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Discussion on the GSoC proposal - Attribution of work/metadata/license changes
by Christoffer Holmstedt 29 May '13

29 May '13

My project proposal didn't make it in to GSoC but I may be able to work on this anyway during the summer, though no "assigned" mentor for it. I'm now curious about the comments I got on my proposal [1] and would like some elaboration on them. The proposal is mainly about feedback in the statusbar but after reading John Engelen's comment [1] and thinking about it for the last weeks I'm leaning more towards the idea of actually collecting all the relevant metadata and presenting it in the document metadata settings tab. What do you think about this? I read on the Inkscape wiki about "Eliminate limitations" [2] when creating new features, if I understood it correctly it relates to Nathan Hurst's comment [1] about trying to take my idea further. The functionality of tracking metadata/attribution/license information is very specific but a good place to start and eventually how to generalise it will become obvious in the future. Is there anyone that has any idea how it can be generalised? [1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/cholmste… [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Developer_manual#Implementing_User_… Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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a login to th wiki
by Žroutík 28 May '13

28 May '13

Dear developers, I would like to receive a login to the wiki site, if possible. What steps are required as next, please? I understand, that it is a kind of pain to read such a request in the mailing list, but that is the only way I found out: The wiki login page ( http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=In…) states "please email the developer list", but there is no further link or info. So, I searched around, and the only dev-list I found is the one on the Inkscape site (this list). Kind regards, M

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trivia: website news no more
by Alexandre Prokoudine 28 May '13

28 May '13

Hi, Apparently SourceForge moved everyone to a fancy new platform and relocated our SVN repository, including the one with the current website. Relocating it didn't work for me, nor does checking out a new copy work. This simply means there will be no news on the website until we move to the new website. Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Fwd: Inkscape code hosted on GitHub
by Samuel Chase 24 May '13

24 May '13

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Samuel Chase <samebchase@...400...> Date: Fri, May 24, 2013 at 11:15 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape code hosted on GitHub To: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:49 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote: > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Samuel Chase wrote: > > It kinda defeats the point of having a Github repo, no? :) > Because the point of Github as social development. Yes. There would be a small advantage having a read-only Github repo, but certainly, there are much greater gains in focussing what energy we have into improving Inkscape itself.

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Inkscape code hosted on GitHub
by Samuel Chase 24 May '13

24 May '13

Hello Inkscape Developers, I was able to convert the bzr repo into a git repository yesterday using https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/contrib/remote-helpers/git-remote-bzr What I'm suggesting we do is to create an "Inkscape" orgranisation e.g. (https://github.com/wikimedia) on Github and put up a read-only git-mirror of Inkscape's sources (which will be updated periodically, say once a week). I think this will surely increase the "visibility" of Inkscape's sources and the Inkscape organisation, in general, and we may be able to get new contributors. A lot of other projects seem to do this, even though actual development happens elsewhere. IIRC, cloning a git repository is a lot faster, so, this might help people submit patches quicker. Regular development can continue in Launchpad, as usual. Is this a reasonable idea? Samuel

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Website Local
by Martin Owens 23 May '13

23 May '13

Hey guys, I need help, I've not had anyone yet test my instructions for setting up the new website locally and I could do with a test or two. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WebSite (see development section) I want to make sure the instructions are clear and correct enough for _anyone_ to do some development, even if they have only html or English language skills. I've just updated the instructions with the resetcms script which downloads the cms from staging and installs it locally. This is a good test of our backup and restore process for all the content we're making on the staging website. Please do keep up the good work on the staging website, we need more people to get on and add a page or two, or look over what we have so far. Translations for cms content is open right now, so if you do translations you should be over there translating things! Translations for news and any remaining core text will come later. http://staging.inkscape.org/ Thanks for all your help, together we can make the new website rock. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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New Inkscape Website (Staging)
by Martin Owens 20 May '13

20 May '13

Hey Inkscapers, We've finally got the new django-cms-website onto the staging host and it's ready for some testing. I want testers to be gentle as it's her first time out in public, but I'm trying to get the new website into a release-early/often setting so we can start getting this thing ready for inkscape.org[1]. If you're interested in migrating content from the inkscape.org website over to the new django-cms website, go here: Yay! http://staging.inkscape.org create a new account or log in using google etc, then message me privately and I'll enable you as an admin. This will allow you to edit pages in the cms. When you find problems adding content, because the cms doesn't really support it. File a bug in the inkscape-web project on launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web likewise if you hit a 500 or other kind of error. Missing content isn't a bug though, that's an activity! Thanks for all your help guys. Best Regards, Martin Owens [1] I want the website done before the 0.49 release :-P

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Misfeature: 1px black line / geom. figures, sugg. solution 'pixelsnap' don't work
by Julius Voigt 20 May '13

20 May '13

Hi, I found inkscape the best open gfx app. All the more gelastic it was that it's not possible to draw the popular black line of 1px width in true plain black color without having to load an extension (pixelsnap) which did not function in my poor case. Could we have both the smoothness (?anti-aliasing or underlying between-pixels grid?) and the crispyness optionally available. I guess, in general this preperfect-feature comprises all cases in which thin-lined crisp geometric figures are wanted. Cheers, Julius

