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Re: [Inkscape-devel] keys and mouse reference
by bulia byak 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

>The tutorial is still using mainly Times New Roman and looks good with this >font. Will fix today. >If Bitstream Vera Sans is required will it be packaged with the Win32 >build? Good idea. Bob? _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/features&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin…

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keys and mouse reference
by bulia byak 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

There's now a Keys and Mouse command in Help. It opens an SVG keyboard reference. (Do "make install" so it is copied to where Inkscape expects to find it). The reference is zoom-based, i.e. you are supposed to first find the section you need using the large section headings; then you zoom into the section and read smaller subsection headings; then you zoom into the subsection and read the keyboard shortcuts; if interested, you can zoom even more to read small-type comments and explanations. I think it's a natural approach for Inkscape with its 256x zoom, and it's pretty convenient. Of course it is assumed that you already know at least how to zoom and pan, but I think it's a safe assumption. The reference uses Bitstream Vera Sans exclusively as suggested by njh, so this is now a required font for Inkscape. I will now change the tutorial to Vera as well. I'm interested to know how they come up on other computers and platforms, if there are any misalignments, etc. Please send a screenshot if you have a problem. The svg file is generated from doc/keys.xml by doc/keys-svg.xsl (I use Saxon 7 but it should work with any processor). I will now write another simple stylesheet to generate the same reference in HTML. Comments welcome as always. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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Feature freeze 2/7/04 20:00 GMT
by Bryce Harrington 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

I think the time's right to go ahead and feature freeze and put full focus on bug fixing. Let's set the feature freeze time to Saturday 20:00 GMT (that's high noon for those of us in the PST timezone). Here are the remaining code cleanup tasks: ** Review #if 0 code in sp-gradient.cpp, sp-root.cpp [tvon] ** Review #if 0 code in *-chemistry.cpp and seltrans.cpp [pjrm] ** Review #if 0 code in svg/ ** Review #if 0 code in display/ [mental] ** Review #if 0 code in helper/ ** Review #if 0 code in xml/ I haven't seen tvon in a while so perhaps someone else can take his review task? I will post the info on making release packages tomorrow morning. We are down to 9 critical bugs that will need to be addressed prior to our final release: 891852 saves to old location after save-as 850971 Crash while deleting namedview in XML editor 852976 win32: mouse becoming unresponsive 871582 path display freeze [mental] 864791 XML editor: crash when canceling quit [mental] 863373 ./configure not present in nightly tarball snapshot 863371 --gnome-print option 881397 too big objects crash 887428 R&B channels reversed on win32 when printing [ishmal] The ./configure issue looks like just a tweak needed to the nightly build script - Ted or Jon, perhaps you could solve this easily? Ishmal, could you verify that the mouse unresponsive bug on Win32? It's possible this bug is completely fixed now. Also see if you can validate the fix that mental did for 881397, that it works on Win32 too; if so we can mark that one done too. The --gnome-print option bug looks like it might be spurious and not need fixing - could someone try doing `./configure --with-gnome-print` and see if they can reproduce the bug? Jon? There are a couple XML Editor bugs; I looked into each and they did not look as trivial as some of the other bugs. Could someone figure out what we could do to fix these? Mental, do you think 871582 is fixable this weekend? If not, how critical is the bug - could it be postponed for next release? Bryce

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Packagers' info
by Bryce Harrington 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

I've updated the Wiki page on CreatingDists with some directions for creating and naming the various kinds of packages we'll need. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?CreatingDists Last time we kicked butt at collecting packages for a wide range of platforms. We wish to do the same this time, and improve on this by adopting a standardized naming convention for the packages. Specifics are on the wiki page. Here's examples: inkscape-0.37-1.win32.exe inkscape-0.37-1.i386.deb inkscape-0.37-1.athlon.deb inkscape-0.37-1.ppc.deb inkscape-0.37-1.sparc.deb inkscape-0.37-1.mdk80.i386.rpm inkscape-0.37-1.mdk80.i686.rpm inkscape-0.37-1.mdk91.i386.rpm inkscape-0.37-1.mdk91.i686.rpm inkscape-0.37-1.fc1.i386.rpm inkscape-0.37-1.fc1.i686.rpm inkscape-0.37-1.fc1.athlon.rpm inkscape-0.37-1.fc1.ppc.rpm Employing a standard naming convention will make it clearer for people to find the package they need. In order to put some bounds on the quantity of packages we could accumulate, let's limit the varients of a given distro to two for a given architecture - an "oldish" one for compatibility, and a "newish" one for those on the bleeding edge. Let's also limit ourselves for x86 architectures to just i386 and i686. As a minimum, for announcing the release lets strive to have the following covered: * A win32 package * Debian packages for i386, i686, and ppc * rh73 and rh90 packages for i386, i686, and ppc * mdk92 package for i386 * fc1 package for i386 * suse90 package for i386 * fink package for ppc Based on our prior release I think we should have little problem meeting these base requirements. If we can get more distros and architectures, that's great! Bryce

