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Join the 1.0 About Screen Art Contest!
by Maren Hachmann 07 Oct '19

07 Oct '19

Hello Inkscape Community, it's that time again! Starting October 7th (today) through November 17th we are accepting submissions for the About Screen Contest for Inkscape 1.0! This is your opportunity to contribute to this major milestone for your favorite vector graphics editor! The contest winner's artwork will be showcased in the 'Help > About' menu entry in Inkscape. You can use the current Beta version to play with the new features and to make your artwork be a good representation of what Inkscape 1.0 can do! Learn more about the contest here: https://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/ Good luck to all - and, of course: Draw Freely :)

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Is this a known issue? (and the dumbest bug ever)
by Josh Andler 15 Aug '19

15 Aug '19

I searched the bug tracker (perhaps using language that was too specific) but I couldn't find a report... Is a path using dashes with rounded caps supposed to ignore the rounded caps when you convert Stroke to Path? It visually does it right with butt or square caps, but rounded caps get converted as butts from how it appears. I'm seeing this in both stable and trunk and it seems... like an odd oversight. Anyone else have thoughts? Cheers, Josh

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Mailman3 outage
by Bryce Harrington 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

The mailman3 list server was offline the past week, due to troubles it had delivering email to administrative user accounts. This generated excessive error logging to disk. I'm not 100% sure this is root caused but after clearing the queue it seems to be running happily again. I'll try and keep a closer eye on it. Bryce P.S. there's still a problem with some people unable to subscribe to the mailing lists; I doubt this change will fix chat, so this problem is still on the todo list.

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Re: Beta-blockers ?
by Patrick Storz 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

Hi Marc, thanks for planning this thoroughly! Answers below. Am 12.08.2019 um 21:13 schrieb Marc Jeanmougin: > == Extensions (Martin, Patrick, others) == > > What is the state of extensions (#156) ? In particular, their > translatability (#333) ? Is the current submodule commit in a "good > state" ? What to do with the old uniconvertor extensions, do we update > them to uniconvertor 2.0rc5 ? While Martin and others did (and are still doing) a great job on the bundled Python extensions I'm currently working on the extension implementation in Inkscape itself. I just finished one big part (.inx format updates and the internal logic in Inkscape to parse preferences/parameters form it while also creating nice GUIs) which is ready for review at https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/808 As Martin already mentioned translations are basically handled as before (still use inkscapes .pot/.po files), only the way we mark strings for translation in the.inx changed. Once the MR is merged it will be a trivial job to update the .inx files with some search&replace, although the code should be fully backwards-compatible to earlier .inx files. Regarding splitting the translations of extensions into the extension repo (and also allowing third-party extensions to ship their own translations): The current MR implements the syntax, but the actual functionality is not included yet. However I realized while working on it, that I already have done most of the required refactoring, minimizing the effort that remains for finishing the feature. If we feel like this is a welcome feature for 1.0 already, we can probably implement it in time instead of delaying it until 1.1 as I initially planned. I'm starting to think that this would actually be nice, as we can offer a finished feature in 1.0 instead of just syntax for a feature that is not implemented yet. > == Gtk General interface stuff (all) == > > Do we still have interface problems like toolbars not showing up or > menus needing two clicks, or anything of the sort, on any platform ? Is > #195 still reproducible ? I'm not aware of anything specific right now that prevents usage. In general there's still a fundamental "glitchiness" to gtk3 on Windows, but I'm afraid that's just how gtk3 works on Windows these days. We'll certainly get some questions about it, but I wouldn't know what to do to significantly improve this until the release. > == Packaging (RdH, Patrick, others) == > > Approximately how much work is still needed for macOS stable dmg > production or windows packaging ? > > What happens with the ubuntu bionic "dependency wait" ? ( > https://launchpadlibrarian.net/437056488/buildlog.txt.gz ) Updating our existing Windows packaging for 1.0 should be easy (once I can motivate myself to do it). I always planned to look into cpack and investigate if it can produce proper installers, so we might eventually get rid of our own packaging and reduce the overhead of maintaining it, but that might need some more work. > == Performance (all) == > > Do we still have these massive performance problems as soon as the > Objects dialog (or XML ?) has been opened ? I'm not aware anybody pushed a fix? Didn't retest, though. Apart from that performance stil lseems worse than 0.92.x (at least on Windows), but also here I wouldn't really know what to do. It's usable, but it's not good. One particular performance issue (I know there were multiple reports, but not sure we have an actual issue for it and GitLab throws 500 errors at me): Selecting a new font takes a very long time (a few seconds at least, some take 10-20 seconds). Not sure if this is exclusive to Windows? It does not happen in 0.92.x, though (with the same version of fontconfig/harfbuzz/pango/...), so it's either something we're doing, or something gtk3 is doing differently from gtk2. I think performance wasn't always bad in master, though. I think it started either with the variable fonts support or after the SPStyle refactor. > > == Text (Tav, Jabier, others) == > > How usable is the text tool ? Do we implement the "hamburger" toolbar ? > Do we still have issues with variable font sliders ? How understandable > are our text tools, and are users able to "just write text" without > surprises ? (with line heights for instance ?) Tbh, I can't use the text toolbar myself anymore... Either I'm to stupid or we really *should* do something about usability. It never behaves as expected and always sets properties in ways that were not intended. One line-height related issue that also needs attention is https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues/244 > == SVG2 (Tav, all) == > > I'm not sure we have discussed enough the transition between SVG1.1 and > SVG2. If we start producing svg2 documents that are not svg1.1-valid, > should we use version="2" in <svg> ? how will it be understood by other > renderers ? When and how do we intend to switch the 1.2 flawed text into > the newly flawed text, how will we handle old documents, and how do we > ensure they will render exactly the same ? Do we provide a way to save > in "valid SVG1.1 document without SVG2 stuff" ? I'd say we should always produce SVG1.1 fallbacks, even if we use SVG2 features? Maybe we can then add an option to disable the compatiblity shims and produce a "pure" SVG2 document. I know some switches are available, but Tav can probably comment better on what is implemented and what isn't. > == Documentation (Maren) == > > I saw https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/documentation/issues/2 , > do we have more stuff to update ? By the way, how do we sync the > inkscape/inkscape repo with the inkscape/inkscape-docs ? As Maren mentioned already there's a lot to update content-wise. I've handled most of the technical side and meant to make a call for help at some point, but didn't get the chance to do it yet. Once content is updated I typically copy the CI-generated files manually and push the update to the inkscape repo. Basically this can wait till shortly before 1.0, but we can certainly schedule a preliminary update for the beta(s). Cheers, Patrick

