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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New web hosting? (Was Re: Wiki unusable)
by Joc 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

>As I'm sure everyone knows, hosting our website through SourceForge >kinda sucks since it's so dang slow. Particular pain points are wiki >and screenshots. SF is also continuing to prompt us about disk quota >limits. > >But the challenge to switching is that inkscape.org gobbles *tons* of >bandwidth - 130G last month! Back when we had some downloadable >packages from our website it jumped to nearly 400G. Why not using bittorrent? Torrent reduces the bandwidth on the host to almost nothing while allowing fast transfer of large files by sharing the transfer load among all the peers; those are features that are particularly useful when lots of people are downloading new releases. More info is available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittorrent Joc

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WEBFORM false positive
by Jens 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Jens email: j.prasser@...1255... submitted the following: Hallo, der Fehlalarm im Installationspaket, konkret wurde sie \"uninst.exe\" als Trojan.Zlob gemeldet, tritt bei Symantec bzw. Norton nicht mehr auf. (The false positive \"Trojan.Zlob\" is fixed by Symantec) mfg Jens

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Gtk 2.8 for 0.45?
by Aaron Spike 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Ben Fowler wrote: > On 06/07/06, Aaron Spike <aaron@...749...> wrote: >> Ben Fowler wrote: >> > I did have a Native GTK+ build of Inkscape around last November, but >> > threw it away when we switched to svn. Since then I have had hardware >> > problems and I am still in the process of re-creating it. I think that >> > the GTK code has improved in reliability over the last 8 months. I am >> > intending to continue with this, and will report any success that I do >> > have, but an energetic person could easily pip me to the post. >> >> That sounds like a lot of work. Would it be good to get that sort of >> work into SVN for others to build upon? Is this an incremental change >> thing that could be a compile flag in trunk? Or is it more suited to >> being worked on as a branch? > > I am not certain. You are right, and I am wrong; It is just that I > don't like making half-done stuff publically available. I haven't yet > resolved this in my own mind: I will freely admit that I prefer to > work quietly and modestly and post/commit code that works and is > correct, but I find it nice when others are really exuberant. Also. I > am still finding my feet with svn and workflow. I'm still learning versioning systems in general, let alone svn in specific. :-) I think that is a perfectly acceptable way to work. But because of the importance and difficulty of this specific project, I'd like to pressure you to publish your progress. Others could say better but Inkscape has had great success with projects that could be incrementally improved by different individuals when they had the energy and interest. This will allow the task to progress even during times when your energy for the project is waning. > Just to lift my skirts a little and show a shapely ankle, two things > that I think are needed are: > > 1. Add a --without-x-windows switch to configure.in for GUIs such as > native GTK which do not use X. > > and > > 2. Update those parts of the code where it assumes that GUI > applications that are not X Windows (exempli gratia, no DISPLAY > environment variable) are Microsoft. Perfect. Prioritized task lists are always a great help for getting volunteers. This really isn't a project I can assist with, so I'll just offer my encouragement. Aaron Spike

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ruler and cursor coordinate issues
by jtaber 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

In trying to trace over a raster and setting the scale to produce lat long coordinates, I've run across the following issues after setting x,y origins and spacing. I'm not sure which are user issues vs program issues. Either way it's not behaving as expected. 1) Assuming I set x origin as 19123 - X Ruler shows the origin as negative rather than a positive and then decreasing instead of increasing 2) Y Ruler behaves correctly assuming SVG standard of Y increasing down but it is often necessary (as in this case of lat,long) to behave as Y up. What about the idea of a user preference that allows Y up ? (sure it's not reflecting SVG but is definitely a user benefit) 3) Cursor coordinates reflect relative coordinates from the origin rather than matching the rulers - this is very confusing. If there is a good reason for the relative behavior, then how about if it is made a user preference? 4) The grid settings allow for x,y spacing but not sure if it is units/pixel or pixels per unit - can we add some text to the dialog to clarify this or at least to the user docs (see below) 5) There doesn't seem to be much documentation or user guides on this subject though a start is in Kevin Wixom's user guide - maybe this user guide should be in wiki form so users can directly input comments and user info (a la wikipedia) 6) At least in the Ubuntu version, there are no links from the help menu to the on-line user guide or wiki. I think there should be.

