mailing-list or me directly.. -- Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@...356...> Mandrakesoft _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list xdg@...330... http://freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] about current snapshot
by bulia byak 19 May '04

19 May '04

>1. I try to print as postscript and pipe though kprinter, but always get a >blank page. I launch Inkscape, draw a circle, print and get a blank page. File a bug. Try to locate the source of the problem - do other ways of printing work? Did it work before? If so when did it stop working? As always (http://inkscape.org/report_bugs.php), try to provide as much help as you can to the developers if you want your bug to be fixed promptly. >2. Are there any plans on implementing storing the printer command? I could do a quick-and-dirty implementation, but it needs to involve the extensions subsystem which I'm not too familiar with. Please bug Ted Gould. >3. Mini-sized dropdown lists still look weird because the font size is >large, >like in usual-sized dropdown lists (see the shot). Does this only happen in that dialog? What about the units list on the selector top panel? _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN Premium http://join.msn.com/?pgmarket=en-ca&page=byoa/prem&xAPID=1994&DI=1034&SU=ht…

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