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Color gestures widget idea
by Krzysztof Kosiński 29 Oct '08

29 Oct '08

There was a discussion about the color gestures recently. I have an idea how to make them more usable and discoverable. The basic idea is to display a small strip with a gradient under the cursor. To understand what I mean check out any recent version of GIMP or GThumb, load up an image too big to fit in the window and see what happens when you drag on the small four-way arrow in the lower right-hand corner of the window. Instead of a thumbnail, a color gradient corresponding to the setting that is currently being adjusted would be displayed. The feature would be activated by dragging on a small widget with a two-way arrow superimposed over a color circle or a gradient. The appearance of the icon could change depending on what is adjusted (H/S/L) but that's optional. Why this idea is an imporvement over the current gesture functionality: First, it will be much easier to get the color you want quickly. Second, it will be more discoverable. Third, the widget could be reused to pop up similar icons on the canvas to allow the user to e.g. adjust the color of a gradient node (there would be something that enables them, maybe a separate tool, to minimize visual pollution). I believe the "everything on canvas" paradigm is superior to "tweak values in dialogs" and one of the things Inkscape does right, so expanding on-canvas functionality seems to be a good idea to me. Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Color-gestures-widget-idea-tp20134327p20134327.html Sent from the Inkscape - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

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[PATCH] Allow inkscape to be cross-compiled from Fedora to Windows using MinGW
by Richard W.M. Jones 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hi, I'm doing the Fedora MinGW project[1], where we are building up a cross-compiler and comprehensive set of libraries so we can build Windows software from Fedora. Mostly inkscape "just works". Install the dependent libraries such as gtkmm etc. from our yum repo[2], then: PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/sys-root/mingw/lib/pkgconfig \ ./configure --host=i686-pc-mingw32 \ --enable-lcms=no \ --without-gnome-vfs make With this command and the patches below I built 'inkscape.exe', and did some limited testing, and it appears to run under Wine >= 1.1.6. (Note that at no point is MS Windows required). The patches and specfile we use are in our development repository[3], and also attached to this email. (a) mingw32-inkscape-20081027-no-gc-version-check-when-crosscompiling.patch You cannot run programs when cross-compiling (not even if you have Wine). This first patch disables a test for the version of libgc which relied on running a test program. (b) mingw32-inkscape-20081027-extra-win32-objects.patch I'm not quite sure why, but a load of Win32 source files are apparently missing from the Makefile.am's. It should be safe to add these for all platforms, as long as the sources files themselves are surrounded by #ifdef WIN32 ... #endif. (c) mingw32-inkscape-20081027-no-is-os-vista.patch The code uses a function called 'is_os_vista' that doesn't seem to exist. Maybe this was added to a new version of some dependency? (d) mingw32-inkscape-20081027-pango-enable-engine.patch Some files don't compile unless you define PANGO_ENABLE_ENGINE. I didn't look into this very deeply, but certainly defining this symbol at the top of the affected files fixes this. (e) mingw32-inkscape-20081027-no-setenv.patch This is a hack we use to remove a reference to 'setenv' because that API doesn't exist on Windows. I hope you find this useful, and maybe you can use it to automate builds and tests on the Windows version. Rich. [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW [2] http://www.annexia.org/tmp/mingw/fedora-9/ [3] Go to http://hg.et.redhat.com/misc/fedora-mingw--devel/ and click 'manifest' then go into the 'inkscape' directory. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v

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Semi-OT: Free CodeWeavers Software for one day.
by Josh Andler 28 Oct '08

28 Oct '08

Hey all, So, thanks to a collapsing global economy and a bet that they lost, CodeWeavers will be giving away a product of your choice for roughly the next 24 hours for Linux or Mac. http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/33338904.html?elr=KArksUUUU If CrossOver is of interest to you because of games or professional apps that Wine won't run yet (that you can't live without), tomorrow is the day to get your copy of CrossOver for free. :) Yeah, it doesn't necessarily further FLOSS software directly, but for some it makes the transition to Linux more doable. Head to http://www.codeweavers.com/ for your free serial... it may help with crossplatform testing of Inkscape Win32 in Linux and Mac environments... so why not? ;) (then again it may not help at all) Cheers, Josh

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Preferences refactoring - important changes
by Diederik van Lierop 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hello Krzysztof, Using a pre-compiled rev. 20019 on XP, I run into an assertion when I select a few objects and hit ctrl-shift-a to align them: ERROR:src/preferences.cpp:470:Inkscape::XML::Node* Inkscape::Preferences::_getNode(const Glib::ustring&, bool): assertion failed: <pref_key.at(0) == '/') Is this related to your refactoring? I haven't encountered this before. Regards, Diederik

