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Stuck on Clone
by Martin Owens 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

Hi all, Trying to create the most simple part of this animation extensions; the clone frame part. I'm stuck because the xml python lib we're using (at least as of 0.45) doesn't implement the w3c DOM, instead it's patch hodge podge of none standard methods with buggy getElementById, no insertAfter method and buggy cloneNode when deep is switched on. Error message: xml.dom.HierarchyRequestErr: Node manipulation results in invalid parent/child relationship. The basic idea was to create a clone of the currently selected layer, add it after the current one and change a property in each child element to link it back to the original element in the original layer. Then another script would come along and combine each of these layers into an animation; forcing elements that disappear or appear new to fade, elements that are linked to be combined into an animation for each frame and any other layers to be left alone (for background or foreground layers) this would support paths, object transformations and style/attribute changes over time. Other extensions that could then be written after these first two: Animation > Tween Frames - Creates a step between the current layer and the next layer for all linked elements Animation > Link Selected - Creates an animation link between the two selected elements kees said if the first two can be implemented then he's see about writing in the UI handler which makes the current layer visible only (with the next and previous semi transparent at your option) with a slide bar to select the layer/frame. I'll resume when I think I can begin sanely writing the code, otherwise I'll hand the svg off to perl and write the extensions using that (which wouldn't be ideal to be honest) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] PR Planning (was Re: Inkscape overcomes Xara in Google Trends)
by ryan lerch 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

On 11/5/07, Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> wrote: > > Totally, I wonder if we can do a push to get some screencasts and > tutorials of the new features prior as well...that would rock...ppl. > just want to see screenshots, right? > > What would be needed? > We have already started some preliminary work on some new tutorials, http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TutorialUpdates-0.46 some of which cover some of the new features, this can easily be expanded ... cheers, ryanlerch

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PR Planning (was Re: Inkscape overcomes Xara in Google Trends)
by Bryce Harrington 05 Nov '07

05 Nov '07

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:50:03AM +1000, Ryan Lerch wrote: > Is it worth fleshing out a PR plan for promotion of the upcoming release? It > will be a huge release (feature wise) and I reckon people will want to know > about all our cool new features... Yes, this sounds like a very good idea. Ryan, would you and Jon and prokoudine arrange to put some thought into this sometime within the next week or two, and post what you come up with to this list for review? Thanks, Bryce

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[ted@...11...: [Fwd: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project]]
by Bryce Harrington 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

----- Forwarded message from Ted Gould <ted@...11...> ----- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 14:35:26 -0800 From: Ted Gould <ted@...11...> To: Bryce Harrington <bryce@...961...> Subject: [Fwd: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project] -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher@...400...> To: clipart@...626... Subject: [Clipart] Fwd: Announcement: Wikimedia Foundation Greenspun illustration project Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 00:32:15 +1100 Hi OpenClipArters, Forwarding along an announcement from the Wikimedia Foundation that it is facilitating a project to pay for the creation of illustrations. I (Brianna Laugher) am coordinating the project on the community side. I am thinking and hoping there may be a few cliparters who are interested in putting their SVG skills to work. The central wiki page for the project will be http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun_illustration_project . The project is still in the gathering-requests stage and I will send out an announcement when we expect to open requests up for people to fulfil. Please let me know if anything about it is not clear. thanks, Brianna ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Cary Bass <cbass@...1827...> Date: 3 Nov 2007 05:32 Subject: [Foundation-l] [ANNOUNCEMENT] Greenspan illustration project To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l@...1828...>, Wikimedia Commons Discussion List <commons-l@...1828...> The Greenspan Illustration Project What is it? The Wikimedia Foundation has received a donation from Philip Greenspun for the purpose of creating and improving illustrations on Wikimedia. The Board has decided to accept his donation of $US20,000 for this special purpose. This is the first time the Foundation has been directly involved in funded content creation, although the German chapter's experience in winning a government grant to write articles on sustainable development has helped pave the way. The Foundation wants a "hands-off" minimal administration role with the bulk of the work of organizing the project and creating the content to be completed by members of our community. Since this is the first time we've done this, we're not sure how it will go. This is a bit experimental and we ask for your patience and enthusiasm to help make it a success. Brianna Laugher (<http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pfctdayelise>) will be coordinating the project, with my help as the Foundation's Volunteer Coordinator. How will it run? Since Philip's kind donation is a lot of money and we're planning to pay around US$40 per illustration (with some lower and higher amounts, see details to follow), we want to progress the project in stages. Starting out with a small number of 50 requested illustrations, we'll look at our results and modify and improve it for successive stages. The project will flow along as follows: * Create list of requested illustrations. * Open illustration requests on issue tracking software * Users will self-assign requests, signaling his or her intent to create that illustration. * On creation and approval, the user is paid the amount as set in the original request. Things to note: * The list of requests will be approved by Brianna, in order that balance exists among "things any decent reference work needs"; "things the Wikimedia community requests"; and "things we nearly have, or have poor versions of". * Approval: a review group will be formed in order to provide assessment of submitted images. The main checks will be 1) editor's original work and acceptable license, 2) correct rendering on MediaWiki and 3) how well the image depicts the requested item. No image will be accepted that do not pass all three of these checks. * Other checks will be recommended (e.g. language-neutral version). * The payment system is not yet finalized. How you can help If you are interested in suggesting illustrations to be created, you don't have long to wait: soon there will be some pages on Meta where you can get involved. We will write to foundation-l when the pages are ready for your input. If you are interested in being part of the review group, please email Brianna as follows: brianna.laugher AT gmail DOT com The benefits This project can have two good outcomes. One, we get illustrations we wouldn't otherwise have, or wouldn't otherwise have had so quickly. Another benefit is that we can use this project as a way to encourage and launch new people into the "illustrator community". Creating high-quality SVGs is not a skill a lot of people have immediately, but may be developed fairly quickly. While many people might be vaguely interested in it but no more, a monetary incentive might be enough to push them to act, and learn, and create. Some of the image requests will be for smaller amounts (US$15) for relatively simpler illustrations???these will be specifically targeted to newcomers to encourage them to get involved. At the end of this project we might have $20,000 worth of illustrations, but the value of the content creating community will potentially be a lot higher. We expect a side benefit to this project will be the creation/finding and maintenance of good documentation for specific tasks using tools like Inkscape. More details See the project specifications at: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/5/51/WMF_Greenspun_Illustr… -- Cary Bass Volunteer Coordinator Your continued donations keep Wikipedia running! Support the Wikimedia Foundation today: http://donate.wikimedia.org Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Phone: 727.231.0101 Fax: 727.258.0207 E-Mail: cbass@...1827... _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@...1828... Unsubscribe: http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ----- End forwarded message -----

