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New video of rotate workspace
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

Hi all! Because the feeddback for the previous video, I update it a bit. To enter in rotate mode you need SpaceBar+RightClick. or use the new widget in the bottom. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orpb-Be4Z4A Thanks to all viewers, and people involved. Cheers, Jabier.

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Change in behaviour: Import image auto-groups the image
by C R 26 Oct '16

26 Oct '16

In trunk, all images dragged into the canvas are automatically put in a group. Is there a reason for this change? It's been a bit of a pain over the last few weeks, because: 1. It requires ungrouping the image, or clicking into the image group to view image properties 2. It requires the same to trace bitmap. Any ideas as to why this change was made? Thanks. :) -C

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Supporting Inkscape: What are the best ways?
by C R 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

Hey folks. So I've recently branched out into several FLOSS communities, and so I'm exposed to a lot more wishlist items. Generelly they are things on the roadmap, and many have to do with the SVG spec. When someone expresses a need for *x-feature* I generally send them to this page to help: https://inkscape.org/en/support-us/svg-standards-work/ I was wondering if this is the best thing to do. I get a lot of requests to help the project from people who I help get to grips with Inkscape and other FLOSS. Can someone provide a list of current links to parts of the project that need financial aide? I can sort out who to send where (based on the features they are interested in). But a comprehensive list of donation links would be awesome. :) Thanks! -C

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] Inkscape 0.92 About Screen Contest
by Josh Andler 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Arlo Barnes <arlo.barnes@...400...> wrote: > However, I recommend not continuing to use the phrase, but instead replacing > it with something like "material considered inappropriate or offensive will > be disqualified, at the judges' sole and final discretion". Thank you for the feedback and input. I have modified the text and it now reads "It must not contain anything inappropriate or otherwise offensive. We recommend avoiding things such as nudity, violence, and political or religious imagery. Material considered inappropriate or offensive will be disqualified at the development team's sole and final discretion." > That over with, I look forward to submitting my entries. Good luck! Cheers, Josh

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0.92: Middle mouse button not panning?
by Olof Bjarnason 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

I just noticed in 0.92-pre2, at least on Windows, the mouse middle button does not pan anymore. On 0.91 installation, same machine, middle mouse button pans. [ If enabling "scrolling" by space key (checkbox "Mouse move pans when Space is pressed"), that kind of panning works, however you need to have the canvas "focused" for this to work (you get this gratis with middle mouse button), so it's really inconvenient in comparison. ] Can anyone confirm with Linux build, or on another Windows machine? This feels more likely to be me having some corruption in my installations, than an actual regression, so I hesitate to report it just yet. Cheers,

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Inkscape 0.92 About Screen Contest
by Josh Andler 23 Oct '16

23 Oct '16

Hey all! The Inkscape team and community is winding down development and preparing to release Inkscape 0.92. With the upcoming release, we need to have a new About Screen done. This brings us to the Inkscape 0.92 About Screen Contest! This time we are hosting the contest on our website. For contest rules, more info, and to submit your entry please visit http://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/ Deadline: November 13, 2016

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0.92 release status
by Bryce Harrington 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

Here's an update on where we are in getting the release out. 1. Windows packaging seems to be shaping up well. Packages for 0.91pre1 are posted to the website. Hopefully we'll see 0.92pre2 packages soon. OSX still appears in need of volunteers to get packaging sorted. It looks like we may be forced to omit this from our release announcement plans, but let's give it a few more days. If anyone is working on or plans to work on OSX packages, please contact me ASAP. 2. DPI Scaling bug #1389723 - We still need someone to work on this bug; there have not been new comments. *** We still need someone to adopt this issue and run it to ground. 3. Disable unstable features, bug #1589340 - I pushed the MESH option fix. suv's summarized the remaining bits needing done and this looks straightforward to get finished. 4. Fonts not shown in font manager (Win32), bug #1416674 - This is now dropped as a release blocker. It still needs added to the release notes. 5. About screen - Work is under way here; hopefully this can get taken care of quickly. 6. Release Notes - Apart from perhaps adding a few more known issues, we are probably at a point we can consider the Notes complete. This would be a good point to start translating them (or to bring existing translations up to date.) http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Release_notes/0.92 7. New snapshot. I've posted source packages for 0.92pre2; there were a few little hitches but nothing major, and nothing that looks like it would impact finalizing 0.92.0.

