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Board Meeting @ Friday Mar 4th, 2016
by Bryce Harrington 31 Mar '16

31 Mar '16

Let's plan on doing a short meeting tomorrow, March 4th. It'll be in #inkscape-devel at noon Pacific time (2000 UTC). http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Shortened Agenda is: * Hackfest 2016 * GSoC 2016 * Other business If time permits we'll tackle some of remaining topics from last meeting, but I'd like to keep the meeting to under an hour for folks, and to reserve as much as necessary for the hackfest and gsoc planning work. Bryce

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Participation in LGM [Design]
by Xaviju Julián 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hi everyone! Since this year is the LGM and the hackfest it could be a good moment to meet personally with some of you and talk/learn about the Inkscape interface design. In a conversation with Ilmari, from the LibreOffice team, he pointed out that they currently have a design team with great results. A design team could (should!) also include developers, who like to hack on the UI and how functionality is presented to the user. We are also part of the Open Source Design community with tons of designers with interest in contributing but have little idea on how to start contributing to projects like Inkscape. This Design team could help new contributors to be useful on the current development. We really want to contribute to Inkscape with our skills :) Do you think it would be good to create an official Design team inside Inkscape? In a conversation with Jabier he suggested us to meet in the hackfest in Leeds, we are a group of 2-3 designers going to the LGM and, if you think it would be useful to meet in the hackfest, we could make it to Leeds on 13th (arriving 12th night). Thanks, looking forward to meet at the LGM! Xavi

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Inkscape with touch screens?
by Brynn 29 Mar '16

29 Mar '16

Hi Friends, Occassionally we've had a message in forums about using Inkscape with a touch screen. And in the past I've always answered "not yet". But now I'm shopping for a new laptop, and approx 90% of the laptops available in my RAM range (16 gb) are "2 in 1" types which have touch screens. I've had to search rather closely to find a non-touch screen! If I look in the lower range of RAM (around 6 gb) the available systems are roughly split between touch and non-touch screens. But even then, it gives the impression that touchscreen computers are much more common than I had imagined. The last time I bought a new computer, touchscreens were rare! Anyway, I wanted to ask the development community -- will Inkscape ever be made to work using a touch screen, or will it always be mouse (or graphics tablet/pen) driven (also commandline)? Or is using a touch screen essentially the same as a graphics tablet, and Inkscape is already touch-capable? Thanks for some clarity (answer doesn't need to be very technical) :-) Thank you very much, brynn

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Dbus implementation
by Raphaël Bournhonesque 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

Hello, I've noticed that a Dbus application was written during a former GSOC event (2009), and I was wondering why it was not included by default in Inkscape. Does the implementation still need some work? I would be glad to work on this if needed. Best, Raphaël

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Mirror Symmetry LPE
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 27 Mar '16

27 Mar '16

Any one want to rebiew the resubmited LPE code to allow CRogers include it in his video for LGM? https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/mirror-symetry-lpe-improv… Cheers, Jabier.

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support for gcode extensions
by Brynn 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Hi Friends, I provide support for Inkscape daily, in bb style forums or occassionally in LP Answers. A couple of things are missing across the community. 1 - tutorials for using gcode tools, and 2 - support for questions and problems with those extensions. I know that the extensions all reference a single, 30-page topic in a Russian forum, as a place to get support. But we still are getting questions posted in other forums, that we just can't answer. Is there any other place where people can find support? Thanks, brynn

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Inkscape Hackfest: I'll bring teh coffeh
by C R 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

I have a small nespresso coffee-pod type coffee machine which fits nicely in a bit of hand luggage. I'm also willing to smuggle a truly questionable quantity of coffeepods to Leeds, since it seems most folks who are attending love coffee to some degree, and it's friggin miles to the nearest coffee chain stores. What I want to know is: who wants coffee, and how much per day. I'm going to bulk-order nespresso coffeepods (or reasonable facsimiles), which will get them cheaper than they would be otherwise. If you are attending the inkscape hackfest, and want coffee, just reply with your average per-day quota, and I'll add it all up to see how much to lug along. Also advise if you want other things like sugar, powdered milk, soy, cocoa, etc. Thanks! -C

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ANN: reproducible build & test virtual machine
by Olof Bjarnason 26 Mar '16

26 Mar '16

Hi Inkscape list! I've worked on a Vagrantfile* over the past few months, that is able to bring up a virtual build- and test machine for Inkscape. The VM is running on Lubuntu linux (lightweight Ubuntu) so you can actually run the inkscape binary produced by the build. You can, of course, modify the Inkscape source code within the VM, and rebuild. So if you got Vagrant and VirtualBox up and running, creating a development environment for Inkscape is just a "vagrant up" away. Because of this, it is relatively simple to develop Inkscape regardless on what OS&machine you are on, be it Windows, Mac or Linux - as long as you can install VirtualBox and Vagrant you are good to go. I'd love feedback and/or pull requests. https://github.com/objarni/inkup/ /Olof * The Vagrantfile is the "recipe" used to build a VM using Vagrant. Vagrant automates the creation and management of virtual machines on a computer. It supports VM ware, VirtualBox and more.

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Quick fix suggestion: Filter document "Page Size" options based on "display units" drop-down
by C R 25 Mar '16

25 Mar '16

Working on the video templates today and noticed that many of the options for template sizes that are present in the "New from template" dialogue are missing in the Document Properties options (including video templates). But... Rather than include a search (which may be nice but time-consuming as a fix). Why don't we include them all, but filter the options shown based on the units selected in the "display units". So if the user chooses "in" then show all options with dimensions listed in inches In my case, the template would naturally be in px for video, so having chosen "px", I'd get my 1080p template right away without having to open a new file (or remember that 1080 is the height rather than the width, which always gives me issues remembering "1920" for some reason). At the least, I think it should make the px values float to the top of the list, for convenience. The sizes are somewhat haphazardly listed at the moment. Thoughts? -C

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Linked offset broken in trunk
by C R 23 Mar '16

23 Mar '16

Hey, just noticed that linked offset now produces very bad results. I'm using Inkscape 0.91+devel r (Mar 14 2016) To reproduce results: 1. Draw any shape 2. Add a linked offset to the shape 3. Drag the linked offset handle out or in. Star and rounded rectangle example with linked offset here: http://www.opendesignstudio.org/inkscape/linked_ofset_problem.png As you can see the results are wavey/garbagey. Whatever changes were made to the linked offset modifier seem to have broken it pretty badly. :/ Thoughts? -C

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