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Developer Meeting Notes, April 5 2024
by Jonathan Neuhauser 05 Apr '24

05 Apr '24

Dear all, please see the meeting notes below. Best regards Jonathan Dev Meeting April 5, 2024 Present: Jonathan, Marc, Martin, MikeKov, PBS, René, Tav, Vaibhav === Important for all === - If you fix stuff for 1.4, target 1.4.x and auto-close the issue + forward-port tag. - Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ If you need hardware for your Inkscape work, please ask. === Individual Developer summary === Jonathan helped with GSoC student and getting a student set up with the tools for the sfdesigner conversion and get their application sent in. Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ Martin: Fixed some issues on the bugfix accelerator program (about 9h this week). Tried to work around an issue where in one distribution ImageMagick doesn't have JPG support by adding a test for it, and also adding tool-specific shortcuts to the preferences interface. Mike: Tried to adapt Look & Feel of master to GTK3, adjusting differences PBS: Brought Spellcheck back. Is looking into GTK4 regressions, and working on speeding up the Font dropdown. Some discussion about how to implement this best in GTK4. For rendering, waiting on feedback on cross-platform support for OpenGL. René: Tries to fix master CI for Windows. Helpful contributions by Max Gaukler. Next version for MacOS is in the works as well, xz fallout. Is checking the GSoC 2 patches for formal criteria. Marc suggested that the cutoff for the 2 patches is close to the decision date. Tav: tries to come up with a solution for editing text in imported PDFs, as there are currently only manual kerns, no spaces. Vaibhav: This week, I worked on fixing some regressions in the text and font dialog on master. Most of the regressions in the font tab are fixed, but I'm confused about the placement of the font size selector without breaking the symmetry of the dialog. Any inputs are appreciated. Link to the MR: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6303

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April Vectors Meeting
by Maren Hachmann 04 Apr '24

04 Apr '24

Hello Vectors (and everyone interested in what we do), our next Vectors team meeting is on Saturday! Here's the proposed agenda: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/vectors/general/-/issues/284 Please comment on items you think should be added (or add them yourself, if you have the necessary permission)! Here's a shortcut to find the concrete time for your time zone: https://inkscape.org/cals/ (note: this is an hour later than before the time switch to summer time!) Maren

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Introduction land project proposal for Paint Server Dialog Improvements
by Julia Nguyen 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Dear Inkscape Developers, I hope you are doing well. My name is Julia Nguyen, and I am a passionate software developer with a keen interest in contributing to open-source projects. I recently came across Google Summer of Codes program which has an Inkscape project, and I am impressed by its commitment to providing a powerful and accessible vector graphics editor to the community. I am writing to introduce myself and express my interest in contributing to the development of Inkscape. I have a background in C++ and Java programming. I am particularly drawn to the project of improving the Paint Server Dialog, which I believe presents an exciting opportunity to enhance the user experience and functionality of Inkscape. I am interested in the project proposal for the Paint Server Dialog improvement that is available in the Google Summer of Codes Program, and I would greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions from the community before finalizing my application. Here is some ideas that I have for the project: Gradient Support: Implement functionality to allow users to select and apply gradients for fill and stroke. This includes designing a user-friendly interface for creating, editing, and applying gradients within the dialog since it is a bit weird when I use it. Solid Color Integration Improvements : Enhance the dialog to include options for selecting and applying solid colors for fill and stroke. This involves designing intuitive controls for choosing from a palette of colors and applying them to objects. I thought of this because when I tried go fill a color, I noticed a line on the edges of the pictures that is not part of the stroke. I believe that these improvements will significantly enhance the usability and versatility of the Paint Server Dialog, ultimately benefiting the entire Inkscape community. I welcome any feedback, suggestions, or questions you may have regarding this proposal. I am eager to collaborate with the talented developers and designers in the Inkscape community to make this project a success. Thank you for considering my contribution, and I look forward to your feedback. Best regards, Julia Nguyen

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GSoC Patch Confirmation
by Witchi Kitti Kat 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Hello all, I was informed that my patches need to demonstrate my ability to program in C/C++. I have tried to scrape together what I can in the time that I have had today. Here they are: Merge 1 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6306> Merge 2 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6305>. They relate to my GSoC proposal. I know it's not much. I am very short on time today due to class. I want to do more, but the deadline is coming fast, and my proposal could be refined more. Any advice on what my next steps should be? If I can get any confirmation on these merges to know what I need to do for the rest of the night... Either I can get better merges tonight or focus on finishing my proposal. I would prefer to finish working on my proposal, of course, but if I need to do more merges, I can. Thank you for your time, I really appreciate it. Sincerely, Kayla Powell witchikittikat(a)gmail.com

