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Fwd: [CREATE] Categorizing resources
by Jon Phillips 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

Here is an interesting proposal about how to handle resources. Please join the Create mailing list if you are interested in this and/or for Inkscape. It is a nice way to handle a quick way of organizing resources. Jon ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aurimas Juška <aurimas.juska@...400...> Date: Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [CREATE] Categorizing resources To: CREATE@...626... Hi, Resource tagging is now available in GIMP development version. Before it is released, I think it would be good to discuss possibilities how tags could be shared between applications and also how tagging could be implemented in other applications. Common (standardized?) tag storage format Currently GIMP tags storage format is minimalistic, but seems to work quite well. Tags are stored in a tags.xml file which can be easily understood and edited manually: <?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?> <tags> <resource identifier="/home/auris/gimp/trunk/build/share/gimp/2.0/brushes/confetti.gih" checksum="d136b60fdd9cf41693a485a329b32e95"> <tag>aaa</tag> </resource> </tags> Resources are mapped with entries in tags.xml using: * identifier - filename for resources stored on disk. Easy to understand, but can be different between computers and platforms. * checksum - uniquely represent resource. However, how checksum is calculated (which data from resource is used, algorithm) seem hard to standardize. Useless when user wants to edit tags.xml manually (or with a simple script). Currently identifier is used primarily to identify resources, and checksum is only used when identifier can't match actual resource file (file rename/move). Tag is a text string which cannot contain separator characters, newlines, tabs, etc. There is no additional information stored with a tag, such as language. However, tags provided with GIMP can be translated into various languages. Localized version is installed in user's home directory on the first run but is not changed when switched to a different language later. In order to make format useful for other applications and external tag editors as well, is there anything that should be added/removed ? It would be good, as always, to keep the format simple as possible. Common GUI elements It might be good for user if similar GUI element would be used for similar purposes. There is a small PDF available which shows more detail how tagging GUI elements work in GIMP: http://sites.google.com/site/aurijusk/gimp-resource-tagging/tagging.pdf?att… Code reuse for implementation, etc. Some code could probably could be used as starting point. It might be possible to put some functionality in places where multiple applications could take advantage of it. Best regards, Aurimas Juška _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@...626... http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [libcroco-list] Generic cascading in libcroco
by Robert Staudinger 19 Feb '09

19 Feb '09

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:55 PM, Dodji Seketeli <dodji@...45...> wrote: > Hello, > > Robert Staudinger a écrit : > > [...] > >> I've finally gotten around to add a generic interface to the libcroco >> selection engine. Pretty much just exchanging libxml calls to >> invocations on an vtable provided by the API consumer. >> >> On top of that I reinstated the libxml-based API and made sure the >> tests (the selection engine is only used by test5) work as before. > > Sounds great ! Thanks for that. > >> Are you inkscapers still interested in eventually using upstream >> libcroco? Your internal copy seems to have deviated pretty much from >> upstream, it would be good if we could at least exchange fixes, things >> were not quite obvious looking at the raw rdiff. We (Thomas Wood + >> yours truly) actually tried to extract just the selection engine >> patch(es) from your svn repository, but it proved quite hard to make >> any sense of it. > > I don't know for inkscape, but I'll happily review the patch of that > feature if you for instance submit it to the libcroco bugzilla. > > >> My branch is at >> http://bzr-playground.gnome.org/~robsta/libccss-selection-engine/ >> but will go to trunk within the next few days, as the tests already >> work as they should. > > Could, would it be possible to extract a patch from that and slam it to > bugzilla so that I can have a chance to review it ? I don't intend to > nitpick, do not worry :) It's just to add some more eyeballs to the game :) http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572454 - R

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Filters top-level menu?
by Felipe Sanches 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:52 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Felipe Sanches > <felipe.sanches@...400...> wrote: >> svn update; make; sudo make install >> >> And I still have the filters submenu inside extensions top level menu. >> And the list of pre-built filters does not appear at the filters top level menu. > > ah - and let me guess - the menus are not in English? Yes, they are in brazillian portuguese. And I guess prokoudine uses russian... Juca

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Filters top-level menu?
by bulia byak 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

I think filters are sufficiently complex, different from everything else, and have enough support in Inkscape now, so they deserve to be treated more like a top-level entity. In particular, I propose to add a new menu, Filters, before Effects. It would contain: - All the submenus with preset filter that are now in Effects > Filters. Ivan Louette is working on a huge and exciting expansion of that hierarchy, adding lots of powerful new filters. It's obviously too deeply hidden now, it deserves more visibility as one of the most important 0.47 additions. - The "Filter Effects..." dialog command which I propose to rename to "Build Filters" or "Filter Builder" or something like that. The current name is not very descriptive and even a bit misleading due to the word "effects" which refers to too many too different things in Inkscape (once again, let me reiterate my old wish: rename "Effects" menu to "Extensions", that is what they are!). The typical workflow would be to first choose one of the presets, then if needed, go to the Filter Builder to adjust the preset or start a new filter from scratch. - The Remove Filter command. Thoughts? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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"no color swatch" resizing bug
by Felipe Sanches 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

