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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Writing extensions using Java
by Jesper Näsström 20 Jan '10

20 Jan '10

Hi, I am contemplating a diagramming project (open source, of course) in Java and believe Inkscape would make a great canvas. However the degree of support for Java is unclear to me. It would need to have dialogue boxes and be interactive, so a filter does not seem enough. Guess there may be potential behind the curtain, or is this simply not the best way to go ahead? Best regards, Jesbox

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toolbars
by bulia byak 19 Jan '10

19 Jan '10

Jon, Thanks for your work on toolbars. It will be nice to have the ability to make them vertical. However: - PLEASE describe your changes in Release Notes - I think it would be even more useful to have the ability to put two or more toolbars on the same horizontal or vertical strip, next to each other. Will your refactoring allow for that? - I assume the now-vertical snapping toolbar is more of a demonstration - I really don't see much reason to single it out for vertical placement? - Still, I couldn't re-attach the snapping toolbar into a horizontal position anywhere. It's either its original vertical position at the right, or floating. And re-attaching it to the original position is also quite difficult - the magnetic zone is very small. Can you affect this or is this unfixable in GTK? - Will you be able to block standalone floating state for toolbars? As discussed many times, they sink under the main window which makes them unusable. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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node tool - color of helperpath
by unknown＠example.com 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

Hi Krzysztof, I've been fiddling a bit with the new node tool. It's nice! But, the color of the helperpath of a path with an LPE applied is confusing. The original path used to be colored red, and the LPE-path-parameter green (or to another color if set by the LPE itself). Could you change the green back to red for the original path? Thanks, Johan

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bazaar - how to make a patch
by unknown＠example.com 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

Hi all, How do I make a patch from a checkout? Annoyed, Johan

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Spray tool icon
by Valessio S Brito 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

I create a proposal. see attach. Citando Alexandre Prokoudine <alexandre.prokoudine@...400...>: > IIRC, Jimmac was going to work on it. > > Alexandre -- .ValessioBrito - Comunicação e Tecnologia Blog: http://valessiobrito.info Chat: valessio(a)[jabber.org,msn.com,gmail.com] Cel.: 71 8256-2396 Atenção: Este e-mail pode conter anexos no formato ODF (Open Document Format)/ABNT (extensões odt, ods, odp, odb, odg). Antes de pedir os anexos em outro formato, você pode instalar gratuita e livremente o BrOffice (http://www.broffice.org) ou o seguinte Plugin para Microsoft Office (http://www.sun.com/software/star/odf_plugin/get.jsp). Também arquivos vetoriais no formato SVG use (http://www.InkscapeBrasil.org).

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UI issues...
by bulia byak 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

My previous query was somehow sidetracked, so here it is again: - Can anyone give rationale for "Print colors preview" being in Display modes? If not I will remove it from there, as I explained it looks very out of place next to Outline and No filters. Also: - We also have "Color-managed view" in the same menu. Duplicate? If they are genuinely different, please name them to better reflect this difference, and place both in an appropriate submenu of View. Otherwise, merge them. And: - We again have two Input Devices commands. Can we finally decide one way or the other? Does the new one fully work? If so delete the old one, otherwise hide the new until it is ready. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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diameter on a Mac
by Wolf Drechsel 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

Hello friends, sorry, I know this is not an issue for the list, but … (-; Can somebody give me a quick hint how to type the ø diameter sign on inkscape Mac OS X ? Alt-o will open a menu, and a Mac does not have AltGr… Thanks and greetings, Wolf

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Spray tool icon
by bulia byak 17 Jan '10

17 Jan '10

The new icon by Krzysztof is a step in the right direction, but it's still somehow out of place on the toolbar. Hey artists, don't you want to get famous by drawing one of the always-visible Inkscape tool icons? :) -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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resize text boxes
by Wolf Drechsel 16 Jan '10

16 Jan '10

Hello friends, how can I resize text boxes without resizing the font ? - What I want is that the font size remains stable and the number of lines increases when I make a text box narrower. Thanks and greetings, Wolf

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Node tool is ready
by Krzysztof Kosiński 15 Jan '10

15 Jan '10

Hello all Today I have implemented snapping of nodes, so the new node tool should be ready to go into trunk. As a reminder, here is the status table: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/GSoC2009_Node_Tool_Rewrite There are still some minor issues with snapping: 1. Nodes do not snap to unselected segments of selected paths. 2. Nodes do not snap to selected shapes. They will be fixed once I refactor the event context / tool hierarchy, which I plan to do before this year's GSoC. Now I have a few remarks / questions about the behavior: 1. There is an RFE: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/321150 The proposed is like the new node tool's join action, but with a distance threshold. Implementing this should be easy, but I don't know how to present it in the UI. Ideas, anyone? 2. Releasing the mouse button causes the point to immediately snap, even if the snap delay has not expired. For me, this unexpected and very annoying: I have to turn off snapping to make a non-snapped movement. If this feature was removed, I could comfortably make both snapped and non-snapped movements with snapping enabled. Currently I disabled snapping on mouse button release. 3. When a point snaps to a path, it should remain snapped to it until the pointer wanders outside the snap distance. This would allow me to adjust the point's position on a path it snapped to, without waiting for the snap delay to expire every time. Same behavior for snapping to nodes, corenrs, etc. (the point remains snapped until I move the mouse pointer out of the snapping range). What do you think? 4. The method to switch to the transform handles to rotation mode is very non-obvious. Currently it is Shift+R. To be consistent with the selector, the method to switch to rotation mode should be to click on a selected node, but this might become annoying quickly - the old behavior is to select only the clicked node in this case. I think the second behavior is acceptable if it only works when transform handles are shown, and the handles can be toggled using a button on the controls bar (preferably the first one). Regards, Krzysztof.

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