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Windows: 64bit GTK3 buildfile
by Johan Engelen 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Hi all Windows devs, If you're interested in testing and helping with moving Inkscape towards GTK3: I just committed build-x64-gtk3.xml that you can use to build Inkscape on Windows with GTK3. btool -file build-x64-gtk3.xml This works for me using the latest devlibs. Let us know if you have problems. Your help is very much appreciated. cheers, Johan

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Website Menus
by Martin Owens 22 Nov '14

22 Nov '14

Dear Website Users, Some of you may have experienced the menu explosion bug that the website has come down with. I've put in place a fix for both javascript (so it won't cause an infinite loop) and for the menus themselves which were getting progressively worse as the caches refreshed. Please test and don't hesitate to make a bug[1] if you notice anything wrong. Best Regards, Martin Owens [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web

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GTK application with high dpi support
by Johan Engelen 21 Nov '14

21 Nov '14

Hi all, Does anybody know a GTK application that supports high-dpi monitors, on Windows or Mac? I'd like to know, so I can see how they got things to work well. Thanks so much, Johan

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0.91 Blockers
by Josh Andler 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

This is to follow up on Bryce's earlier Hard Freeze announcement to bring attention to our blockers once more. https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=21423field… #384688 - Long Standing Bug. Offset on text objects causes rendering/geometry artifacts. Pretty nasty and very easy to run into... I know I personally have a handful of files affected by it. Would really be nice to get fixed, but if it were the last blocker it should be re-milestoned. #953992 - Regression. Imported pattern disappears on transform. This is a renderer regression which is why it's marked as a blocker. It is still an issue in 0.91.x but is no longer affecting trunk. Is anybody interested looking into backporting this? If not, we're fine to bump the milestone forward since 0.92 will have it resolved. #1245989 - Regression. Canvas ends up 1x1px on certain documents. This is a weird issue and also affects XAML import (1235809). However, Inkscape can't directly produce files with this issue w/o the XML Editor being used. Apparently we used to create an A4 canvas in these situations, now it's 1x1 px (happened with templates due to the units refactoring). Logically, doing it to drawing size would be the best "fix" (I agree with comment #5 in 1235809). #1387864 - Regression. THE BIG BLOCKER is the one on document units. Tavmjong posted to the list about this with the subject of "Hard Freeze for 0.91: Inkscape Units". At this point there appears to be two obvious paths forward, 1) Possibly reverting back to the old superficial behavior when switching "Default units" (Tav's question at the end of his message pertained to this), or 2) hide/remove the "Default units widget" for 0.91 and potentially make Inkscape unusable to a sizable portion of our userbase. Obviously 1 is ideal, but we're left with the question of how feasible it is to get back that functionality in a way we're reasonably confident won't break 0.91 so close to release. Cheers, Josh

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Effective Modern C++ (book)
by Johan Engelen 20 Nov '14

20 Nov '14

Hi all, Tip: you can buy Effective Modern C++ (you do know it is out, right?) ebook with 50% discount now from O'Reilly here http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920033707.do using http://www.retailmenot.com/view/oreilly.com 22$ for the most anticipated C++ book of the year, not bad. Although you will read this book front-to-back first, it may come in handy later while coding too. So having the ebook version is convenient for searching, plus, it will be updated with bugfixes and such. The book is good for all skill levels. Cheers, Johan

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2Geom automated testing + doxygen
by Johan Engelen 19 Nov '14

19 Nov '14

Hi all, I've set up 2Geom automated builds, testing, and doxygen on Inkscape's Jenkins server. http://jenkins.inkscape.org:8080/ What I find pretty cool is that we now also have a trunk up-to-date version of our documentation: http://jenkins.inkscape.org:8080/job/2Geom_trunk_doxygen/doxygen/index.html This should make us more aware of the fact that we actually have a number of tests failing........!!! cheers, Johan

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Translation update, POT date out of sync, how do I fix?
by Christoffer Holmstedt 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

hmm. I've been working on a Swedish translation since a few weeks back and I just tried my translation against trunk and it was committed nicely. (POT date the same) [1]. When I now committed it to 0.91 [2] it seems like POT date was out of sync. ### How do I set up a proper workflow to not end up in this situation? With Git I would have just kept the different branches as they are and created a translation branch (like a hotfix branch in the git-flow mindset) that I could merge into the others when I felt it was ready, but I have no idea how to do this with Bazaar. ### Revert current revision (0.91 branch, revision 13646, [2]) As my experience with Bazaar is limited I don't want to revert, which can go terrible wrong. Anyone else that knows how-to can just remove revision 13646 from 0.91 and I will make a new commit on Wednesday. [1] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~christoffer-holmstedt/inkscape/swedish-inksca… [2] https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/RELEASE_0_91_BRANCH/rev… Best regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Next Inkscape board meeting: focus on Hackfest 2015
by Tavmjong Bah 18 Nov '14

18 Nov '14

Hi, Our next IRC board meeting is schedule for Wednesday, November 12th, 20:00 UTC. The agenda and IRC channel info can be found at: wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Everybody is welcome to join the discussion. This is an important meeting as we need to finalize some of the details for the LGM Hackfest. We need to decide: * Place (Toronto or Boston) * Date (before or after LGM) * Duration (two or three days) * Attendance You can read more about the proposed meet up at: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2015 See you Wednesday, Tav

