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Wiki account creation
by Agastya Chandrakant 26 Mar '17

26 Mar '17

Hello, I would like to request account creation for Inkscape wiki with the username "User:Acagastya". -Agastya Chandrakant

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GSoC - Development Project Management System
by Gurdit Singh Bedi 25 Mar '17

25 Mar '17

Hello, I am Gurdit Singh Bedi. I am a 3rd Year student pursuing B.Tech Computer Science. I have worked with many language, mostly python and java. Recently over the past one year, I been developing websites. The most recent one is a Virtual Finance website, hosted on http://vfinance.herokuapp.com. "Development Project Management System" is the work to which I want to contribute this summer. I have gone through the specification of the work. I have checked the inkscape-web repository on launchpad and gitlab as well, I have started searching for bugs and patches to fix. So to get started, how can I proceed?

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Greetings for GSoC '17 & Some Help Required
by Nashmia Riaz 25 Mar '17

25 Mar '17

Hello 😊 My name is Nashmia Riaz and I’m writing to you from Islamabad, Pakistan. I’m currently in my third year of university, where I’m majoring in Software Engineering. I am a graphic designer as well and was introduced to Inkscape when I first got into designing, and I’ve been very fond of the simplicity and functionalities it has to offer. I plan on submitting my proposal for GSoC ’17 very soon. I’m having some trouble getting around the source files of Inkscape. Is there any documentation or help manual that can help me manoeuvre my way around the code? Anything that can tell me which functions and pieces of code are located where? I want to get started on improving the CSS Style Sheet Support, so any help would be great. Also, as far as the bug fixes are concerned, how can I communicate fixes to the Inkscape team? Best regards, Nashmia Riaz

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Facing an error
by Kanika Murarka 22 Mar '17

22 Mar '17

Hi, I have been using Inkscape for a year now. I am facing some error. [1]Error in terminal [2]Error video But I am not able to reproduce the bug. [1] https://paste.fedoraproject.org/paste/B~h3wV2FkqnazItE9emED15M1UNdIGYhyRLiv… [2] https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Kn8Ot1oauKallfdThYLUNKeUk Thanks Kanika (a2batic)

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Inkscape freezes on PNG export
by Germano Massullo 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

