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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: keyboard shortcuts for adobe illustrator and macromedia freehand + Low Hanging Fruit UI task + language task
by John Bintz 27 Aug '06

27 Aug '06

> > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:13 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote: > >> > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 21:07 -0700, Ted Gould wrote: >> >>> > > On Fri, 2006-08-25 at 11:34 -0700, Jon Phillips wrote: >>> >>>> > > > It would be really great to have UI in our preferences to select a >>>> > > > different keyboard shortcuts preference. This would be a nice low >>>> > > > hanging fruit task. Has anyone started this? >>>> >>> > > >>> > > Well, when we originally discussed this I thought that we had decided >>> > > that we didn't really want a UI for it as to discourage it's use. >>> > > Really, we want people to use Inkscape as Inkscape, not to encourage >>> > > their use of a crutch. Same thing with the menus XML file. >>> >> > >> > That makes sense...still good to have them there...would we be against a >> > patch? I think the more switchers the better... >> > > I'm not against distributing the different key bindings with the > Inkscape binary. > > --Ted Hope I'm not adding any fuel to the fire here, but I've been working with an alternate set of key bindings for the past month that I've built specifically for my illustration work. The bindings are based on a concept (not the layout) from the animation software Toon Boom Studio. The idea is that the left hand never leaves the keyboard and the right hand never leaves the stylus. From my own experience, it's quite a lot faster to draw this way. :) I just committed the bindings for this, so feel free to try it out if you're into doing drawing or illustration work with a tablet. John

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Save and Save As, Save a Copy vs Export
by Ulf Erikson 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

There are several bug reports and feature requests that show how people find the current Save and Save As combination to be cumbersome to work with, but.. reading feature requests such as #1520237, #1085718, #1282332, #1377887, #1388131 and #1511930 it is clear that there are as many ideas as reporters on what the best solution is. and often is this idea very much influenced by what other applications the reporter has used before What are the plans (or thoughts and ideas) about how Inkscape should work regarding saving and exporting files in the future? Is there an Inkscape GUI guru (group?) deciding on what the best strategy is? Is there a document describing such a common goal everyone can help work towards? There seems to be two works in progress in Svn; a new export dialog that also includes vector formats and a new save a copy dialog. My personal preference goes for extending an existing dialog, but wish to hear whether this is all part of a bigger plan.

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Undefined sp_module_new in 0.36
by Void 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

> I then got to the final link step and there's just > one undefined reference: > src/print.c:118: undefined reference to `sp_module_new' > > 'sp_module_new' is defined in module.c: > static SPModule * sp_module_new (GType type, SPRepr *repr); Okay, I got it to compile. My memory of 'static' was vague, I was thinking of variables, but then checked and found that in front of a function definition it makes it visible in the current file only. So, I removed the 'static' prefix and moved the definition to 'modules.h' and it compiled. ...but, why was it static anyway? Have I broken something by remving the 'static'? Regards, Barry Kauler ________________________________________________ Dodo - an Official Sponsor of the 2006 FORMULA 1 (tm) Foster's Australian Grand Prix

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] About Making an Inkscape Extension
by Ted Gould 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

On Sat, 19 Aug 2006, Aur�lio A. Heckert wrote: > Sory about to send this e-mail to you, but i think you are > Inkscape Developers and you can help hire: > http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/MakingAnExtension I can probably help out some. If don't mind though, I would rather have the discussion on the Inkscape developers list so that everyone can get copies of the messages -- it also shows up in Google when people are searching for information. > The bigest problem is: I don't find the INX documentation. :-/ > I don't know if has an select type and how can i define this... > And some other doubts... Well, it isn't documented :) There are quite a few examples though. Basically the file has three types of data. - General information about the extension - Info about the implementation - Info about what the extension can do (output, input, effect) > I will talk about the Inkscape during one hour on an GNU/Linux > event and I think an good "Extension How To" and "Inkscape > Extension Interface Documentatin" will help to get new extension > developers. :-) That's great! New extensions would be awesome. There is always room for more (now that we have submenus ;) ) --Ted