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GSoC Introduction and Proposal
by Witchi Kitti Kat 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hello everyone, My name is Kayla, I go by kpowkitty online. I have tried to reach out a couple of times on IRC about feedback on my proposal; I missed this emailing list. My apologies! I hope that does not take away from my standing with Inkscape. I have already made two patches: Patch 1 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/a4959939e11b0253fbbaf12c3e1f1…>, Patch 2 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/3501a56d3fcd66b8c89a0ea160e8a…> . I have also created a drawing <https://inkscape.org/~kpowkitty/%E2%98%85girl+1> with Inkscape. I have submitted my proposal to GSoC. Feedback would be much appreciated. I am proposing a refactor and renewal of Inkscape. Here is my project summary: Inkscape has been pieced together since 2003; a rocky C to C++ transition, the implementation of GTK (now GTK4!), and much more. Inkscape is sitting on a somewhat unstable foundation. To improve this foundation, the remaining C code will be transitioned to C++, redundant code and rough implementations will be reversed and renewed, and there will be documentation added. By implementing these things, Inkscape will have a better foundation for development, making it easier to expand upon. It will also bring better memory management and efficiency. Most importantly, the documentation will make it easier for new developers to approach Inkscape. All of these factors combined will not only help old developers, by providing them with a stronger foundation and reliable documentation, but it will also make Inkscape approachable to new developers, through shorter, clearer code and better instructions. Deliverables are: Refactored ui/tools/tool-base.cpp. SPDrawAnchor removed → SPKnot implemented. src/line-geometry.h/.cpp officially in lib2geom. Divided display directory. Inkscape’s handling of URIs and file names sorted. Inkscape::URIReference and derived classes simplified. Optional: Decide when and where to use Inkscape::URI / Inkscape::IO::UriInputStream and clean them up. Optional: Unified error/status message output. Reorganized file tree. Clear, concise directory names and file names. Doxygen commenting. One-line file descriptors. READMEs for all directories. Please let me know if there are any changes I need to make. Thank you for taking the time to look at my proposal, and I look forward to hearing from you all! Sincerely, Kayla Powell witchikittikat(a)gmail.com

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Hey Inkscape Developers
by Vineet Bambah 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

Hi, I have been a contributor and a user of Inkscape for about 6-7 months now. I have loved the active nature of this community and clear documentation and tutorials. I am a student right now pursuing my bachelors from NIT Jalandhar, India. Here is my introduction to all the Inkscape Developers. Signing off for now, Vineet Bambah

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Developer Meeting Notes; March 28th
by Martin Owens 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hey everyone, Big developer meeting this week, thanks to everyone who came and participated. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Meeting: Friday April 5th, 1pm EST Attending: Marc, Martin, Mikekov, René, pbs, Ravi Arora, Tamir, Vaibhav, Tav, Javier ------- (René) We have macOS Apple silcon for Gtk4. We don't have intel support and we don't have a full test suite run. René wants to merge them with about 4 tests failing to recruit some help from other people. The new version of Gtk4 will be out soon. There is a time out delay in the test suite which René was hoping would be fixed in the next Gtk release, but hasn't so it'll have to be looked into as the test suite takes too long. Martin wanted to know how the macOS version on Gtk4 is performing. René reports that there is plenty of bugs, but the speed seems compariable. The extensions don't work yet. Some objects aren't appearing when drawn and pbs thinks this is a missed events. René will work on Windows development/building when the MSYS2 libraries are updated. ------- Mikekov has been trying to fix some regressions with 1.4.x, and has been fixing Gtk4 every now and then. Mikekov wants to merge the "Font selector UX study" into 1.4.x, it would be switched off by default. He's making a version for the Gtk4 master branch before it would ever be switched on. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4578 The developer team are ok with it being merged. ------- Vaibhav has been working on the toolbars, specifically issues with the text toolbar. It's almost ready to go. Mikekov mentioned the size of combo boxes in Gtk4. PBS had some ideas for how to set group priorities using boxes in the UI file by having boxes in boxes. Designers/UX-team can now customise the toolbars in such a way that they can decide what should disapear first when the toolbars are too small. ------- Jonathan asked about the SFC getting in touch. Martin and Vaibhav have recieved information from the SFC about the Bug Accelerator project. But Tav's email might have gotten eaten by his spam filter. Martin has signed the contract adjustment and will start working on bugs on April 1st. Vaibhav is communicating his details which should be complete by next week. ------- Martin and René worked on fixing a double parsing mystery issue in the color parser on macOS which turned out to be a long standing difference between clang and gcc with the C++ specification. Martin wrote a custom double parser for macOS and PBS suggested a possible function in lib2geom which might fix it too. (Martin) Rebasing the color branch for gtk4 - "new code". Some adjustement needed, but thankfully few of them. UI conflicts were easy to spot and look doable (still a few things like sliders, color drag and drop, to fix). The branch is big, and tiring to maintain. PBS offers help ------- (jabier) split of the mega corners fix into a 7 MR. It add stability to this LPE seems one or the most crashing one, by the way I implement beabiours to work as expected in operations like Join,Combine, Brak Apart, alowing retain spected results. Fix also lot of issues with knots than usualy crash even away of the LPE system. Also fix a issue in the status bar toolbar, targeted to windows OS, that fix a big lag randomly dragging and creation cause by a upstream bug in probably Pango or Label Gtk3 implementation. Finaly I do a Linux issue about redrawing SelectorStyle in status bar afecting debian Adwaita when we change some labels from normal to bold. Whole app is resized. ------- Ravi is contributing to GSoC looking at the node based editor using an infinate canvas with widgets. Experimenting with the Gtk4 branch and has noticed a lot of issues. Marc makes sure what everyone has their two merge requests accepted. ------- PBS had an unmerge request with SPDesktop refactoring which will be coming soon. A bunch of changes which he's wanted to fix for a while. Fixing lots of issues with popups and their life times. PBS asks the AppImage tool yanks the old app images and we should pin the app images. Marc says we need to store things in a place that we control. There are some issues with AppImages, for example it doesn't have GPU support. A possible tool to try out is AppImageCrafters. https://github.com/appimagecrafters/appimage-builder ------- Marc has been managing the GSoC and wants to make sure that their merge requsts and proposal drafts are getting reviewed in time. He asks everyone if they'd like to be mentors with GSoC. Jabier asks how much time it would take and Marc says that it really depends on the student as it can be as low as just reviewing the merge requests but it could be a student that needs a lot more help. ------- Martin would like to remind everyone to keep reviewing all merge requests if possible. ------- René explained why the version of XCode tools is pegged to a specific version to pbs and mikekov after the meeting ended. So technically this part of the meeting notes is impossible, since it was sent before people finished talking. See you all next time!