I was exporting to PNG, when I found out that Inkscape was trying to export a huge image of something like 100000x100000. I waited 5 minutes and after having seen that the progress bar made no progresses, I clicked on abort button. Then Inkscape freezed, so I attached GDB on the freezed process, and hereunder there is the backtrace log. Operating system: Fedora 25 Inkscape version: inkscape-0.92.1-1.fc25.x86_64 $ gdb inkscape 21278 GNU gdb (GDB) Fedora 7.12.1-47.fc25 Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html> This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Type "show copying" and "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu". Type "show configuration" for configuration details. For bug reporting instructions, please see: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/>. Find the GDB manual and other documentation resources online at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/documentation/>. For help, type "help". Type "apropos word" to search for commands related to "word"... Reading symbols from inkscape...Reading symbols from /usr/lib/debug/usr/bin/inkscape.debug...done. done. Attaching to program: /usr/bin/inkscape, process 21278 [New LWP 21279] [New LWP 21280] [New LWP 21281] [New LWP 21284] [New LWP 21285] [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". 0x00005598f9277b53 in pixbuf_from_argb32 (c=0) at display/cairo-utils.cpp:1212 1212 guint32 a = (c & 0xff000000) >> 24; (gdb) thread apply all backtrace Thread 6 (Thread 0x7ff7f63ef700 (LWP 21285)): #0 0x00007ff80ec9701d in poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84 #1 0x00007ff80fd9a166 in g_main_context_poll (priority=<optimized out>, n_fds=2, fds=0x7ff7f00010c0, timeout=<optimized out>, context=0x5598fbd4fd90) at gmain.c:4228 #2 0x00007ff80fd9a166 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x5598fbd4fd90, block=block@...3051...=1, dispatch=dispatch@...3051...=1, self=<optimized out>) at gmain.c:3924 #3 0x00007ff80fd9a4f2 in g_main_loop_run (loop=0x5598fbd4fb40) at gmain.c:4125 #4 0x00007ff81037ea76 in gdbus_shared_thread_func (user_data=0x5598fbd4fd60) at gdbusprivate.c:247 #5 0x00007ff80fdc1b93 in g_thread_proxy (data=0x5598fbd28cf0) at gthread.c:784 #6 0x00007ff80ef686ca in start_thread (arg=0x7ff7f63ef700) at pthread_create.c:333 #7 0x00007ff80eca2f7f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:105 Thread 5 (Thread 0x7ff7febf0700 (LWP 21284)): #0 0x00007ff80ec9701d in poll () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84 #1 0x00007ff80fd9a166 in g_main_context_poll (priority=<optimized out>, n_fds=2, fds=0x7ff7f80008c0, timeout=<optimized out>, context=0x5598fbd4f6d0) at gmain.c:4228 #2 0x00007ff80fd9a166 in g_main_context_iterate (context=context@...3051...=0x5598fbd4f6d0, block=block@...3051...=1, dispatch=dispatch@...3051...=1, self=<optimized out>) at gmain.c:3924 #3 0x00007ff80fd9a27c in g_main_context_iteration (context=0x5598fbd4f6d0, may_block=may_block@...3051...=1) at gmain.c:3990 #4 0x00007ff80fd9a2c1 in glib_worker_main (data=<optimized out>) at gmain.c:5783 #5 0x00007ff80fdc1b93 in g_thread_proxy (data=0x5598fbd28ca0) at gthread.c:784 #6 0x00007ff80ef686ca in start_thread (arg=0x7ff7febf0700) at pthread_create.c:333 #7 0x00007ff80eca2f7f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:105 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- Thread 4 (Thread 0x7ff806875700 (LWP 21281)): #0 0x00007ff80ef6e460 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:185 #1 0x00007ff8175e1487 in GC_wait_marker () at pthread_support.c:2087 #2 0x00007ff8175d725a in GC_help_marker (my_mark_no=my_mark_no@...3051...=13) at mark.c:1207 #3 0x00007ff8175e1457 in GC_mark_thread (id=<optimized out>) at pthread_support.c:378 #4 0x00007ff80ef686ca in start_thread (arg=0x7ff806875700) at pthread_create.c:333 #5 0x00007ff80eca2f7f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:105 Thread 3 (Thread 0x7ff807076700 (LWP 21280)): #0 0x00007ff80ef6e460 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:185 #1 0x00007ff8175e1487 in GC_wait_marker () at pthread_support.c:2087 #2 0x00007ff8175d725a in GC_help_marker (my_mark_no=my_mark_no@...3051...=13) at mark.c:1207 #3 0x00007ff8175e1457 in GC_mark_thread (id=<optimized out>) at pthread_support.c:378 #4 0x00007ff80ef686ca in start_thread (arg=0x7ff807076700) at pthread_create.c:333 #5 0x00007ff80eca2f7f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:105 Thread 2 (Thread 0x7ff807877700 (LWP 21279)): #0 0x00007ff80ef6e460 in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/pthread_cond_wait.S:185 #1 0x00007ff8175e1487 in GC_wait_marker () at pthread_support.c:2087 #2 0x00007ff8175d725a in GC_help_marker (my_mark_no=my_mark_no@...3051...=13) at mark.c:1207 #3 0x00007ff8175e1457 in GC_mark_thread (id=<optimized out>) at pthread_support.c:378 #4 0x00007ff80ef686ca in start_thread (arg=0x7ff807877700) at pthread_create.c:333 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #5 0x00007ff80eca2f7f in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:105 Thread 1 (Thread 0x7ff817cd7f40 (LWP 21278)): #0 0x00005598f9277b53 in pixbuf_from_argb32(unsigned int) (c=0) at display/cairo-utils.cpp:1212 #1 0x00005598f9277c94 in convert_pixels_argb32_to_pixbuf(unsigned char*, int, int, int) (data=data@...3051...=0x7ff7c17b6010 "", w=1000000, h=h@...3051...=64, stride=stride@...3051...=4000000) at display/cairo-utils.cpp:1263 #2 0x00005598f93a4357 in sp_export_get_rows(guchar const**, void**, int, int, void*) (rows=rows@...3051...=0x55990913bf30, to_free=to_free@...3051...=0x7ffca59c4dd8, row=row@...3051...=3456, num_rows=64, num_rows@...3051...=996544, data=data@...3051...=0x7ffca59c4ec0) at helper/png-write.cpp:352 #3 0x00005598f93a4907 in sp_png_write_rgba_striped(SPDocument*, gchar const*, unsigned long, unsigned long, double, double, void*, int (*)(guchar const**, void**, int, int, void*)) ( doc=doc@...3051...=0x5598fd82adc0, filename=filename@...3051...=0x559905425500 "/media/archivio/Roba Mia/Documenti/Universita/Sicurezza informatica presentazione/immagini/map.svg.png", width=width@...3051...=1000000, height=height@...3051...=1000000, xdpi=xdpi@...3051...=200, ydpi=ydpi@...3051...=200, data=data@...3051...=0x7ffca59c4ec0, get_rows= 0x5598f93a4110 <sp_export_get_rows(guchar const**, void**, int, int, void*)>) at helper/png-write.cpp:280 #4 0x00005598f93a4f9b in sp_export_png_file(SPDocument*, char const*, Geom::Rect const&, unsigned long, unsigned long, double, double, unsigned long, unsigned int (*)(float, void*), void*, bool, std::vector<SPItem*, std::allocator<SPItem*> > const&) (doc=0x5598fd82adc0, filename=filename@...3051...