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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Since release is nearing, let's talk 0.48 and beyond...
by Guillermo Espertino 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

I'd really love to see beter text tools and better image links management in Inkscape for 0.48: - An improved text tool with the ability of setting other units than pixels, better inline style edition, break words with hyphenation for better looking justified text blocks. - Better management of image links (manage absolute and relative links properly) and a simpe UI to fix broken links or relink images. Also a proper interpretation of the resolution of the imported images (i.e.: if the document's default units are cm or inches, read the resolution value of the image and scale it to fit the proper size). Those are in my oppinion some weak points in inkscape that should be revised as soon as possible. I think I can wait for the animation features proposed in the current roadmap.

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Fwd: [Bug 397075] Re: Inkscape crashes adding image effect in filter editor
by the Adib 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Bulia, Joshua, If you could commit please. Adib. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: theAdib <theAdib@...1439...> Date: Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 1:18 AM Subject: [Bug 397075] Re: Inkscape crashes adding image effect in filter editor To: theAdib@...1439... Appended patch resolves the crash situation. The patch catches now all BadURIExceptions. Pls test and confirm. Adib. ** Changed in: inkscape Assignee: (unassigned) => theAdib (theadib) ** Attachment added: "patch for catching all exceptions" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/31733106/BUG397075_image_filter_crash.patch ** Changed in: inkscape Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- Inkscape crashes adding image effect in filter editor https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397075 You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee.

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Filters in Pre-2 ?
by Ivan Louette 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Hi Bulia, I noticed that the filters.svg in Pre2-1 for Windows isn't the latest one. That should be this one : http://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/inkscape/inkscape/trunk/share/fi… regards, ivan

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Win2K SP4 uninstall problems with Inkscape-0.47pre2-1.exe
by Jon 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

I just tried uninstalling to check whether the uninstaller would delete my theme customizations in etc, lib, and share when it uninstalled it's core files, and ran into the following problems. FYI, the original installation was into E:\Inkscape 1) Installer appeared to be deleting files and at the end of the process pop'd a dialog asking if I wanted to delete "E". Obviously as E is one of my partitioned "drives" I said no. Don't really know what the uninstaller would have done, but this appears serious. 2) Likely due to my "no" answer in (1), it doesn't appear any files were deleted by the installer. Note that the original install did not go smoothly as I first tried to have the installer install to a non-empty directory containing my theme customizations. Once the installer squawked that it couldn't install to a non-empty dir, I manually deleted my customizations (while the installer was still running) and then was able to get the installer to continue by clicking the Cancel button (I think) many times until it continued. It may be that the original installation snags are to blame for. However, this is an example of why I initially avoid installers like the plague until they prove that they will not degrade my system. Please, please, please continue to provide the 7z's at the same time as the installers :) I'll check out the next release of the installer when it comes out to see how it handles installing to an existing dir with theme customizations. Jon

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latency skew
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, >From what I remember, there were plans to remove latency skew from Preferences. Could we please either get rid of it or have an explanation in a tooltip what this function actually does? Jon? Alexandre

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poppler 0.12.0 is out
by Alexandre Prokoudine 11 Sep '09

11 Sep '09

Hi, TWIMC, poppler 0.12.0 is out. Among new features: support for color management. Alexandre

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Vista Home Premium SP2 uninstall problems with Inkscape-0.47pre2-1.exe
by Jon 10 Sep '09

10 Sep '09

Similar to the email I sent regarding my Win2K SP4 box, I'm having uninstall issues on my Vista system using an administrator account. The issue on Vista is that after uninstall, it doesn't appear any of the Inkscape core files was deleted. Worse yet, it left the shortcut on my desktop but then Vista refused to delete the shortcut giving an error that said that the shortcut was no longer in "C:\Users\Public\Public Desktop" and refused to delete. As many things appear to fix themselves on Windows by our friend The Reboot, I did, and it solved the unable-to-delete-desktop-shortcut issue. Don't know if the Inkscape core files would have then been deleted (would it have left my theme customizations intact ??). Don't know what the issue is, but maybe the uninstaller needs to trigger a reboot in order to not cause these problems....and please don't kill off the 7z's in favor of installers. Jon

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Bug 307195] [NEW] crash with two inkscape instances when changing layer
by the Adib 09 Sep '09

