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Re: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC13: Text Tool Improvements
by Valerie 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

As far as the text-tool drop-down is concerned, I totally think it should steal the interface Krita uses to manage paint modes. Mock-up: http://i49.tinypic.com/eq1fep.png Fonts would be stored in categories, and within categories, you can check a box to make the font appear in the "favourites" category on top. Uncheck to make it disappear again. This could solve pre-rendering issues: fonts will only render once you open a category. I'm not a font expert so I don't know how they should be categorized though. I'm aware that Inkscape doesn't have that widget, but it totally should, especially for managing the fonts drop-down. It's really handy for managing the dozens of modes in Krita, I just have 5~6 favourites and I can ignore the rest, but still access them easily on the rare occasions when I need them. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:10:58 +0200 From: Stojan Dimitrovski <sdimitrovski@...400...> Subject: [Inkscape-devel] GSoC13: Text Tool Improvements To: inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <CALTcmgnhPXwOv+9tFNO3A+7G7nK7sYOw2V1u1euT2LMhCuVtvA@...401...> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Hello everyone, I'm Stojan Dimitrovski, a sophomore from Macedonia. I'm currently studying Computer Science at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. I am considering applying for Inkscape on GSoC13. I have a few ideas on improving the current text tool, particularly its user interface and some of its underlying features and implementation. Here are some of those ideas: - Typefaces' names should be rendered in the glyphs they describe if such exist. Example: Helvetica should be rendered in Helvetica, Garamond in Garamond, etc. Icon typefaces are rendered by the fallback GUI typeface on the system. - There should be a live preview / comparison of typefaces interface which will allow for a better and faster typeface selection. Inspired by typeface pickers like the one in TypeKit or similar. - There should be a character-preview of a typeface, which will show all of the glyphs in a typeface that are defined for it (and make it easy for those glyphs to be inserted into text). This is primarily useful when using icon typefaces (like Font Awesome from Twitter Bootstrap fame). - Improved handling of different variants, weights, styles of typefaces. (Current implementation is a bit flaky handling this.) - Implement a system for SVG font typesetting (actually be able to use the SVG fonts to render text inside Inkscape). - Improve the SVG font interfaces, they really need some love. I'd like to hear your suggestions and comments before I embark on doing mockups of the interface and thinking about the implementation. I should also mention that I'm fluent in the technologies that Inkscape uses, especially in GTK+ (2, 3), GObject, GLib, C / C++. I have general knowledge of the SVG standard. I've been using Inkscape since version 0.45 and have an understanding of its features and workflow. The free-software movement, communities and development philosophies are not new to me. Regards, Stojan Dimitrovski

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Questions about Share / Icons
by Martin Owens 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I'm looking at the icons in the inkscape trunk branch and have a few questions: 1. Do we need png and svg versions of the same icons? Don't all target OSes support svg now via gtk? 2. Is pango_icons.svg used at all? I can't see a reference to it in the code. Even though the icons in the file are nicer than those in inkscape IMO. Are these transitional? 3. Where is the swatch/color picker icon currently used for the the symbols icon. I wanted to change the symbols dialog icon. Make something better, but can't find it in the icons.svg or any of the other files. 4. The filter effects icons, are these temporary placeholders? is anyone working on better replacements? 5. OCAL doesn't seem like an icon, is it here because there's no other place for it? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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GSoC13: Text Tool Improvements
by Stojan Dimitrovski 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello everyone, I'm Stojan Dimitrovski, a sophomore from Macedonia. I'm currently studying Computer Science at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. I am considering applying for Inkscape on GSoC13. I have a few ideas on improving the current text tool, particularly its user interface and some of its underlying features and implementation. Here are some of those ideas: - Typefaces' names should be rendered in the glyphs they describe if such exist. Example: Helvetica should be rendered in Helvetica, Garamond in Garamond, etc. Icon typefaces are rendered by the fallback GUI typeface on the system. - There should be a live preview / comparison of typefaces interface which will allow for a better and faster typeface selection. Inspired by typeface pickers like the one in TypeKit or similar. - There should be a character-preview of a typeface, which will show all of the glyphs in a typeface that are defined for it (and make it easy for those glyphs to be inserted into text). This is primarily useful when using icon typefaces (like Font Awesome from Twitter Bootstrap fame). - Improved handling of different variants, weights, styles of typefaces. (Current implementation is a bit flaky handling this.) - Implement a system for SVG font typesetting (actually be able to use the SVG fonts to render text inside Inkscape). - Improve the SVG font interfaces, they really need some love. I'd like to hear your suggestions and comments before I embark on doing mockups of the interface and thinking about the implementation. I should also mention that I'm fluent in the technologies that Inkscape uses, especially in GTK+ (2, 3), GObject, GLib, C / C++. I have general knowledge of the SVG standard. I've been using Inkscape since version 0.45 and have an understanding of its features and workflow. The free-software movement, communities and development philosophies are not new to me. Regards, Stojan Dimitrovski

