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[Metadata GUI] Discussion about improvements
by Christoffer Holmstedt 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

As some of you know I'm working on improving attribution and license features in Inkscape. I've the basic functionality for the backend (modifications in the XML structure) done and have focused on learning Gtkmm the last week. I wanted to show a mockup with Gtk but I was not able to finish it today so I made a drawing of how I want it to be so the discussion can get started. Any suggestions are welcome. ### Current functionality Metadata GUI consist of two "pages" in the document properties tab/notebook view, "Metadata" and "License". ### Limitations Only one entry can be modified from the GUI. With addition of extra metadata elements as child elements for different SVG-elements there must be a way to modify multiple metadata tags. ### Goals Main goal is to give the user an overview of all the metadata included in the document open i Inkscape. ### Discussion In the attached image I've the basic structure on how I envision this GUI could look like. To the left a list view of all metadata elements available, similiar to the XML editor. The right pane include all the settings [1]. The right pane has at the top a preview "image" of the part affected with the current license/attribution information. So in the image I have made a collage of a "car" and a "sun". In the image I've selected the metadata element for the car so only the car is visible in this preview image. This makes it easier for the user to understand which part of an image is affected by the current attribution and license information. As this GUI is very heavy on forms it's hard to copy and paste the information between different objects and could be very cumbersome. Therefore I have added the two options "Copy" and "Append/Paste". This would copy the entire object's metadata to the clipboard and be available to append/paste in another object (instead of copy-pasting ~15 different fields one at a time). License information can be moved to a dropdown/EntryCompletion option instead of a separate notebook tab. (License would also need one Entry field for the URI that is not in the image). Any comments, ideas or thoughts about this are appreciated. [1] In the image I've only drawn "title" and "Creator" but the real thing would include all options available now from the "Metadata" and "License" tabs. Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Regarding Correct Way to get/set SPObject Style Properties
by Arshdeep Singh 12 Jul '13

12 Jul '13

Hello , This is regarding using the functions in style.h to change the fill color of the object currently selected on canvas. I used the following code: void FillNStroke::funcRecolor() { g_printf("Fetching....\n"); SPDocument *document = sp_desktop_document(desktop); Inkscape::Selection *selection = sp_desktop_selection(desktop); GSList const *items = selection->itemList(); for (GSList const *i = items; i != NULL; i = i->next) { SPObject *obj=reinterpret_cast<SPObject *>(i->data); SPStyle *style = sp_style_new_from_object(obj); style->fill.setColor(1,0,0); g_printf("%s",obj->getId()); } } Nothing seemed to work. I found snippets like these in the code: getRepr()->setAttribute(key, NULL, false); On following these lines, I tried setting a red color to all selected objects using getRepr()->setAttribute("style-fill", "#FF0000"); Again nothing works. Could you please gimme a reference to how to use these functions in the right way ? What should be the way if I need to change a specific property of the style of the object ? An example would really be very helpful. Thanks Arshdeep -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Text Wrapping in SVG 2
by Jason Simanek 11 Jul '13

11 Jul '13

Hi, I didn't see this mentioned here already, so I thought it might be worth sharing this news about CSS-driven text wrapping in the SVG 2 spec: Reinventing Fire: It's a Wrap! (SVG Text Wrapping via CSS Proposal) http://schepers.cc/its-a-wrap Will this be a positive change for how Inkscape handles wrapped text? I can never keep straight the flowed or unflowed property. I hope this addition to the spec means the end of such duality. This is from May, but new to me. Sorry if it has already been discussed here. Sincerely, Jason Simanek

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Warnings in recent merges
by Jon Cruz 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Hi, I'm seeing some warnings show up in regards to different versions of "addCanvasIndicators" in LPE classes hiding each other. We probably need to get that cleaned up. Also... perhaps I'm the only one seeing them since I have my warning levels bumped up a bit.

