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GSoC Patch Confirmation
by Witchi Kitti Kat 02 Apr '24

02 Apr '24

Hello all, I was informed that my patches need to demonstrate my ability to program in C/C++. I have tried to scrape together what I can in the time that I have had today. Here they are: Merge 1 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6306> Merge 2 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6305>. They relate to my GSoC proposal. I know it's not much. I am very short on time today due to class. I want to do more, but the deadline is coming fast, and my proposal could be refined more. Any advice on what my next steps should be? If I can get any confirmation on these merges to know what I need to do for the rest of the night... Either I can get better merges tonight or focus on finishing my proposal. I would prefer to finish working on my proposal, of course, but if I need to do more merges, I can. Thank you for your time, I really appreciate it. Sincerely, Kayla Powell witchikittikat(a)gmail.com

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GSoC Introduction and Proposal
by Witchi Kitti Kat 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

Hello everyone, My name is Kayla, I go by kpowkitty online. I have tried to reach out a couple of times on IRC about feedback on my proposal; I missed this emailing list. My apologies! I hope that does not take away from my standing with Inkscape. I have already made two patches: Patch 1 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/a4959939e11b0253fbbaf12c3e1f1…>, Patch 2 <https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/commit/3501a56d3fcd66b8c89a0ea160e8a…> . I have also created a drawing <https://inkscape.org/~kpowkitty/%E2%98%85girl+1> with Inkscape. I have submitted my proposal to GSoC. Feedback would be much appreciated. I am proposing a refactor and renewal of Inkscape. Here is my project summary: Inkscape has been pieced together since 2003; a rocky C to C++ transition, the implementation of GTK (now GTK4!), and much more. Inkscape is sitting on a somewhat unstable foundation. To improve this foundation, the remaining C code will be transitioned to C++, redundant code and rough implementations will be reversed and renewed, and there will be documentation added. By implementing these things, Inkscape will have a better foundation for development, making it easier to expand upon. It will also bring better memory management and efficiency. Most importantly, the documentation will make it easier for new developers to approach Inkscape. All of these factors combined will not only help old developers, by providing them with a stronger foundation and reliable documentation, but it will also make Inkscape approachable to new developers, through shorter, clearer code and better instructions. Deliverables are: Refactored ui/tools/tool-base.cpp. SPDrawAnchor removed → SPKnot implemented. src/line-geometry.h/.cpp officially in lib2geom. Divided display directory. Inkscape’s handling of URIs and file names sorted. Inkscape::URIReference and derived classes simplified. Optional: Decide when and where to use Inkscape::URI / Inkscape::IO::UriInputStream and clean them up. Optional: Unified error/status message output. Reorganized file tree. Clear, concise directory names and file names. Doxygen commenting. One-line file descriptors. READMEs for all directories. Please let me know if there are any changes I need to make. Thank you for taking the time to look at my proposal, and I look forward to hearing from you all! Sincerely, Kayla Powell witchikittikat(a)gmail.com

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Hey Inkscape Developers
by Vineet Bambah 30 Mar '24

30 Mar '24

Hi, I have been a contributor and a user of Inkscape for about 6-7 months now. I have loved the active nature of this community and clear documentation and tutorials. I am a student right now pursuing my bachelors from NIT Jalandhar, India. Here is my introduction to all the Inkscape Developers. Signing off for now, Vineet Bambah

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Developer Meeting Notes; March 28th
by Martin Owens 28 Mar '24

