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FreeBSD as a step to OSX
by JT 11 Feb '17

11 Feb '17

I downloaded 0.92 Beta2 source code before Xmas, and tried to build it on mac mini running OSX 10.11 using cake and clang. At that stage the cake files were obviously unfinished (for example, there was no OSX cake file...). Also there were lots of hard-coded directories in the cake files, which are implicitly non-portable. Can I suggest/ask that someone familiar with Inkscape and its cake files, try to add FreeBSD support: 1) It would be good have a FreeBSD build for its own sake. 2) It is easier to spin up a VM for FreeBSD for building and testing, than for OSX. 3) Having two slightly different posix build/cake configs will help separate "Linux" from "Posix" config switches. Which will make it easier to then add third config switch for OSX. 4) FreeBSD kernel is closer to OSX Darwin kernel (both BSD family) but is a different platform, so it may shake out some issues on its own. The result will be a more portable code base, which will be make it easier for OSX developers less familiar with Inkscape to help. regards, -JT PS Im travelling at present, and the connection is poor, so I dont want to clone a git repo; but I do have Xcode on my mb-air.

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Fwd: Participating in Outreachy
by Bryce Harrington 08 Feb '17

08 Feb '17

----- Forwarded message from Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> ----- Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2017 21:10:41 -0500 From: Karen Sandler <karen@...3057...> To: project-reps@...3057... Subject: Participating in Outreachy Reply-To: karen@...3057... Hi Project Reps! The Outreachy program[1] (which is also a Conservancy member project) is working on its next round, set to open on February 16. If you are interested in participating as an "organization", now's a good time to get started[2]! The sooner your project is listed, the more likely you'll get strong applicants. best, karen [1]http://outreachy.org [2]https://wiki.gnome.org/Outreachy/Admin/InfoForOrgs#Requirements_for_Organ… ----- End forwarded message -----

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360 Total Security
by jelle 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

360 Total Security That you've never heard of this virus scanner is not that strange. However it has an installed base on 99.99999999% (my estimate) of all windows PCś in China. The only PCś that I know without it are those I laid my hands on. We're talking about every windows installation in China, 64 and 32 bit. That these guys managed to report anything on launchpad is a small miracle and shows their persistence. Now of course that entails only about 700 Million PC's in the country, so hardly a popular browser. That said, I wouldn't be surprised if someone dropped a big red envelope on Qihoo (the company) to make this happen or someone asked his uncle Wu for a favor. In any case I would recommend any user of 360 to remove the software (virtually impossible b.t.w. it acts like a virus once installed. I tend to boot into Linux to clean up the crap, then have to purge registry manually taking care not to remove another thingy called 360 that will bork the machine if removed.) Qihoo takes care of a steady stream of virus that will be found by their scanner and doesn't find anything really dangerous. Is total nonsense but will do some nice keyboard logging, sends data to 3rd parties and makes lots of ads pop up while you're watching movies. Oh,.. I believe DNS poisoning is also one its tricks. This is standard practice for 'free software' in China, so letś not make too much of it. It adds to the overall surveillance of subversive terminology here. No doubt it is one of the reasons you've never heard of it as only an idiot will install it voluntarily. In any case it might be worthwhile to contact those rogues at Qihoo and ask kindly whether their software is corrupt or someone in the blacklist department has bought a new car lately. On the other hand I cannot exclude a man in the middle attack or the people downloading Inkscape from a 3rd party website as that is a common way of getting software for free. Whether that is Illustrator or Inkscape doesn't really matter. The reason being mainly that any software downloaded from outside China is prone to package loss due to latency. The fact that Inkscape is on their radar at all is quite impressive. 90% of all software here is pirated and the rest is for free except for the government installed windows and whatever comes with high end brands pre-installed. I have never been able to access launchpad before I was given special access by Maren some year ago. If they did they must have had the patience of Job to do so. BTW, as one of my Yahoo accounts was hacked I lost that access. > Relevant bug report (I don't know if this was one of thetwo reports): > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1658812 > If you want feel free to contact them (I didn't know that Virusscanner > either and I doubt it's that popular, so I didn't bother to take action > in the first place). > Regards, > Eduard Just about anyone in China, except the 1 million expats. Cheers, Jelle

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[UX] Font sIze and line height
by Jabier Arraiza 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi all. Im getting feedback about how complex is use new UX for font size and line height. Is very dificult to some users, myself for example, use and undertand well the new features. So become a cracy war in each new document. I have three ideas on mind: 1.- Force in each new document line height units be unitless, as previous inkscape. 2.- Double GUI seleced by prefs: First and default mimic previous inkscape values and positions and the other for advanced users. I hope not open too much the pandora-box Cheers, Jabier.

