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Which translations should be included in 0.92 release?
by Eduard Braun 16 Oct '16

16 Oct '16

(CCing the "translators" list, since this concerns them, too, but please keep discussion on "devel") Hi all, I'm in the progress of updating the Windows installer for 0.92 release and asked myself which languages should be included in the final package? Are there some guidelines or do we simply include all of them, even if they're mostly outdated? How was this handled in the past? Since languages seem to be hardcoded in "src/inkscape-preferences.cpp" we probably can not just drop those languages during packaging. Otherwise the language would still be offered as a choice, even if it's not present (which is is also an issue if the user decides not to install translations during installation). FYI current language statistics are attached (I hope it get's through), otherwise a copy is available from [1]. Best Regards, Eduard [1] https://inkscape.org/de/gallery/item/10140/po_statistics_0.92.x.html

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Diff support between revisions of an svg with hieghlighing support.
by Jason (spot) Brower 14 Oct '16

14 Oct '16

I think it would be nice to have a diffing tool inside of Inkscape. The idea is that we find areas that have change between two versions and it would visually hande a box around the idea showing what had changed. Ideally as a lay that can be turned on and off. I know my work would be better if there was a way to show what changed between versions without needing to look at the svg code itself. Do you think this kind of thing could work? BR, Jason Brower

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how about some marketing and outreach?
by Brynn 13 Oct '16

13 Oct '16

Hi Friends, I've recently been contacted by a long time Inkscape user and former active moderator on InkscapeForum.com. (Technically she still is a moderator, but not active for some years.) And I think she also used to help with bug management and testing. And many of you may recognize her as the co-author of PacktPublishing's "Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator's Cookbook". Mihaela, aka prkos, is ready to become reinvested in the project, after having drifted away to work on other things for awhile. She has some good ideas for outreach and bringing in more diversity, and I think some ideas related to marketing, which she will have to explain, because I don't understand that kind of thing. I don't know if she wants to help with bug management again, as before, but maybe after she catches up to the version 0.92 era. And she said she wouldn't be opposed to working on a sequel to the Packt project. Ooohh! Mihaela, I forgot to mention this privately. Recently within the project, there has been some drive to create an open manual, which would be editable by the community. And we also want to make it more of a step by step manual, and more focussed to beginners. And this is as opposed to our current manual, which is copyrighted (can only be edited by the author), presently out of date, and a little more theoretical, and helpful for advanced users. It's a great manual, which has served the project well. But there have been a lot of complaints from beginners about a lack of documentation at their level. So we don't want to get rid of Tav's manual, but just have another manual available. The current state of those discussions is to use a project which was started by a French team (aaii, why can't I remember to save that link?!). It's another FLOSS manual. We're waiting for it to be translated to English. And once it is, we hope to be able to use it as a base to build the new open manual from. Maybe you might like to help with that? Also, some of her ideas will help us with the forum project too! And I'll be letting the committee know about that privately. So, welcome back Mihaela! As you remember the developers' mantra - code first, discuss later - please feel free to jump back in with both feet :-) All best, brynn

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Workspace rotation
by Jabier Arraiza 12 Oct '16

12 Oct '16

Hi! My last work. Still need a bit of work on exports... Maybe I need to add shortcuts to in/decrease 45 degree... https://youtu.be/utFQve7ofJk Enjoy!

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Complaints concerning github issue removal
by Christoffer Holmstedt 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hi I noticed last week that issues on github were disabled. There are now 2 complaints in a pull request concerning this. https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape/pull/20#issuecomment-251752290 Anyone able to answer them with some explanation? I assume code will eventually move to git/github/gitlab but we are not there yet...but I'm not sure what to answer "waldyrious" and "shakaran" on Github at the moment. Best regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Old databases, drop or migrate?
by Chris Keltz 11 Oct '16

11 Oct '16

Hello Inkscape devs, I'm Chris with the OSU Open Source Lab. We're in the process of taking things off an old database host, and we ran across a couple of Inkscape databases we're not sure are still being used. They are both currently on db3.osuosl.org. The first is inkscape_qmail, accessible by inkscape_qmail@...3433... The second is inkscape-mantis, accessible by inkscape-mantis@...3433... Please let me know if these are droppable, or if they need to be migrated to our new host. Thanks, Chris Keltz Student System Administrator OSU Open Source Lab

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0.92 release, windows packaging, .msi vs .exe
by the Adib 09 Oct '16

