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New Gnome development libraries need C++11 compiler support
by Alex Valavanis 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi All, Time to revisit our old discussions about C++11 support (with some urgency). It seems that unstable versions of libsigc++ (as of version 2.4.1, I think) require the C++11 standard to be enabled by the compiler [1]. This is already causing build failures [2] so we need to act soon. Indeed, as suv points out in [2], many of the Gnome development libraries have switched over too. As far as I recall, older versions of OS X do not have a compiler that supports C++11 fully, so we'd risk killing off support for these users if we enforce the C++11 standard in Inkscape. Some options... 1. Add configuration tests to selectively enable C++11 only on systems with the new libraries... this could be complicated to maintain, though 2. Enforce C++11 builds, but forbid developers from using new features until they have been tested on a wide range of systems... I'm not sure how we'd enforce this once we've made it technically possible to build C++11 code 3. Enforce C++11 builds, and give developers "green light" to use new features. This is likely to cause problems for users of old OSes! Best wishes, AV [1] https://git.gnome.org/browse/libsigc++2/commit/?id=5a6b8f21f83dfe0f64770196… [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1488079

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[Election Question] Some questions.
by Tavmjong Bah 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Questions for the candidates: The board's primary role has been to handle Inkscape's assets. How can Inkscape's assets be used to grow the Inkscape community? Are there specific projects that you think the board should pursue? How would you contribute to them? Tav

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Bug 418242 - clipboard interaction
by Jared Henley 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi, I believe that I'm experiencing the bug described here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/418242). I'm finally sick enough of it to try to get it fixed. I want to start by mailing the list to find out what's going on, if it'll get fixed by some other development, etc. first. Comment #37 on the launchpad bug tracker mentions a patch. Comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/418242/comments/37, Patch: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1021767/My%20Scripts/FixesAndPatches/InkscapePatch.… I haven't tried this as I don't like messing about with stuff managed by the package manager. I have some experience with C, a lot more with Python. Where do I start? Jared.

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[Election Question] Accessibility for non-Developers
by Ted Gould 23 Aug '15

23 Aug '15

Question for the candidates: Inkscape has tried to be welcoming to both developer and non-developer contributions to the project. Do you think the project has been successful there? Is it getting better or worse? What could/should we do to recognize or encourage non-developer contributions? Ted

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SSL config on inkscape.org
by Tobias Ellinghaus 21 Aug '15

21 Aug '15

Hello, I hope that someone feeling responsible for the Inkscape website is reading this. Would it be possible to change the SSL used by inkscape.org to offer something modern and maybe disable old and weak cyphers? I have disabled the broken ones in my browser and can't reach the website any more. See [0] for details. Tobias [0] https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=inkscape.org&hideResults=on

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Seamless Pattern extension updated to V0.5
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hi to all. I just commit the updated extension to trunk. 0.91/0.48 users can get it from here: https://inkscape.org/en/gallery/item/1358/ Improvements: Cleanup and better script for he helper text, thanks to Maren. Cleanup of layer names to easy use it. A transparency checkboard show in the pattern preview to notice about transparency in the pattern. Non unifrorm patterns not deform the default inkscape based pattern. All elements not necesary for make the patter are blocked, so is more easy work on it. All the best, Jabier.

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Inkscape Board Election: Candidate Nomination Peroid has ended
by Ted Gould 20 Aug '15

