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Website Update: Menus
by unknown＠example.com 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Dear Inkscape Devels, The Inkscape website has had a menus problem every since we upgraded. It would show French, German and any random menu to English visitors at random times. The django-cms menus app has always been very slow, way, way over- engineered and just not very good for websites with more than two languages. Thanks to Jabier, we've replaced it with a simple but more manual menu system. The new menu is disconnected from the CMS, so if you edit a cms page, add news ones or delete pages, you must now also edit the menus in each language to account for this. This manual editing is a disadvantage, but there are advantages too. Firstly, we can have different menus for different languages (if we want to say link to a different community forum for Japanese). We can also remove a lot of hacky blank places from our CMS that stood in for regular django pages, making that part of menu management more direct. Finally it's faster. Way faster. 2200ms first hit, 700ms cached vs 940ms first-hit and 512ms cached. Also it serves up the right language menu, which is quite a useful perk. If there's any issues either in the rendering or editing (which is quite crude, I admit) please let me know via an issue on inkscape-web. Thanks again to Jabier for the code and the idea to fix this issue with a bit of DIY. Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator

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First Inkscope Video Podcast is live!
by C R 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J1r8a0emYc Future podcasts will be shorter, but hey, at least all the technical difficulties were edited out. :) Enjoy! -C

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Inkscape + Embarcadero C++ Builder Community Edition?
by Victor Westmann 26 Nov '18

26 Nov '18

Hi Everyone, I hope all is well with you. I was just wondering if any of you know if Inkscape 0.92.3 is able to be compiled, on Windows platform, using the Embarcadero C++ Builder Community Edition? https://www.embarcadero.com/products/cbuilder/starter https://www.embarcadero.com/docs/rad-studio-feature-matrix.pdf It seems it is a free (but closed) tool to compile Inkscape. Haven't tested it yet but it seems it could be interesting for us to have yet another tool to compile Inkscape on Windows. Just wondering if anyone did this test yet... and if the dependencies were able to be resolved successfully. Thanks, --Victor Westmann

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Rewriting inkview in Python
by anatoly techtonik 25 Nov '18

25 Nov '18

Hi. It is not that I have a lot of time to do that, but I though that being able to use Inkscape as a library from Python could be an awesome feature to play with. Then one day somebody can come up with alternative SVG viewer. There are problems with current `inkview` from 0.92.3: - it lacks command line help - it doesn't respond to --version - if doesn't render attached file - there is no scaling option - there is no debug option for troubleshooting my content The attached file is rendered correctly in Inkscape, although initial view is too small. -- anatoly t.

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Fwd: $ systemd-analyze plot | inkview
by anatoly techtonik 21 Nov '18

21 Nov '18

Hi. Is it true that `inkview` is kind of unmaintained? Still maybe it is possible to modify it to accept input from stdin? https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1804432 I could do it myself if `inkview` was written in Python. -- anatoly t.

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Inkscape.org in Chinese in Google Chrome (fine in Firefox)
by C R 19 Nov '18

19 Nov '18

Inkscape website navigation comes up in Chinese in Google Chrome. (screenshot attached) Anyone else seeing this? I tried re-choosing English in the language options on the site, but still get Chinese symbols. Odd. -C

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Announcing lib2geom Release 1.0
by Bryce Harrington 11 Nov '18

11 Nov '18

lib2geom v1.0.0 =============== 2geom is a C++ library of mathematics for paths, curves, and other geometric calculations, designed to be well suited for vector graphics: Bézier curves, conics, paths, intersections, transformations, and basic geometries. Originally developed to restructure and improve path data structures in Inkscape, this library's codebase has been maintained and shipped as part of the professional vector graphics software for over a decade. The major contributors to the 2geom library are Nathan Hurst, Michael G. Sloan, Krzysztof Kosiński, Johan B. C. Engelen, MenTaLguY, Aaron Spike, Marco Cechetti and JF Barraud. Work on this release has focused on updating the 2geom source control, build, test and packaging systems for both Linux and Windows. The py2geom python extension package has been restored and improvements have been made to overall code stabilization and quality. The primary motivation for 2geom's 1.0 release is to support a future Inkscape 1.0 launch. With this evolution to a distinct package, the 2geom team is seeking new opportunities to collaborate with individuals and projects interested in using this proven tool. Downloads ========= Source Release: http://alpha.inkscape.org/releases/lib2geom-1.0.0.tar.bz2 [http://alpha.inkscape.org/releases/lib2geom-1.0.0.tar.bz2.sig] (Other packages for this release may be available in the future; keep an eye on https://www.inkscape.org.) More Information ================ Website: http://lib2geom.sourceforge.net/ Code: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/lib2geom Chat: https://chat.inkscape.org/home Bryce

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GTK3 Lower Bounds
by Jabier Arraiza 08 Nov '18

08 Nov '18

Hi all. I ask on chat about lower bounds of GTK3 version. Tav point me to http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Tracking_Dependencies He also suggest it can be moved from 3.18 to 3.22 in Linux but he is not sure about other OS. What about @win_team and @mac_team? Regards, Jabier.

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Issues on Gitlab?
by Tobias Bernard 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi all, I'm a UX designer and long-time Inkscape user. I work at Purism, and I'm on the GNOME design team. I've been meaning to get involved with Inkscape for years, but the tools used for development (Launchpad, mailing lists, IRC) don't make it very easy unfortunately. I was very happy when I saw the code migrated to Gitlab, because it's a much more modern tool that works great for design issues thanks to inline media (we've been using it in GNOME for the past year and it's been a total game changer). Unfortunately, though the code is on Gitlab now, it's still not possible to open issues there. I was told this would change "soon" earlier this year, but so far this hasn't happened. Is there a timeline for opening issues on Gitlab? What are the current blockers? I'd really like to avoid using Launchpad if at all possible :) Cheers, Tobias

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Website update: current status
by Maren Hachmann 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi there, Martin, Bryce and Travis from our friendly hosters at OSUOSL have worked on switching the inkscape.org website to the newer version this evening. In some parts of the world, due to DNS propagation, you might not yet see the new page, but you will soon (it looks pretty much the same, though, just the backend is newer). It now features a new shiny django (yay!). Unfortunately, it currently has problems with page edits, news edits and resource uploads. Please hold off editing anything on it, to not lose any work. Martin is working on fixing things, and will let you know when it's good for editing again. Downloads and viewing the pages work as usual (except for viewing pasted texts), so most people won't be affected by the issues. Kind Regards, Maren

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