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape-devel Digest, Vol 84, Issue 16
by Jelle Mulder 19 May '13

19 May '13

Hello Martin, I'm interested in porting parts of the old website to the new one. Have to agree with Shlomi though. fontsize is a tad smallish, especially on my 1920x1200 screen. Maybe this is something that could be made adjustable by the user (settings) and have a bit higher default. Less is more... doesn't apply to fontsize but on content per page ;-) Cheers, > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 22:16:51 -0400 > From: Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> > Subject: [Inkscape-devel] New Inkscape Website (Staging) > To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Cc: inkscape-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <1368843411.21310.145.camel@...2056...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hey Inkscapers, > > We've finally got the new django-cms-website onto the staging host and > it's ready for some testing. I want testers to be gentle as it's her > first time out in public, but I'm trying to get the new website into a > release-early/often setting so we can start getting this thing ready for > inkscape.org[1]. > > If you're interested in migrating content from the inkscape.org website > over to the new django-cms website, go here: Yay! > http://staging.inkscape.org create a new account or log in using google > etc, then message me privately and I'll enable you as an admin. This > will allow you to edit pages in the cms. > > When you find problems adding content, because the cms doesn't really > support it. File a bug in the inkscape-web project on launchpad: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web likewise if you hit a 500 or > other kind of error. Missing content isn't a bug though, that's an > activity! > > Thanks for all your help guys. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > > [1] I want the website done before the 0.49 release :-P > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 19 May 2013 10:51:31 +0300 > From: Shlomi Fish <shlomif@...2985...> > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] New Inkscape Website (Staging) > Cc: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net>, > inkscape-users(a)lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <20130519105131.07db998b@...2986...> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Hi Martin, > > On Fri, 17 May 2013 22:16:51 -0400 > Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote: > >> Hey Inkscapers, >> >> We've finally got the new django-cms-website onto the staging host and >> it's ready for some testing. I want testers to be gentle as it's her >> first time out in public, but I'm trying to get the new website into a >> release-early/often setting so we can start getting this thing ready for >> inkscape.org[1]. >> >> If you're interested in migrating content from the inkscape.org website >> over to the new django-cms website, go here: Yay! >> http://staging.inkscape.org create a new account or log in using google >> etc, then message me privately and I'll enable you as an admin. This >> will allow you to edit pages in the cms. > > Thanks for your work. > > Some comments: > > 1. It says that "Latest stable release: 0.49.2", but 0.49 was not > released yet. > > 2. The font under Users, Developers, Recent News, and in the 4 > Overview/Features/Gallery/Learning Resources tabs, is smaller than the > default font, which makes it unpleasant to read. > > Regards, > > Shlomi Fish > >> >> When you find problems adding content, because the cms doesn't really >> support it. File a bug in the inkscape-web project on launchpad: >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web likewise if you hit a 500 or >> other kind of error. Missing content isn't a bug though, that's an >> activity! >> >> Thanks for all your help guys. >> >> Best Regards, Martin Owens >> >> [1] I want the website done before the 0.49 release :-P

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[SVG WG] Variable width strokes
by Tavmjong Bah 17 May '13

17 May '13

Hi Johan and others, The SVG Working Group discussed variable width strokes last night. A number of questions came about how it should be implemented in SVG. As we have this implemented via the Power Stroke (PS) LPE it would be interesting to get some feedback from Johan and others about these topics: 1. How should the position of the points where the widths are defined be described along the path? PS uses a real number where the integer part gives the node (numbered from the start of the path) and the fractional part the fractional distance between that node and the next node. The WG seems to favor defining the position using a property via the distance along the path defined either as a percentage of the total length or in absolute units. The argument is that then the same property could be assigned using CSS to multiple paths (e.g. a large number of lines that represent hair). On the other hand, having node based positioning would allow a use as shown in: https://people.mozilla.com/~bbirtles/variable-width-stroke/variable-width-s… 2. How should the widths be defined? PS uses absolute user units. The WG seems to favor using a percentage of the stroke width. This would allow quick adjustment of the whole path thickness. 3. Should the widths be symmetric or asymmetric about the path? PS uses symmetric widths. The WG wants to eventually allow asymmetric strokes but maybe not at the time. 4. Should negative numbers be allowed? PS allows negative numbers. The WG seems to favor allowing negative strokes if asymmetric strokes are allowed. 5. How should smoothing be done? PS provides four different algorithms. The WG seems to favor for the moment one smoothing algorithm (Catmull-Rom?) with maybe a linear smoothing. There was some discussion of allowing the algorithm to change along the path. 6. Questions about end-cap and line-join: PS has discontinuities with the various end-caps. Illustrator has continuous edges (at least with round end-caps). Tav Discussion on www-svg: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2013May/0002.html Minutes of last nights meeting: http://www.w3.org/2013/05/09-svg-minutes.html Illustrator end-caps: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-svg-wg/2013AprJun/0101.html

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