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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!
by Donn 09 Aug '06

09 Aug '06

Thanks for the info. I have moved to kubuntu 6.06 and someone has kindly made a .deb file so I am in 0.44 heaven now. The thing I get from this thread is that Linux distros move so quickly, they are having their libraries and other wobbly bits coded so rapidly that it's impossible to keep pace with them all, let alone just one of them. This is due to the obviously limited resources and voluntary nature of those (like you guys) writing OSS applications to run on Linux. In an ironic way this speed of improvement of Linux is a strength for Windows. I demonstrate this by means of Inkscape 0.44 and how one can with relatively no trouble develop for Windows and release any old time and users like me can pick up the binary and run it. No mess. No fuss. That's the contrast for me I suppose. I'll stick with Linux thanks :) That means sticking with these weird version situations. I wonder if the situation will ever reach a balance, where the vital libs don't move so quickly because they are finished, done, complete and so Linux won't change so massively internally and will approach a kind of binary stability like win has now? Perhaps I've got the wrong idea completely! Anyway, thanks for your time. D.

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09 Aug '06

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] release notes (again)
by radar.map35＠...8... 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hi all > Hi, > > Just another reminder to all committers: please don't forget to update > release notes for all notable changes (whether it's new UI, new > features, or just notable code changes). In particular we need entries > for: > > - new PS/PDF fixes and capabilities by Ulf > > - the rendering quality/speed patch by Jasper > > - all work done so far on filters by Niko and Hugo > > I may have forgotten or missed something. > > Thanks! > > Yes please, Good release notes are good basis for the documentation team and help writing fast and precise infos for users. Cedric (pygmee)

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Support for Win95 (was: Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!)
by Ulf Erikson 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Nicu Buculei (OCAL) wrote: > The Windows case is not that perfect. Inkscape had to drop support for > Windows 95/98/ME because one of the dependencies (gtk+) was not working > anymore on those operating systems (and nobody bothered enough to fix > the regression at the gtk level). Isn't the Gtk requirement of 0.44 the same as for 0.43? I thought it was a concious decision to drop Win95 in favour of stability and bug fixes only available in later versions of Gtk.. You should be able to use both Gtk 2.4 and 2.6 (matching the requirements for Inkscape 0.44 and 0.45?) on Windows 95/98/ME, but the current Windows installer comes with Gtk 2.8(?). Has anyone tried to build a Win95 version of Inkscape by linking against a lesser version of Gtk?

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Can I Distribute ?
by Tadwick 08 Aug '06

08 Aug '06

Hello Folks, I am confused by the GPL and issues like derivative software. I would like to distribute a bit of code to the public that produces an SVG image but I want to be able to rasterize the image for users unwilling or unable to read it with Firefox, IE/ASV or another agent. My thought was to include an unaltered Inkscape binary and use it's command-line to translate the SVG to PNG. Can I do this and credit the Inkscape development community, meet the terms of the GPL and keep my unrelated code private? Thanks, Tad

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Clipart] SVG_Tools
by Jon Phillips 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

On Sun, 2006-08-06 at 11:26 +0200, Elliott Bignell wrote: > Hi, Jon, > > I'd like, if possible, to just pass the SVG file path or text content of the > SVG file to a function or class that can then render the picture into a DC. > Ideally, I'd also be able to take an enhanced metafile handle and pass it > off to an object to write an SVG file with some specified metadata. The > object is to be able to both import SVG files directly into my application > to use as Clip Art and, ideally, have my app export both users' > hand-sketched illustrations and the Mind Maps themselves as SVG files. Then > I could link up dynamically to the project and both provide my users with > Clip Art and potentially direct artistic effort into the project. I could > also use SVG internally for storing metafile data and perhaps raise the > profile of the format a little. > > Best wishes... > Elliott Elliot, I'm passing this over to the Inkscape-devel list. There has been previous discussions about this on that list and their development guidance is better than this lost more than likely (no offense OCAL ;). Jon > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > Hi Elliot. What are you trying to do? There are a lot of options out > > there already, so context will inform my recommendations. > > > > Jon > > > > _______________________________________________ > clipart mailing list > clipart@...626... > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/clipart > -- 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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Fedora Core 3 is no more, Weeee!
by Donn 07 Aug '06

07 Aug '06

Hello all, Thanks for the patience on the FC3 threads. Ya'll convinced me to shifty over to a new distro and I went to Kubuntu 6.06 yesterday. Have had some hell with merging home folders, but nothing too deadly. Imagine my horror to find that the latest inkscape in the apt repos is 0.43-something! The same one I had on FC3 :Mad spinny eye smiley here: So, I understood that ubuntu was kinda the dev distro (Windows aside) of choice, surely there must be debs of 0.44 by now? How do debs normally get to ubuntu repos? Is it a committee kinda thing, with a central scrutinizer or can you quickly update a package if you make a new deb? So, what's the best way for me to get ink 0.44 (official release vers) up and running on *ubuntu 6.06 ? Cos i'm really tired of Windows edging Linux out on it's own software! Best, Donn.

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0.44.1pre1 release
by MenTaLguY 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

I think it's time we did a prerelease of 0.44.1; this will give us an opportunity to shake out any new issues, and give the translators an opportunity to get their work in before 0.44.1 final. I've updated the release notes on the wiki and bumped the version numbers in the 0.44 branch, but we still need to do the rest of the dist process and tag it all. Someone also needs to document on CreatingDists the process of getting the release notes into the NEWS file as well. Volunteers? -mental

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release notes, again
by bulia byak 06 Aug '06

06 Aug '06

Hi, Just another reminder to all committers: please don't forget to update release notes for all notable changes (whether it's new UI, new features, or just notable code changes). In particular we need entries for: - new PS/PDF fixes and capabilities by Ulf - the rendering quality/speed patch by Jasper - all work done so far on filters by Niko and Hugo I may have forgotten or missed something. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: interruptible display for better interactivity
by John Bintz 05 Aug '06

05 Aug '06

> The other thought is to have some type of progress bar for processes > that take long in the bottom of the status bar, with a cancel button to > the right of this progress indicator so one could also click to stop a > process. I have a very badly written patch that does something similar for long Simplify operations. All it does is write to the status bar with how many paths have been simplified, but it's not done very properly at the moment. > On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 15:08 -0300, bulia byak wrote: > > > > I fixed a couple bugs that were exposed by this change, but there may > > be more. In particular I suspect there might be a crash when you quit > > Inkscape while it's redrawing. I got this crash a couple times but > > it's very hard to nail it down. If you can cause it reproducibly > > please let me know. Other than that, it's working perfectly for me in > > the last few days. Since the speed update, I've been able to work a lot faster at node editing than before (yay!), and I've found a few spots in the node/path handling code where NULL pointers are being dereferenced. I just committed a small change that increases the number of checks in those areas and fails with g_return_if_fail() if the pointers are NULL. Take care, John

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