=0x559905425500 "/media/archivio/Roba Mia/Documenti/Universita/Sicurezza informatica presentazione/immagini/map.svg.png", area=..., width=width@...3051...=1000000, height=height@...3051...=1000000, xdpi=xdpi@...3051...=200, ydpi=ydpi@...3051...=200, bgcolor=bgcolor@...3051...=4294967040, status= 0x5598f95b6f20 <Inkscape::UI::Dialog::Export::onProgressCallback(float, void*)>, data=0x5599060996a0, force_overwrite=false, items_only=std::vector of length 0, capacity 0) at helper/png-write.cpp:473 #5 0x00005598f95bc234 in Inkscape::UI::Dialog::Export::onExport() (this=0x559900ea4390) at ui/dialog/export.cpp:1169 #6 0x00007ff812d2f3c8 in sigc::slot0<void>::operator()() const (this=0x559900ebed38) at /usr/include/sigc++-2.0/sigc++/functors/slot.h:513 #7 0x00007ff812d2f3c8 in Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback(_GObject*, void*) (self=<optimized out>, data=0x559900ebed30) at signalproxy.cc:104 #11 0x00007ff81008d43f in <emit signal ??? on instance 0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton]> (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- >) at gsignal.c:3447 #8 0x00007ff8100723e5 in g_closure_invoke (closure=0x559900ebed80, return_value=return_value@...3051...=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=param_values@...3051...=0x7ffca59c5d30, invocation_hint=invocation_hint@...3051...=0x7ffca59c5cb0) at gclosure.c:804 #9 0x00007ff810084503 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@...3051...=0x5598ff006e60, detail=detail@...3051...=0, instance=instance@...3051...=0x559900eaa2a0, emission_return=emission_return@...3051...=0x0, instance_and_params=instance_and_params@...3051...=0x7ffca59c5d30) at gsignal.c:3705 #10 0x00007ff81008d05f in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>, var_args=var_args@...3051...=0x7ffca59c5ef0) at gsignal.c:3391 #12 0x00007ff81457b015 in gtk_real_button_released (button=0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton]) at gtkbutton.c:1712 #16 0x00007ff81008d43f in <emit signal ??? on instance 0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton]> (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>) at gsignal.c:3447 #13 0x00007ff8100723e5 in g_closure_invoke (closure=closure@...3051...=0x5598ff00ef00, return_value=return_value@...3051...=0x0, n_param_values=1, param_values=param_values@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6190, invocation_hint=invocation_hint@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6110) at gclosure.c:804 #14 0x00007ff810083e04 in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@...3051...=0x5598ff00ef30, detail=detail@...3051...=0, instance=instance@...3051...=0x559900eaa2a0, emission_return=emission_return@...3051...=0x0, instance_and_params=instance_and_params@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6190) at gsignal.c:3565 #15 0x00007ff81008d05f in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>, var_args=var_args@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6350) at gsignal.c:3391 #17 0x00007ff814579c9c in gtk_button_button_release (widget=0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton], event=<optimized out>) at gtkbutton.c:1604 #22 0x00007ff81008d43f in <emit signal ??? on instance 0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton]> (instance=instance@...3051...=0x559900eaa2a0, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=detail@...3051...=0) at gsignal.c:3447 #18 0x00007ff814631b9e in _gtk_marshal_BOOLEAN__BOXED (closure=0x5598feff7ea0, return_value=0x7ffca59c65d0, n_param_values=<optimized out>, param_values=0x7ffca59c6630, invocation_hint=<optimized out>, marshal_data=<optimized out>) at gtkmarshalers.c:86 #19 0x00007ff8100723e5 in g_closure_invoke (closure=closure@...3051...=0x5598feff7ea0, return_value=return_value@...3051...=0x7ffca59c65d0, n_param_values=2, param_values=param_values@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6630, invocation_hint=invocation_hint@...3051...=0x7ffca59c65b0) at gclosure.c:804 ---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit--- #20 0x00007ff81008482d in signal_emit_unlocked_R (node=node@...3051...=0x5598feff7ef0, detail=detail@...3051...=0, instance=instance@...3051...=0x559900eaa2a0, emission_return=emission_return@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6750, instance_and_params=instance_and_params@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6630) at gsignal.c:3673 #21 0x00007ff81008cb8f in g_signal_emit_valist (instance=<optimized out>, signal_id=<optimized out>, detail=<optimized out>, var_args=var_args@...3051...=0x7ffca59c6800) at gsignal.c:3401 #23 0x00007ff81476218c in gtk_widget_event_internal (widget=widget@...3051...=0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton], event=event@...3051...=0x7ff7e800c170) at gtkwidget.c:5017 #24 0x00007ff814762457 in IA__gtk_widget_event (widget=widget@...3051...=0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton], event=event@...3051...=0x7ff7e800c170) at gtkwidget.c:4814 #25 0x00007ff81462fe54 in IA__gtk_propagate_event (widget=0x559900eaa2a0 [gtkmm__GtkButton], event=0x7ff7e800c170) at gtkmain.c:2501 #26 0x00007ff81463021b in IA__gtk_main_do_event (event=0x7ff7e800c170) at gtkmain.c:1696 #27 0x00007ff81428d49c in gdk_event_dispatch (source=<optimized out>, callback=<optimized out>, user_data=<optimized out>) at gdkevents-x11.c:2425 #28 0x00007ff80fd99e52 in g_main_dispatch (context=0x5598fbd0b080) at gmain.c:3203 #29 0x00007ff80fd99e52 in g_main_context_dispatch (context=context@...3051...=0x5598fbd0b080) at gmain.c:3856 #30 0x00007ff80fd9a1d0 in g_main_context_iterate (context=0x5598fbd0b080, block=block@...3051...=1, dispatch=dispatch@...3051...=1, self=<optimized out>) at gmain.c:3929 #31 0x00007ff80fd9a4f2 in g_main_loop_run (loop=0x559904fda500) at gmain.c:4125 #32 0x00007ff81462f267 in IA__gtk_main () at gtkmain.c:1268 #33 0x00005598f90da28b in sp_main_gui(int, char const**) (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>) at main.cpp:1150 #34 0x00007ff80ebbb401 in __libc_start_main (main= 0x5598f90bca30 <main(int, char**)>, argc=2, argv=0x7ffca59c6e18, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffca59c6e08) at ../csu/libc-start.c:289 #35 0x00005598f90d62ba in _start () (gdb)

