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PDF Output & Cairo
by Josh Andler 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

There was a discussion in the irc channel today regarding exporting PDFs and Carl Worth happened to be there to triage things... well, it got taken to their lists and here's some important info for us. From the cairo list: http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2008-January/012800.html Carl then said: Specifically: 1. Check cairo_status at least once. 2. Never set a non-invertible matrix. Just passing it on... Oh, and since I have to ask every once in a while. Carl also said they were trying to target the 4 bugs that prevent us from switching renderers for 1.6 which will hopefully be out within a month. (no promises on that though) So, that may be a nice switch to make for 0.47 if we can. -Josh

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Fwd: Launchpad 1.2.1: PPA deletion, branch feeds, new code project over
by Bryce Harrington 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

----- Forwarded message from Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@...1798...> ----- Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:13:42 +0000 From: Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@...1798...> To: warthogs <warthogs@...1799...> Subject: Launchpad 1.2.1: PPA deletion, branch feeds, new code project over Welcome to Launchpad 1.2.1, our first release of 2008! Highlights include: * Delete PPA packages in the web UI: no more sysadmin requests to delete a package from your PPA. To delete packages from your PPA visit: https://launchpad.net/+people/+me/+archive/+delete-packages * Branch feeds: get the latest commits associated with a person, team, project or individual branch in your feed reader. Take a look at the Bitlbee project's branch feed: http://feeds.launchpad.net/bitlbee/branches.atom * Code hosting project overviews: quick-glance overview of branches and revisions made to projects with code hosted on Launchpad. See Bazaar's overview page: https://code.launchpad.net/bzr In other news: Ubuntu Hardy Heron is now available to start translating in Launchpad. Find out more at: http://news.launchpad.net/translations/translate-ubuntu-hardy-heron Competition: we're on the look-out for a new Launchpad logo. Send us your design for the chance to win an Ubuntu messenger bag. See our blog post: http://news.launchpad.net/general/help-design-the-new-launchpad-logo Read on for more of what's in Launchpad 1.2.1! General Launchpad ================= * Projects, teams and people now have Atom feeds of the most recent commits to the branches associated with them. Individual branches have a feed of their recent commits. Find out more at https://help.launchpad.net/Feeds#branches * Atom feeds produced by Launchpad are now correctly set to the application/atom+xml content type. This allows Wordpress to read Launchpad feeds. (Bug 181620) Distribution Management and PPAs (Soyuz) ======================================== * You can now use the Launchpad web interface to delete packages from your own PPA and any team PPAs for which you are are an admin. See https://launchpad.net/+people/+me/+archive/+delete-packages (Bugs 172587 and 177087) * When a newly uploaded source package is accepted from the queue its component is now overridden to "Universe". (Bug 120052) * When archive admins accept single-source uploads from the queue, the source is now published immediately. (Bug 153617) * Launchpad is now able to find and automatically close a wider variety of bug references in package changelogs. (Bug 159841) * Bug listing pages for distribution source packages have a new panel that shows the latest versions of the package published in each distroseries and the component/section in which it appears. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kbd-chooser/ (Bug 93293) * The size of binary packages in PPAs is now reported correctly. (Bug 180983) * Package counts on PPA overview pages are now accurate. (Bug 141591) Code Hosting ============ * A new project overview page at https://code.launchpad.net/project shows the project's official branches, along with the most recent revisions from all associated branches. (Bugs 139441 and 79493) * Project branch listings now hide any branches over 180 days old if the branch listing does not fit a single page. A new check-box allows you to choose to view older branches. (Bug 79495) * When there are no upstream revision control details recorded for a product series, and you have permission to edit them, you are now offered links to register a Bazaar branch, link to an existing branch or request an import into a Bazaar branch. (Bug 49469) Bug Tracker =========== * Changing an existing bug watch is now easier. Simply paste the external bug's URL into the "change bug watch" form, rather than selecting the bug tracker and then entering the bug number. (Bug 74428) * New bug notification email subject lines are now prefixed with "[NEW]" to make them easier to identify. (Bug 29023) * Launchpad now recognises bug URLs from rt.cpan.org and correctly interprets the Trac status "accepted" to the Launchpad status "Confirmed. (Bugs 180210 and 180972) * External bug tracker overview pages now show private bugs but hide their title, number and status. (Bug 120144) * You now have the option of receiving the full original bug report in all bug notification emails. Visit https://launchpad.net/+people/+me/+edit then check the "Include bug descriptions when sending me bug notifications" box. (Bug 158668) * Bug listings are now sortable by the number of comments each bug has received. (Bug 137499) * If Launchpad is unable to import a bug watch's status, either because Launchpad doesn't yet know how to interpret the bug tracker's statuses or that instance of the bug tracker does not allow Launchpad to check for status updates, the bug watch page now shows a warning message. (Bug 32525) * You can now choose to search for either all or any of the tags you specify in a bug search. (Bug 66839) * When you file a bug, Launchpad shows you a list of similar bugs that have already been reported. If any of these bugs has duplicates, Launchpad now lists only the main bug and not its duplicates. (Bug 158455) Translations ============ * The translations import queue web interface is now faster. * When viewing strings marked as "untranslated", if you translate some or all of those strings Launchpad now correctly displays the following ten strings that require translation. Previously, it would skip some strings as the overall list had been shortened. (Bug 63557) * Some translation uploads previously failed incorrectly with a message saying that the file's revision date had not been updated. Similarly, some translation imports were failing if they specified their plural forms in an order other than the default for that language. Both of these issues have now been fixed. (Bug 183540). Blueprint ========= * Essential subscribers to a blueprint are now represented by a red icon in its subscriber list. Example: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/jeos-hardy (Bug 87962) -- Matthew Revell - talk to me about Launchpad Join us in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net -- warthogs mailing list warthogs@...1799... https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/warthogs ----- End forwarded message -----