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herramienta construcción de formas
by irelur1957＠gmail.com 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

He tenido el problema de convertir un trazo cerrado a objeto y la herramienta de construcción de formas me ha solucionado la vida, ya que seleccionas todo el trazo y luego la herramienta, posteriormente haces click en el elemento y MUY IMPORTANTE luego clikeas en la herramienta selector (cursor flecha) y ya se convierte el trazo cerrado en objeto

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Meeting notes, March 20th 2024
by Martin Owens 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Developer Meeting March 20 Present: PBS, Jonathan, Jabier, Mikekov, Tav, Vaibhav, Martin Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ ----- GTK4 branch: - close to getting merged - migrate existing threads into meta-issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4802 - Build documentation can be unchanged since it automatically buils GTK4.14 for you - 1.4.x was branched a few days ago - decision should be up to Marc, added as reviewer - do we need to review it in-depth? - testing is more important, but that can happen after merging - other CIs except Linux will be fixed in the future - CI situation should improve once GTK4.14 makes its way into the repositores - upstream Windows MR: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/20311 1.4.x backports: - if they target master, backporting will be a pain as soon as GTK4 is merged - instead forward-port, reduce risk of regressions in 1.4.x by rebasing "behind" GTK4 - Label to mark those "Forward port required" created Bugfix Accelerator Program and Inbox: - will happen with Vaibhav, Tav and Martin - 1.4 milestone needs more issues, and Inbox is not in a very good state - Inbox is not in a very good shape, 1000 issues that need attention for triaging - Bugfix Accelerator people need to help - Ask vectors to recruit help Device program: - Windows for PBS, Mac for Tav, Mac for Vaibhav - PBS plans to sort out Visual Studio integration to on-board Windows developers Google Season of Docs - Ideas are welcome! Needs to have measureable objectives, and we need a 3-4 page proposal within two weeks. - a lot of work to mentor someone if it includes the Inkscape codebase - Wiki clean up? - Vector's style guide? - Documentation for extension authors? - Replacing Tav's manual? Host Tav's manual on inkscape.org? - fine with Tav - needs to be done before 1.4 - it didn't support HTTPS before - could be put into a repository? https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/tavmjong-manual Legal issues need to be resolved, i.e. the license for contributing, but we can make it readonly for now source is in DocBook (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook) Toolbars issues in master: 1. Several expander next to each other 2. No icons for the expanders 3. Lots of hardcoded expanders in the UI files. I've managed to dynamically manage the expanders and in the coming days I'll be working on adding icons to the expanders dynamically. With the latest changes, to make a child move between popovers and the toolbar, just adding the "tag" style class would do. ----- Big thanks to those that came and took notes as the meeting progressed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape - Dev Questions.
by Eric F 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

> Can someone in this group assist with these questions? My company requires > these answered before allowing this install. > > 1. > > In order to assess any potential risk, provide a list of all required > pre-requisite software (e.g., SQL Express, Visual Basic. In addition to > providing a list of pre-requisite software, provide confirmation from the > vendor via email that the product does not contain vulnerable third-party > applications including but not limited to Log4J or MSXML for risk > assessment purposes. > > 2. > > Please contact the vendor and request a Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) > in SPDX format. > > The Software Bill of Materials is a list of all of the components in a > piece of software. Nowadays, it is quite common for software vendors to > create products by assembling open source and commercial software > components. > > For this reason, SBOMs are created to provide transparency and identify > all of the risk-prone components. This information is needed in order to > conduct the security review for all software. >

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