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Unweirdification of preferences button location in toolbar ; )
by Johan Engelen 08 Jan '12

08 Jan '12

Hi all, With the unweirdification of the preferences dialog in place... shall we exchange the locations of the document properties and inkscape preferences buttons in the toolbar? I am always confused to see them in the order they are in now. Ciao, Johan

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NULL vs. 0
by Johan Engelen 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi all, Before reading on, have a look at this code fragment, and ask yourself the question "what type is _desktop, _verb_t, _css, _tool_obs, etc.?" StyleSwatch::StyleSwatch(SPCSSAttr *css, gchar const *main_tip) : _desktop(0), _verb_t(0), _css(0), _tool_obs(0), _style_obs(0), _table(2, 6), _sw_unit(0) The correct answer is: _desktop is a pointer _verb_t is an int _css is a pointer _tool_obs is a pointer _style_obs is a pointer _sw_unit is a pointer Please STOP changing NULL into 0. It makes the code completely unreadable and makes me want to quit Inkscape. I am not kidding. Thanks, Johan

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New: add nodes at extreme values
by Johan Engelen 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi all, To help font designers, I just added new functionality to the node tool. It adds a node at the extreme values of a path, if there is not already a node there. (because of a bug in 2geom, it does not work for some special cases, we are working on it) At the moment, this new feature adds 4 buttons to the node tool. Way too much of course. The plan is to move them into a submenu of the Add nodes button. This should not be too hard, the first step is to rewrite in /src/widget/toolbox.cpp: " <toolitem action='NodeInsertAction' />" " <toolitem action='NodeInsertActionMinX' />" " <toolitem action='NodeInsertActionMaxX' />" " <toolitem action='NodeInsertActionMinY' />" " <toolitem action='NodeInsertActionMaxY' />" to " <toolitem action='NodeInsertAction'>" " <menu action='NodeInsertActionMenu'>" " <menuitem action='NodeInsertActionMinX' />" " <menuitem action='NodeInsertActionMaxX' />" " <menuitem action='NodeInsertActionMinY' />" " <menuitem action='NodeInsertActionMaxY' />" " </menu>" " </toolitem>" or so I learn from a gtk demo [1]. It uses a new GtkMenuToolButton [2]. But, alas, if you rewrite it, you get GTK errors and Inkscape terminates... I hope someone can find the time and spirit to work on this. Thanks! Cheers, Johan [1] http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/demos/gtk-demo/appwindow.c?id=2.24.8 [2] http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/GtkMenuToolButton.html

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Deep Ungroup
by Matěj Cepl 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi, in view of https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/171117 I have created this small extension for recursive ungrouping https://gitorious.org/various-small-stuff/inkscape-ungroup-deep/ (tarball should be available at https://gitorious.org/various-small-stuff/inkscape-ungroup-deep/trees/0.1). It is just proof-of-concept (version 0.1) but seems to work for me. Bug reports, or (even better) patches and pull requests are more than welcome! I was told on #inkscape IRC channel that I cannot add my extension on http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_repository so if anybody would be able and willing to put it there, I would really appreciate it. Thanks a lot (and happy New Year!) Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/, Jabber: mcepl<at>ceplovi.cz GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC "Anything essential is invisible to the eyes", the little prince repeated, in order to remember. "It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important." "It's the time I spent on my rose ...," the little prince repeated, in order to remember. "People have forgotten this truth." the fox said. "But you mustn't forget it. You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. You're responsible for your rose..." "I'm responsible for my rose...," the little prince repeated, in order to remember. -- Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry: The Little Prince

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Wiki !!!
by Johan Engelen 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

I need ours! :) Thanks for fixing it, Johan

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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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