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Request for Animation Editor development [with funding]
by 影月　零 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Hello, I'm Rei Kagetsuki from Genshin Souzou K.K. We'd really like to see an animation editor in inkscape with proper SMIL-embedded SVG output. Basically we'd like to see this: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SVG_Animation http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/SVG_Animation_UI http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Animation-(Timeline) implemented within the next few months. We're considering implementing these features ourselves, but as we have a small staff and none of us have any real expertise on developing graphics editing tools we'd like to know if anyone would be willing to take on the task if we provided funding. If so, how much would the asking price be? If nobody is willing to take on the task we will try to implement these features ourselves and will push the results to inkscape core. Thanks, -Rei

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Doxygen Documentation
by Arshdeep Singh 10 Jul '13

10 Jul '13

Hello devs, I've built my local copy of Inkscape's doxygen documentation. My documentation does not have class diagrams. Is this consistent with other people that build it for the 0.49 development branch ? I found the 'unofficial' doxygen documentation for the Inkscape-0.48. http://fossies.org/dox/inkscape-0.48.4/structSPDesktop.html You can clearly see the class diagram in the link. My local copy doesn't build those. Any thing I am missing ? -- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Inkscape Window Size won't stick
by michael grosberg 09 Jul '13

09 Jul '13

Recently (I'm using an updated development version) I noticed that Inkscape doesn't seem to be able to remember the last window geometry. Well, it does, initially, when I open a document - but a second later the window size changes to a size of 1920X768. Why that size? I don't know, but I have a two monitor setup, both 1280X1024, so it might be 75% of desktop size. I am using the latest dev build on Window 7 64bit. I am not seeing the problem with the stable version. Does anyone have some insight on what might cause this?

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On Canvas Align: Video Demo
by Martin Owens 08 Jul '13

08 Jul '13

Hey Devs, I've got a new feature (uncommitted) to show: http://blip.tv/martin-owens/on-canvas-alignment-feature-for-inkscape-6613286 I'd like to know what you think and your feedback could be key to deciding where my new handles would fit with people's workflows. Excited, Martin Owens

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[Recolor] Week #2 Progress
by Arshdeep Singh 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

Hello, There hasn't been any coding this week. It has been mostly a brainstorming session where I have been looking at ways to achieve the purpose of the tool without interfering with other tools' functioning. The approach of enabling the paint-selector object to color 'active' objects from the selection will spiral into disaster as pointed out by Krzysztof. Now, I plan to directly access the SPDesktop object (again suggested by Krzysztof) and be working with Inkscape :: Selection . There are a few design issues that promptly come to mind which will be discussed shortly. + Firstly, as a followup to my previous question: "How to extract the fill information using the getStyleProperty ( ... ) function" - Is there any other method I can extract the style information ? I see recurring code of the form where a css object is created and the particular property is set using *sp_desktop_get_style(). *Will this be of any use ? I need to fetch the 'fill' property of the style of the object. + Problem of how to know from which objects I can access SPDekstop and related functions. And for the matter, Inkscape::Selection and realted functions too. + I intend to add a structure definition in gimpcolorwheel.c going as: struct WheelColorMarker { gchar id[6]; //the id is always 6 characters long (is thsi correct ?) gchar fill[7]; //#rrggbb in hex } I will use a dynamic array of this to fetch the id and color of the objects selected on the canvas and paint the color wheel with their respective markers. I will need access to functions which can create color into rgb triad of gdouble from the hex code of fill. +Last and the most nerve wracking question: Where do I add the functions that actually will change the colors ? in paint-selector.cpp ? If yes, how do I get access to the selected objects from that class ? Also, I remember discussing this on the mailing list, that if I change the attribute in the XML editor, it automatically gets reflected on the canvas ? Just want to confirm that if I use XML to change the solid colors of the objects then will they reflect on the canvas or not ? Thanks, --- Arshdeep Singh Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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[Units] Refactoring Progress
by Matthew Petroff 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

In the past week, I decided against using Boost Units, began porting code to "util/units.cpp", and fixed a minor, long-standing bug in the page size selector dialog. http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2013/07/07/refactoring-progress/ -Matthew

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