Revision 20710 by JonCruz broke resizing of "no color swatch". I dont know how to properly fix that. Could you please take a look at that, Jon? Juca

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Interpolate filters
by Mihaela 17 Feb '09

17 Feb '09

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Compiling svn on Opensuse 11 64 bits
by Lucas Vieites 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Hi all, I am slowly becoming desperate. I have been trying to compile from svn the same way I always have: svn update autogen.sh ./configure --prefix=/var/opt/ --with-perl --with-python --with-xft --enable-lcms --enable-inkboard --with-gnome-vfs make make install But now I have a new machine: a dual core 64 bit AMD running OpenSuse 11.1. When running ./configure ...... it keeps complaining about: ------------------------------ checking for png_read_info in -lpng... no configure: error: libpng >= 1.2 is needed to compile inkscape ------------------------------ I have already installed all packages I thought might be useful: ------------------------------ # rpm -qa | grep png libpng-devel-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng12-0-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng-devel-32bit-1.2.31-4.35.1 latex2html-pngicons-2002.2.1-604.27 libpng3-1.2.31-4.35.1 libpng12-0-1.2.31-4.35.1 ------------------------------ But still no luck. Is the configure script looking for libpng's devel files somewhere strange? Thanks for your help, -- Lucas Vieites

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Building ubuntu/debian package from svn
by Kalman KHIRALY 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

Dear list, Im trying to build a .deb package to test out the greatest and newest feature of inkscape. I have read this documentation: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/CompilingDebian I have downloaded the daily snapshot: http://inkscape.modevia.com/svn-snap/inkscape-current.tar.bz2 I followed the steps without success. I suspect, the documentation is outdated. There is no debian/ directory in the inkscape source. The inkscape does not use autoconfig but cmake if I see it correctly. So creating the debian/ directory using the dh_make command, and building the package fails. (make[1]: *** No rule to make target `clean'. Stop.) So can somebody direct me to an updated documentation? How can I create a proper debian/ directory, and building the package with help of this directory? Using this command: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -rfakeroot In summary a step-by-step tutorial would be really helpful! Im using ubuntu 8.10 currently. Thank you in advance, Khiraly

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Corel DRAW-like Snapping
by Krzysztof Kosiński 16 Feb '09

16 Feb '09

The current snapping mechanism is next to unusable when there are many places where a given thing might snap. The approach of snapping everything-to-everything is fundamentally wrong, because it simply doesn't work for many snapping points. I have a different idea, inspired by Corel DRAW, where snapping is much more useful than currently in Inkscape: 1. When snap is enabled, the Select tool displays a highlight and some text describing the snappable thing over which it hovers. The things that are highlighted are the same that are enabled in the snap toolbar. 2. During a subsequent drag the snapping point that gets highlighted is chosen as the only snapping point for the dragged object. Otherwise the object doesn't snap when moving. This way we don't have to snap everything to everything, because we know one of the points the user intends to snap. If someone could give me some pointers about how to implement it, I could work on this, because it's the only feature that I found really lacking when I switched to Inkscape from Corel DRAW.* I like my drawings to be perfectly aligned :) Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński *) fortunately the ability to easily specify alpha for gradient stops was more important :) -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Corel-DRAW-like-Snapping-tp22007175p22007175.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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fonts & printing to pipes questions.
by stuart 15 Feb '09

15 Feb '09

Hi... I tried to search through the forum but I'm a newbe w.r.t. the proper terms and had trouble with my key words. Going on, at one point I remember being able to cut from inkscape sessions which included text objects. But now it's not working. I think the problem is with the post script files generated by inkscape. I am using a (little known?) utility called graphtecprint that I've modified for my own purposes. I am familiar with what it can do. Looking at the inkscape generated post script output I am sure graphtecprint can not handle a section of the post script file which starts with "/sfnts [". This is followed by several thousand bytes of what looks like pure hex (in ascii format). What I need are the cutting commands! I need inkscape to output instructions to cut the letter "A" just like it outputs instructions to cut a box or a circle. ---------- Another subject, printing to pipes. This feature saved me a lot of time and made placing utilities like graphtecprint between inkscape and the physical world easy. With out the inkscape printing to pipes feature I have to first print to a file. Are there any plans to put this feature back into inkscape? ...thanks

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