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Fw: [Inkscape-user] forum guidelines/CoC/complaints
by brynn 17 Feb '19

17 Feb '19

Just forwarding to the Devel list, for wider audience. Thanks, brynn -----Original Message----- From: brynn Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2019 10:31 PM To: Inkscape User Community Subject: [Inkscape-user] forum guidelines/CoC/complaints Hi Friends, I've previously volunteered to lead an effort to write the rules and guidelines for the new forum. Except for the rules about selecting staff and staff responsibilities, I think the community CoC should suffice. So I was just reviewing it. One thing specifically that I would like in the forum rules is a clear and concrete method where members can file a complaint and have it fairly heard and settled. In the CoC, apparently all that's available is contact Krzysztof Kosiński: tweenk.pl@...2620... Unless the complaint is about a moderator, in which case members are supposed to contact the Board. First question - Why is it a different process for complaints about moderators? 2nd - Can I at least say that Krzysztof Kosiński has some training and experience in conflict resolution? Or do we have other community members with such qualifications, who could do this for the forum? All best, brynn _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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need advice
by TEJ SHIRISH SUKHATME . 15 Feb '19

15 Feb '19

Hello, I am Tej Sukhatme, from BITS Pilani, India. I am new to development in general and want to start with developing inkscape. What are your suggesti0ons ? Which bug should i start with? and how do I go about understanding the codebase? I currently know C++ and little of GTK+. What else do I need to know? Thanks

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why are circles often represented as two arcs
by bryan rasmussen 14 Feb '19

14 Feb '19

As per the subject line I often notice that what comes out of inkscape and other svg capable editors uses paths to represent circles and other simple shapes. I suppose this is for some reason of code optimization (i.e code optimization in the editor not in the output SVG). Can anyone shed any light on this? Mvh, Bryan Rasmussen

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forum rules and guidelines
by brynn 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Hi Friends, As the new forum is rapidly being finished, it's probably a good time to formalize the rules and guidelines for it. If anyone is interested in helping to draft this document or documents, please reply here. Once we have a group, we'll decide exactly how we want to handle this. When we started on this a couple of years ago, we used FramaPad, which allows users to edit documents live. I found it had the basic features that we needed. Or I think there are other similar types of sites. Although I'd be just as happy to be more old school, and exchange ODT or DOC files. But we can decide as a group. There aren't really any requirements to participate. Just care about the forum and how it functions :-) All best, brynn

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Handling of feature suggestions in gitlab
by Bryce Harrington 12 Feb '19

12 Feb '19

Hi all, One still-open question for our migration to gitlab is what to do with wishlist bugs / feature requests / blueprints. I've filed a ticket in gitlab for discussing this: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/infra/services/issues/22 Please share your thoughts on the gitlab issue or here on the mailing list. Bryce

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Font chooser GtkAction migration
by Alex Valavanis 11 Feb '19

11 Feb '19

Hi Tav and devs, I'm currently looking into getting rid of the deprecated GtkAction usage in the TextToolbar. It seems that the only sticking point is the use of the Ink_ComboBoxEntry_Action widget to select fonts. It should be OK to migrate this to a Gtk::ToolItem, but before I do that, I just wondered if we had considered using the standard GtkFontButton ( https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkFontButton.html)? This would provide a summary of the font face and size, but would pop-up a font-chooser dialog ( https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/sec-font-chooser-dialog.h…) rather than providing an entry in a combobox. This could result in a less cluttered toolbar, but I suspect there might be some "clever things" going on in our font support, and I don't want to break anything without asking! Any thoughts? AV

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UX for Inkscape tutorials
by anatoly techtonik 10 Feb '19

10 Feb '19

Hi. I'd like to know what do you think about this issue https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/inkscape/+bug/1803021 ? -- anatoly t.

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Request for wiki account creation
by Chris Jones 09 Feb '19

09 Feb '19

I'd like to have a wiki account at wiki.inkscape.org I'd like my username to be ipatch (all lowercase) please & thank you. I'd like to have chris.r.jones.1983@...400... associated with the username. I'm known as: github.com/ipatch gitlab.com/truckmonth IRC capin Please let me know if I left out any information. Thank you, to whomever takes the time to setup an account for me. v/r Chris

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Apple DMG Packages / CI
by Ostermeier, Christoph 08 Feb '19

08 Feb '19

Hi, My colleague posted on https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php?topic=1517.msg10076#msg10076 because we noticed our automatic packaging system isn’t getting the newest Inkscape anymore. Then we noticed that you are searching for a developer who can build DMG files and run CI-Jobs. Maybe we can help you out with this, as we have some old Mac mini which could run a ci-runner for gitlab. Do you have any documentation how builds were made until 0.92.2? Do you actually build all release versions using a CI/CD Pipeline? Actually we do not have c/c++ knowledge, so we can only help you out with infrastructure. Cheers, Christoph

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[RFC] for all users of perl extensions on Windows - perl vs. wperl
by Patrick Storz 04 Feb '19

04 Feb '19

Hi all, we're currently considering to change the default interpreter executable for perl extensions on Windows from "perl.exe" to "wperl.exe", see [1]. In case any developers/users of perl extensions on Windows are reading this, please let us know if this is a change you'd welcome or if this has the potential to break your extension / current setup. For everybody unaware of the difference between perl and wperl: On Windows there's a fundamental distinction between console applications and "GUI" applications. The former are always attached to a console window and will start one if necessary (i.e. you'd see a console window pop up while running the extension), which is also the case for "perl.exe". "wperl.exe" on the other hand is compiled as a "GUI" application and doesn't require a console. The downside is that "wperl" only exists on Windows (there's no such distinction on other OSs) and might not even be available in some perl distributions. In any case the interpreter executable can always be customized as described in the Wiki article [2], so you'll always be able to set the interpreter of your choice. This also allows you to test this change ahead of time and give feedback. Cheers, Patrick [1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inbox/issues/46 [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Extension_Interpreters

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