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Update on Inkscape release plan
by Bryce Harrington 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

It sounds like there's a desire to push the release back a week, due mainly to concerns about mail trouble from the virus. Bryce

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RE: default document
by bulia byak 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

What's wrong with the list? I don't see any mail in it since yesterday. >The idea was to have inkscape check for ~/.inkscape/default.svg and open >that for "run without any parameters", and if ~/.inkscape/default.svg >were missing, to use the system wide default.svg given in >doc/default.svg. This gives us the ability for users to start with >their prefered document options (such as page size, colour, etc). The >tutorial should explain how this works so that the user can change the >default easily (checkbox in save?). We almost have it already. It now works via the default namedview template in preferences.xml. It allows you to set paper size, color, border width & shadow, grid and guide options, plus zoom and center of view. As for easy setting, I think now the best approach is to add a "save as template" button in the Document Options doalog, now that I've collected all document options into one dialog. Ultimately, we'll need a support for multiple external templates and a "new for template" option, but for now the template in preferences.xml is good enough I think. >I'm suggesting we try and get this in for this release, particularly if >someone can work on the tutorial to explain some of the features that >people tend to miss when they first try out inkscape(knots, offsets, >printing to .ps). I'm writing to you because you would be the best >person to implement the logic for this (I think?). So the logic is mostly there, except for the button, which should not be difficult to add. But you can edit your template in preferences already, and it may make sense to mention this in docs somewhere... but on the other hand, keyboard shortcuts are more important, and we still don't have them in the Help menu. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: advanced junk mail protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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default document
by MenTaLguY 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

For some reason nathan's mail isn't getting through -- he asked me to forward this: Subject: default document From: Nathan Hurst <njh@...32...> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 12:34:41 +1100 To: bulia byak <bulia@...23...>, inkscape <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Hi Bulia, sometime ago we discussed the idea of making a default document open when inkscape is first installed, perhaps only opening on the first time use of inkscape, perhaps until the user changes their default document settings. The idea was to have inkscape check for ~/.inkscape/default.svg and open that for "run without any parameters", and if ~/.inkscape/default.svg were missing, to use the system wide default.svg given in doc/default.svg. This gives us the ability for users to start with their prefered document options (such as page size, colour, etc). The tutorial should explain how this works so that the user can change the default easily (checkbox in save?). I'm suggesting we try and get this in for this release, particularly if someone can work on the tutorial to explain some of the features that people tend to miss when they first try out inkscape(knots, offsets, printing to .ps). I'm writing to you because you would be the best person to implement the logic for this (I think?). njh

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default document
by Nathan Hurst 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

for some reason this didn't arrive. njh

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fullscreen mode
by Johan C 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi, I'm interested in coding on inkscape. I've coded for Worldforge together with Bryce. I've talked a bit with some developers on gristle.org and decided to hack in fullscreen mode and maybe patterns later on. If anyone can point me in the right direction for the fullscreen mode that'd be great. So far, I've seen a gtk_window_fullscreen function somewhere with a GDK_F mask shortcut. I'll make this F11 as in the keyboard shortcuts todo on wiki. People on gristle.org suggested putting in a menuitem for it in the View menu. Any suggestions are welcome. Johan

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fullscreen mode
by Johan Ceuppens 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi, I'm interested in coding on inkscape. I've coded for Worldforge together with Bryce. I've talked a bit with the developers on gristle.org and decided to hack in fullscreen mode and maybe patterns later on. If anyone can point me in the right direction for the fullscreen mode that'd be great. So far, I've seen a gtk_window_fullscreen function somewhere with a GDK_F mask shortcut. I'll make this F11 as in the keyboard shortcuts todo on wiki. People on gristle.org suggested putting in a menuitem for it in the View menu. Any suggestions are welcome. Johan

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default document
by Nathan Hurst 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

Hi Bulia, sometime ago we discussed the idea of making a default document open when inkscape is first installed, perhaps only opening on the first time use of inkscape, perhaps until the user changes their default document settings. The idea was to have inkscape check for ~/.inkscape/default.svg and open that for "run without any parameters", and if ~/.inkscape/default.svg were missing, to use the system wide default.svg given in doc/default.svg. This gives us the ability for users to start with their prefered document options (such as page size, colour, etc). The tutorial should explain how this works so that the user can change the default easily (checkbox in save?). I'm suggesting we try and get this in for this release, particularly if someone can work on the tutorial to explain some of the features that people tend to miss when they first try out inkscape(knots, offsets, printing to .ps). I'm writing to you because you would be the best person to implement the logic for this (I think?). njh

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RE: Inkscape minor changes I'd like before the next release (if acceptable)
by bulia byak 30 Jan '04

30 Jan '04

> > > > No. Arrows are for moving. Rotation is different and needs different > > >keys. > >How about using Ctrl+R for rotation through 90 degrees? (I use that a >whole lot more often than the small rotations anyway). Why ctrl-] is any worse? And if you decide you want to rotate it back, you only need to press ctrl-[. Whereas with ctrl-r, you'd have to do ctrl-r three more times :) >Ctrl+R is >currently used by Show Rulers and only becuase I cannot think of anything >better I'd suggest using Ctrl+Shift+R for Show Rulers because at least >then it would be the same as the GIMP. And ctrl-r in Gimp is what? > > Because I may want to pan regardless of any selection, of course! > >You might want to, you dont sound all that certain. Really, I pan with ctrl-arrows ALL THE TIME. When the doc is just loaded and there's no selection. When I have a selection and want to better center it. And in a million of other cases :) >I've just noticed that the Up and Down Arrow Keys currently Zoom in and >Out (when used without any modifier keys) and I would have expected them >to be available for Panning when nothing was selected. They're not supposed to, it's a bug which I will fix shortly. It does not affect selector and node tool. >I'd think that Up and Down would be best not used for Zooming. Sure. >For Zooming it would be better to just have >Zoom In + (and also =) as well as Ctrl++ (and Ctrl+=) Sorry, ctrl++ is already "union". It's easy to remember that ctrl with four math operators means four boolean functions. >Zoom Out - as well as Ctrl+- Ctrl+- is "subtract" >(the use of both + and = is to avoid the nasty differences between QWERTY >and AZERTY keyboards) and with Zoom having this generous selection of >shorcuts Yes. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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can't compile
by bulia byak 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

select-context.cpp: In function `gint sp_select_context_root_handler(SPEventContext*, GdkEvent*)': select-context.cpp:386: error: cannot convert `const NR::Point' to `double' for argument `2' to `void sp_rubberband_start(SPDesktop*, double, double)' make[3]: *** [select-context.o] Error 1 _________________________________________________________________ Help STOP 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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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 icon problem
by bulia byak 29 Jan '04

29 Jan '04

>These are all now fuzzy, poor colour contrast and much less clear than >previous icons. My guess is that they are not "new icons". There was no icons change on Linux recently. Most likely, the Win build is just broken because of the recent directory renames and thus uses wrong icons. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoi…

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