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GSEAL issues (lots of them!)
by Alex Valavanis 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Hi All, I thought it would be worth mentioning that we need to get rid of all direct access to private fields of objects as part of our GTK+ 3 migration. i.e. foo->bar = bar_val; // NO!! gtk_foo_set_bar (foo, bar_val); //Yes! bar_val = foo->bar; // NO!! bar_val = gtk_foo_get_bar (foo); //Yes! To check for these issues, you can compile inkscape with: make CFLAGS+="-DGSEAL_ENABLE" CXXFLAGS+="-DGSEAL_ENABLE" Note that there are probably hundreds of such problems, so any help with the cleanup would be appreciated! Usually there is a suitable GTK/GDK accessor function to fix the problem. Sometimes (e.g. [1]) there isn't, which I guess implies that we're doing something the "wrong" way. Cheers, Alex [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/911174

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Bazaar advice
by Johan Engelen 03 Jan '12

03 Jan '12

Hi all, A recent commit to lib2geom compressed almost all commits since februari into one. Very annoying, although I know you can find out what those individual commits were with some more clicking. These mistakes don't surprise me; I am scared of the bzr tool that does things I do not understand. So to make people aware of the dangers of bzr, I'd like to give advice to simple folks like me: ************************************* I strongly advise you to not work in branches and merge it into trunk, and stay away from any other so-called convenient advanced functionality of bzr, like push-pull-whatever. Simply use it in 'svn mode'. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Working_with_Bazaar#Using_a_central… ************************************* If you have fully understood how bzr works, perhaps you can try to use the extra functionality. In that case, learn how to foul up the history (like rev2000 in lib2geom) so you don't type in such commands. Thank you very very very much, Johan (PS. no hard feelings to the committer of course! I blame the tool that allows these things to happen)

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Canvas color option (Bug #169623)
by Nicolas Dufour 01 Jan '12

01 Jan '12

Hi all, I've just committed a patch William Swanson did for the wishlist bug #169623 "Canvas color option" (https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/169623). A rather popular wishlist (12 people declared being affected on LP). It compiles and works as expected on Windows XP and Ubuntu. The canvas color is now set to the drawing background color (defined in the document properties), ignoring alpha. Thus if you choose a fully transparent black, the canvas will be black (instead of white as in the stable Inkscape version). Note that the modification doesn't affect exports (PNGs still use the alpha channel). Don't hesitate to comment. Regards, -- Nicolas PS: Apparently the snap indicator color is broken (it never gets the white stroke it has in the 0.48.x branch when using a dark background - SnapIndicator::set_new_snaptarget is *always* called with pre_snap=false), but it seems that the bug was already in the trunk (also reproduced on Windows XP with 10760, 10700, 10614 and 10568).

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Lib2geom-devel] Bazaar advice
by Krzysztof Kosiński 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

By the way, all people who work on a trunk checkout of lib2geom might need to use bzr pull --overwrite or get a fresh checkout. I'm not sure how a bound branch works in this case. If you opt for a fresh checkout, you can carry over your uncommitted changes using bzr merge --uncommitted or a diff Regards, Krzysztof