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false positive virus on 0.92 Windows 64-bit, exe installer
by brynn 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi Friends, We've had 2 separate reports now (at Inkscape Community), on 0.92 for Windows, 64-bit, exe installer, of a false positive for a virus. Both users are using a security program called 360 Total Security. Should we try and contact them so they can fix it? Just from a quick search, it looks like it might be a fairly popular program (although I had never heard of it before). And 2 reports are just 2 who bothered to report it. It's easy to imagine there must be people who didn't report, and just didn't install it. Thanks, brynn

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UX help
by Máirín Duffy 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi everybody, I've been using Inkscape and sodipodi before it for maybe 12 years now; it's my primary design tool. I'm a UX designer for Red Hat and specialize in mocking up page/screen designs for new features and modifications, drafting text for user interfaces, as well as user testing and feedback. I noticed some of the comments about the 0.92 release text height issueand the critique of the dialog that pops up in 0.92 about old Inkscape files. I would just like to offer my services any time you might need advice or help in figuring out how to design such dialogs or handle various conditions like this. I'm mizmo on freenode or you can email me. Please consider me a resource you can tap anytime for this; I don't code but I'm always happy to helpwhether it's some quick advice or something more involved like mockups. Cheers, ~m

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Strict builds
by Alex Valavanis 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi All, I've added a new "Strict" build type to CMake. This is designed to fail if any deprecated symbols are used in the main Inkscape code. To use it, just enter "Strict" in the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE field in ccmake and then reconfigure. Best wishes, Alex

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Inkscape 0.92.1pre1 now available
by Bryce Harrington 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

This is a pre-release for the upcoming stable bugfix release 0.92.1. Download it at: https://inkscape.org/en/download/development-versions The release is: 0.92.1pre1 Source Tarball Bzip https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/10650/inkscape-0.92.1pre1.tar_TMk7wbg.… String Freeze is now in effect, as well as Hard Freeze. This means no changes will be taken that change any translatable strings. Bug fix patches will still be considered, but only if they're completely safe; patches should be extremely minimal, reviewed by more than one person, and well-tested. Nothing that looks even slightly risky, uncertain, or unfinished please, but I'll consider on a case by case basis, so give me a ping to take a look. == Translations == With String Freeze in effect, no string changes in code are permitted and translations can now be completed. Please finalize your work prior to Monday, Feb 13th. == Future Releases == It's my fault we're running about a week past-schedule (I was trying to fit the dpi dialog work in before the cutoff, but that patch needs a bit more attention.) So I'd like to bump the schedule back by one week to make up for it: Proposed Timing: Original New Date √ Mon Jan 2 Feature Freeze √ 0.92.1pre0 Mon Jan 23 Hard Freeze √ 0.92.1pre1 Mon Jan 30 Fri Feb 3 String Freeze 0.92.1pre2 Mon Feb 6 Mon Feb 13 Release Candidate 0.92.1 Fri Feb 10 Fri Feb 17 Cut Release Mon Feb 13 Mon Feb 20 Announcement Looking forward, point releases on the 0.92.x branch will continue onward, including after we've migrated to git. I am thinking a cadence of a couple months per point release seems to be about the right balance of time, so that'd put 0.92.2 in the April timeframe and 0.92.3 out around July. Further forward, we discussed 0.93 a bit today. I know there's lots of work still to be done to get trunk to a releasable state. I would like to start gathering status on it, to get a better feel for about when we can start planning the release. I'll be posting more about this later, but for now if you have work in process in trunk, I'd love to hear of your plans. Thanks, Bryce

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GSoC Text Help (you don't need to be a developer to help with this)
by Josh Andler 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

Hey All, So, I'm looking to complete the application for this year's GSoC (Google Summer of Code, for those unfamiliar). Unlike previous years, they actually want our application hosted with them as opposed to a link to what we want in our wiki. It supports markdown, which is awesome, but when I go to pull what we have and put it in a text editor that counts characters, we're at 2035 characters when we need to be at 1500. Again, this is with the relevant markup which unfortunately counts against us. The source I speak of (for those with a wiki account is): http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Application_Template&acti… Is there anyone with the time and inclination to help keep the substance while cutting down on the fat? (It looks lean to me as a start, but as you can tell by this email, brevity isn't normally a strong point for me) Our application needs to be complete by the 9th and this is one piece of it that I could really use a hand on due to my obligations for SCALE which are overlapping right now. I don't know that the main text itself that we host needs to be cut down as much as we should start a second copy that is intended for brevity, with shorturls and all that to help too. Any volunteers? Cheers, Josh

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Inkscape Board Meeting + Release Meeting Feb 3rd
by Bryce Harrington 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

== Board Meeting == Already time for another board meeting. Come join us Friday, Feb 3rd at noon Pacific in #inkscape-devel. Any community member is welcome to attend! http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Inkscape Forum status - Update on receipt of forum data - Update on OSUOSL hosting provisioning + Inkscape gitlab - experience so far - self-hosting feasibility? + Inkscape Website disk space + Merchandise sales + Sponsorship levels followup == Release Meeting == Agenda: + 0.92.1 release status + (Help needed) writing release notes + Promotion/advocacy team recruitment + kickoff

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