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Fwd: Pencil tool interpolation
by R M 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

(Oops forgot to cc list) On Jan 24, 2008 12:41 PM, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > Without trying the diff yet: smoothness is good but it's not the only > thing that matters. Sharp turns and corners, ideally, must be > recognized and created sharp, not smoothed out. How does your patch > compare to the current code in this respect? > this is the same code as is currently used. (i had written a different interpolation routine, but it turned out there was already one being used) The only difference is when it is applied. > Also: maybe while you're at it, you could also add the tolerance > slider to the controls bar of the tool, which is a very long-standing > feature gap. > a slider isn't appropriate as it stands, because there is no natural maximum value (ie it isn't a scale between 1-100%). iirc, Adobe illustrator handles this by bounding the tolerance between .5-25 pixels. we can do the same, and then have a slider. it makes some sense to cap this value, since extremely high tolerances are not useful in practice.

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feImage filter progress
by Felipe Sanches 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

feImage renderer is working properly for images. Getting graphics from other svg elements is still not implemented Nicholas, could you work on the UI for this filter primitive, please? If you wish to do so, I suppose that it could be easier to construct it completely and just leave the svg element settings hidden, so that, as soon as we have the renderer working for svg elements too we can simply .show() this half of the feImage settings UI The reason why the renderer still does not work for svg elements is because I don't know how to get the NRPixBlock from an element given its id attribute. Maybe somebody here could help me on this? Juca