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PreRelease News: Windows Packages
by Maren Hachmann 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

Hi Devs, Adib, jazzynico and Eduard, there appear to be a couple of prerelease packages to be around now for Windows :) I'd like to link one or more from the news article and from the downloads page. Will someone upload a (signed) 0.92pre2 binary to the website? It's a good chance to try the process out ;-) Adib has pre1 packages here: https://inkscape.org/en/~theAdib/galleries/inkscape-092/ - the quota has been increased to two GB, so uploading more is possible now. jazzynico/Eduard have their packages hosted at tuxfamily currently: https://download.tuxfamily.org/inkscape/win64/Inkscape-0.92pre2-x64-1.exe Regards, Maren

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] 0.92 release status
by C R 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

I agree with everything Bryce said. Most of that was merely time constraints. There's a lot I would change tbh, mostly tweaking and timing of things. It was a challenge to get everything in there, and a lot of the issue had to do with syncing the action with the music properly. It was a great learning experience, and the things suggested will certainly be fixed on the next version. Thanks for the input and encouragement! -C On 22 Oct 2016 2:32 am, "Bryce Harrington" <bryce@...961...> wrote: On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 05:08:06AM +0100, C R wrote: > Thanks Martin! No, it was never posted, but I think it's because some > of the features were (and are still) under development and have been > disabled or excluded for this release. It was adequate to get folks > from the conference excited and downloading our trunk versions for > testing, but for a public release, I'd like to be a bit more accurate > about what's new and included. Wow, that's amazing. I agree with everyone else, this'd be an excellent thing to showcase and help promote the release. > The good news about that is we can re-use most of it, so not > everything needs to be re-done. Since it never got posted, the > revisions will not seem like just a re-post of the original video... > which saves me a lot of work during this relatively busy time of year, > leading up to the holiday season. :) > > I'm happy to have anyone advise features that are not in this video to > include, or exclude as the case may be. The way it showcased the features in real time was pretty stunning. The one that stuck with me the most was the on-canvas gradient editing, I suppose because it involved shiny color. The font measurement stuff was amazing too, maybe because I'm a sucker for dimensions. :-) The new guide features went by a bit too quickly to grok what the change was. The setup part for node tool dropdown was a bit slow, but when it got to the actual feature it jumped too quickly so it's hard to see what the actual feature was. The symbol dialog, find with mouse wheel, and paint order examples felt spot on. Live path effects as well, however I know there's been a *ton* of cool work here and wonder if this section could be expanded. Drag and drop layer ordering looked pretty slick but I didn't follow what exactly was going on. For the new file format support, I wonder if it would be permissible to include the logos of the respective products? Differentiating between the import and exports might be worthwhile. Some of those, like visio import, I thought we had for a while? In any case, showing off new file import and export features is a great idea. > I'm also quite proud to be part of the Inkscape project, and it's the > sense of community and family that motivates me to create these video > works, graphics, and ui stuff. I like how this video focuses on the product itself, and I think it is way stronger having that focus. But I do wonder if having a similar video but more focused on the people involved might be fun -- something geared more towards people who might dabble with more involvement in our community. Something that'd mention the hackfest, LGM attendance, more depth into the new website features, and details of how we've put donor's funds to use in the Books For Developers effort, and so on. > I'm happy that it shows in the video, and it's thanks to all of you > that it does. :) > Oh, also maybe we should have a special thanks portion at the end of > the video for those in the project that have (and continue to) really > bend over backwards to get this release out the door. I know I can > think of a bunch. It was very striking that the video didn't end with a credits roll, but instead used that time to give focus to the project logo and slogan. It made the whole seem simultaneously professional and accessible. It'd be fine with me either way, but do I like the tidy way you closed it. Bryce > Thoughts? > > -C > > PS- I don't want to be included on this special thanks screen. I think > it should be reserved for those who contributed most to the release, > and I've mainly just been a cheerleader for