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] "Live Pen" Feature Bounty
by Thomas Holder 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

> Nodes are awkward legacy, they should be hidden and not affect > anything. All new tools we've been adding recently go in this > direction: Tweak tool does not care about nodes; Spiros use nodes but > they are much less clumsy than bezier nodes and easier to move around Beziers are clumsy, that's true. At this point I'd like to advertise my patch [1] which introduces automatic maintained handles. I think such nodes are even more intuitive than Spiro splines, and they still can be mixed with normal smooth/cusp nodes in the same path. [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/255049 Regards, Thomas

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hotkeys indication
by Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Hi, Recently I discovered that quite a number of users are not aware of mnemonic hotkeys for tools. That is, looking at tools tooltips they only see Fn hotkeys (SVN version doesn't show even them) and they have no idea that mnemonic keys are available. And they don't read http://inkscape.org/doc/keys.html especially since it's not available offline. Thus the question: in case we will still show hotkeys in tooltips in stable 0.47, should we show both? E.g. "Create 3D boxes (Shift+F4, x) or "Create 3D boxes (Shift+F4 or x) Alexandre

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loading local extensions
by Alexandre Prokoudine 27 Oct '08

27 Oct '08

Howdy, I've just committed a patch from Thomas Holder that fixes loading of extensions from local folder like ~/.inkscape/extensions (LP197475). Works for me on Ubuntu Linux, please test on Win and Mac. Also, please update AUTHORS whenever you commit someone else's patch. ;-) Alexandre

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Make bug 227949 enter in Milestone 0.47 ?
by worms invasion 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

Hello, I'm not familiar with how "milestones" work and what they are, nor with what "string freeze" and similar are, so I'll ask my question and for your indulgence if it's not a "good" question. In May 2008, I filed a bug which I think is a major annoyance when using 0.46: the bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/227949 and is: ENTER does not work anymore in transform dialog (but does in 0.45.1). I was really hoping that the bug would make it in 0.47, but looking at https://launchpad.net/inkscape/+milestone/0.47 , I don't see it in the list. So, the question is, is that list "closed"? If not, is there a way to make the bug enter in it? Can I "nominate for release" or something? Will that be enough? (I do understand that asking this is "pushing" the bug, but I also think it's a really important feature that the users have lost, in usability). Thanks for any answer!

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [PATCH] Fix for "terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'"
by bulia byak 25 Oct '08

25 Oct '08

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:38 PM, Adrian Knoth <adi@...2046...> wrote: > Anyway, somebody who's more common with the code should have a look at > this, since my patch only cures the symptoms, not the root cause. Seeing it's just a safe NULL check, I committed it anyway. Curing a symptom is better than doing nothing. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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testsuite testfiles testcases etc
by unknown＠example.com 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hi all, Maybe there are people out here that have time to kill and want to help on Inkscape but don't want to or can't code C++. I'd like to remind you of this years 'Test Suite' GSoC project, which was imo very succesfull. We need artists that can provide SVG files and PNG renders of them; so no coding required! The testsuite can be found here: https://inkscape.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/inkscape/gsoc-testsuite For some documentation see: http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TestingInkscape ("rendering tests") What this testsuite does is provide numerous svg files that are rendered by Inkscape to PNGs. The PNGs are then compared to a reference PNG and Inkscape will score a pass or fail for that particular "testcase" svg file. It is a very nifty procedure/tool to see what Inkscape can and cannot do. Moreover, it can be used to track regressions. So where can you help? Add testcase files! If you've created some crazy drawing that uses complicated SVG structures, or LPEs, or perhaps you have a simple drawing with 'corner cases' (lines with zero length, rectangles with zero length, closed paths with start and end markers, etc...).... those are the files we need ! Note that we need a lot of files where Inkscape does something non-trivial but does it correctly! This way we can ensure that will work in the next version. If you can also provide a reference PNG of the correct rendering, that would be awesome :) Check the testcases directory, perhaps your testcase is already there. You can post the testcases on launchpad, mail it to me, or find another way of getting it to us. Ask the maillist if you'd like SVN write access, if you've shown good work in two patches, it will be granted to you. I'm happy to answer questions about the testsuite, but it's perhaps better to ask Jasper for details (cc'ed in this mail). Cheers, Johan

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