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[UX] Bend handle improvements
by Jabier Arraiza 09 Sep '16

09 Sep '16

Hi to all. I just make this patch that maybe improve the UX in bend -later in pattern along path- LPE. Basialy, the handle to in/decrease width, now can be moved freely instead restricted position. Please comment if this way is better than currently (fixed direction). Cheers, Jabier.

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Humble request
by Sai Harsh Tondomker 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Dear Sir/Mam, I am Sai Harsh B.Tech 4th year student from India, I want to contribute to inkspace. Could you please guide me how I can proceed. My technical skills are moderate in Python and C. My work experience can support this statement, I was T.A for Data structures and Algorithms for 1st and 2nd year undergraduate student respectively. I did my internship in MIT media lab in which most of my code is in Python. I am ready to learn new things. Awaiting for your response. Best Regards, Harsh Sent with MailTrack <https://mailtrack.io/install?source=signature&lang=en&referral=saiharsh.t13…>

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CMake now working on Windows
by Sebastian Faubel 05 Sep '16

05 Sep '16

Hello everybody, I submitted a merge request of my Inkscape branch yesterday. Thanks to Marc it has already found its way into trunk - big thank you for the quick review. The branch I submitted now has full support for compiling Inkscape on Windows with 32-Bit and 64-Bit environments. It also supports out of source builds and should also work with Unix llike command lines such as Cygwin and MSYS. After weeks of investigation I managed to get locales to work and have an executable icon along with all application icons. Actually, the only thing that it distinguishes from a btool build now is that it does not (yet) produce the inkscape.com console binary. However, that should not be a big deal. In all other regards it should be ready for testing and packaging. I already updated the Wiki page with the new compilation instructions. Again, thank you Marc and hopefully we're a step closer now to a 0.92 release on all platforms. ~Sebastian *Semiodesk GmbH | *Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 6 Geb. 15k, 86159 Augsburg, Germany | Phone: +49 821 8854401 | Fax: +49 821 8854410 | www.semiodesk.com This e-mail message may contain confidential or legally privileged information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). Any unauthorized disclosure, dissemination, distribution, copying or the taking of any action in reliance on the information herein is prohibited. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, or contain viruses. Anyone who communicates with us by e-mail is deemed to have accepted these risks. Semiodesk GmbH is not responsible for errors or omissions in this message and denies any responsibility for any damage arising from the use of e-mail. Any opinion and other statement contained in this message and any attachment are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the company.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Bug 1258842] Re: No page for vectors vs. Bitmaps
by ugajin 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

@Martin Owens https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1258842 You are not as disappointed as I am with you. Irregular is right. How dare you speak to me this way. You were clearly told, before you went ahead and made the page live, that I did not have a working picture plugin. I am not responsible if you do not provide the tools needed to upload image files. It was and/or ought to have been clear to anyone with eyes to see, that the test page relied on external links, and you were directed to this fact. Further, I did not ask you to download files from my web-site. In fact you downloaded the said files without asking, and without my consent. Is this how you generally behave, and treat artists? If so, shame on you, and shame on you for doing it to me. I provided links to those resources only, and not the resources themselves, Inkscape have no claim on them, or right to host those image files. Please remove them, and please refer this matter to the Board. It seems to me, it was a very small thing indeed, especially in the circumstances to ask that someone replace dirty files with clean ones, not least because I did not have the tools, and/or permissions to replace them at that time. We were so close to getting the thing right, and your hostile reaction is totally innapropriate. I have put a lot of hard work into this project, and I have had few thanks for doing so. As a reward for my effort, you have taken artwork which does not belong to you, and in addition you removed my editor priviledges. I cannot trust, or work with you again. Whatever your problem is, it should be with yourself with who you are disappointed, and to be treated and spoken too, by you in this way, is wholly unacceptable. Thanks to you, I have deleted, the guides, and viewBox extension files from my resources directory. I am more dissapointed than you can possiblt know, or imagine, and you can of course file your own bug report. I will not be the assignee for the 'No page for vectors vs. Bitmaps' bug, thank you. -u ---- On Fri, 02 Sep 2016 16:23:22 +0000 Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote ---- @ugajin - The files you provided on the page were published as live. I'm disappointed that you have come back to me now, after the publish time, to tell me the graphics were not the final versions. This is highly irregular and I will not change the files at this time. When we come back to this page in the future, we can update the graphics. But I have committed the page in it's current state and with that I complete this long bug report as Fixed Released. Please open another bug report to update the graphics. Maren if you need to track the svg picture plugin issue, or a bug report to make our own plugin, please go ahead. ** Changed in: inkscape-web Importance: Undecided => Low ** Changed in: inkscape-web Status: New => Fix Released ** Changed in: inkscape-web Assignee: (unassigned) => rant (ugajin) -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1258842 Title: No page for vectors vs. Bitmaps Status in Inkscape-website: Fix Released Bug description: This page here: http://quasdar.deviantart.com/art/Bitmaps-vs-Vectors-323184682 Looks like the kind of information we may want on the website. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1258842/+subscriptions