it thus far. :) > > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 4:53 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote: > > Hi CR, > > > > The video at LGM was amazingly good. It felt really good being a part > > of the inkscape project and I was proud of the work we'd all done > > together after seeing it. > > > > Did it ever get posted to the inkscape website? When the new one is > > ready, we should add it to youtube and then onto the website as an > > embeded video and then into news and other PR outlets. > > > > Thanks for brining this up. > > > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > > > On Fri, 2016-10-21 at 04:41 +0100, C R wrote: > >> Regarding outeach and PR, remember, we have a video that we displayed > >> at the LGM conference. It got a lot of applause, and a suggestion > >> from > >> the speaker to the audience that everyone consider doing a video next > >> year. *^.^* > >> > >> I can revise it to replace features that did not make it into the > >> 0.93 > >> release, and replace them with features that did make it in. > >> For reference, the video is here: > >> https://www.dropbox.com/s/67wva0mryutll7d/inkscape_lgm_video_2016_fin > >> ished.ogv?dl=0 > >> > >> Other things that need replacing is the 0.91 > 0.92, and the > >> screenshot of the website after we know what the new artwork from the > >> about screen contest is. :) > >> > >> Any updates would be helpful towards this goal. > >> > >> Thanks! > >> -C > >> > >> > >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> > >> wrote: > >> > > >> > On Thu, 2016-10-20 at 14:58 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > >> > > > >> > > Such a page might also be a good place to have a table of past > >> > > releases. > >> > > For the most part those don't matter much for users, but the > >> > > question > >> > > of where to get them does pop up now and then so having an > >> > > official > >> > > listing of links to historical packages *somewhere* in the > >> > > website > >> > > would be nice. > >> > There is a list of past releases on the releases page. But perhaps > >> > you'd like a page that shows a more robust list with descriptions > >> > and > >> > such? > >> > > >> > https://inkscape.org/en/release/0.91/ > >> > > >> > See list of 'Versions' and 'In development', it's a fairly complete > >> > list. > >> > > >> > > > >> > > I've noticed the development snapshots often want to have > >> > > additional > >> > > directions or tips, which can look a bit cluttery / jargony and > >> > > thus > >> > > potentially a big source of confusion. > >> > > > >> > > In any case, probably not worth overthinking here, especially > >> > > given > >> > > that there's a new releases app coming. The main thing is to > >> > > keep > >> > > things looking neat & tidy for the release. > >> > If you can force the use of the releases app, it'll force fixes and > >> > tweaks. Otherwise I fear a cms downloads page will continue to be a > >> > toxic workaround stopping us from finishing the app. > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > > > select it instead of their platform page... > >> > > Ah, yeah we had the same thought. :-) > >> > I don't understand. > >> > > >> > > > >> > > > > >> > > > - Martin created some for 0.91 and the pre-releases - maybe > >> > > > he's > >> > > > still > >> > > > got the file? > >> > > > Here are a couple of examples: > >> > > > https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/=inkscape-package/ > >> > > Yeah would be nice to get that into the inkscape bzr tree, then > >> > > perhaps > >> > > I could make it part of the release process to make a copy with > >> > > the > >> > > new > >> > > version number, that can then be used on all the uploads. > >> > Makes sense, a useful image for each of these things. I'm trying to > >> > make the about page art more universal by updating different parts > >> > of > >> > the website with the art too. I'd like these icons to use the art > >> > is > >> > possible too. > >> > > >> > So pre-about screen we'd use the standard developer/pre-release > >> > graphics. > >> > > >> > Best Regards, Martin Owens > >> > > >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > ------------- > >> > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > >> > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list > >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Inkscape 0.92pre publications
by the Adib 21 Oct '16

21 Oct '16

Hello Maren, Hello Martin, Eduard uploaded some packages to the gallery. He now stuck in the proccess copying to the 0.92pre2 gallery. The gallery is visible in the "copy to" for "Developers" where he is "Uploader". Pls. adjust Eduards group membership or gallery ownership accordingly. Maren, Saying that I prefers you refer to the gallery item, so that people can access packages as they are uploaded. similar to https://inkscape.org/en/*developer/galleries/092pre1/ So you avoid having cross server links or dead links. Thank you. Regards, Adib. --

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