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Website Confusion
by unknown＠example.com 25 Jan '19

25 Jan '19

Dear Developers, This is an interesting brand confusion issue that I want to bring up. Users who visit the Inkscape website exhibit sometimes some key confusions which I'm not entirely sure how to fix: 1. That Inkscape requires them to register for an account in order to download. This is not true, but users have been trained by proprietary service vendors to register accounts for everything to get access. Help requests from users who forget their password or can't activate their accounts indicate that they only wanted to download Inkscape. 2. That the gallery on the website /is inkscape/, this is a much rarer problem. But sometimes people upload things to the Inkscape gallery in order to somehow get the website to perform actions or 'use' Inkscape via a web interface. This is likely because many users are trained to think of apps as websites and the website offers some abilities which could be confused for entry points into Inkscape functionality. This presents as moderation flags, usually people uploading photos and asking why Inkscape can't be accessed. These are issues that may get worse as more and more people get computers which are not-desktops. Phones, tables, whatever chromebooks are. And I can imagine there might be some simple changes to help direct people more. Thoughts? Best Regards, Martin Owens

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GSoC 2019?
by Bryce Harrington 23 Jan '19

23 Jan '19

What are our plans for this year? Josh, are you able to coordinate GSoC this year if we decide to move forward with it? Bryce ----- Forwarded message from 'Stephanie Taylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List <gsoc-mentors-announce@...820...> ----- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:04:12 -0800 (PST) From: 'Stephanie Taylor' via Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List <gsoc-mentors-announce@...820...> To: Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List <gsoc-mentors-announce@...820...> Subject: [GSoC Mentors Announce] GSoC 2019 Orgs Applications now open Hi all, If your open source organization is interested in being a mentoring organization for Google Summer of Code 2019 please be sure to submit your organization's application via g.co/gsoc before February 6 at 20:00 UTC. Organizations chosen for GSoC 2019 will be announced on February 26th. Best, Google Open Source Programs Office -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Summer of Code Mentors Announce List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gsoc-mentors-announce+unsubscribe@...3168... Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/gsoc-mentors-announce. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Pasadena Hackfest travel arrangements
by Bryce Harrington 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

If you haven't made your travel arrangements for the Pasadena hackfest yet, please do so soon. Airfare is already going up! Once you do have reservations made, please add your details to: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_SCALE_Attendees While you're at it, take a few minutes to flesh out our topics list: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_SCALE_Topics Bryce On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 12:27:48AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi all, > > If you're going to be joining us in Pasadena this March, please get your > travel arrangements made this weekend, to avoid higher airfare costs. > > Remember that SFC's travel policy requires doing a flight search with > screenshots. If you've not gone through the process, the policy's worth > a review before you book flights: > > https://sfconservancy.org/projects/policies/conservancy-travel-policy.html > > After making arrangements, add your details here: > > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2019_SCALE_Attendees > > Bryce > > > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Inkscape 0.92.4 bugfix release
by Bryce Harrington 21 Jan '19

21 Jan '19

Inkscape has launched version 0.92.4 with increased stability. This update delivers some notable performance improvements for filter rendering, saving and moving paths (with a live path effect), and the measure tool. Download Inkscape 0.92.4 packages here: https://inkscape.org/release/ The key improvements in this version will enable Inkscape users to do or experience the following: * Align multiple objects as a group relative to a single object * Write image data to standard output * Experience extensions working faster within complex documents * See improved speed when deselecting a path with many nodes * Ungroup text elements won’t result in changed font size of children * Able to print and / or print correct paper size with printers (especially Canon, EPSON, Konica Minolta) * See improved performance of the measure tool when grids are visible * See proper opacity of partially transparent embedded bitmap images in PDF export * Able to Shift/Ctrl-click on control handles of shapes without crashing * Build Inkscape with up-to-date poppler library 0.72.0 – useful for Mac users building with Homebrew Translation and documentation updates ------------------------------------- The Icelandic and Brazilian Portuguese user interface (UI) translations have been updated. Inkscape’s Ukranian and Hungarian documentation translations have also been revised in this version. Join an Inkscape project team ----------------------------- There is always room for developers, especially those who can help with the following: * Package version 0.92.4 for Mac * Prepare the upcoming Inkscape 1.0 to be usable on MacOS * Help with programming a great UI for some of the new features in 1.0 * Help fix bugs and implement new features * Wrangle Python Head here https://inkscape.org/contribute/ to find out more about joining the ranks. Inkscape is always happy to welcome new contributors to help complete documentation and other elements of the project that are translated into many different languages. The project is seeking support with interface, documentation and other content translation. If you would like to contribute, head to https://inkscape.org/contribute/translations/ Another great way to help Inkscape is through Vectors, who are the marketing, outreach, and promotion team for Inkscape. Designers, artists, marketers, writers, and anyone enthusiastic about bringing Inkscape to more people in more places, is welcome to join. Inkscape alpha version 1.0 seeking testers ------------------------------------------ As the project advances towards an alpha release of version 1.0, the Inkscape teams are seeking developers interested in testing the alpha ahead of release. Download 1.0 alpha at: https://inkscape.org/release/inkscape-1.0alpha0/ Report new issues in Inkscape's Inbox: http://inkscape.org/inbox Watch Inkscape.org https://inkscape.org/ and social media channels for the latest details on the progress of the 1.0 development work. Mac OS: Inkscape needs your help -------------------------------- As few Inkscape volunteer developers use Mac, the project needs someone who knows how to automatically package a .dmg file, to enable Mac users to test the alpha version, along with Mac equipment to run continuous integration jobs. If you're interested in working on this, please introduce yourself on one of our discussion channels, and keep an eye out for other Mac volunteers to work with on this important task.

