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NEW: touch selection
by bulia byak 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

In Selector tool, a new object selection mode is available: selecting by touch. In this mode, you draw a freehand path across the objects; when you release mouse button, all objects that are touched by this path get selected. This mode is very convenient in situations where you need to select objects so intermingled that selecting them by the rectangular rubberband is too difficult and so numerous that click-selecting them one by one is too tedious. To activate selecting by touch, whenever you are drawing a rubberband rectangle, just press Alt to switch it to the touch mode. The rectangle will disappear and a red touch path will be shown instead. When dragging from an empty space, you can press Alt first and then start to drag to get the touch mode (note that your selection must be empty, otherwise Alt+dragging will move the selected objects instead). To start a touch selection from a point over an object, or to add to existing selection by touching, press Shift+Alt and then start to drag. Comments: I'm not too fond of the name "touch selection"; naming suggestions are welcome. Note however that this is not a "lasso" because you don't need to enclose objects, just touch them; and it is not "magic wand" because it does not try to select similar-styled objects. Some Adobe Illustrator users have requested a support for an AI-like selection mode where any object _touched_ by the selection rectangle is selected. Inkscape's new touch selection mode should satisfy them - it is a superset of AI's functionality because a touch path can be arbitrary and not only a box. Note, however, that AI gets this exactly backwards: in it, a rectangle selection selects by touching, whereas a freehand "lasso tool" needs to enclose objects to select them (although its definition of "enclosing" is rather strange - I was able to get very difficult to explain results with that tool). -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Snapping bbox or nodes
by unknown＠example.com 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

The options "snap to bbox" and "snap to nodes" have been removed, but now I find gridsnapping to be very very difficult. For my drawings I always use snap to nodes, with snap to bbox turned off. Now it snaps to both, which is imho extremely inconvenient. For example, it means that you can never be sure to which point a rectangle has snapped (bbox snapping and node snapping is often a 1/100 pixel difference); so for each rectangle I draw I have to zoom in to check whether it snapped according to what I want (nodes) :( Can we please have these options back? Thanks! Johan

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Google Summer of Code projects for Inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 13 Apr '07

13 Apr '07

Google has just announced the project's for this year's summer of code: http://code.google.com/soc/inkscape/about.html Text Improvements by Gail Banaszkiewicz, mentored by Richard Hughes Native PDF import capability based on libpoppler by Miklos Erdelyi, mentored by Jon Cruz Live path effects in Inkscape by Johan Engelen, mentored by Aaron Spike 3D box tool for Inkscape by Maximilian Albert, mentored by bulia byak UI for SVG Filter Effects by Nicholas Bishop, mentored by MenTaLguY Raster Functionality in Inkscape by Christopher Brown, mentored by Theodore J. Gould Importing from, and Exporting to, a remote ccHost instance by Bruno Lu Gon-alves Dilly, mentored by Bryce Harrington Since the full text of the applications don't seem to be made public by google, could each of you post your proposal either to Inkscape's wiki or your own website, add a link to it from the Inkscape Summer of code wiki page, and report it here? I'm sure everyone is curious. :-) Thank you to all the students who applied, and congratulations to those whose applications were selected. We will all look forward to working with you over the summer! Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Google Summer of Code projects for Inkscape
by Gail Banaszkiewicz 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Wow, seven projects! I'm very happy to hear that you guys got so many! Congrats on that end! I'm really excited to work with you all and hopefully I will meet some of you at LGM (I'm officially signed up!). My application can be found on my portfolio web site: http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~gbanaszk/code/soc07/index.htm I can add this link to the Wiki, but I wanted to see how you guys wanted to do it this year. Should we keep the current list of "ideas" intact and start a separate section for accepted applications, or would you rather just add our names and links to the idea we applied for? Gail Bryce Harrington wrote: > Google has just announced the project's for this year's summer of code: > > http://code.google.com/soc/inkscape/about.html > > Text Improvements > by Gail Banaszkiewicz, mentored by Richard Hughes > > Native PDF import capability based on libpoppler > by Miklos Erdelyi, mentored by Jon Cruz > > Live path effects in Inkscape > by Johan Engelen, mentored by Aaron Spike > > 3D box tool for Inkscape > by Maximilian Albert, mentored by bulia byak > > UI for SVG Filter Effects > by Nicholas Bishop, mentored by MenTaLguY > > Raster Functionality in Inkscape > by Christopher Brown, mentored by Theodore J. Gould > > Importing from, and Exporting to, a remote ccHost instance > by Bruno Lu Gon-alves Dilly, mentored by Bryce Harrington > > Since the full text of the applications don't seem to be made public by > google, could each of you post your proposal either to Inkscape's wiki > or your own website, add a link to it from the Inkscape Summer of code > wiki page, and report it here? I'm sure everyone is curious. :-) > > Thank you to all the students who applied, and congratulations to those > whose applications were selected. We will all look forward to working > with you over the summer! > > Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] NEW: touch selection
by Jon Phillips 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Agree, it sounds cool and is mega useful. Jon -----Original Message----- From: "kaver" <kaver@...68...> To: "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...>; "inkscape-devel" <inkscape-devel@...1721...sts.sourceforge.net>; "Inkscape User Community" <inkscape-user@...1722...forge.net> Sent: 4/12/2007 9:58 AM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] [Inkscape-devel] NEW: touch selection I am happy with touch selection. It describes what it does and has already been used half a dozen times :-) Erik Erik Halbert kaver@...68... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list Inkscape-user(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-user] NEW: touch selection
by jiho 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