09 Oct '16

Hello All, I put in the gallery the current screenshots of the .msi installer. https://inkscape.org/en/~theAdib/galleries/win32-installer-screenshots/ I would recommend not to publish the .exe installer for the 0.92 release. reason: The .exe installer is based on NSIS scripts whereas the .msi installer is based on native MS installer toolset. They do not harmonize together, that means a .msi does not detect existing .exe installed Inkscape and vice versa. There will be definatelly problems when both systems are installed "in parallel". The .msi installer has advantages in deeper system integartion (distributable in MS domains) and save removal but currently lacks translation. I do not have download numbers of .msi vs .exe but I think we should prefer the .msi as nr 1. Could we come here to a consens not to publish .exe installer? Best regards, Adib. --

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Crash report
by Yves Quemener 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Dear all, I'd like to report a crash on inkscape while importing the included file. Crashes with Inkscape 0.91 r13725 on windows 10 and with Inkscape 0.91 r13725 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS. The file is generated by a custom tool, so it is very probable that it contains something invalid, but I don't think it should crash the software totally. Here is the result of gdb: terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::logic_error' what(): basic_string::_M_construct null not valid Thread 1 "inkscape" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00007fffefe1e418 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@...3051...=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54 54 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) bt #0 0x00007fffefe1e418 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@...3051...=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:54 #1 0x00007fffefe2001a in __GI_abort () at abort.c:89 #2 0x00007ffff097d84d in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 #3 0x00007ffff097b6b6 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 #4 0x00007ffff097b701 in std::terminate() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 #5 0x00007ffff097b919 in __cxa_throw () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 #6 0x00007ffff09a414f in std::__throw_logic_error(char const*) () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 #7 0x00007ffff5760e64 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 #8 0x00005555558fb391 in ?? () #9 0x0000555555916b8d in ?? () #10 0x0000555555917e67 in ?? () #11 0x0000555555b742da in ?? () #12 0x00007ffff12a4fa5 in g_closure_invoke () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #13 0x00007ffff12b6fc1 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #14 0x00007ffff12bfd5c in g_signal_emit_valist () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #15 0x00007ffff12c008f in g_signal_emit () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #16 0x00007fffe0e5d3e0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libunity-gtk2-parser.so.0 #17 0x00007ffff6605d57 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 #18 0x00007ffff0fce05a in g_main_context_dispatch () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #19 0x00007ffff0fce400 in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #20 0x00007ffff0fce722 in g_main_loop_run () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 #21 0x00007ffff69cd6a7 in gtk_main () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 #22 0x00005555558c7b3b in ?? () #23 0x00007fffefe09830 in __libc_start_main (main=0x5555558a38e0, argc=1, argv=0x7fffffffdd78, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7fffffffdd68) at ../csu/libc-start.c:291 #24 0x00005555558c41e9 in ?? () Good luck with that and thanks for that awesome piece of software! Yves

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Fwd: [Inkscape-user] looking for a forum host
by brynn 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [Inkscape-user] looking for a forum host Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2016 17:45:17 -0600 From: brynn <brynn@...3133...> Reply-To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> To: Inkscape User Community <inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Hi Friends, As some of you know, a small committee has been investigating the possibility of creating a new "official" Inkscape forum. All along, we've been pretty much expecting that OSUOSL would host it for us (since they already host our website and wiki). However, after an initial request (nearly 6 weeks ago), an updated request (~10 days later), and a 3rd contact (which was just last week) we still have no response from them. Assuming they would notify us, even if the answer is 'no', we think they are probably still working on it, and have not made a decision yet. But we're starting to think the answer might well be 'no', and we're starting to research about other ways to host this forum. So we want to tap the resources of the whole community, and ask if anyone knows of any either open-source-friendly webhost besides OSUOSL, or maybe some kind of program which might pay hosting fees for an open source project (in the event we can't find a free host). Note that the so-called "free webhosting" sites would probably not be acceptable, since they usually accomplish making it free, by loading the site up with advertising. One idea which might be feasible, is setting up some kind of crowd funding, to create the capital for some kind of money-market fund or something like a trust, whose income would pay the monthly fee. The reason why it's such a big "might" is because it would take some time for this fund to reach the point where it could cover the fees (and we hope to get the forum online much sooner than that would take). I've offered, and I'm sure a lot of people in the community might volunteer to pay or help to pay the fees. But that puts us in a similar situation which we're trying to remedy with this effort (i.e. a single owner potentially disappearing). I would consider this to be a last resort. Has anyone heard of any webhost that might meet our needs; or maybe some kind of program which would pay the hosting fees? Thank you very much, brynn (for the committee) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Turned off Github Issues
by Martin Owens 05 Oct '16

05 Oct '16

Dear all, Hopefully this won't effect anything, but the not-yet in use github page had it's issues tracker switched on and was collecting bug reports. https://github.com/inkscape/inkscape I've gone ahead and switched it off, but there was 10 or so issues that we may have to think about translating to launchpad. Best Regards, Martin owens

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