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Mentor mid-program evaluations due today
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

Bulia, Mental, Ted, and David, Today is the day the mentor evaluations are due. If you haven't already, please go to http://code.google.com/soc/mentor_home.html and fill it out (takes about 5-10 min). Also, please let me know once you've done this. If the evaluations are not filled out, the student will not be allowed to continue with the program. Thanks, Bryce

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New web hosting? (Was Re: Wiki unusable)
by Bryce Harrington 06 Jul '06

06 Jul '06

As I'm sure everyone knows, hosting our website through SourceForge kinda sucks since it's so dang slow. Particular pain points are wiki and screenshots. SF is also continuing to prompt us about disk quota limits. But the challenge to switching is that inkscape.org gobbles *tons* of bandwidth - 130G last month! Back when we had some downloadable packages from our website it jumped to nearly 400G. What sorts of solutions are there that we could consider? Are there existing providers that other FOSS projects use? Or ISPs that'd like to sponsor Inkscape? Bryce ----- Forwarded message from "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> ----- Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 15:27:59 -0700 From: "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...> To: Inkscape Devel List <inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Wiki unusable Bryce Harrington wrote: >On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:55:06AM +0100, Ralf Stephan wrote: > >>Hello, >>the Wiki is unusable atm, 30 sec for one page! >>Can someone please have a look at this? >> > >I've noticed this too. Perhaps it is a sourceforge issue? Slow >database access or something? I did see the following error once: > >Database error > > It's much more than that though. All of our web stuff is painfully slow. As in paper cut covered in lemon juice painful. The website will occasionally not load all the way, or even more rarely it will still barf a db error. Screenshots almost never completely load for me, I'm lucky if it loads more than 1/3 of the image before firefox throws a corrupted image message to me. The wiki issues you know about. The win32 related items require wget to obtain because the connection is lost 90% of the time... and not to mention it's SLOW when it does work. I've had a few occasions where the max transfer I can get from SF is about 14k a sec and then it loses the connection as well. Something that ties into it is that I'd really like to get the website redesign done (which the winner from the contest sent me the SVG to work from the other day... woohoo!). However, I'm afraid that even adding the minimal amount of graphics it has will do us even more harm when it comes to bandwidth and performance. What should we do? -Josh ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Inkscape-devel mailing list Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel ----- End forwarded message -----

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NEW: dropper tool option changes
by bulia byak 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

Instead of the confusing toggle button, now the Controls bar for the Dropper tool has two checkboxes, "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha", which work as follows. Suppose you have an object selected and, using Dropper, click on an object which has red (#FF0000) fill and 0.5 opacity (half-transparent). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is off, the selected object will get the fill color #800000 (i.e. faded-out red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0 (opaque). - If the "Pick alpha" checkbox is on but "Set alpha" is off, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 1.0. - If both "Pick alpha" and "Set alpha" are on, the selected object will get the fill color #FF0000 (red) and fill opacity will be at 0.5 (half-transparent). If you Shift+click instead of click, the same changes will be made to stroke color and stroke opacity, correspondingly. Note that in no situation can Dropper change the master opacity of the selected object(s), although it can pick it just as it does any other kind of opacity. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Versions of gtk/gtkmm used by distros?
by Bryce Harrington 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

----- Forwarded message from Denis Leroy <denis@...1381...> ----- Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 14:56:40 -0700 From: Denis Leroy <denis@...1381...> To: gtkmm-list@...1382... Subject: Re: Versions of gtk/gtkmm used by distros? Bryce Harrington wrote: > Hi, > > For Inkscape we're considering changing our required gtk/gtkmm > requirements from 2.4 to something newer (e.g. 2.8). > > Could someone point me at a listing of which distros ship with which > version of gtk? We're attempting to gauge how many users would be > affected by this change. Speaking for Fedora : Fedora Core 3 (unmaintained) : 2.4.11 Fedora Core 4 : 2.6.5 Fedora Core 5 : 2.8.3 Fedora Core 6 test 1 : 2.8.5 -denis _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@...45... http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list ----- End forwarded message -----

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XML Style properties (filters)
by Hugo Rodrigues 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

There's something odd happening when one tries to add a 'filter' property ( e.g. filter:url(#filterid) ) to a style attribute, on a XML Editor dialog. The filter object is found (if it exists) and correctly loaded into the SPStyle object but in the end, for some reason, the 'filter' property is simply discarded and ends up not being set (try it yourselves if this sounds confusing). I've been debugging style.cpp and related methods exhaustively and can't understand why this happens, is there something that needs to be enabled somewhere else? Can someone more enlightened on this subject please provide some hints here?

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inkscape shirts for team members
by MenTaLguY 05 Jul '06

05 Jul '06

As a few of us will be going to the Desktop Developer's Conference in a couple weeks, I put together some shirts on CafePress. Some people have suggested I post about it on the developers' list, so I added some more products and here it is: http://www.cafepress.com/ink_mental All the shirts are being sold at-cost (relative to Cafe Press' base price), so neither Inkscape nor I benefit financially from sale of the shirts. It's just something cool if you work on Inkscape and want one. -mental

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