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Re: [Inkscape-devel] #if 0 code cleanup work
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Hello, >Changed transient policy to 0 as a default. Seems to fix the sawfish bug. Are you sure everyone wants it as the default? This is a serious change that should have been discussed on the list first. When I first implemented transient dialogs a couple months ago, everyone seemed pleased with that, and this sawfish complaint is the first one ever received about that feature. I think sawfish users can easily set it to 0 in their local configs, while the majority of users will be disappointed to see that unsinkable dialogs are sinkable again. So I suggest that you reverse that change. And if you want to make it easier for people to set their own dialogs-on-top policy, you could work on the preferences dialog instead, as described here: http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PreferencesDialog _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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letter-spacing
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

I just committed support for the letter-spacing CSS property. No GUI yet, but you can set letter-spacing on a text object via XML editor and it will work. (I just really needed it for my work, so decided to see if it can be done quickly, and indeed it can.) Please test! One problem is the em and ex units. I simply copied the Lauris' code which sets em equal to the font size and ex to 0.5 of the font size. Of course we need a proper way to extract the real em and ex values from the current font, but I don't know how to do that and if it's possible at all. (Or can Pango text help with this?) Any help will be appreciated. _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to choose, serve, and enjoy wine at Wine @ MSN. http://wine.msn.com/

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: bug 889618
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

>Like where does it tell me to use any of those keys? Like in Help > Keyboard shortcuts. It's not done yet but will be done for the upcoming release. >Why can't they just have an X in the corner like nearly every other >window?? Because your window manager chose not to allow them to. Most other window managers (like the default ones of Gnome and KDE) don't remove the decorations from transient windows. Complain to your window manager developers, or search its configuration - it may have a switch for configuring this. Please change <group id="transientpolicy" value="1" /> to <group id="transientpolicy" value="0" /> in your ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml and report if this fixes the problem for you. _________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: [Inkscape-devel] #if 0 code cleanup work
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

>johan: *-context.cpp files >bulia: knotholder.cpp, nodepath.cpp, rubberband.cpp, object-edit.cpp, >and object-ui.cpp I did all of these. >rejon: libnrtype/ I suggest that we leave this one for later, simply because none of us can claim to completely understand libnr/libnrtype. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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bug 889618
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Nathan, Could you please test the solution to this bug on the original reporter's Sawfish WM? If it works acceptably I will close the bug. Now there is options.transientpolicy option that can be set to 0 (default is 1) to not set transient property on dialogs. No GUI yet, maybe in the next version. But you can set the option already by editing your ~/.inkscape/preferences.xml. By the way, even with sinking non-transient windows, you can convenienetly emerge all active dialogs by pressing F12 twice. _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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undoing text node changes
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

Mental: I noticed that editing a text node in the XML editor does not complete transaction (unlike e.g. editing an attribute) and thus breaks undo. So I inserted sp_document_done() into sp_xmlview_content_changed() in widgets/sp-xmlview-content.cpp. This fixed the broken undo, but: 1. I could not find out what document we are editing, so I did the document_done function on SP_DT_DOCUMENT (SP_ACTIVE_DESKTOP). Can you rewrite it without ACTIVE_DESKTOP? 2. Now that the text node changes are undoable, undoing editing a text object in XML editor has the same problem as in this bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=861462&group_id=93… That is, if you create a text node, switch to any other tool, and then reproduce this bug's sequence but using XML editor instead of F8, the result is the same. Which proves that the source of the problem is not text tool, but the wrong way text node changes are logged and undone by the repr logger. It was only obvious in text tool because no other tools create/edit text nodes. Can you please have a look into it? _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.ms…

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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Grid toggle / snapping keyboard shortcut
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

>Would it be feasible to have the # key toggle both the grid visibility >and grid snapping at the same time? Good idea, added to my todo _________________________________________________________________ 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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RE: [Inkscape-devel] Re: Wireframe View
by bulia byak 05 Feb '04

05 Feb '04

> >Does Inkscape have a "wireframe" or "preview/outline mode"? This is again > >extremely useful when drawings get complex with many overlapping objects. >It > >may allready be present but I have not found it yet. Please let me know >if > >it is here. > >I am pretty sure the answer is no. However, would someone confirm this >please? Not that I know of. >From a users point of view this command is extremely valuable. > >One use is that it enables the user to pick an object that is buried inside >a heap of other overlapping objects without having to go through object >re-arrangements. For this, I will program "select under" by ctrl-alt-clicking in selector. Not ideal, but works in many situations. Stay in one place and ctrl-alt-click repeatedly watching the statusbar that shows what is selected, it will cycle through the entire stack of objects at this point. And lest I forget, the raise/lower commands need to be rewritten so that the selection, too, cycles through only the objects that overlap it, not all the objects of the document as now (this presently makes lower/raise almost unusable in large documents). _________________________________________________________________ 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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[Fwd: [Sodipodi-list] basics]
by Jonathan Phillips 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

FYI! I sent her an email... jon -----Forwarded Message----- From: sosman <sourceforge@...186...> To: sodipodi-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Sodipodi-list] basics Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 20:05:22 +1100 I am having difficulty with even the most basic things with sodi podi. I am sure it can do what I want judging by pics people have done with it but I have almost zero experience with vector drawing packages. The kind of graphic I want to make is embarassingly simple, in fact I got something looking like what I want at http://metrak.com/tmp/no.svg but I cheated by just using a circle and line then adjusting the stroke width. I suspect when I send this to my print shop to cut out a vinyl mask the result won't be what I would like. I guess I really need to make the outline of the shape into vectors. Some basic things I haven't figured out: - how to construct an arc with the "circle, ellipse and arc" tool. - how to join the ends of an arc with a straight line. - how to centre concentric circles and then make sure the line is symmetrical. If any one could point me at a basic tutorial or give me a heads up on these newbie questions that would be most appreciated. cheers ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Sodipodi-list mailing list Sodipodi-list(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sodipodi-list -- Jonathan Phillips <jon@...15...>

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tutorial ready
by bulia byak 04 Feb '04

04 Feb '04

The Help > Tutorial is mostly written, please read and criticize. It's pretty big, but not complete of course. Maybe later I'll break it into a basic tutorial and an advanced tutorial. I'm also interested to see how it comes up with regards to fonts, window size, etc. Posting a screenshot of the tutorial to the site would probably make sense. BUG: When I zoom out from the tutorial page, it ultimately crashes. This looks like an instance of this bug: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=859364&group_id=9… which could not be reproduced outside of my machine. So please test the tutorial by zooming out as far as you can, and report if you get a crash. Now I will write an XSLT transformation to automatically generate an SVG page with the keyboard shortcuts for reference, also to be linked from Help. I think it's nicer and more instructive to present Inkscape help in Inkscape, instead of running an external browser :) _________________________________________________________________ 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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