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Proposal for an alternate object properties palette ( floater, widg-a-log, translette )
by T Ingham 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Hello again all, This memo will serve to be the genus for what I would eventually like to propose. I'm hoping for plenty of feedback from everyone to make this tool as useful as possible. The core concept is quite simple really, enumerate and visually explain all editable parameters of a given shape on the canvas in a single floating palette. 1. Problem Although much work is being done to promote existing dialogs to the status of sane players on the workspace front, there are still pitfalls in having all manner of oversized and disproportionate dialogs open on the screen. Namely is simple visual clutter. Having several windows open at once can cause both new users to become lost quickly, and more seasoned users wasting time fidgeting with dialogs to position them according to their wishes. 2. Accessibility concerns Using many dialogs, users that cannot or do not use the mouse are asked to traverse 3 tiers of information to edit shape data outside the canvas. First they must achieve focus on a dialog ( ctrl+# ) , second they must select ( in some cases ) a tab containing the subset of data they wish to manipulate ( tab key? ) and third they must gain focus on the cell or control that allows them to make the edit ( tab key? ). 3. Solution Provide an additional ( or alternative depending on how you lean ) palette for editing shape properties that contains an hierarchical list of property groups and properties. This window would behave exactly as other palettes ( esc to focus canvas, enter to affect change ), but would centralize object properties in one dialog minimizing the memory cost to the user for keyboard shortcuts to open dialogs ( they would only need one, and we could make it an easy one, cmd+i // get info // ) Once the dialog has focus, the user could then use the arrow keys to locate the property they wish to edit and affect the change desired. While it may seem that we will lose the specificity of multiple dialogs, this interface would provide us with a more open method of combining property sets, and in the future it could be used as the basis for generating custom property dialogs per user utilizing xml documents to store dialog layout information. 4. A few key points It appears that currently, you cannot enter a numerical value in the float fields of the color dialog, is this intended behavior? Users would be able to close tree paths in this new properties palette that they might not use often, this allows the user to immediately improve their productivity when performing these types of edits. Thanks for your time as always, I hope this stirs the pot a bit. -Thomas

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Inkscape stock support
by Robert Crosbie 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Ok, If everything went well with my first commit, I have just added some initial GtkIconFactory support. So far I have only converted the stroke_style dialog to register and lookup icons in the stock icons. There were two new files added. src/inkscape-stock.h - define new stock icons here src/inkscape-stock.c - add new stock icons to the list There were three files modified: src/Makefile.am - added inkscape-stock.[ch] src/main.c - initializes the stock icons dialogs/stroke-style.c - now calls gtk_image_new_from_stock. I basicaly followed the way gaim and gimp were using GtkIconFactory. I'll be adding more support and converting other dialogs later. Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ >From Beethoven to the Rolling Stones, your favorite music is always playing on MSN Radio Plus. No ads, no talk. Trial month FREE! http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio

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indent options
by Robert Crosbie 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

I was just wondering what indenting convention we were using for inkscape. If I had some new code to submit, what indent command should I run on it to make sure it looks like all the other code? Cheers, Rob. http://members.rogers.com/rcrosbie _________________________________________________________________ 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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preferences broken?
by bulia byak 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Maybe it's just me, but the .inkscape/preferences file is never saved. On my machine it is dated Nov 13; since then, nobody touched it. I figured that it's because the inkscape_dispose function is not run upon exit. Where is it supposed to be called? I tried this: void inkscape_exit (Inkscape *inkscape) { g_object_run_dispose (inkscape); // added gtk_main_quit (); } but this resulted in lots of failed asserts, so it's perhaps the wrong place. Someone please fix this! -- __________________________________________________________ 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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[PATCH] trivial: renamed "desactivate" to "deactivate"
by Kees Cook 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Trivial patch attached... -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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[PATCH] fix for GDK_SCROLL event blindness
by Kees Cook 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

Attached is the fix for mouse wheel support. This is against anon CVS, and I know you just did a big code merge, so hopefully this will be easy to apply since it's so small. :) -- Kees Cook @outflux.net

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[Inkscape-wiki] The DevelopmentRoadmap page at Wiki has been changed. (fwd)
by Bryce Harrington 16 Nov '03

16 Nov '03

I've added a new mailing list for tracking changes to the wiki. The emails you get look like the one below. The emails are sent only when the wiki author checks the "Send to mailing list" checkbox, so this list should be fairly light traffic. To subscribe to this or other lists, go here: http://www.inkscape.org/mailing_lists.php Bryce P.S. The inkscape-cvs@ list is great for keeping an eye on what everyone's working on. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 16:03:28 -0800 From: InkscapeWiki@...58... Reply-To: bryce@...1..., tingham@...59..., tvon@...60..., rick@...61..., inkscape-wiki(a)lists.sourceforge.net To: bryce@...1..., tingham@...59..., tvon@...60..., rick@...61..., inkscape-wiki(a)lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Inkscape-wiki] The DevelopmentRoadmap page at Wiki has been changed. The Wiki page DevelopmentRoadmap at http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DevelopmentRoadmap has been changed by Bryce to revision 73. (Replying to this notification will send email to the entire mailing list, so only do that if you mean to. To remove yourself from this list, visit http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?action=editprefs .) ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Inkscape-wiki mailing list Inkscape-wiki(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-wiki