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GSoC 2013 Idea Discussion
by Arshdeep Singh 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello all, I am currently pursuing my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Engineering at Delhi Technological University , New Delhi , India and am looking forward to be a part of GSoC 2013. I have been using software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop since before high-school. With the interest I had in programming and algorithms, I always wanted to contribute to such software programs. FOSS caught my attention in my second year of college and I began delving into Inkscape as it provided me an opportunity to get inside the workings of a real software almost similar to Illustrator. I have fixed one bug till yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/773288 *I intend on implementing a Recolor Artwork Tool that shall allow: *1) Managing Color Themes with one go. 2) Enable editing many objects' colors on-the-go (simplified interface). This site should give some idea about what I have in mind- http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Thankyou to ScislaC for pointing this site out and lessening my burden of explaining what the tool would do. The credit for the idea goes to Inkscape's developer wiki which urges the contributors: '*Don’t please the artist—BE the artist'* and in my view, this tool shall be a boon to all of Inkscape's heroes, our artists. I have played around the gimpcolorwheel.c file and studied Cairo's drawing structure to paint the entire Hue Wheel in my experiments. A screenshot (result) is attached for the mentors' and advisors' perusal. Also, I have added a 'Recolor Artwork' option in the 'Object' Menu to house the final tool widget. As an almost rookie for such a project, I hope the discussion with people adept with industry methods and experience in digital designing will definitely help me chalk out finer details of how to structure the tool keeping in mind the intricacies of Inkscape's codebase. Thankyou for your time. -- Arshdeep Singh(demicoder) Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Fwd: [Inkscape-docs] Hello!
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

Hello, Please make a wiki account for this guy :) Alexandre ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jiabao Wu <jiabao.foss@...400...> Date: Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] Hello! To: Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> Cc: Inkscape Docs Team <inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Yeah, I kind of meant how to get a wiki account that can edit it. :P Also I was wondering if I should use this mailing list if I make a change or does the wiki show the team where the changes have been made automatically. But mainly need help with the account :D thanks! On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jiabao Wu wrote: > > Hi Alexandre, > > > > Thank you for your message. What is the process I should follow for adding > > or changing documentation on the inkscape wiki? > > It's the first time I hear about some sort of a process for the wiki :) > > You'd need a wiki account, though -- of that I'm quite sure :) Can't > recall who has the admin access at the moment :( > > Alexandre Prokoudine > http://libregraphicsworld.org > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Precog is a next-generation analytics platform capable of advanced > analytics on semi-structured data. The platform includes APIs for building > apps and a phenomenal toolset for data science. Developers can use > our toolset for easy data analysis & visualization. Get a free account! > http://www2.precog.com/precogplatform/slashdotnewsletter > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-docs mailing list > Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs -- Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org

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Fix for "easy-fix" bug "Tweak tool using wrong cursor", a few beginners questions
by Christoffer Holmstedt 18 Apr '13

18 Apr '13

I have pushed a fix for https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/587729 to http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~christoffer-holmstedt/inkscape/lp587729-tweak-… 1) What do I do now as I don't have commit rights (I assume) to inkscape.dev? 2) During compilation of my changes I got an error "pixmaps/cursor-tweak-move-in.xpm:38:35: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ [-Wwrite-strings]" for all my added cursors but I couldn't see any difference between my cursors and the original ones. I assume that I get the same errors during a full compilation for all cursors but I might be wrong here. 3) I added "--fixes lp:587729" to my bzr commit command but when I pushed to launchpad the status of the bug wasn't changed automatically, I expected it to change to "Fix committed". What is expected behaviour? Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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Preserving shapes better when deleting nodes
by pennec victor 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

By the way, at the same time if someone could have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170441 = Simplify selected nodes it would be great. thx.