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Update to window rotation.
by Tavmjong Bah 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi, I've been reworking Jabier's window rotation code to use the desktop to window affine rather than messing with the SVG viewbox. This is to keep the GUI code out of the SVG handling code (also viewbox doesn't have the concept of rotation so it was a real hack to put it in there). This also unifies how zoom and rotation are handled (and eventually could include flip). With trunk r15603 most of the work is done so I would like to ask that people try it out. There are currently two ways to rotate the canvas. 1. Use the rotate spin entry box at the lower right corner of the screen to input an arbitrary rotation value (right click to open a pop- up with preset values). In this case, the rotation is around the center of the window. 2. Use Shift-Ctrl-Scroll wheel to rotate around the current cursor position. Currently the rotation is set to be in increments of 2 degrees. (We can make this a user defined preference.) Note, this is a work in progress. Axiometric grids are not handled correctly and resize/skew/rotate handles are not rotated with the canvas. Work is being tracked at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Rotati ng_Canvas Sorry there is no video. I don't have the video creating skill Jabier has... It would be interesting to know how people use a rotated canvas. Is it with a separate tablet (e.g. Wacom) or with a touch sensitive screen? Yale Zhang has a branch with gestures support. It would be interesting to get this into trunk but it looks like it needs a good review. Tav

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GSoC 2017 proposal - Robust Extension System
by Minglangjun Li 21 Mar '17