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GSoC Mentor's Summit - Report
by Tavmjong Bah 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Hi, Here is a report on the recent GSoC Mentor's Summit: Four Inkscape developers were at the 2014 GSoC Mentor's Summit in San Jose: Johan Engelen, Krzysztof Kosiński, Tavmjong Bah, and Joakim Verona. Johan and Krzysztof were Inkscape's official delegates, Tav won the special 10 Year Reunion lottery, and Joakim was there representing the GNU Project. The first day started out with a bonding session... a visit to the Great America theme park which Google had rented out. There is nothing like sharing a death defying roller coaster ride to get to know your fellow Inkscaper. The afternoon was free and we held an informal Inkscape session. Johan worked with Joakim on setting up an automated testing system using Jenkins. It turns out that this is what Joakim does for his day job so it was very helpful to have him there. Krzysztof reviewed Tav's preparations for the SVG Working Group meeting that Tav was attending the following week in Santa Clara. The next two days of the "un-conference" were full of short informal meetings on various topics of interest to the open-source community. Here are a notes on the more memorable sessions (with help from Johan): FLOSS Funding ------------- There was a very interesting session on FLOSS funding. * Paid development A point that was repeated many times was that the introduction of paid development must be done in an open and transparent manner to avoid alienating contributors. One suggested place to spend money is on code reviews. Paying a small amount rewards long-term contributors (i.e. reviewers) while encouraging reviews to be done in a timely manner thus encouraging future contributions. Quality insurance is another place where paid contributions can be useful. It was noted that paid development can be helpful to those on "2nd shift" where the "1st shift" maybe taking care of kids. Johan observed that most of the talk was about "sustained funding" (where the goal is having full time developers) vs. "beer money" (where the money helps subsidize some of the time developers invest). He's a little leery of getting into the former type of funding. One possible place for funding might be grants, perhaps in a university setting where money could pay for a PhD/postdoc to work on improving Inkscape for a particular purpose. * Cookie licking Not only limited to paid development: An example of a problem one can encounter is the "Cookie Licking Pattern"[1] where someone takes a cookie (project) and licks it to claim the project as their own. This discourages others from taking up the project - which may not be a problem if the "licker" delivers on the project in a timely matter. But if the "licker" doesn't, then project doesn't get done as nobody else will touch it. An additional problem can occur if the "licker" puts the cookie back without telling anyone and someone else picks up the cookie. A conflict in "ownership" can occur. This can be be avoided by having well defined policy about project ownership. Community Building ------------------ Another session focused on community building. Drupal seems to be very successful at this. "Web chick"[2] reported (if my ears didn't lie to me) that Drupal has 30,000 contributors! One only needs to look at their web site to see the effort they take in building community[3], especially in mentoring new contributors.[4] Good community management starts with tracking your contributors (emails, commits, etc.) overtime to see if you are improving or not. Post times when regulars can be found on IRC. ( Just saying "join us on IRC" can be demotivating if no-one is in channel. "join us on IRC, many of us are there at 1:23 UTC" is better.) Our community is friendly, and we should try to be even more friendly! E.g., keep the mail list friendly and mannered. There is a book available for free download called "The Art of Community".[5] FLOSS Audio/Visual ------------------ There was a session focusing on FLOSS audio/visual projects. * Press releases Don't let coders write the press release! Coders tend to focus on bugs and not on how awesome the software really is. Be careful with what you say. The press has a tendency to parrot the press release. * Stickers/Advertising Some projects could benefit from providing stickers... think of the publicity from having a sticker on a DJ's setup advertising a FLOSS DJ project. Inkscape might try to get "Supported by Inkscape" on Wacom boxes. (Aside: Maybe seek support from Wacom to improve support for tablets.) * Missing Assets (non-coder contributions) One area where non-coders can help is in providing missing assets. This was brought up in the context of getting more sound samples for digital sound libraries. In the Inkscape context it could be things like getting more seamless patterns in our pattern library. Overall, it was a very good meeting. [1] http://communitymgt.wikia.com/wiki/Cookie_Licking [2] https://www.drupal.org/u/webchick [3] https://www.drupal.org/community [4] https://www.drupal.org/core-office-hours [5] www.artofcommunityonline.org/2009/09/18/the-art-of-community-now-available-…

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Add new Guides extensions to Inkscape extensions page
by Samuel Dellicour 17 Nov '14

17 Nov '14

Hi, I'm using Inkscape for making webdesign, and to improve my workflow, I made a couple of Inkscape extensions related to guides. Namely - add centered guides (centered to the document) - add margin guides (set to a certain distance to the document border) - add grid guides (guides in a grid of columns and gutters) - remove guides (made by Heathenx, bundled with his permission) - remove selected guides (remove only horizontal/vertical/angles guides) Full description and download can be found here: https://github.com/sambody/inkscape-guide-tools I've also presented them in the Inkscape forum: http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=17985 My question: How do I add a link to the extensions page in the official Inkscape extensions page? Or can someone add it for me? Something like "Inkscape guide tools: add centered guides, margin guides, grid guides, remove guides" I would also appreciate any feedback to improve the tools (code, interface, functionality). Thanks Samuel Dellicour samplify webdesign <http://www.samplify.be/>

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