28 Mar '24

Hey everyone, Big developer meeting this week, thanks to everyone who came and participated. Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Next Meeting: Friday April 5th, 1pm EST Attending: Marc, Martin, Mikekov, René, pbs, Ravi Arora, Tamir, Vaibhav, Tav, Javier ------- (René) We have macOS Apple silcon for Gtk4. We don't have intel support and we don't have a full test suite run. René wants to merge them with about 4 tests failing to recruit some help from other people. The new version of Gtk4 will be out soon. There is a time out delay in the test suite which René was hoping would be fixed in the next Gtk release, but hasn't so it'll have to be looked into as the test suite takes too long. Martin wanted to know how the macOS version on Gtk4 is performing. René reports that there is plenty of bugs, but the speed seems compariable. The extensions don't work yet. Some objects aren't appearing when drawn and pbs thinks this is a missed events. René will work on Windows development/building when the MSYS2 libraries are updated. ------- Mikekov has been trying to fix some regressions with 1.4.x, and has been fixing Gtk4 every now and then. Mikekov wants to merge the "Font selector UX study" into 1.4.x, it would be switched off by default. He's making a version for the Gtk4 master branch before it would ever be switched on. https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/4578 The developer team are ok with it being merged. ------- Vaibhav has been working on the toolbars, specifically issues with the text toolbar. It's almost ready to go. Mikekov mentioned the size of combo boxes in Gtk4. PBS had some ideas for how to set group priorities using boxes in the UI file by having boxes in boxes. Designers/UX-team can now customise the toolbars in such a way that they can decide what should disapear first when the toolbars are too small. ------- Jonathan asked about the SFC getting in touch. Martin and Vaibhav have recieved information from the SFC about the Bug Accelerator project. But Tav's email might have gotten eaten by his spam filter. Martin has signed the contract adjustment and will start working on bugs on April 1st. Vaibhav is communicating his details which should be complete by next week. ------- Martin and René worked on fixing a double parsing mystery issue in the color parser on macOS which turned out to be a long standing difference between clang and gcc with the C++ specification. Martin wrote a custom double parser for macOS and PBS suggested a possible function in lib2geom which might fix it too. (Martin) Rebasing the color branch for gtk4 - "new code". Some adjustement needed, but thankfully few of them. UI conflicts were easy to spot and look doable (still a few things like sliders, color drag and drop, to fix). The branch is big, and tiring to maintain. PBS offers help ------- (jabier) split of the mega corners fix into a 7 MR. It add stability to this LPE seems one or the most crashing one, by the way I implement beabiours to work as expected in operations like Join,Combine, Brak Apart, alowing retain spected results. Fix also lot of issues with knots than usualy crash even away of the LPE system. Also fix a issue in the status bar toolbar, targeted to windows OS, that fix a big lag randomly dragging and creation cause by a upstream bug in probably Pango or Label Gtk3 implementation. Finaly I do a Linux issue about redrawing SelectorStyle in status bar afecting debian Adwaita when we change some labels from normal to bold. Whole app is resized. ------- Ravi is contributing to GSoC looking at the node based editor using an infinate canvas with widgets. Experimenting with the Gtk4 branch and has noticed a lot of issues. Marc makes sure what everyone has their two merge requests accepted. ------- PBS had an unmerge request with SPDesktop refactoring which will be coming soon. A bunch of changes which he's wanted to fix for a while. Fixing lots of issues with popups and their life times. PBS asks the AppImage tool yanks the old app images and we should pin the app images. Marc says we need to store things in a place that we control. There are some issues with AppImages, for example it doesn't have GPU support. A possible tool to try out is AppImageCrafters. https://github.com/appimagecrafters/appimage-builder ------- Marc has been managing the GSoC and wants to make sure that their merge requsts and proposal drafts are getting reviewed in time. He asks everyone if they'd like to be mentors with GSoC. Jabier asks how much time it would take and Marc says that it really depends on the student as it can be as low as just reviewing the merge requests but it could be a student that needs a lot more help. ------- Martin would like to remind everyone to keep reviewing all merge requests if possible. ------- René explained why the version of XCode tools is pegged to a specific version to pbs and mikekov after the meeting ended. So technically this part of the meeting notes is impossible, since it was sent before people finished talking. See you all next time!

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herramienta construcción de formas
by irelur1957＠gmail.com 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

He tenido el problema de convertir un trazo cerrado a objeto y la herramienta de construcción de formas me ha solucionado la vida, ya que seleccionas todo el trazo y luego la herramienta, posteriormente haces click en el elemento y MUY IMPORTANTE luego clikeas en la herramienta selector (cursor flecha) y ya se convierte el trazo cerrado en objeto

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Meeting notes, March 20th 2024
by Martin Owens 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

Developer Meeting March 20 Present: PBS, Jonathan, Jabier, Mikekov, Tav, Vaibhav, Martin Event: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ ----- GTK4 branch: - close to getting merged - migrate existing threads into meta-issue https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/issues/4802 - Build documentation can be unchanged since it automatically buils GTK4.14 for you - 1.4.x was branched a few days ago - decision should be up to Marc, added as reviewer - do we need to review it in-depth? - testing is more important, but that can happen after merging - other CIs except Linux will be fixed in the future - CI situation should improve once GTK4.14 makes its way into the repositores - upstream Windows MR: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/20311 1.4.x backports: - if they target master, backporting will be a pain as soon as GTK4 is merged - instead forward-port, reduce risk of regressions in 1.4.x by rebasing "behind" GTK4 - Label to mark those "Forward port required" created Bugfix Accelerator Program and Inbox: - will happen with Vaibhav, Tav and Martin - 1.4 milestone needs more issues, and Inbox is not in a very good state - Inbox is not in a very good shape, 1000 issues that need attention for triaging - Bugfix Accelerator people need to help - Ask vectors to recruit help Device program: - Windows for PBS, Mac for Tav, Mac for Vaibhav - PBS plans to sort out Visual Studio integration to on-board Windows developers Google Season of Docs - Ideas are welcome! Needs to have measureable objectives, and we need a 3-4 page proposal within two weeks. - a lot of work to mentor someone if it includes the Inkscape codebase - Wiki clean up? - Vector's style guide? - Documentation for extension authors? - Replacing Tav's manual? Host Tav's manual on inkscape.org? - fine with Tav - needs to be done before 1.4 - it didn't support HTTPS before - could be put into a repository? https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-docs/tavmjong-manual Legal issues need to be resolved, i.e. the license for contributing, but we can make it readonly for now source is in DocBook (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook) Toolbars issues in master: 1. Several expander next to each other 2. No icons for the expanders 3. Lots of hardcoded expanders in the UI files. I've managed to dynamically manage the expanders and in the coming days I'll be working on adding icons to the expanders dynamically. With the latest changes, to make a child move between popovers and the toolbar, just adding the "tag" style class would do. ----- Big thanks to those that came and took notes as the meeting progressed. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape - Dev Questions.
by Eric F 20 Mar '24