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BUG HUNT - Dec 29 Scoreboard
by Bryce Harrington 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Over a quarter of the way to our goal! Pts BugID Assignee Description ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3 171593 Diederik Snapping menu items and shortcuts 3 168912 Johan Engelen axonometric grid angle changes with... 12 168588 Johan Engelen assertion failed, file sp-conn-end.cpp 3 171783 Bulia Byak rclk on palette should change outline color 3 171710 JonCruz Sum color dragging color inother 3 171292 --- Transparency reduced pdf export 9 168865 Johan Engelen Crashes applying "Path along path" effect... 3 171803 Johan Engelen Angled Guidelines! 12 168570 Johan Engelen Crash when recreating grid using 'redo' 9 178004 Max Albert assert when saving as plain svg 3 170374 --- perspective/warp transformation envelope 6 168574 --- Grid setup truncate significant figures 12 178803 theAdib Save As... -> filetype "PDF via Cairo" crashes 9 178312 Diederik Global 'Enable snapping' option non-functional 9 177891 Johan Engelen feGaussianBlur crashes when setting fill paint 9 174475 Niko Kiirala feImage renderer crashes on non-external image 12 167416 Diederik Shrinking a pattern causes lock-up 9 172778 Johan Engelen Grid settings not respected when reopening doc 6 167640 Bryce Escaped HTML chars - tooltips show incorrectly ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 135 Goal: 500 http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/project-graphs/inkscape/plots/inkscape-mont… Note: Points are not given for bugs fixed as invalid, dupe, or worksforme, and only for issues that require code changes to fix (not website, translation, or documentation changes). Note: Scoring for bugs is based on their Importance: Crit=12, High=9, Med=6, Low=3, Undecided=3, Wishlist=3.

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inkview can't show text blur and the cause of it
by Lingtao Pan 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hi, all: Inkview in front revision can't show text blur correctly. I traced the problem and find that in main() sp_document_ensure_up_to_date (ss.doc); should be put before ss.view = sp_svg_view_widget_new (ss.doc); not after. Otherwise the 'layout' member of SPText will have wrong value. And consequently, the 'item_bbox' will not be set correctly. By the way, I'm from China, and have been using Inkscape for more than one year. Usually, I use inkscape to design slides, and use inkview to show them.

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Inkscape.org Drupal theme mockups needed
by Bryce Harrington 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hi all, The next item on our infrastructure todo list has been to move the website over to Drupal. Inc is about ready to turn on the code, so next we'll need a Drupal-ified website theme. It's amazing that despite three facelifts since Inkscape started, we've essentially kept the same underlying PHP bones of our website. Unfortunately, as we've grown they've exhibited some problems: 1. Contributors must know SVN to add to or update the website 2. New content must be created in PHP 3. To roll out changes you need an SSH account on inkscape.org 4. Our news/rss setup is limited in features and breaks often 5. Due to the above, the site's content has gotten pretty stale I'm very hopeful about our change, and think we'll be able to solve these issues well. In the year since we picked Drupal as the successor, I've been using Drupal to run my own personal website, and am finding it to be both easy to use, and very flexible and powerful. So the plan going forward is: A. Set up a demo site for folks to learn Drupal B. Test out Drupal's localization capabilities C. Start work on building up the site's content D. Design a new theme for the website E. Once we're ready/happy, cut over to the new site We will be targeting the new Drupal 6.0 (currently in beta). Localization - one of our most critical requirements - has been a top focus for Drupal 6.0 development, so I'm sure it will meet our needs, but we need to test it thoroughly, to ensure our translators will be comfortable using it. Regarding the content, I don't have any huge plans. As far as I'm concerned, we could move all the content into the wiki and manage it there. However, I've really enjoyed working in Drupal, and suspect that once people gain comfortability with it, they'll naturally want to build up content in it. But at this point, the news blog is my principle concern. Now, for the website theme and look and feel, this is a good opportunity for us to explore some new ideas (even including sticking with our current look and feel, just Drupalifying it to fit Drupal's new capabilities). What we're looking for at this point are mockups that work with Drupal 6.0. If you're feeling creative, and wish to learn about making Drupal 6.0 themes, why not give it a shot? Information on creating Drupal 6.0 themes is available here: Theme Guide: http://drupal.org/node/171179 (under development) Porting Themes: http://drupal.org/update/theme When you have a theme ready to propose, package it into a tarball and email it to Inc: inc@...1773... Inc will add it to the demo site so folks can try it out as they work on content. Later on in a few months, right before we make the site switch, we'll hold a vote to select the best theme to be our default. Depending on if we get enough contributions, we can include the 2nd and 3rd place submissions as alternate themes. Bryce

