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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Extensions
by Lex Neva 22 Mar '18

22 Mar '18

> 4. Adding their own UI. In the cases where the current inx based UI falls > down (conditional values, and many more) the users want to able to use, > say, Kivy or even tkinter to do dialogs. This is super hard and only one I > know that works is the very recent embroidery extension which needs own > installer and is so complex I can't follow it. Oh dear! Sorry it's so confusing. As I think you understand, trying to get a cross-platform UI working is quite difficult. And for translations, we had to completely ignore inkex.localize() in favor of bundling our own translations, because we can't get our translation strings into inkscape fast enough. On the plus side, we handle units and viewbox correctly and we're 96dpi compatible already, so no work needed there. Thanks for all the work you're doing! We're happy to answer any questions you might have on how Ink/Stitch works. I follow this list, if somewhat slowly at times, but the best way to reach us is to file an issue (github. com/lexelby/inkstitch).

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GtkActions in toolbars
by Alex Valavanis 17 Mar '18

17 Mar '18

Hi All, In preparation for the Hackfest, I'd like to start looking at ways to reduce (eventually eliminate!) our use of GtkAction. One of the main uses we currently have for them is in toolbars, where the tool widgets (buttons, spinbuttons etc) are all some kind of subclass of GtkAction, which has been removed from Gtk+ 4. This means that when the user clicks on the button, it triggers an "activate" signal, which is handled by a callback function. My question is basically, "what's the point?" Is there any reason why we can't just use a plain old button in most cases, and just connect up the "clicked" signal instead? If it really needs to be some kind of Action, we could migrate to the GAction API, but this may be much more difficult. Best wishes, Alex

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LaTeX rendering fail
by Jakob Peder Pettersen 16 Mar '18

16 Mar '18

When running the command Extensions->Rendering->LaTeX and typing in any LaTeX expression, I get no output and Inkscape returns: *** WARNING - the DELAYBIND command has been deprecated, and will be removed in the next version. For now you can restore the behaviour by using -dREALLYDEALYBIND but if you require continued use of this command you should contact the Ghostscript developers. Commercial customers of Artifex should email their support contact, free users are encouraged to talk to us on the #ghostscript IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Unrecoverable error: undefined in DELAYBIND PostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 65280 executed command : /usr/local/opt/ghostscript/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T//psinQuRKci The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed ! Traceback (most recent call last): File "eqtexsvg.py", line 160, in <module> e.affect() File "/Applications/Inkscape.app/Contents/Resources/share/inkscape/extensions/inkex.py", line 268, in affect self.effect() File "eqtexsvg.py", line 154, in effect svg_open(self, svg_file) File "eqtexsvg.py", line 81, in svg_open doc = inkex.etree.parse(filename) File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 3299, in lxml.etree.parse (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:72421) File "parser.pxi", line 1791, in lxml.etree._parseDocument (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:105883) File "parser.pxi", line 1817, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:106182) File "parser.pxi", line 1721, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:105181) File "parser.pxi", line 1122, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:100131) File "parser.pxi", line 580, in lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:94254) File "parser.pxi", line 690, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:95690) File "parser.pxi", line 620, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:94757) lxml.etree.XMLSyntaxError: Document is empty, line 1, column 1 Using the extension Tex Text yields a similar error: Traceback (most recent call last): File "textext.py", line 210, in cb_ok self.callback(self.text, self.preamble_file, self.scale_factor) File "textext.py", line 369, in <lambda> converter_cls, old_node)) File "textext.py", line 387, in do_convert new_node = converter.convert(text, preamble_file, scale_factor) File "textext.py", line 751, in convert self.pdf_to_svg() File "textext.py", line 849, in pdf_to_svg + pstoeditOpts) File "textext.py", line 596, in exec_command % (' '.join(cmd), p.returncode, out + err)) RuntimeError: Command pstoedit -f plot-svg /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T/tmpAZUsxB/tmp.pdf /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T/tmpAZUsxB/tmp.svg -dt -ssp -psarg -r9600x9600 failed (code 1): pstoedit: version 3.70 / DLL interface 108 (built: Sep 16 2017 - release build - g++ 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37) - 64-bit) : Copyright (C) 1993 - 2014 Wolfgang Glunz *** WARNING - the DELAYBIND command has been deprecated, and will be removed in the next version. For now you can restore the behaviour by using -dREALLYDEALYBIND but if you require continued use of this command you should contact the Ghostscript developers. Commercial customers of Artifex should email their support contact, free users are encouraged to talk to us on the #ghostscript IRC channel on irc.freenode.net. Unrecoverable error: undefined in DELAYBIND PostScript/PDF Interpreter finished. Return status 65280 executed command : /usr/local/opt/ghostscript/bin/gs -q -dDELAYBIND -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dNODISPLAY -dNOEPS -r9600x9600 /var/folders/z_/v0sm2gys3y77640_7m4t99k40000gp/T//psinu3vxOs The interpreter seems to have failed, cannot proceed ! I suspect this is a bug in the respective Inkscape extensions for LaTeX output. System information: macOS 10.13.3 Inkscape 0.91 pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) dvips(k) 5.995 pstoedit: version 3.70 / DLL interface 108 (built: Sep 16 2017 - release build - g++ 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.37) - 64-bit) Best regards Jakob Peder Pettersen

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Releasing Inkscape onto the Website
by Martin Owens 15 Mar '18