20 Aug '15

Hello, The nomination and candidacy submission period is now closed. We had seven individuals nominated, four of which have been accepted. This is a good time to start thinking of questions to ask the candidates as you will have the chance to ask the candidates anything you'd like to know before you elect them to the board. Please post those questions to the inkscape-devel mailing list. We will be sending out voting tokens to eligible voters before the end of this week, then you will be able to access the voting website provided by the Software Freedom Conservancy for our election. You will be able to go to that website with your token and cast your vote.[1] We will send out an e-mail after all the tokens have gone out so that you can confirm getting one. If you are (or think you should be) in the AUTHORS file, and did not receive the test mail sent out by Ted Gould earlier this week, please send a message to inkscape.elections.committee@...3261... so that we can add it to the voters list ASAP. Thank you and happy voting - and good luck to all our candidates :), The Inkscape Elections Committee [1] The voting system used is Scottish STV (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_transferable_vote), the voting software is an open-source fork of openSTV (from a version before it went closed-source). ------------------------------------------------------------ CANDIDATES == Name == Krzysztof Kosiński == Current Professional Affiliation == University of Warsaw (until end of September), Intel (probably until end of August), Google (starting in late November) == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == long time contributor starting in 2008, 4x GSoC participant, 2x GSoC mentor. Responsible for clipboard rewrite, multipath capabilities in the node tool, Cairo rendering, render caching, bitmap image handling improvements, recently focusing on lib2geom - general refactoring and Boolean operations. == Personal statement == Inkscape is a special project for me. It has offered me lots of opportunities to build my experience, earn money through Summer of Code, and has indirectly prompted me to seek a career in software engineering. By serving on the board of Inkscape, I hope to be able to reciprocate some of the positive influence that Inkscape has had on my professional development over the years. ================================================================== == Name == Martin W.F. Owens == Current Professional Affiliation == - Freelance programming contractor, Free Software focus. - Some past inkscape contracting; perl python/django websites, other. == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == I state I have contributed to Inkscape evident in the commit logs of the bazaar repository for the master branch and am the principal author of the inkscape-web project. == Personal statement == Inkscape is an important tool for the Free Software community, being its primary graphical design and user interface tool as well as its most advanced web standards compliant authoring tool. Its availability and ease of use make it also important in being able to promote Free Software and the wider understanding of Free Culture as a whole. A large portion of Inkscape's future is in organising and inviting users who participate in the wider community and I wish to be able to help manage the interfaces that serve the community in both their support and involvement in the large landscape of Inkscape's uses. ================================================================== == Name == Nicolas Dufour == Current Professional Affiliation == Sysadmin for the French civil aviation. == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == I first used Inkscape in 2007 to create waypoints and airports icons for aviation maps and it rapidly became the main tool for almost all my personal and professional creative work. So I found it natural to give back to the project in 2008 (first contribution: the Printing Marks extension, in collaboration with Aurium) and never left the project since then. Some of my favorite areas are extensions, internationalization/localization, documentation, triaging bug and fixing forgotten low priority bugs. I have some blueprints pending (extensions presets, multiple preferences management and crash recovery dialog), but unfortunately there's too much to be done in the other areas and I have difficulties finding time to be a real developer. Apart from Inkscape, I also contribute to the Floss Manuals project as technical writer (very occasionally now) and as webmaster of the French FM server. == Personal statement == I feel there's a real need for non-developer contributions. A FOSS project is not only a question of code, and bringing it to users is basically why we're contributing. That's the reason why I first focused on documentation and internationalization/localization tasks. Answering questions on LP, the Inkscape forum or IRC and helping with the website content are crucial, too (unfortunately it's very time consuming and I can't contribute as much as I'd like). Being on the Board is different, but also helps developers meet other developers and users, and legal and financial issues are very important to keep the project safe. I'd be very happy to help Inkscape that way, too. ================================================================== == Name == Alexander (Alex) Valavanis == Current Professional Affiliation == School of Electronic and Electrical Engineering University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT United Kingdom == Statement of contribution to Inkscape or related technologies == I have been an Inkscape developer since May 2011, with over 550 contributions committed to the project's code. My main involvement has been in improving the quality and maintainability of the code, and making the best use of the programming language features and software libraries available on the many different operating systems used by Inkscape's diverse user community. Specifically, I led the migration of Inkscape to the new GTK+ 3 graphical user interface library, which will "future-proof" our code, allow us to make much better use of touchscreens, and provide better support for OS X. I set up and maintain the Inkscape personal package archives (PPAs), which enable Ubuntu and Debian users to access both the latest stable version of Inkscape and daily builds of our experimental code. I have also taken a lot of interest in improving the build systems, which are used for building the Inkscape program from its source code. I have aimed to ensure that Inkscape can be built reliably on a wide range of systems, and I have liaised closely with the downstream Ubuntu and Debian package maintainers to make sure that we receive user bug reports and distribute new versions of Inkscape to users as efficiently as possible. I was very grateful for the opportunity to attend the Inkscape Hackfest in 2015, and to meet with other developers and board members to work on the code and discuss the future roadmap for the project. == Personal statement == It is a true honour to have been nominated as a board member for Inkscape. I fully appreciate the high regard in which the project is held by its users, and the wider free software community. My role in Inkscape has, so far, focused mainly on the technical side of improving the quality and longevity of the project, and I am eager now to support the project at board level. It was a real pleasure to meet some of the other board members in person at the Hackfest earlier this year and I look forward to the opportunity to work together with them. As a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds, UK, I have experience in the financial planning of small to medium-scale ($1000 - $1.5 million) technical projects, and am confident in my ability to take on board responsibilities for Inkscape. I am also interested in the inter-project collaboration aspects of board membership, particularly in promoting the development of shared libraries and resources for common use with other free-software projects.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] How to include .lib or .a in inkscape
by Alex Valavanis 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi Pratap, I'm afraid I don't know much about Windows development... I'll have to defer to one of the other team members! Best wishes, Alex On 18 Aug 2015 7:04 am, "Pratap Odedara" <p.odedara20@...400...> wrote: > I am using windows os and compiling the inkscape using visual studio as > given in official site > > On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...> > wrote: > >> Hi Pratap, >> >> Which OS are you using? How are you compiling Inkscape? >> >> >> Alex >> >> On 14 August 2015 at 13:15, Pratap <p.odedara20@...400...> wrote: >> > I want to include external library in inkscape project I have both .lib >> and >> > .a files of that library i want to include that library and use its >> methods >> > in inkscape so please guid me how to do it >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > View this message in context: >> http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/How-to-include-lib-or-a-in-inkscape-tp4974… >> > Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Inkscape-devel mailing list >> > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel >> > >

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Seamless Extension Update
by Jabier Arraiza 18 Aug '15

18 Aug '15

Hi to all, attached are the template for the Seamless Pattern extension. It have some explains in english, also added a new feature to show white patterns without background or transparency. I need help to fix the strings and also a request to clarify it in the user point of view. Thanks in advace for your effort, Jabier.

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How to include .lib or .a in inkscape
by Pratap 17 Aug '15

17 Aug '15

I want to include external library in inkscape project I have both .lib and .a files of that library i want to include that library and use its methods in inkscape so please guid me how to do it -- View this message in context: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/How-to-include-lib-or-a-in-inkscape-tp4974… Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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