20 Mar '24

> Can someone in this group assist with these questions? My company requires > these answered before allowing this install. > > 1. > > In order to assess any potential risk, provide a list of all required > pre-requisite software (e.g., SQL Express, Visual Basic. In addition to > providing a list of pre-requisite software, provide confirmation from the > vendor via email that the product does not contain vulnerable third-party > applications including but not limited to Log4J or MSXML for risk > assessment purposes. > > 2. > > Please contact the vendor and request a Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs) > in SPDX format. > > The Software Bill of Materials is a list of all of the components in a > piece of software. Nowadays, it is quite common for software vendors to > create products by assembling open source and commercial software > components. > > For this reason, SBOMs are created to provide transparency and identify > all of the risk-prone components. This information is needed in order to > conduct the security review for all software. >

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Developer Meeting Notes: March 12th 2024
by doctormo＠gmail.com 12 Mar '24

12 Mar '24

Dear Developers, Thanks everyone for coming to this week's meeting. We had a short meeting and then worked through a bunch of really old merge requests. If you had an MR which was not marked as draft but had it's last activity more than 7 months ago, we might have closed your MR to keep things clean. Reopen branches and mark them as draft if you are still working on them. Some were also reviewed and approved. We're down to 58 open merge requests. ---- Meeting: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ Attending: Jonathan, Martin, Tav, René, Vaibhav, Elendil (Krlr17) # Bug Accelerator Program Jonathan Has tried to contact pono who is the third people in the hiring committee to finalise the process. May have to create tickets and move forwards as best as we can. # Machines for Developers Sent out a poll if people need a windows or macOS machine for their work. 2 responses. Will be approved case by case basis by the PLC since there won't be very many requests. # Website issues Martin was working on spam protections this morning. No further issues with DDos this week. # MacOS Rene has made it possible to get log files in the macOS tests on the CI. Probably an oversight in how it was created. The good news is that it's as fast as it used to be, under 5 minutes instead of 20 minutes. Achieved by downgrading to a previous os version likely a gtk issue. # Windows Wants to work on the Gtk4 windows builder. It's not ready yet, but expected int he next couple of days. # Gtk4 Tav has started working on a couple of different things. Doing the preview in the export dialog in the Gtk4 branch. Vaibhav is working on bug fixes on the Gtk4 branch this week. # Release Mikekov is looking at discrepencies between master and 1.3.x to see what is happening and what might need be fixed. Especially for the migration work. Made some MRs to adjust those small things, maintly cosmetic. Elendil - Reports an unstream windows issue with Pango which is fixed upstream but needs to make it's way to our msys2 builds. Will report it to msys2. # Other items Martin continues his work on the Color branch, not breakthroughs to report as of yet. Thanks everyone, see you all next week!

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Announcement: The Inkscape 1.4 About Screen contest is upon us!
by Maren Hachmann 03 Mar '24

03 Mar '24

For each new version of Inkscape, we invite all Inkscape artists, newcomers and seasoned professionals, to submit an artwork for the "About Screen" contest. The About Screen Contest is about more than the About Screen. Contest artwork is also frequently featured in news articles about the release, on the inkscape.org download page, and in other locations. Each and every submission also helps us test the newest version of Inkscape. The topic for this year's contest is "GROWTH". We're excited to see what great art is submitted this year! We're looking forward to your contributions, to helping spread the message about the contest, and helping us select a winner! Learn more here: https://inkscape.org/community/about-screen-contests/ Your Inkscape Vectors Team

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libinkscape_base.so import INK_UNORDERED_MAP fatal error:
by ofsetb＠gmail.com 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

I am trying to import inkscape as library from another application but it notifies me an error: In file included from file_2.cxx:5: In file included from /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/main.h:93: In file included from /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/sp-namedview.h:23: /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src/util/units.h:140:13: fatal error: no template named 'INK_UNORDERED_MAP' typedef INK_UNORDERED_MAP<Glib::ustring, Unit> UnitMap; The inkscape is compiled normaly and works normaly. But I cannot import it into another clang++ application from library file /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5-build/lib/libinkscape_base.so clang++ -Wall -Wextra -pedantic -Wmissing-prototypes -Wstrict-prototypes \ -Wold-style-definition -Wfatal-errors -std=c++17 -o \ /<path>/otpremnica-racun-institut-C \ otpremnica-racun-institut-C.cxx \ file_2.cxx \ ... -L /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5-build/install_dir/lib/inkscape \ -I /<path>/inkscape-0.92.5/src \ -L /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu \ -I /usr/include \ `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 gtkmm-2.4 gdk-2.0 gdkmm-2.4 libxml-2.0 \ pangocairo pangoft2 fontconfig gthread-2.0 gsl gmodule-2.0 \ x11 lcms2 cairo-svg libcdr-0.1 \ `;

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