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Stroke to path
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 02 Sep '16

02 Sep '16

Hi to all. This is a requets tor change "path->stroke to path" menu item to another definition -string- based in a new code. My proposal is path->to path This new code basicaly do a convert stroked item to path retaining paint-order, fills and markers. The patch is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1556592 Cheers, Jabier.

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Inkscape Board Meeting Sep 2nd
by Bryce Harrington 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi Inkscapers, For September's board meeting, I'd like to plan on getting together this Friday, September 2nd, at the usual time, noon Pacific, in #inkscape-devel. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Last meeting we discussed hackfest locations. My wife's been helping me scope out some awesome places in the area, and we have a good option to present. We'd also talked about sending a few folks to a GNOME event this fall; this meeting will be the last opportunity to get that underway if we want to do it. Another important agenda item is to follow up on the Inkscape Forum transition, and discuss follow up tasks. I've also started working on setting up an Inkscape account on Spreadshirt and put some Q's in to SFC regarding bank info and taxes, but am hoping that will be ready for usage soonish. So I'd like to chat with Mc and anyone else that would like to participate in getting that off the ground. Bryce

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The Website is Down
by Shlomi Fish 29 Aug '16

29 Aug '16

Hi all, as reported on Freenode, https://inkscape.org/en/ gives a "502 Bad Gateway" error. Please look into fixing it. Regards, Shlomi -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ “Talk Like a Pirate Day” is the only day of the year when Chuck Norris only talks like a pirate, and does not actually act like one. — http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Chuck-Norris/ Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post

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Doc scaling compatibility issue (Bug 1389723)
by Bryce Harrington 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

What do you think we should do about the release-critical DPI bug? We need a decision on a course of action. One of the changes we're bringing in this release is changing the definition of px from 90 dpi to 96 dpi, but a consequence of this is that documents created in 0.91 or earlier will become mis-scaled if used in 0.92. This is tracked in the following bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1389723 This is a release-critical bug, the sort that is likely to become a thorn in our side in the near to mid term as users start running into it more and more. Longer term it will diminish as our users move to newer versions, but I imagine it'll take multiple years before it goes away completely. I don't think we should consider reverting the change; it was introduced pretty early on this development cycle so backing it out could cause secondary bugs to crop up. Also, it's a change that has to be done, so if we don't do it this release we'll have to go through all the trouble again next release anyway. One proposed approach is to detect the affected files on load and display a warning with a recommendation to convert the file manually. Javier has posted a conversion tool that could be made use of; it's received a fair bit of testing but there may be some remaining corner cases to sort out; on the plus side with it being a discrete utility fixes could be rolled out for it without needing full Inkscape releases. The other proposed approach would be for Inkscape to internally convert files, so that no warning is needed. In theory this would provide a better user experience, but is going to require a lot more developer effort and thorough testing. I'm doubtful that all of this can be done adequately within the timeframe we're looking at for the release. Both approaches also require a mechanism to detect affected files, which sounds like it may be the tricky part here, as our SVG documents haven't had versioning information we could rely on for this case. Do you have thoughts on other ways to address this issue? Do you have a strong opinion on whether for this release we should use the expedient approach or else postpone the release until the more user-friendly approach can be developed? Or should we reconsider a revert of the DPI switch so we can get the release out and re-enable it post-release in hopes the issues can be worked out? Bryce

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GitLab
by Martin Owens 26 Aug '16

26 Aug '16

Hi Developers, I've just been looking over GitLab, since they've put together a new issues board feature and it's in the open source version of their code, could we have a look and see if it's suitable for our needs? We'd need to check the CI build system is what we need My reasoning is that I have great misgivings about github, proprietary, large almost monopoly, project authority issues. If we can avoid having our code go there, I really think we should try hard not to go that route unless all other avenues are exhausted. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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InkJar support
by Alex Valavanis 24 Aug '16

24 Aug '16

Hi All, Is there still any sense in keeping our support for SVG JAR files? As I understand it, this is an obsolete StarOffice file archive format that has since been removed from LibreOffice/OpenOffice. In fact, as far as I can tell Inkscape itself does not support these archives... only Inkview does. We no longer even provide an explicit option in our build system to support InkJar. Is it OK for me to go ahead and remove support, or does anyone know of a reason we still need this? Best wishes, Alex

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