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Inkscape Website (Help needed)
by Ian Caldwell 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hello Folks, It's that time again, I hope everyone is having a happy holidays! I am writing to you all in an urge to complete the new website within the next couple of months. I know we have all been busy with the holidays and what not. Here's a brief update on that status. The website in regards to the design elements have been completed almost all the bare bones pages have been completed and implemented into the design. The design can be seen at dev.inkscape.org . and of course the code can be viewed at https://code.launchpad.net/~inkscape-webadmin . The backend code has been partially implemented however a lot is still missing such as user accounts login etc and a web based editor. I'd like to take a moment to thank Chris Morgan for porting over all the pages an Hinerangi Courtenay for the actual design as well as the various others. I can't name everyone in this email but it's definitely been a team effort. On that note there's still a lot to be done. Here's what I think our best plan of attack is. I think our best plan of attack is to take the current site and all of it's factors and put it into a solution such as pinax ( http://pinaxproject.com/) Using pinax allows us to make a custom website without having to have all the components of a CMS but it allows us to easily implement various things with little effort such as account management profiles etc and web based editing. Overall it shouldn't be too much work but we need someone with python/django experience to port our current code/design elements to pinax. >From there once it's implemented we will then of course need the various translation teams to finish translating the content and to port over the rest of the news. So today I am looking for anyone with django/python experience to contribute to getting this website finished. I need people who are motivated and willing to push forward and get this done in the least amount of time possible. If you're willing to contribute or have any further questions on the inkscape website please feel free to reply to this email or to me directly via email or irc (msg inc) Also if there is a company that would like to sponsor development of the website or put in hours. We're willing to list you as a contributor on the website development page. In the past this project has kind of been put a little bit on the back burner due to everyones time constraints which is completely understandable but any help we can get would be great. Thank you, Ian Caldwell

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Participation at SCALE 10x
by Jon Cruz 30 Dec '11

30 Dec '11

Hi guys, Just putting out a general call for anyone who would like to help us man a booth at SCALE 10x this year. http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale10x I know Josh and I will be there, but if anyone else can spend a little time in the booth that would be a big help. The conference has given us a set of free full access passes for that. If anyone is interested in helping, just drop me an off-list email. I'll get you the instructions (which basically cover registering up to the point of paying, then sending me the registration number to finish on my side).

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] OCAL Dialog Redesign
by Andrew 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

Hi Guys, So I have been doing a lot of work on the Import from OCAL dialog and I have finally finished! I was wondering whether I could get some testing, especially on some different platforms with different internet connections. All you need to do is get my branch using: bzr branch lp:~and471/inkscape/ocal-dialog-improvements And then compile as usual. You will find the dialog in File > Import Clip Art So yeah, basically I want a lot of testing, to iron out any errors that I have missed and also feedback on the stuff I have done. Then once that is all done, I shall propose for merging into trunk. A list of changes is below, as well as a link to screenshots of the new dialog. Thanks! -- Andrew Screenshots: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/OCAL_Dialog_Re-Design == Changes == * UI Redesign (which includes) - Altered the padding and packing of all widgets - Added search entry with clear and search icons - Added OCAL Logo overlay - Put descriptions inline in list - New preview widget that shows extra metadata - New status widget to notify on errors/success etc. - Dialog is now persistent (retains state) - Better messages for the user - Changed title/menuitem to 'Import Clip Art' * Backend stuff (which includes) - Use new GFile API instead of depreciated GNOMEVFS - Use async methods so the UI isn't blocked - Use smaller, thumbnail images in the preview widget (save on bandwidth and increase speed) - Implement cancelling of operations - Put downloaded resources into one directory, from which we can use later - Big cleanup in terms of code

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Find / Replace dialog
by John Smith 28 Dec '11

28 Dec '11

How about an updated Find dialog to include the great replace functionality found in 2 text extensions - Replace text and Replace font ? The idea is to have a unified dialog that can find/replace on almost anything in the document - text, styles, attributes, fonts etc. A history of past find/replaces (in the combo-box), exact and case sensitive matching, undo history, dockable dialog, and the status on what was found/replaced. Any ideas to improve the find dialog more that welcome ... https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/909328 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com

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FOSDEM and Color
by Tavmjong Bah 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

Hi, Do we have anyone going to FOSDEM[1] in February? Chris Lilley will be giving a talk on the SVG2 Color chapter at a "Colour Management" session and will be looking for feedback on color management in SVG2. Tav [1] http://fosdem.org/2012/

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Adding half tones pattern to SVG filters
by Ivan Louette 21 Dec '11

21 Dec '11

I would propose to add half tones patterns to svg filters primitives. I think adding them at this level could be extremely powerful and useful for designers like turbulence is already. No need for a lot of settings (most of them like color could be controlled by their association with other primitives) ; only frequencies (x and y), shape, angle and eventually other ones proposed by print specialists. ivan

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