On 2007-April-12 , at 10:39 , Bill Baxter wrote: > On 4/12/07, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: >> In Selector tool, a new object selection mode is available: selecting >> by touch. In this mode, you draw a freehand path across the objects; >> when you release mouse button, all objects that are touched by this >> path get selected. This mode is very convenient in situations where >> you need to select objects so intermingled that selecting them by the >> rectangular rubberband is too difficult and so numerous that >> click-selecting them one by one is too tedious. >> > [...] > Other possible names would be : > * contact selection > [...] This one seems to correctly represent the behavior for me. While you are at it, I just entered a bug report on the selector tool ;-) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/? func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1699065&group_id=93438 Thank you very much. JiHO --- http://jo.irisson.free.fr/

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Libre Graphics Meeting Sign up Available
by Plinnell 12 Apr '07

12 Apr '07

Hi, We have the sign up module now active for the LGM2 in Montreal. http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/signup If you are planning to attend please do register at the earliest opportunity so we can plan according to the numbers we receive. Look forward to seeing you in Montreal. Cheers, Peter

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Pedro/Whiteboard
by Joshua A. Andler 11 Apr '07

11 Apr '07

I was just going to connect a private whiteboard session to myself to record a drawing and decided to check out the About screen for Pedro. I don't know if Pedro is 1.0 or not, but the About dialog for Pedro pops up with the title "About inkscape" and in big bold text says "inkscape 1.0". I figured I'd bring this up since it should probably get corrected to be more clear, but since it's Bob's pet project I didn't want to mess with it. I'd think that the title being changed to "About Pedro" or something like that would help. Plus it saying Pedro XMPP Client 1.0 (or whatever) instead of Inkscape 1.0 would also clear things up. Just my observation. -Josh

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Booking your room for LGM 2007 - UPDATE
by Louis Desjardins 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hello all, Due to the demand for cosier bedrooms that would include a private bathroom, and since there are no more Cosy Suites left in the Studio Hôtel (student residences), we have posted new info on the Create wiki under the Hotel section. Please review. We let it up to you to find out where you want to stay during LGM and we're making every effort to make you happy! http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki/index.php/Conference#HOTELS In short: • There are lots of single rooms at CAD $46 taxes included in the Studio Hôtel. • There are no more Cosy suites at Studio Hôtel. • There are about 15-20 available rooms with a private bathroom at Terrasse Royale for CAD $99 plus taxes (around 113$ taxes included). Don't forget to mention the name of the event when you make your online reservation to ensure you get the special price of $99. • Studio Hôtel is located on the campus, 5 minutes walk from LGM • Terrasse Royale is located nearby the campus, 10-12 minutes walk from LGM Please make sure you have made your reservation. Cheers, Louis -- Louis Desjardins Organisateur / Organiser Libre Graphics Meeting 2007 - Montréal www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/fr www.libregraphicsmeeting.org +1 514 934 1353 HAE / EDT GMT -4

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Save icon
by Romain Thouvenin 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Hello, I like the way many programs update the save icon with a "grey" one when the document is saved, just like inkscape does it with undo and redo buttons. I wanted to propose a patch to do that, but I got lost in the code base... Could anyone give me some hint ? Where are the undo and redo buttons updated ? Thanks, Romain

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