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Please add your names to the AUTHORS and TRANSLATORS files
by Maren Hachmann 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

Hi everyone, if you have contributed to the upcoming 1.1 Inkscape release, please add your name to the AUTHORS and/or TRANSLATORS files (these are not auto-generated currently and lacking lots of entries!). You can find the files for the 1.1.x branch at: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/AUTHORS or https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/blob/1.1.x/TRANSLATORS respectively. Thanks! Kind Regards Maren

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Meeting Now
by Martin Owens 21 Apr '21

21 Apr '21

Dear Devels on List, The weekly developer meeting is happening today/now to discuss the last run up to the 1.1 release, come join us: https://digimedia1.r2.enst.fr/b/mar-9wm-vj2 Calendar: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Libre Graphics Meeting looking for talks, live demos, lightning talks - Deadline April 19th 2021
by Maren Hachmann 13 Apr '21

13 Apr '21

Hi everyone, our friends from Libre Graphics Meeting have asked us to let our community know that submissions are open for talks, live demos and lightning talks for the event, which takes place 27-30 May 2021, mostly online. Whether you're an experienced Inkscape user, a professional using Inkscape, an Inkscape developer or an active community member - or have knowledge around any other free and open source graphics software that you'd like to share with the world, please visit their website at https://libregraphicsmeeting.org and submit one or more proposals for their different talk formats. Submission is still open for a week, so hurry, and make an impact in the free + libre graphics world! Maren

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P6.Refactoring
by Nilesh Aditya 10 Apr '21

10 Apr '21

Hey! I am Nilesh Aditya, a 2nd year undergrad from Delhi Technological University, India. I have been programming in C++ for quite a time now, and want to make my mark on open source software! *PROCESS* : *Description : *There are many approaches and techniques to refactor the code. - Usage of unnamed namespaces - XML Refactoring *Expected Outcomes: * - Remove direct manipulation of XML from as many places as possible and replace it with SP tree methods. - Reduce source code line count - Make the codebase more convenient to code in. *Skills Required:* experienced in Modern C++ , JS, OOP, experience of Inkscape I had done quite a significant amount of research regarding the idea which included reading the official wiki docs present online, reading and understanding the Inkscape code base. I would love to get in touch with a mentor who would be interested in guiding me with this idea!

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Discussing proposal's idea for GSoC
by Osama Ahmad 07 Apr '21

07 Apr '21

Hi, my name is Osama Ahmad and I'm planning to join GSoC this year. As stated here <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals>, it's encouraged to discuss ideas for GSoC before submitting. I'm planning to improve symbols dialog. The improvements are: - The symbols are loaded from the dialog itself, not form a background process. making it asynchronous will make the start time (if the dialog is opened before the last exit) or the runtime response (if the dialog is opened for the first time while the program is running) faster. - To be able to open, edit and save the symbols from the dialog. If the symbols are loaded from a read-only folder, or if the user intends to save as a new copy, the user can save the edited symbols as new ones. By edit, I mean to edit the svg itself or edit the tags and other properties of the symbols. - To be able to load/save symbols from/to a folder. Any opinions or changes that can be done? Is it good enough for a proposal?

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1.1-beta available
by Marc Jeanmougin 06 Apr '21

06 Apr '21

Hi everyone! We recently released Inkscape 1.1-beta, while planning to release 1.1 next month. You can get the release at https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.1beta1/ for all platforms All testers are encouraged to test this version and report bugs at inkscape.org/report == Packagers == The tarball is not expected to differ much to the beta one, if you want to check that everything is all right for your platform :) == Translators == Thanks for your work! Strings have been frozen for a while, and it's not too late to submit translations until shortly before release date. == Developers == We have now branched the code repo. The new branch 1.1.x now only welcomes bugfixes, translations and easy-to-review changes; while features, performance, code improvements, or anything that was left waiting in prevision of 1.1 are free to go to the main branch. == All contributors == Thanks everyone for your contributions! All the work you're doing in various area, such as UX, outreach, docs, testing and bug triaging, and more, is what makes us a better project over the years :) -- Marc _______________________________________________ Inkscape Translators mailing list -- inkscape-translator(a)lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-translator-leave(a)lists.inkscape.org

