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ocal v2.0 import/export
by Alexandre Prokoudine 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Hi, So, we have OCAL v2.0 that uses a new engine now. Importing does work, so kudos for keeping backwards compatibility :) But maybe the new team behind OCAL v2 could work on fixing the exporting? Alexandre

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Libre Graphics Meeting Pledgie Campaign
by Donna Benjamin 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hey Everyone! The LGM will be in Brussels at the end of May. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/ The pledgie campaign is open for donation! http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 and the Design and Architecture committee of the Flemish ministry for culture is supporting LGM2010! http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/news/governmental-support-for-lgm But we need more. And you can help! Please spread the word about the pledgie campaign. The libre graphics community itself has been one of the biggest sponsors of our main event. It's a fantastic way for all the users of free graphics tools out there to make a contribution too... but not if they don't know about it. So please - dent, tweet, blog, and post to mailing lists about the LGM and about the pledgie campaign. Please forward this message to other libre graphics developer groups you're involved with. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/ http://pledgie.com/campaigns/8926 -- Donna Benjamin Libre Graphics Meeting, Brussels 27-30 May, 2010 http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/2010/

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Work on NFT dialog for GSOC 2010
by Albin Manoël 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hi developers, I found something on the blueprint that I really want to work on :-) It's the NFT dialog : « New From Template » dialog. For more informations see : http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/NewFromTemplateSpec I think that I have sufficient skills in order to work on this improvement. And It could be great if I can work on this for the Google Summer of Code 2010. Is there anybody who wants to be my « mentor » ? :-) Good night. Albin Manoël

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[NEW] Very simple fix for the image embedding problem
by Krzysztof Kosiński 08 Mar '10

08 Mar '10

Hello I wondered for some time how to add an "embed" checkbox to the import dialog, but it wasn't necessary - I used the extension parameters feature. I fixed the embedding of images in the following way: 1. If a bitmap file is imported, a dialog appears that asks the user whether to link. (Same when opening a bitmap image.) 2. When a bitmap file URI is dragged over Inkscape's window, a dialog appears as in 1. 3. When pixel data is dragged over Inkscape's window, it is embedded an no dialog is shown. 4. When a bitmap file URI is pasted, nothing happens (for now) - that's because the clipboard doesn't support URI lists yet. 5. When pixel data is pasted, it is embedded as in 3. As a bonus, all bitmap import should now use the same code path. Regards, Krzysztof

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Devlibs bug supervisor
by Krzysztof Kosiński 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

Hello I changed the maintainer of Inkscape Devlips in Launchpad from myself to Inkscape Administrators. It was required to set the same bug team as for Inkscape. Can one of the admins set the bug supervisor to Inkscape Bug Team? https://launchpad.net/inkscape-devlibs Regards, Krzysztof

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object and stroke to path buttons missing from node tool controls bar - bug 534045
by Donna Benjamin 07 Mar '10

07 Mar '10

I have added a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/534045 the 'object to path' and 'stroke to path' buttons have gone AWOL. There were after the 'make selected segments curves' button but aren't there now. I went looking in node preferences to see if I could turn them on again, but there is no option to do so. I reckon these are pretty fundamental node options... as you can't use the node tool on shapes until you've made the conversion. Yes, there are keyboard shortcuts, and they are also the first items in the path menu - but a quick icon click beats both those methods for me. Can we please have them back? And if not, a rationale for why they've been removed, and a configurable option to turn them on again? thanks! - D. -- Donna Benjamin - kattekrab.net Inkscape: Open Source Scalable Vector Graphics http://www.inkscape.org

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configure: error: You have a broken version of the <tr1/unordered_set> header
by Wolf Drechsel 06 Mar '10

06 Mar '10

Hi everybody, I did a bzr checkout and tried to compile a more recent version of inkscape - both: X11 and aqua. In both procedures the following configure error occured: > configure: error: You have a broken version of the <tr1/ > unordered_set> header. See http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ > CompilingMacOsX for information on how to fix this problem. The wiki page says I shall get a > Working version of the <tr1/unordered_set> and <tr1/unordered_map> > headers but doesnt say how I can get one. Could someone tell me? BTW.: What I noticed is that the osx-build.sh script still contains some code on svn. This may not be relevant in this context - but might be worth to be fixed occasionally. Shall I file it as a bug? Yours, Wolf

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Inkscape 0.48 About Screen Contest - slight delay
by Joshua A. Andler 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hey all, I was looking forward to announcing the contest beginning today... however we will have a slight delay before it begins. The reason behind the delay... we need some new builds with new features for our users! So, would packagers for win32 and OSX be willing to put some builds together soon for our users? Please respond if you will be able to help with this. Cheers, Josh

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enhancing shortcuts schemes
by Alexandre Prokoudine 05 Mar '10

05 Mar '10

Hi, It's probably not very well known that keyboard shortcuts in localized (e.g. Russian) UI do not work in Windows. This is one of the oldest GTK+ bugs that nobody bothers to fix. A user has just come up with an clever hackaround that looks like this: bind key="g" action="ToolGradient" / bind key="G" action="ToolGradient" / bind key="Cyrillic_pe" action="ToolGradient" / bind key="Cyrillic_PE" action="ToolGradient" / That is, he specifically maps Russian "P" character which is on the same key that English "G" is. He also patched relevant parts for Illustrator, Corel DRAW etc. schemes. This is probably not Dvorak-pron, though. Should we ship patched versions of the shortcut schemes? Alexandre

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Which GSoC project would do the most good?
by Krzysztof Kosiński 04 Mar '10

04 Mar '10

Hello I'd like to know the opinion of others: which of those projects would be the most beneficial in the long run and at the same time can be finished in the GSoC timeframe? 1. Convert renderer to Cairo - drawing speedups. 2. C++ize the SP layer and make XML nodes private.* 3. Multi shape editing - ability to edit more than 1 shape (like ellipse or star) at once, with extra features like resizing rectangles by dragging their edges. 4. Remove livarot in favor of 2Geom, improving 2Geom where necessary (e.g. boolops). *) When XML nodes are private, it's much easier to implement backwards compatibility - we just implement the reading of obsolete versions in the corresponding SP object. It's pretty much required to solve the problems with flowtext and markers on rect. The idea is to make the SP layer slightly more DOM-like so that it can be exported through D-Bus. It seems like the only way to seriously decruftize Inkscape, but I'm not sure if it's doable in 2 months. Maybe somebody has an idea for a project that could do it at least partially? Regards, Krzysztof

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