21 Mar '17

Hi all, I'm a student at Xidian University, of Xi'an, China. This is my first time to apply for GSoC. Since I haven't applied before and don't know how to write a good enough application, I decide to follow the Inkscape SOC application template on the website. I'll try to cover all the points in brief. Also, English is not my mother tongue. Please excuse any errors on my part. I use Inkscape mainly for technical drawings (e.g. flow charts, neural networks structures) and app icons. The most complex two I created are a convolutional neural network and an anime character[1]. I love it for being powerful, easy-to-use and off course, open source. Being a contributor to it would definitely be exciting. I'm browsing the source code recently and have submitted two patches[2,3]. I code in C++ and Python. My favourite programming tools are Vim and Git. Projects I completed include a COOL compiler [4] which is the course project of Stanford compiler course and an Android client [5] for the NHK easy news website. My contributions to other open source projects are: 1. I fixed a bug in the implementation of the Felzenszwalb segmentation algorithm in scikit-image[6]. Old implementation does not update the sizes of merged regions which causes small regions to be merged into only a few large regions. [7] 2. I extended the Python binding of the Dlib library [8] to support discontiguous Numpy arrays. [9] Q: Why should you pick me? A: I use Inkscape and I would like to help it become better. I'm particularly interested in improving the performance of Inkscape which has been complained by many users [10,11] and hope to learn from it as well as sharpen my programming skills. The statements and adjudgements below are according to my current knowledge of Inkscape. If there's any mistake, please let me know. Any advice for improving this proposal will be greatly appreciated. The Proposal ============ Project: Robust Extension System Abstract The extension system is a way to extend Inkscape's functionality. My project aims to improve the performance of the subsystem and make extension development reliable through creating a specific unit test framework. Goals: 1. Check extensions' availabilities in a top-down strategy to avoid unnecessary rechecking in the case of cascading failure. This also makes the dependency check faster. (May 30 - June 20) 2. Implement a universal expiration time manager for all the extensions which uses less memory and is easier to maintain. (June 21 - July 20) 3. Create a test suite for extensions. Build infrastructures like document builder, extension loading, node and attribute lookup, etc.(July 21 - August 20) 4. Other miscellaneous tasks. (If time allows) - Implement an INX builder for internal extensions, making the code more readable and maintainable. - Release an extension if it gets deactivated to save memory. This follows the observation that deactiveated extensions are never activated again. - ... Details: 1. To check extensions' availabilities in a top-down strategy, we should use a data structure like disjoint sets to represent the relationships between extensions. We then assign ranks to extensions in the following way: If an extension has no dependency, we call it a root extension and assign a rank of 0 to it. Otherwise, we set its rank to the maximum rank of all its dependencies plus one. With the help of ranks, we're able to check extensions' availabilities in the order of their ranks. This ensures that an extension's dependencies have been checked before it is checked. 2. Inkscape trunk uses a circular linked list to manage extensions' expiration times. It is not well designed and do bad things (calling 'delete this' in the member). We can improve this by introduce a universal expiration time manager. The expiration time of each extension is inserted into a min heap (or priority queue) on load. When the manager timeouts, it removes all the time that have expired and unloads those extensions. This is similar to how Nginx manages its event timers. Unlike Nginx, we set the timeout of the timer according to the minimal expiration time instead of a constant interval and update it once the queue is updated. 3. Testing an extension is straightforward. We read or elaborate some documents, load the extension and test it against those documents. For most of the input/output extensions, we can do nothing but check if they finish without error and assume that third-party libraries do what they are supposed to do. For effect extensions, we apply them to the documents and examine if the objects are corretly modified in the returned document. Some helper functions should make writing test cases easier. I noticed that there're some bare-bone tests located in the test subdirectory of the extensions folder. Testing Python extensions separately using unittest is a good idea, but what about extensions written in other languages? This needs further consideration. [1] https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1hNZ1rY1_c4RUJ5b3N5Z0gtODA [2] https://code.launchpad.net/~mljli/inkscape/fix-1670688 [3] https://code.launchpad.net/~mljli/inkscape/cmake_arch [4] https://github.com/mljli/compilers-004 [5] http://nekotachi.github.io/easynews [6] https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image [7] https://github.com/scikit-image/scikit-image/pull/2164 [8] http://dlib.net/ [9] https://github.com/davisking/dlib/pull/155 [10] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1198317 [11] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/367779 Regard, Minglangjun Li