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Issue tracking for Inkscape moves to Gitlab
by Bryce Harrington 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

Hi all, As of this week, the Inkscape project is shifting to Gitlab for issue tracking in place of Launchpad. https://gitlab.com/groups/inkscape/-/issues We've been using Gitlab for our code hosting and other purposes for a year and a half now[1], and have found it to be reliable and convenient. We didn't migrate Issue Tracking until now, so we could take time to make sure we had a plan: 1. Going forward, new bug reports should be filed only in Gitlab. 2. Launchpad will remain available as a historical archive of our bug reports. Filing bugs there will remain possible for now, but discouraged. 3. Bugs in Launchpad that are still reproducible in Inkscape 0.92.4 or newer can be re-filed on Gitlab and closed on Launchpad. We are planning efforts to help organize the migration work and keep track of progress. More info on this will be coming soon. Eventually, when the necessary bugs have been migrated, bug reporting in Launchpad will be shut off. We're enthused about this change, and hope you too will find gitlab a more user friendly way to report issues, and we'd love your help triaging and solving Inkscape bugs. Bryce 1: https://inkscape.org/news/2017/06/10/inkscape-moves-gitlab/

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PPA breakage? (was Re: Inkscape hackfest in Pasadena)
by Bryce Harrington 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Heya Alex, I looked into this myself, the situation turned out to be a dependency issue with libpng that is particular only to Xenial, and only occurring on the trunk-daily PPA builds. Essentially, trunk needs libpng16 now but it has libpng12, and other stuff breaks if we try and force libpng16. We ended up just deciding that since Xenial is old, probably not worth the trouble to keep it active in the PPA, so I dropped it from the PPA. I got all the other PPA builds up to date. The stable PPA is updated to the 0.92.4 tag, and the stable-daily PPA had an invalid recipe so I fixed that too. Everything seems happily building packages. Bryce On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 10:59:18AM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi Alex, > > Would you be able to look today into why we're getting error messages > for the PPA's? I was going to investigate yesterday but ran out of > time. > > We're wanting the PPAs to be available for folks both for getting the > tagged INKSCAPE_1_0_ALPHA builds, as well as the 0.92.4 release. > > Thanks, > Bryce

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Edit in wiki + Request for account
by Aditya Sher 18 Jan '19

18 Jan '19

Hello, I was reading the contribute wiki. (Came here because automatic account creation is disabled) Below is an edit I suggest: *Link*: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Compiling_Inkscape_on_Windows_with_… *Section*: Obtaining Inkscape Source. Code: git clone <link> *Edit suggested:* *Common Error(possibly): *due to slow internet connection. error: RPC failed; curl 18 transfer closed with outstanding read data remaining fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly fatal: early EOF fatal: index-pack failed *Solution: * >git clone <link> --depth 1 >git fetch --unshallow *Reference: * *https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38618885/error-rpc-failed-curl-transfer-closed-with-outstanding-read-data-remaining <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38618885/error-rpc-failed-curl-transfer…>* I think if solution to common errors is provided in contribute section it will encourage newcomers to contribute. Please communicate whether this is worth adding in the wiki. Regards and thanks, Aditya.

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Need short url to redirect to https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/issues
by C R 15 Jan '19

15 Jan '19

I need it for the tutorial video on how to report bugs in inkscape on the new GitLab platform. Something short like: inkscape.com/report Since I'm rushing to get the video done for release tomorrow, I'd rather not get into a long debate about what's the best way. If we make a better way later, we can change the video. Time is of the essence. :) Thanks. -C

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Build configuration for activation of path effect Fillet/Chamfer
by Johannes Madel 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi there, I would like to compile Inkscape in a way so that I can use the Fillet/Chamfer path effect. I got Inkscape compiled under a msys2 environment under windows 10 with the macro WITH_MODULES enabled, but I still cannot find the path effect in the list in the gui interface. As a codebase I use the source code from the gitlab repo and the branch 0.92.x. Am I missing something? I furthermore have not found the given macro in the source code (only one #ifdef in inkview.cpp which seems somewhat related). I would expect some constructs like: #ifdef WITH_MODULES /* some code */ #endif Is this the correct macro to define for this use case? I am not totally sure that I did the build configuration correctly. It seems that the macro definition is supposed to more or less add steps to the build configuration. Could you point me to the files where this is done. Best regards, Johannes Madel

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Prep for Inkscape 1.0 alpha
by Bryce Harrington 14 Jan '19

14 Jan '19

Hi all, I am working on packaging issues for getting alpha put together. (Nothing major, just a couple errors in the dist scripts.) Please avoid any code changes from now until tomorrow. If you have a critical (and well-tested) bugfix it might be ok, but just check with me first before landing it. Translations, packaging work, and other non-code changes you know are 100% safe and correct, are ok to land for the next 24 hrs, but I plan to cut the branch at that point. Any other questions or concerns, just drop me an email or catch me on irc or rocketchat. Thanks, Bryce

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