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Text tool crash.
by unknown＠example.com 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

I just fixed a crash bug with the text tool: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1645874&gro up_id=93438 The problem is that an empty flowtext thing is put in XML, and it is deleted on deselection when nothing is inputted. This crashes the XML editor, and also duplication of the thing. I disabled the automatic deletion on deselection, and now it no longer crashes. For who starts working on the texttool: I think it is best *not* to add things to XML when nothing has been actually typed yet. Upon typing the first character, *then* put it in XML. This removes the need for the automatic deletion and fixes the problem without cluttering the XML with empty texts. Off to another crash bug... Johan

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tabs
by Diederik van Lierop 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi, After my commit of today, Johan Engelen pointed out that there were quite some tabstops being used in it instead of spaces. I started an automated find & replace, replacing all tabs with four spaces in just that commit. Worked like a charm. I also found tens of thousands of tabs when searching just *.h in /src. Now I wonder: should we do a massive search & replace on the full code base? I've tried and it compiles nicely. It also doesn't mess up the indenting, at least not in the places I've looked at. Is it worth it? Or will it give to much troubles in the end afterall? Diederik

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filter UI merge
by MenTaLguY 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

I've just merged the first code drop from Nick into SVN; I was hoping to avoid any regressions, but at this point I think it's more important to start merging now since Niko and Nick are starting to touch the same code and I want to avoid too much divergence. Things that work: - blend modes can now easily be selected for objects, just like blur - background accumulation buffer is enabled as-needed - the filter UI dialog has very very basic filter editing capabilities Regressions: - Niko's work in r15171 (non-destructive filter update) needs to be re-integrated with the new filter metawidget, which replaces the old blur slider - the blur slider in the filter metawidget needs to be made percentage like the slider it replaced Todo: - add filter metawidget to layers dialog too, for layers - fix flakiness for "Filter" "blend mode" - flesh out filters dialog, parameter editing/connections, etc. I think we'll need to work out who wants to work on what with the metawidget at this point, depending on what you guys are each most comfortable spending time doing, and on your respective current states of progress. -mental

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Translation plans for 0.46 release
by Bryce Harrington 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi all, Quick question regarding translations - who will be serving as the translation team lead for this release? We'll need a plan laid out for the translation work this time. (I.e., when to send out notices, statistics tools to run, places to recruit translators, and so on). We've got plenty of time at this point, so just want to kick things off early so the translation team has plenty of work for doing pre-requisite work they'll want. Bryce

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A developer seeks some work
by Andre Twupack 04 Nov '07

04 Nov '07

Hi Inkscapers! My name is André Twupack and I have been using Inkscape for two years now. I have used it mainly as a utility to create/edit SVG-based circuit diagrams to test a Batik-based software I have developed. From my working background I'm a Java developer with in-depth knowledge about XML/SVG and I'm also having some experience in C/C++ although not on a professional level. During the last two years I have provided a few minor patches but now I would like to become more involved in the development of Inkscape. Therefore I'm posting here to find one of the members of the development team who needs some help or can assign me a task. As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help. I hope with my work I can help to make Inkscape even better as it already is. André

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InkScape On Leopard : Solution
by Cédric sonique 03 Nov '07

03 Nov '07

Hi, I'm a InkScape user on Mac OS X.5 (leopard). I found a solution to launch Inkscape under Leopard. You will found the "script" file which is in : Inkscape.app/Contents/Ressources/script. I change some lines : comment line 17 and 18 17 #open-x11 /tmp/getdisplay.sh || 18 #open -a XDarwin /tmp/getdisplay.sh || Leave line 19 : echo ":0"> /tmp/display.$UID Add this line : open /Applications/Utilities/X11.app Thank you for your works ! I hope this is will help someone ! Cédric - sonique _________________________________________________________________ Découvrez le blog Messenger Le Meilleur du Web : toutes les vidéos qui buzzent le plus sur Internet ! http://meilleurduweb.spaces.live.com/

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