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keys reference in HTML
by bulia byak 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

Is now here: http://inkscape.org/doc/keys.html as well as in doc/ in the distribution. So if you want to change anything, you need to edit doc/keys.xml and regenerate SVG and HTML as described here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?KeyboardShortcuts _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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Please change the subject line if appropriate.
by Alan Horkan 08 Feb '04

08 Feb '04

Rather than ask anyone person directly I would like to politely request that people try to change the subject line a little more often. I'm finding it extremely confusing to try and follow all these different threads with the same subject lines. (It would probably be easier if did something to break up the list digest and got my mailer to thread everthing nicely but I would still very much appreciate it). Thanks in advance. Replies offlist please if necessary. - Alan PS I first wrote this message Feb 8 but didn't send it as I was hoping that if I concentrated really hard it my just happen due to my physic powers but it seems they have failed me.

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Inkscape Feature Freeze
by Bryce Harrington 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

At this time we are temporarily closing the codebase to new features or other significant codebase changes until we are ready to cut the release branch. Until that time, please focus on bug fixing, testing, and packaging/documentation enhancements. Code cleanup work, including removal of the 'if 0' code, conversion of tabs to spaces, cleaning up compiler warnings, etc. should either be postponed or completed soon and with great care and testing. In general I would encourage everyone to set aside feature development or code cleanup work to focus on testing the application and fixing critical bugs. The sooner we can work through this process, the sooner we can have the release completed and be back to regular development. :-) If instead you'd like to continue with development or code cleanup, please do your work on a branch and plan to merge it subsequent to the release. Thanks, Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] prerelease
by bulia byak 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

>Works for me, although I'd really like to see us focus on getting the >official release out as swiftly as possible. Could you put the >prerelease out today? I'm thinking if we put in a good weekend we can >probably get all the outstanding items completed and be ready for an >official release by Sunday evening. We're awfully close. If I am to select only two bugs to be fixed, they are these: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=866197&group_id=93… http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=881397&group_id=93… Can anyone please have a look? The rest look less like release blockers, or are too hard to fix at this time. Also there's a nasty bug 891852, but that one I'll try to fix myself today. _________________________________________________________________ Protect your PC - get McAfee.com VirusScan Online http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

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prerelease
by MenTaLguY 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

Since some folks seem worried about us being "scooped" by the upcoming Sodipodi release... How would you all feel about doing an Inkscape prerelease -- that is, take a known-good CVS snapshot this weekend, make a dist tarball from it, call it .. 0.37-rc1, and put it on the site with something like the usual announcement and release notes. As it's a prerelease, we won't need to worry about filing (all) the rough edges off or packaging for other distros, but we'll still have put our stake in the sand. Maybe that way we could focus better on getting the final release out quickly, without feeling so much pressure to rush. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] tutorial ready
by bulia byak 07 Feb '04

07 Feb '04

>Good work bulia. I learned more from your help tutorial in five minutes >than >I have in the past few months of fumbling and mumbling. It would be good to >have the entire help tutorial in SVG form. Is this what you have in mind? >This could include detailed examples of more complex actions, how to change >preferences etc.etc. Yes, I will be expanding it, and probably break it into two or three parts (basic/medium/advanced). >I have attached two screenshots. The first is general. The second shows a >small icon misplacement that occurs with my nachine. Let me know if you >want >any specific shots. Thanks for the icon shift report, I'll have to change that because font alignment across systems is obviously unreliable. As for shorts, I wanted to post them on the site. Your Windows shots are even better for that, because they will show off both the tutorial and the windows port. So please send a couple screens showing the entire window with all tools and decorations, with perhaps the first "page" of the tutorial and then with some nice graphics down below. I will then put them on the site (or if you have CVS access you can do this yourself, see http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WebsiteEditing) >https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=859364&group_id=9… >I do not get this bug on my machine. Win32. OS2000. build0402030318. I think I have since fixed that mysterious bug. _________________________________________________________________ STOP MORE SPAM with the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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