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0.36 release notes
by bulia byak 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

I started a ReleaseNotes document on Wiki. Let's use it to describe all our achievments and failings in this version in a way accessible both to an average non-technical user and to a potential contributor who hasn't followed our discussions and wants to get a scoop quickly. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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0.36 release soon?
by Bryce Harrington 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Hi all, Looking at the planned tasks for this release it seems we're quite close. Plus, a lot of work has been done, so I think the codebase is getting ripe for a release within a week or two. For those working on things to go into 0.36, could you reply and let us know your status? Thanks, Bryce

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bonobo
by Robert Crosbie 25 Nov '03

25 Nov '03

Are the inkscape bonobo libraties being used? They don't seem to get compiled. Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ 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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nudge distance, cursor tolerance
by bulia byak 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

1. Nudge distance is now stored in preferences. Default is 1 mm, let me know if you think this value needs to be changed. This affects arrows and shift-arrows in selector and node edit. No GUI to change that value yet, but you can edit your preferences.xml to test. 2. Cursor tolerance (from display options) is now stored in preferences too. I changed default from 1.0 to 2.0, but perhaps it should be made even bigger. This affects how close you need to be to an object to grab it; bigger values make the tools much more usable, especially with a tablet. Please test and report what value works best for you (I like it at 8.0), then we'll take the average and make it the default :) -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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SF out of disk space
by Bryce Harrington 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

bash-2.05b$ df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on pr-fs-groups-i:/home/groups/i 54G 51G 0 100% /home/groups/i I noticed this because I was updating the DevelopmentRoadmap and got a "Bad page version" error. Also it deleted the DevelopmentRoadmap and its change history. There's a backup version but I'm unsure how old it is. Bryce

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new keys in node editor
by bulia byak 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Please test! New keys in node editor: * esc deselects and cancels rubberband and node dragging * ctrl-a selects all nodes * tab and shift-tab cycle through nodes of the current shape All these keys work across all subpaths of a shape. Note that I had to change the lists of nodes, subpaths, and selected nodes from single-linked to double-linked. -- ___________________________________________________________ Sign-up for Ads Free at Mail.com http://promo.mail.com/adsfreejump.htm

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Re: [Sodipodi-list] Comments and questions from a newbie (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 09:02:39 -0500 (EST) From: Radical <radicalgfx@...78...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...1...> Subject: Re: [Sodipodi-list] Comments and questions from a newbie > On Sun, 23 Nov 2003, Radical wrote: > > that available. It doesn't seem to save the setting though. > > I passed word along to Mental (the developer of the feature); he's going > to poke around at it. He asked what you mean by save the setting? I meant that the inkscape:groupmode attribute didn't seem to get saved in the SVG file. So in my case where I have have a lot of groups I have to go back and set that parameter on each one every time I load the drawing. R

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Call for help: Doxygen headers
by Ted Gould 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Hey, I was working on the Actions/Verbs stuff for the modules and learning about the implementation in Inkscape. So, as I was doing this I was writing documentation in the Doxygen format for the functions where I figured out what they do. This made me think: wow, this would be a good way for someone to help out who wants to get more familiar with the code base. No seriously, you don't have to learn how absolutely everything works to write some good descriptions of functions. Probably starting in one of the subdirectories would be best (most of the time these aren't heavily dependent on things outside of them) and writing the Doxygen headers. Doxygen is pretty easy. You can do all kinds of fancy stuff with it, but I'd just like to see descriptions of the functions and the parameters - which doesn't take that much knowledge of Doxygen either. I don't know if anyone is interested, but I'd love to see patches with this info in them. --Ted

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bug transfer from sodi to Inkscape
by Jonathan Phillips 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

Hello, I've decided to go through Sodi's patch tracker and transfer what is buggy in Inkscape to Inkscape's cvs bug tracker. I'm trying to find some way to help and this seems like a good way. Could I get an update on progress of this? I see on the wiki that ted and bryce are listed as taking on this task. Otherwise, I'm going to start translating the bugs over to inkscape. thx Jon -- Jon Phillips UCSD Graduate Researcher Computational Media PO BOX 948667 La Jolla, Ca 92037 858.361.2811 www.protofunk.org jon@...15...

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The End of the Illustrator Thread
by T Ingham 24 Nov '03

24 Nov '03

All, As both a professional designer and my previous work in the print industry ( not publishing, but actual printing ) I can tell you without a doubt that Adobe Illustrator is the de facto standard for production of any kind of high-resolution, device independent output. There isn't a print shop or pre-flight house in the usa that doesn't have at least one license for Illustrator. There are reasons that Illustrator is so popular that have nothing to do with quality, more to the point in fact it's just really old. With this, the reasons that Illustrator is popular, we need to focus on why it is that this fork started. Our goal is to open this application up to a wider user-base yes? If that's the case then I should think it would be in our best interests to attempt to provide some sort of mechanism for allowing users the ability to customize their own shortcuts. This sort of system would take the form of what Macromedia did when they released Freehand 7. In the preferences for that application, there was a simple checkbox "Emulate Illustrator Shortcuts". Whence checked, the application behaved nearly identically to Illustrator. While some have said that providing for a customization scheme for Inkscape, for some commands would prove difficult, I plead with you to find a way to make it happen. Issues in regards to the tools available in this application will mean nothing if people have to learn an entirely new set of commands to make it perform the way their used to. They won't, they'll walk. It's the subversion game, and we're playing with all balls. -Thomas

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