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Native File Dialogs for Windows are finally ready!!!
by Joel Holdsworth 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Hi All, I'm happy to announce, after all this time, that my native file dialogs for windows are now ready. I cannot believe how long it's taken to get them right, but they're working properly now - without needing any extra dependencies in the end. With the exception of the preview pane, the end result looks pretty unremarkable, but then that's the point of a native dialog! - I certainly wouldn't have believed the lengths it would be necessary to go to implement this. I might not have embarked on the project if I'd know, but it's done now. I guess it's too late to add this patch to the .46 release, but my NativeWin32FileDialogs branch is ready to be merged at an appropriate time. Take a look, if you're interested, or take a look at the attached screenshot. The only reason we might want to merge before .46 is that the patch will at the very least close these three bugs. #167795 "Windows fails to enforce Security Policies for drives access" #166158 "WIndows Shortcuts not visible in file dialogs" #166814 "Win32: Open/Save dlgs cannot cope with multi-monitor setups" Thanks Joel

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] cannot compile r17091
by Guillermo Espertino 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

I'm trying to compile r17131 and have problems with tar-pax I'm using Ubuntu Gutsy and it compiled correctly before 17091. Since that I couldn't compile anymore. First I had automake 1.9, but I didn't even start (it asked for other version of automake). I removed 1.9 and installed 1.8.5 and it apparently started, but it returned this when running autogen.sh: ============================================================================= When you report a trouble about building SVN version of inkscape, Please report following information about distro and tools version, too. --1. distribution------------------------------------------------------------ Debian GNU/Linux release lenny/sid --2. tools------------------------------------------------------------------- /usr/bin/m4: m4 (GNU M4) 1.4.10 /usr/bin/autoconf: autoconf (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 /usr/bin/autoheader: autoheader (GNU Autoconf) 2.61 /usr/bin/automake: automake (GNU automake) 1.8.5 /usr/bin/automake-1.7: automake (GNU automake) 1.7.9 /usr/bin/automake-1.8: automake (GNU automake) 1.8.5 automake-1.9: not found /usr/bin/aclocal: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.8.5 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.7: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.7.9 /usr/bin/aclocal-1.8: aclocal (GNU automake) 1.8.5 aclocal-1.9: not found /usr/bin/intltoolize: intltoolize (GNU intltool) 0.36.2 /usr/bin/gettextize: /usr/bin/gettextize (GNU gettext-tools) 0.16.1 --3. environment variables--------------------------------------------------- LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib WINDOWPATH=7 GDM_LANG=es_AR.UTF-8 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games LANG=es_AR.UTF-8 ============================================================================= I am testing that you have the required versions of autoconf, automake, glib-gettextize and intltoolize. This test is not foolproof and if anything goes wrong, there may be guidance in the file HACKING.txt checking for autoconf >= 2.52 ... yes (version 2.61) checking for automake >= 1.7 ... yes (version 1.8.5) checking for glib-gettextize >= 2.0.0 ... yes (version 2.14.1) checking for intltool >= 0.17 ... yes (version 0.36.2) Running aclocal ... Running autoheader ... Running automake --copy --force --add-missing ... configure.ac:12: option `tar-pax' not recognized Please fix the error conditions and try again. ------------------ If I try to run make clean before running autogen.sh, it complains about tar-pax too. Any advise to workaround this? Regards, Gez.

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about screen licensing issues
by Felipe Sanches 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

I have seen on the winner about screen metadata that it is marked as "proprietary". I can see no citation about free content licensing on its page at devianART and I also notice that there was no requirement for free content licensing on the contest rules. This could lead to problems on packaging for debian and other gnu/linux distributions that have strict rules about licensing. I think that we should add this requirement on the next contest. We should also verify which license does needcoffee intend to use on his work (same is true for the #2) and update the SVG metadata. Juca

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