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Beta-blockers ?
by Marc Jeanmougin 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

Hi all, The toolbar bug seems fixed for most systems and only seems to appear on wayland (at least I can't trigger it on xorg), and is now reported upstream at https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/2000 The translation system seems better (#311), so … do anyone see any issue that would need to be fixed before releasing a beta ? -- Mc

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new forum is open!
by brynn 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '19

Hi Friends, As far as I can tell, the new forum is officially open! I've blocked new registrations on Inkscape Community, with a banner on the index page linking to the new forum. brynn

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opening new forum this week
by brynn 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

Hi Friends, The new forum is opening this week! I'm planning to start the transition from Inkscape Community to the new forum, on July 31 (in my part of the world). Because by the time it's August 1st for me, it's either already, or almost August 2nd for half the world. Martin, can you please plan to release the posting block on the new forum, on July 31 ? Would you please let me know when it's done? And then I'll block all new posting on Inkscape Community. I hope to heck I've thought of everything. But I'm sure there will be some surprises. Any and all comments or concerns are still totally welcome. All best, brynn

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Inkscape booth at Kielux - help present Inkscape in Kiel!
by Maren Hachmann 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Hi, I'm looking for a second person to staff the Inkscape booth in Kiel at Kieler Open Source und Linux Tage on September 20th and 21st this year. As I'm also presenting at and co-organizing the event, it would be really good if there were someone else who can help, even if only for a few hours. You don't need to be an expert in Inkscape, but you should bring some motivation and enthusiasm for the program and its capabilities. More info about the event is available at: https://kielux.de There will also be some very interesting talks and workshops, and you'll have direct access to Inkscape stickers (at least those are planned) and fresh info about the latest developments :) If you'd like to join me, please reply to this email! Hope to hear from you Maren

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Re: moderators need ability to curate the description in gallery
by Josh Andler 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Ok. I will go ahead and file it either tonight or in the morning. Once I've done that I'll link it here so anyone following can make sure my request looks right and add any notes they deem appropriate. Cheers, Josh On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 1:21 PM Martin Owens <doctormo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 2019-07-14 at 12:34 -0700, Josh Andler wrote: > > Including your email in case you haven't followed this thread. What > > are your thoughts on this? > > Hi Josh, > > I think this is a reasonable moderation request. A tool that could be > added, it would probably edit the urls in the text, since they get > auto-converted in the template. But changing the colon to a semi colon > should do the trick. > > If this is the settled solution, an issue should be made in the > inkscape-web tracker. > > Best Regards, Martin Owens > >

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moderators need ability to curate the description in gallery
by brynn 14 Jul '19

14 Jul '19

Hi Friends, Reference the 3 images uploaded by this member: https://inkscape.org/~yendrifernando/ The images appear to be made with Inkscape, but in my opinion, the links in the description are spam. As a moderator, I would like to be able to edit the description (via Curate) and remove only the "www.". In that way, the description still tributes the inspiration for the images to that website (as the member appears to intend), without having an active link to the website. Breaking the link removes the spam. Martin and I have had an extended private discussion about this. But he disagrees with giving moderators the ability to edit the description. He says that we need to have a community discussion about it. I'll have to be honest and say that I don't understand his position, or even really know exactly what his position is. Even if I did, I wouldn't try to represent it. So he'll have to do that. Our discussion ranged far and wide over moderation subjects, but none of his arguments really hit home to me, as a good reason not to allow moderators to edit (curate) the description. So it seems we've hit a stalemate. I'll be honest again and say that I'm not sure if the purpose of this discussion is to repeat our discussion publicly, or just to get opinions on curating the description. Because a lot of his concerns seemed to be about potentially overly aggressive moderation. Or maybe it's both? But I think I'm a fair moderator and can train fair moderators, so I'm ready either way :-) Martin, I hope this is a fair introduction of the issue? All best, brynn

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