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Project Status
by Bryce Harrington 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Project Status - November 15, 2003 ---------------------------------- Activity and progress with the project over the past two weeks has been far beyond expectations. Inkscape 0.35 has been completed and released. We've redesigned and fleshed out the website (and wiki) considerably. Our activity rating on SourceForge hit the upper 99th percentile. And numerous developers have contributed new features, bug fixes, and experimental prototypes and mockups. Further, we've established our project identity and are forming into a friendly development-focused community. Now that the release is out, we will be applying our focus to implementation of some new features. We wish to do this before heading forth into major architectural changes so that we have a solid release with new capabilities to offer users in the near term. Statistics Nov 02 Nov 15 ========== ====== ====== Lifetime Rank on SourceForge: 6103 4391 (56.2%) (68.5%) Week's Rank on SourceForge: 6023 62 (56.8%) (99.6%) Lines of Code in src/: 115,754 115,901 Lines of Docs in doc/: 1,135 1,135 Lines of content in website: 74 1,173 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 0 3,700 Days since last ChangeLog mod: 4 0 Bugs open/total: 0/0 9/15 Features open/total: 0/0 18/18 Patches open/total: 0/0 1/ 6 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs): 148 481 Inkscape-devel membership: 4 49 Inkscape-announce membership: 0 9

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Milestone 2
by Bryce Harrington 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

Here's the tasks for Milestone 2, which will correspond to the Inkscape 0.36 release. http://www.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?DevelopmentRoadmap The focus of this milestone is on implementing new features. I've tried to capture what folks are working on but if I've missed something please update the Wiki or reply to this email. In particular I wasn't sure what to list for Bulia Byak and Robert Crosbie. There are also a few important tasks that we don't have a developer for. If you can volunteer for the task please let me know or add your name to the task in Wiki. === Milestone 2 === Objective: Implement new features & do prep work for major changes in future Inkscape Production: * (DONE) Create Freshmeat project for Inkscape [tgould] * (DONE) Remove the KDE / Qt code and dependencies [manny] * Check all listed Sodipodi bugs and copy recreatible ones to Inkscape's CVS tracker * Copy open patches from Sodipodi patch tracker to Inkscape * Add modelines to source files for popular editors (vim/emacs) [tvon] * Implement preliminary support for doxygen or doc++ in the codebase [joncruz] * Implement preliminary support for arrowheads on path ends [bryce] * Implement preliminary support for layers [mental] * Implement preliminary support for iso & hex grid [njh] * Eliminate all warnings in g++ build process on Linux [joncruz] * Release 0.36 and post to Freshmeat [tgould] * Create RPM for 0.36 [bryce] * Create Deb for 0.36 * Create Window exe package for 0.36 Inkscape Experimental R&D * Identify the remaining XML compliance bugs needing to be fixed & add to plan for M3/M4 [mental] * (DONE) Describe what needs to be done to fix ambiguous default namespace issue [mental] * Select a regression test system strategy (cutest?) [mental] * Build a prototype grid options dialog using gtkmm [njh] * Prototype stroking/path enhancements [njh] * Create list of requirements for plugin system & gain team concensus on it [joncruz, bryce] Inkscape Website & Project * (DONE) Convert wiki to new look and feel [tvon] * Convert website to new look and feel [tvon] * Post project status [bryce] * See if it's possible to make wiki send edit notification to a mailing list & set it up if so [bryce] * Figure out why http://www.inkscape.org/mockups/export_dialog_02.png doesn't display [tvon] * Plan out Milestone 3 [bryce]

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Milestone 1 achieved
by Bryce Harrington 15 Nov '03

15 Nov '03

The tasks for Milestone 1 are completed. === Milestone 1 === Inkscape Production * (DONE) Get inkscape to build with a C++ compiler [team] * (DONE) Fix CDATA issue [mental] * (DONE) Get codebase to successfully complete `make distcheck` -- mental says 'worksforme' [team] * (DONE) Fix 'snap to guides' crash bug [bryce] * (DONE) Update the about dialog to include the new logo and version [bryce, tvon] * (DONE) Cut a release of Inkscape 0.35 [ted] * (DONE) Upload release tarball of Inkscape 0.35 to Inkscape SF file manager [ted] Inkscape Experimental * (DONE) Initiate work on grid-proto code & put in CVS [njh] * (DONE) Conceptualize a new export dialog in python [tvon, njh] Inkscape Website & Project * (DONE) Create logo for Inkscape [team] * (DONE) Create look and feel graphical design prototype for website [tvon] * (DONE) Create 3+ screenshots of Inkscape Production [bryce] * (DONE) Flesh out website more fully [bryce] * (DONE) SourceForge RFE section needs setting up (categories and groups) [bryce] * (DONE) Create inkscape_project module & add wiki.pl there [bryce]

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