15 Mar '18

Dear developers, The website supports developers submitting releases using the releases app, we haven't linked to the releases app publically, but thanks to Maren and others it's a mostly complete history of Inkscape package files. To upload an inkscape package: a) Go to the website and login b) Click the "Upload Art or Resource" (or click Submit in any of your galleries to better organise your files) c) Fill in all the fields you want, make sure to include the uploaded file and gpg signature. d) Select "Inkscape Package" in the category drop down. e) Save. f) Now re-edit the new upload. This will give you the two new fields of "Release" and "Platform", these ONLY appear if: The upload is in the Inkscape Package category AND you have permission to edit releases. If you don't see these fields, make sure you join the releases team at https://inkscape.org/en /*release-team and try again. You can only have ONE resource per release, per platform. So the Inkscape 0.92.2pre0 release can have ONE Win32 MSI Package, ONE Mac OSX 10.9 DMG, etc etc. If you try to over-write, it will deny you setting the platform and release fields. We're going to try and keep the permissions to one person for each of the main platforms. So bryce can do source uploads, tgh can do Mac uploads etc etc. We make have some backups, but user wise it shouldn't need every developer to be a release team member. Let me know if you have issues. Best Regards, Martin Owens Your Friendly Website Admin

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Website Caching (again)and fall-back
by Martin Owens 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

Hi all, This is a general notice, I've switched on nginx caching for non-logged in users. 95% of all requests are to non-logged in users. Caching is set to 1 hour, if you update a cms page, upload a new resource or make a new release, there WILL be a delay to some users getting the new information. We are closely monitoring the web server and tweaking the settings as needed. Average request times have be 0.9s-1.1s but some days see spikes to 5s (for the whole day) so we want to try and reduce the common load. Page loads for HITs are down to 120ms, compared to 980ms for a MISS. I've also removed cmsplugin-history which takes up a lot of RAM. There may be some holes in the cms, so let me know if you hit one. Page caching in nginx means that if the website goes down, nginx will keep giving our users a website as much as possible. So we may see a slight improvement in fall-over, certainly for normal users. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Quick 0.92.3pre0 test needed (was Re: inkscape-0.92.3pre0 source tarball now available)
by Bryce Harrington 14 Mar '18

14 Mar '18

I am in the process of finalizing 0.92.3 for release. Would someone mind downloading the tarball, building it, running the program, and using it a bit as a quick sanity check? Download from: https://inkscape.org/en/release/0.92.3pre0/ Eduard and I have built and run it, and so I'm not expecting there are any issues, just looking for a quick thumbs up that it works as expected for a third person. Thanks, Bryce

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Question about an Issue #168 "Make Issue Responsive..."
by Tonya Sims 12 Mar '18

12 Mar '18

Hi all, I'd like to work on this patch https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape-web/issues/168 and have a few questions. 1. Is this non-responsiveness happening on all pages? 2. Can you direct me to the URL where it's happening? 3. Do we have any screenshots of the issue? Thank you, Tonya

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Prerequisites for using Inkscape UI free, GSOC 2018
by Kuntal Majumder 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Hi, I am Kuntal, some of the people might know me from IRC. I was looking into the GSOC 2018 ideas list. Loved the idea of making Inkscape go UI free [1]. I would love to give it a try, I have used CMake to compile programs in past, but never wrote a CMakeLists file. I was also working on my own build system [2], which is currently not that nicer, well I am yet to learn how to write parsers, :P. Also whenever I used Inkscape, I used to jump to and fro from Inkscape to Calculator to get the correct ratios, wouldn't that be better if we can put expressions inside text-boxes and they evaluate by themselves. If the previous mentioned idea is viable for GSOC, I would love to pitch for it. Thanks Kuntal (hellozee) [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Google_Summer_of_Code#P5._UI-Free_I… [2] https://github.com/hellozee/Cook

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Eager Python Developer - GSoC
by Tonya Sims 11 Mar '18

11 Mar '18

Hello everyone! My name is Tonya, I'm a junior to mid level Python developer and plan on applying for GSoC I downloaded Inkscape on my Mac and played around with it. A very cool application! What are your most urgent needs? Are your extensions built in Python? I was trying to brainstorm some ideas for a new extension and may need more time unless there's something you could suggest? Also, I'm learning Django and could help out with the website, let's say a new bug tracking system (not that you need one) but just brainstorming. Anyways, looking forward to everyone's replies and will start working on my application. Cheers, Tonya Sims

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Hackfest update
by Máirín Duffy 08 Mar '18

08 Mar '18

Hi everyone, I wanted to give you a heads up about a couple of things regarding the hackfestsite - - Onthe Monday, Red Hat is also going to host a SpinachCon event on the other side of the space we'll be in. It's a 4 hour event (from 1-5 pm IIRC) where free software projects can come and have their software usability tested. The organizers (including Deb Nicholson) would be more than happy to test Inkscape as part of the event if there's any interest in that. If there are specific components you'd like tested, I can help create a testing plan. - There may be another co-hosted event in the morning on Monday, still sorting the details out. - On the Tuesday and Wednesday, Red Hat is also hosting an event that will involve a workshop and hacking on amedical image processing system that we're working on with Boston University and Boston Children's Hospital. It's a really cool project. If anyone attending has an interestin learning more, you are more than welcome to get involved. I don't expect either event to be disruptive to the hackfest; it's a large space and we have two floors and a variety of different areas to work inand a lot of seating. I just wanted to let you know ahead of time, especially in case you wanted to take advantage of SpinachCon testing.If you have a preference towards the type of space you'd prefer (large conference room with door; open meet up space; lounge-y type area with couches and tables and chairs) I can note in our reservation now that's the part we'd like for the Inkscape hackfest; if you're not sure I can give youa tour when you get here on the Monday morning and we can figure out which end of the office to claim. Cheers, ~m

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