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New SDI Interface
by Cédric GEMY 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

-- I like it wel and it is much butter than previous. May be I should have stored Groups/Combine & Superposition Menus in an "Object" Menu. It's the case in Adobe Illustrator and I find it successful and logical. For Zoom is just a screen effect for displaying object, it's a good thing to have a specific menu for zoom factors directly in document window. May be it would possible to delete the Zoom group in the toolbox. At the end, just a question about Inkscpae Language. Is there anybody working on a french trnaslations of the menus and dialogs. If no can I take this in charge ? Default Gnome po are not always very good for such specific applications. Cédric

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docked toolboxes
by MenTaLguY 19 Nov '03

19 Nov '03

Out of curiousity, how many of you folks out there currently use docked toolboxes? (i.e. extra toolboxes embedded in the document window) I'm seriously considering killing the feature to free up UI space. We still have the floating toolbox, and that's the way most drawing apps do it. The recent transient work also diminishes the advantage of having a toolbox in the window -- the detached toolbox now stays raised with the document window too. -mental

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 test build + exit on closing last document
by Yemu 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

M> 1- Install gtk runtime from http://www.dropline.net/gtk/download.php M> 2- Download http://195.221.122.126/tmp/inkscape-0.36cvs-w32.exe [1.22 Mo], M> extract, and change the path to your gtk libs in inkscape.bat M> 3- Run inkscape.bat thanks! it basically works, but i noticed some things on my w2k system: transient windows doesn't work :-( they all stay on the desktop when i minimize my document - they are also listem on the taskbar - it shouldn't be like that i think? (i can't can't compare because i can't update my linux version - cvs from sourceforge is a little old) only "fill and stroke", "document settings" and "align" stay on top (and toolbar of course) only "fill and stroke" remembers its position thanks again from all the dual-boot users out there i think :-) and thanks for bulia for great dialogs. one more thing: i'm not sure if exiting inkscape on closing last document is a good behaviour. it prevents user from doing such simple thing like closing the document and opening another one (if there's no other document open inkscape will exit). i don't like it. maybe the idea would be to show some special dialog when user closes last document. the options on such dialog might be "Cancel", "Save & Exit", "Exit Without Saving", "Open Existing Document" and "Create New Document". what do you think about that? inkscape is great! best regards yemu

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please retest transiency
by bulia byak 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

I will be grateful to whoever can test latest CVS with a view to transient dialogs. In particular, when two or more documents are open, do the toolbox and fill/stroke stay on top when you switch between document windows? Especially if the document windows are maximized? Thanks! -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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Re: translations
by Cédric GEMY 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

-- Ok, I'll try to do something with that po french-file. Just wait fews days. Cheers Cédric

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win32 test build
by Mael 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Hello, I tried to build what is currently in anonymous cvs. Here are (new) problems I faced in building inkscape with MinGW (and gcc not tried g++) * modules/ps.c `SIGPIPE' undeclared -> I commented the call to signal , don't know what it does and how to fix it * toolbox.c toolbox.c: In function `sp_toolbox_file_create': toolbox.c:342: `action' undeclared (first use in this function) -> Someone has removed the declaration SPAction *action; * modules/extension.c undefined reference to `mkstemp' -> see http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/glib/glib-File-Utilities.html#g-mkst… ? * Libxml2 I had to use version 2.4 of dll because 2.6 results in a crash. Anyone has tried to link against 2.6 on linux ? To try it : 1- Install gtk runtime from http://www.dropline.net/gtk/download.php 2- Download http://195.221.122.126/tmp/inkscape-0.36cvs-w32.exe [1.22 Mo], extract, and change the path to your gtk libs in inkscape.bat 3- Run inkscape.bat Almost not tested but it seems that the problem when regional decimal symbol = comma (instead of dot) is back (don't know if it's due to my build or what) :( I've not included translations in the archive. M

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] win32 test build
by bulia byak 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

Merci beaucoup! :) It looks like magic to me :) but it actually works - at least under my win98. Rough around the edges, but seems to be basically usable. At least my own stuff seems to work. Transient windows are ok (with one small glitch which I think I know how to fix). Keypad works as expected. Problems I've seen so far: - constant stream of messages about being unable to find some "MS sans serif 7" font. - one crash upon exit. Although I did not test much yet. Re: compilation problems, feel free to patch toolbox.c. Not sure about the others, they need to be looked into - if you figure them out that would be great. If you don't have developer access, ask Bryce, I think it's not a problem. Even if you just compile the windows version from time to time, that will be much help. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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User Manual
by Cédric GEMY 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

I've just put a first french release of the Sodipodi User Manual on http://www.svgfr.net. This only deals with tool description. I'll now work on themas (working with colors ...) and tutorials. I'm proposing to begin a translation of the existent to english and also to make it useable for Inkscape. If english speaker are ready to help me, or correct my mistakes, I'm OK. Cédric

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new menu
by bulia byak 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

The new menu looks nice, now if only I could compile it: window.c: In function `sp_utility_window_new': window.c:56: `GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_UTILITY' undeclared (first use in this function) window.c:56: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once window.c:56: for each function it appears in.) I guess I need to upgrade my gtk, right? One comment on the screenshot: while you are at it, could you remove the minimize button from the toolbox? It really serves no useful purpose. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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preferences broken?
by bulia byak 18 Nov '03

18 Nov '03

I gave up trying to find out why inkspace_dispose does not run, nor whether it is supposed to run, so I did this: void inkscape_exit (Inkscape *inkscape) { // added if (inkscape->preferences) { inkscape_save_preferences (inkscape); } gtk_main_quit (); } This works for me. Preferences are saved on exit. I also added saving preferences to segv_handler so they are not lost upon crash. What troubles me is that I still don't understand how it worked before. Has anyone changed anything recently that could affect this? Please object and criticize. If there are no objections I will commit this change. -- __________________________________________________________ Sign-up for your own personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup Search Smarter - get the new eXact Search Bar for free! http://www.exactsearchbar.com/

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