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Board Meeting Delayed until Apr 9th
by Ted Gould 01 Apr '21

01 Apr '21

Howdy Folks, Asked in chat if we wanted to delay because it's Easter Holiday for much of Europe — didn't get many responses so I'm taking that as "we're already gone." Let's move the meeting to April 9th. Those who have the day off work, enjoy it! Ted

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Discussing an initial idea for GSoC (inspired by vim's registers).?‏
by Osama Ahmad 25 Mar '21

25 Mar '21

Hi, my name is Osama Ahmad and I'm planning to join GSoC this year. As stated here <https://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php?title=SOC_Writing_Project_Proposals>, it's encouraged to discuss ideas for GSoC before submitting. Inspired by vim's registers, I'm thinking of adding the ability to make multiple copies. But, unlike vim's registers which have a fixed name and are limited to several registers, I'm thinking of allowing the users to assign a name for each copy and be able to create as many as wanted. There will be an option under the "copy" option which will have a name like "add to copy list", and will have a text box for the users to enter the name of the copy. Later, when they want to paste a certain copy, they click on an option which has a name like "paste from copy list", when clicking on it, a list of the names of the previously made copies will appear and the user can choose from them. This will not modify the original "copy" and "paste" options. The program will have its normal copy and paste options, but will have the named copies as an additional option. To make things even more convenient, there can be a counter that starts from 1, if the user just wants to copy multiple objects without assigning names each time, they can just click on the third option which will have a name like "add to copy list as #x" where x is the current value of the counter. The counter is increased by 1 each time this option is clicked. I'm not planning to decrease it at all since it's very unlikely for users to make more than a 100 or even 10 copies anyways. Also, there will be an "X" button beside each item in the copy list to enable users to remove items they're not in need anymore from the list. Optionally, since there will be an option that says "add to copy list as #x", if the users have used it a lot, thus have a lot of items which all have a names of numbers, the users might forget what each item corresponds to, so, a solution will be to show (but not actually paste) the items when the user hovers over them. Probably this will complicate things, I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it. But in case I've finished the main project before the deadline, I think this will be a good addition. Problems: - It might slow the program if the user has copied a lot of items. Yet, we don't force the user to copy, if the user is in need of lots of copies, then being able to do it and have the program to be a little slower is way better than not being able to do it at all, so, I think this is not a big issue. If the idea is a good one to submit, where in the code should I start to read and grasp first (probably a good starting point would be where the copying and pasting functions are located)? And, if the idea is not good enough, I'd love to know why and how I can improve it. Thanks.

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Introducing my-self (introduction request)
by SIVALASETTY AKHILRAM 23 Mar '21

23 Mar '21

Good Afternoon respected community, I am Akhil Ram, I am very new to this community. coming to me i had good programming experience with c , python( machine learning basics to average). I made some projects to showcase my knowledge in python and c programming. But, I have a very little knowledge about open source contributions. It sounds a bit weird but keep faith in me "because i had good progress while learning ". I had gone through the ideas list of Inkscape. I had gone through the project ideas mentioned on the page.I am willing to work on "P7. Tesseract OCR", Based on my past knowledge the word OCR makes me very interactive. Please help me get started on my journey(what else i have to do before submitting the proposal ).please ignore grammatical mistakes . If I am wrong to introduce myself to a different mailing list please let me know. thanking you, Akhil Ram Sivalasetty akhilram2001(a)gmail.com

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Introduction to Inkspace community
by Vikash Kumar 16 Mar '21

16 Mar '21

I am an open source developer looking to contribute to your organisation in GSOC 21. I am looking forward to contributing to Improvements to the Paint Server Dialog project. It would be great to hear from your end a bit more about this project and the mentors associated with this one.

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