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GSoC 2013
by Arshdeep Singh 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hello all, I am currently pursuing my undergraduate studies in Computer Science and Engineering at Delhi Technological University , New Delhi , India and am looking forward to be a part of GSoC 2013. I have been using software like Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop since before high-school. With the interest I had in programming and algorithms, I always wanted to contribute to such software programs. FOSS caught my attention in my second year of college and I began delving into Inkscape as it provided me an opportunity to get inside the workings of a real software almost similar to Illustrator. I have fixed one bug till yet: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/773288 *I intend on implementing a Recolor Artwork Tool that shall allow: *1) Managing Color Themes with one go. 2) Enable editing many objects' colors on-the-go (simplified interface). This site should give some idea about what I have in mind- http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Thankyou to ScislaC for pointing this site out and lessening my burden of explaining what the tool would do. The credit for the idea goes to Inkscape's developer wiki which urges the contributors: '*Don’t please the artist—BE the artist'* and in my view, this tool shall be a boon to all of Inkscape's heroes, our artists. I have played around the gimpcolorwheel.c file and studied Cairo's drawing structure to paint the entire Hue Wheel in my experiments. A screenshot (result) is attached for the mentors' and advisors' perusal. Also, I have added a 'Recolor Artwork' option in the 'Object' Menu to house the final tool widget. As an almost rookie for such a project, I hope the discussion with people adept with industry methods and experience in digital designing will definitely help me chalk out finer details of how to structure the tool keeping in mind the intricacies of Inkscape's codebase. Thankyou for your time. -- Arshdeep Singh (demicoder) Third Year, Computer Engineering Delhi Technological University Ph: +91-9654115614 https://sites.google.com/site/adsingh1729/home

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Request for http://wiki.inkscape.org account, update to CompilingUbuntu wiki page
by Christoffer Holmstedt 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

The wiki states that I should send an email to the dev list if I want a wiki account, so here is that email . I just followed the compiling instructions at http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingUbuntu on a clean install of Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS and I had to install the package "autopoint", which is not listed on that wiki page, to get the autogen.sh script working. Anyone running Ubuntu Raring that can confirm that it's the same for later releases than 12.04? Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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GSoC 2013 - Embedding of license and attribution metadata
by Christoffer Holmstedt 17 Apr '13

17 Apr '13

Hi I'm studying Master in Software Engineering at Mälardalen University in Sweden and looking in to the possiblities of participating in GSoC 2013. I've used Inkscape for several years as a user and want a deeper understanding of how c/c++ is used in larger projects so I feel that Inkscape can be a good project for me. Enough about me for this time, as Johan Engelen posted in an earlier conversation [1] I will try to spend my time fixing bugs instead of "fine tuning" my GSoC application. So to my suggestion and questions. For the last weeks I've been in contact with Jonas Öberg a Shuttleworth Fellow running the project "License and attribution metadata" [2,3]. With start from the 1st of June 2013 they will begin their work of developing a library for storing license and attribution metadata in digital works. My suggestion for GSoC 2013 is to use that library in Inkscape. There are both benefits and problems that comes with trying to use a library while it's still in alpha/prototype stages so what do you think about this? 1) Is this work of any interest? 2) What do you think about developing the additions to Inkscape as GSoC project in parallell with creation of a library for this? [1] http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Guides-Improvement-and-GSoC-2013-td4966479… [2] http://jonasoberg.net/post/40518443141/embedded-metadata-for-digital-works [3] http://www.shuttleworthfoundation.org/fellows/jonas-oberg/ Regards -- Christoffer Holmstedt

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