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Summer of Code has officially started!
by Joshua A. Andler 24 May '09

24 May '09

Hey all, Today is the day that the students should begin their coding according to the official timeline. Given this, I just wanted to wish good luck to this year's students and mentors for SoC 2009! Mentors, since there was no decision made about this, you need to decide how the student's work will be committed (given that we are working towards a release). Whatever the mentors (and their students) decide on this issue will be fine, the only rule for now is DO NOT COMMIT SOC WORK TO TRUNK until it opens for regular development again. :) Cheers, Josh

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GSoC Inkscape API project
by Jon A. Cruz 23 May '09

23 May '09

Hi Soren, At this past LGM I had a chance to discuss several of the GSoC projects with helpful people, including Chris Lilley (of the SVG Working Group). I'd explained my thoughts that what we added should be focused on exposing DOM, first for the SVG itself, then additionally for the UI, since among other things that presents a potential plugin/extension author with a single unified interface/ approach to have to worry about. Exposing things via XPath functions, and DOM events stays in that same paradigm. It also allows us to have a simple way to expose things eventually though JavaScript (but also others). Focusing on DOM, DOM Events and XPath would give a simple paradigm that is familiar to designers, especially since they are taught DOM and JavaScript DOM manipulation in college nowadays. Anyway, once I had expressed that in my opinion that would be a good route to focus on I mentioned that you said you would be considering that among other approaches. Chris then responded basically with "Consider? Why would they do anything else?" We had a bit of a follow- up, but the general result was a consensus that building our API around DOM will give Inkscape the best long-term benefits. I just wanted to be sure to get that mentioned before you jump full- speed into GSoC now, since it is time. Again, good luck, Jon.

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SF's Community Choice Awards
by Alexandre Prokoudine 22 May '09

22 May '09

Hi, Do we nominate Inkscape to SF's Community Choice Awards? Alexandre

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auto swatches
by Alexandre Prokoudine 22 May '09

22 May '09

Hi, Since 0.47 is really close now, it would be great to have decision if the new auto swatches palette can make it. Jon, this is primarily for you :) Currently there are at least two bugs (1) no auto update for swatch, 2) "Auto" is not marked for translation) and the whole feature doesn't work quite as expected. For instance, anticipated flat fills are created as linear gradient elements (the old dialog we were supposed to get rid of is used for that too). Is there any work definitely planned to iron this out before we hit hard freeze? Alexandre

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giomm again
by bulia byak 20 May '09

20 May '09

Someone has added giomm to configure.ac again. This fails on Ubuntu 6.06. It was added before but then removed. Without it, Inkscape compiles just fine on 6.06. Can we please remove it again? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Python modules in Inkscape for Windows
by Aurélio A. Heckert 19 May '09

19 May '09

Hi all, How the py molules are added/updated in the windows installer pack? I search by that in the website but there are no information about. (or i did the wrong search...) If is useful, i have listed the used modules with that line: egrep --no-filename '^\s*(from\s+[^\s]+\s+)?import' *.py |\ sed -r 's/^\s*from\s+([^ ]+).*/\1/; s/^\s*import\s+//; s/,\s*/\n/g' |\ sort | uniq in .../inkscape-svn/share/extensions Thanks, Aurium -- Aurélio A. Heckert http://colivre.coop.br/Aurium GNU/Linux User #312507 http://counter.li.org - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Ilustração Vetorial Livre: http://InkscapeBrasil.org Coop. de Tecnologias Livres: http://Colivre.coop.br - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Eu temo pela minha espécie quando penso que Deus é justo." Thomas Jefferson Antes de imprimir esta mensagem reflita sobre a sua responsabilidade com a preservação do Meio Ambiente.

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Erik Dahlström - SVG Working Group
by Felipe Sanches 18 May '09

18 May '09

I've got the pleasure to meet Charles McCathieNevile from Opera last week here in Brazil. Later he sent me an email introducing me to Erik Dahlström, current co-chair of the SVG Working Group, which also works at Opera Software. I'd like to ask you guys, what kind of interaction is desired so that we can have a nice and productive collaboration? Felipe Sanches a.k.a JucaBlues ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Charles McCathieNevile <chaals@...2183...> Date: 2009/5/18 Subject: Introductions... To: Felipe Sanches <felipe.sanches@...400...>, Erik Dahlström <ed@...2196......> Hi guys, you hould talk to each other. I am not sure whether Felipe speaks Swedish, or Erik Portuguese, but I know you both speak english :) Felipe is a programmer with Inkscape, living in Brazil. Erik is a programmer at Opera, chair of the W3C SVG group, and lives in Sweden. So that gives some context. Felipe and I talked about a couple of things like Inkscape being able to save as Widget, and things that might be upcoming. I am particularly interested in somebody figuring out how to make inkscape do nice animation - apart from anything else that would help provide Mozilla with motivation for implementing animation faster - and it is a nice thing to use when people have to read the code. Erik may have a different opinion since he has to make it work efficiently... :) cheers Chaals -- Charles McCathieNevile Opera Software, Standards Group je parle français -- hablo español -- jeg lærer norsk http://my.opera.com/chaals Try Opera: http://www.opera.com

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phrasing
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, When a user saves to Plain SVG and tries to close a document, what he sees is: "The file \"%s\" was saved with a format (%s) that may cause data loss!" "\n" "Do you want to save this file as an Inkscape SVG?" and the choice of buttons is: "Dont' save", "Cancel" and "Save as SVG" Are you as puzzled as I am? :) What would be the difference between "Don't save" and "Cancel"? To which SVG will the image be saved upon clicking "Save as SVG"? Alexandre

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scientific work
by Alexandre Prokoudine 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi, Do we have people who wrote scientific papers based on their work on libre graphics tools? Especially our past GSoC students? Alexandre

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how to handle unknown LPEs for shapes
by unknown＠example.com 18 May '09

18 May '09

Hi all, Currently, when an unknown LPE is applied to a path, inkscape ignores the whole LPE stack on that path and simply draws the 'd' attribute. (so the path is not resetted or anything. the path will look like intended and like it is shown in all other SVG readers). My problem now is: what to do for other shapes? (stars, circles, etc.). I guess the best thing to do is have a popup upon loading the file that asks the user whether he wants to convert that shape to a simple path, such that it will look like intended. I don't know whether this (convert e.g. a star to a path), while loading the file, will make inkscape unstable... Any help is appreciated, Johan

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