09 Sep '09

Bulia, I attached the patch to the bug tracker. The problem is easy to reproduce as described in the tracker. pls check. Adib. --- On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Launchpad Bug Tracker<307195@...1882...> wrote: > You have been subscribed to a public bug: > > Steps to reproduce: > > * open first file > * open second file > * in first window show layers dialog > * in second window select (click) some object on canvas > * in first window change layer > -> crash > > Linux, SVN Revision: 20351 > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > [Switching to Thread -1247754000 (LWP 10472)] > 0x081b5e33 in SPDesktop::currentRoot () at io/base64stream.cpp:74 > 74 */ > Current language: auto; currently c++ > (gdb) backtrace > #0 0x081b5e33 in SPDesktop::currentRoot () at io/base64stream.cpp:74 > #1 0x083eb175 in Inkscape::UI::Dialogs::LayersPanel::_pushTreeSelectionToCurrent () at io/base64stream.cpp:74 > #2 0x083f3ff3 in sigc::bound_mem_functor0<void, Inkscape::UI::Dialogs::LayersPanel>::operator() () at io/base64stream.cpp:74 > #3 0x083f400a in sigc::adaptor_functor<sigc::bound_mem_functor0<void, Inkscape::UI::Dialogs::LayersPanel> >::operator() () at io/base64stream.cpp:74 > #4 0x083f4026 in sigc::internal::slot_call0<sigc::bound_mem_functor0<void, Inkscape::UI::Dialogs::LayersPanel>, void>::call_it () at io/base64stream.cpp:74 > #5 0xb7b83526 in Glib::SignalProxyNormal::slot0_void_callback () from /usr/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1 > #6 0xb76f2207 in g_cclosure_marshal_VOID__VOID () from /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 > #7 0x00000000 in ?? () > (gdb) > > More precisely, the access on _layer_hierarchy seems to produce the > crash. > > SPObject *SPDesktop::currentRoot() const > { > return _layer_hierarchy ? // <- crashes here > _layer_hierarchy->top() : NULL; > } > > ** Affects: inkscape > Importance: High > Assignee: theAdib (theadib) > Status: In Progress > > > ** Tags: crash layers regression > -- > crash with two inkscape instances when changing layer > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/307195 > You received this bug notification because you are a bug assignee. >

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Remapping CNTL key.
by Karl Edler 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Hello, I use an alpha-grip (http://www.alphagrips.com/ ) instead of a normal keyboard and this makes it very hard to perform a CTL-click operation. I tried remapping the CTL button using xkb (KDE's keymapping tool) but the settings did not translate to inkscape because (I think) it uses its own keymapping file "default.xml". How might I remap the keyboard under inkscape so that pressing the 'g' key gives the same function as pressing CTL used to? Then I could 'g'-click rather than "CTL-click". Is this possible or is programming necessary before this is possible? I could not find this information on the wiki. If it is there please just point the way. Thanks.

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PNG Compression
by Joshua A. Andler 08 Sep '09

08 Sep '09

Hey there, I just wanted to point out that the "crunching" done on our pngs produces files that have forced alpha channels. Obviously if the image needs transparency, no harm there. However, for things that should have no opacity (such as screenshots), it can end up bloating them more than they need to be. Also, I found something that compresses better than pngcrush (however, it is MUCH slower). It's called "pngout", it's cross-platform, it's free, but it is not open source. I'm going to be re-compressing all of our screenshots with it because the results are much better (imho). However, I want to make sure that we get someone with IE to check that they view fine there before proceeding. They do load okay in Opera 10, Firefox 3.5, and everything else that I checked. A comparison of the 0.47 "spiro" screenshot was as follows: 355726 - Version currently on server 349063 - Saved from GIMP with the unnecessary alpha channel removed 337597 - Compressed w/ pngcrush (brute option) 327638 - Compressed w/ pngout (RGB color option) 28k is 28k... better for serving and receiving. In the end, doing this to all of our screenshots will probably add up to quite a bit. If anyone is interested in using pngout, it can be obtained here: http://advsys.net/ken/utils.htm Note: Someone else ported it to Linux, OSX, and BSD... so you'll need to follow a link on that page to the next place. Cheers, Josh

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