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Problem with associating Inkscape to the SVG file type on Windows 7 x64
by William Berzoff 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hi, After upgrading to version *0.92.1 r15371* *x64*, Inkscape no longer associates to the SVG file type. I tried completely uninstalling/reinstalling. Have also made sure there are no other versions still present on my PC. Checked for any version x64, x32 or portable. My PC runs on Windows 7 x64 U.E. I also had not recently updated or installed any other software. An other strange thing was that suddenly GIMP was being associated with the SVG file type, without me adjusting any settings. I would right click a SVG file to try associate Inkscape via the routine *Open With... Choose Default Program*. Inkscape was no longer in the presented list. Also navigating to the *inkscape.exe* file and selecting it, was no use. Inkscape would still not associate with SVG. Also trying through the Configuration Panel didn't work. Also, trying again after rebooting the computer, didn't work. Typical thing is that SVGZ file are still associated with Inkscape like they where before. Notably, I am not having issues starting up Inkscape directly from the executable. And I can still use it to edit SVG files. It's just an annoyance to have to use a work about. Also I feel not qualified to tell whether it's a bug or not. I have posted on the Inkscape forum, where they recommended that I contact the developers through the mailing list. Below a link to my first relevant post on that forum. http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=31924#p97023 Hopefully you can help me out. Regards, William Berzoff

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New to inkscape source code
by Rahul Manoj 19 Mar '17

19 Mar '17

Hi, I am a college student who is looking to contribute to the inkscape project as I am trying to participate in "google summer of code 2017" . I have some initial trouble compiling the source code when I ran cmake .. . The error is as follows: -- Checking for modules 'gtkmm-3.0>=3.8;gdkmm- 3.0>=3.8;gtk+-3.0>=3.8;gdk-3.0>=3.8;gdl-3.0>=3.4' -- CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:367 (message): A required package was not found Call Stack (most recent call first): /usr/share/cmake-3.5/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:532 (_pkg_check_modules_internal) CMakeScripts/DefineDependsandFlags.cmake:250 (pkg_check_modules) CMakeLists.txt:120 (include) If someone could guide me on what packages or libraries I have to install I would be grateful, Rahul Manoj

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Development Project Management System Gsoc 2017
by Rohit Lodha 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Hi I am Rohit. *As I mentioned in my last email, I would like to contribute to Inkscape by working on the Development Project Management System during the summer.* I have already submitted some patches to inkscape-web repository. I would like you to help me write my project proposal by suggesting more features that can be implemented in the system. After going through the blueprints, funded development project and Janitorial task, I suggest we build a Web portal with the following features : - People can submit,edit and view ideas for development project.( With login capabilities or without it) - The admin and the user(who uploaded the idea) will have the authority to change the status of the project ( Like assigning it to somebody, changing the design,priority,delivery,tags of the project among other things) - Contributors can view the ideas based on different filters( priority, tags, design, janitorial, languages) and can select those project by letting the admin/user know. - A feature will be added where contributors can comment and clarify their doubts about the project. - All the launchpad blueprints can be transferred to the portal with a well written python script. This is just a basic blueprint of the system. I would like you to suggest some more features which I may have missed. -Rohit Lodha Gitlab profile : https://gitlab.com/rtgdk Github profile: https://github.com/rtgdk

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