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GBoolean -> Bool commit 1 (12971)
by Sloan 26 Aug '06

26 Aug '06

In light of our previous attempt at the task of converting as many gbooleans to bools as possible (resulted in inkscape crashing in various circumstances), we've decided to go for a more incremental approach. I'll change a few and commit, and wait a few days for possible bugs to appear. This time around I'm also taking it much more slowly, carefully. I don't expect to have as many problems as we had before. This commit only converts 33 gbooleans to bools (also changes lots of TRUE and FALSE to true and false). This isn't too many though, and I've looked at each rather carefully, so it should be fine. However, it would still be good to have some testing done to be sure. Here are the sections which are modified, possibly inducing bugs: Undo-System: If the modifications screwed up, then this would pick up on actions that are supposed to be ignored, making the next hit of "Undo" likely do nothing, or crash, or undo something its not supposed to. To see these specific places do a search on all the code for sp_document_set_undo_sensitive. SVG/XML: Screwing this up should be pretty obvious. Hopefully. Just remember this if something goes wrong in the next few days.

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new icons + anyone want to help? + submenu icons
by Jon Phillips 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

Heya dudes and dudettes, It has been bothering me that there aren't icons for some menu items. I went ahead and took a stab at finishing the rest of the icons in the main menus. Please critique my new ones with your own changes...I just wanted to get the ball rolling... I added: Document Metadata, Input Devices, Select All in All Layers, Invert Selection, Deselect, Messages, Scripts, Icon Preview, Layers..., the rest of the text icons (not the best ones), About Memory... I hope you all like...Also, to all you artists and developers, adding icons is easy! 1.) open up icons.svg from the main inkscape trunk in PATH_TO_INKSCAPE/share/icons/icons.svg 2.) group your icon together and give it a good name in the object properties dialog 3.) add or edit the proper name in the PATH_TO_INKSCAPE/src/verbs.cpp 4.) make && su -c 'make install' Check and repeat 1-4 until you are happy! Oh, the Clip, Mask and Pattern subdirectory menu items still need icons. Does anyone want to take a stab at these? Also, Kees, didn't you hack in a fix so that we can have icons for the submenus. What happened to that? Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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[Fwd: NEW: pig latin translation]
by Jon Phillips 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

SF.net screwed up this week and didn't deliver this announcement... Jon -------- Forwarded Message -------- > From: Jon Phillips <jon@...235...> > To: Inkscape Development Mailing List > <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> > Subject: NEW: pig latin translation > Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:53:20 -0700 > > Hi, I committed a patch for the pig latin dialect of English by Jon > South...you can use it like so from the command line: > > LANG=en_US@...1443... inkscape > > It is not really a supported locale, but this is the only way to > shoehorn it into the system...I'm going to blog about getting your own > funky language into linux ;) > > Jon > -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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UPDATE on trunk
by Jon Phillips 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

We had to peel back the gboolean -> bool changeover so y'all might have to do a 'make clean' before rebuilding Inkscape (many files were touched). Sorry for the sucky recompile, but we had to go through this to see the light in trying to do mass conversions...its all about incrementally adding this type of change... Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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testing
by Jon Phillips 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

Testing...does this list work anymore??? Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org) Creative Commons (www.creativecommons.org) San Francisco Art Institute (www.sfai.edu)

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Undefined sp_module_new in 0.36
by Void 25 Aug '06

25 Aug '06

A really basic C coding question! I'm attempting to compile v0.36 with the '--with-gnome-print' option, and after fixing one small bug: modules/gnome.c needed #include "helper/canvas-bpath.h" I then got to the final link step and there's just one undefined reference: src/print.c:118: undefined reference to `sp_module_new' 'sp_module_new' is defined in module.c: static SPModule * sp_module_new (GType type, SPRepr *repr); My C is very rusty... how do I make that visible in print.c? And why isn't it? ...is it because I'm using gcc 3.4? Regards, Barry Kauler ________________________________________________ Dodo - an Official Sponsor of the 2006 FORMULA 1 (tm) Foster's Australian Grand Prix

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