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Call for Screenshots
by Joshua A. Andler 02 May '06

02 May '06

Better late than never. ;) We have posted the information regarding the call for screenshots over at deviantART (dA). Please read the journal post on the right side of the page. The URL is http://inkscapers.deviantart.com/ It is not required for you to join dA to submit a screenshot. If you aren't a dA member, please feel free to reply to this message on the user-list with a URL for your screenshot. For those who are unfamiliar with dA, it is the largest art community on the web. They have over 21 million pieces of art of all varieties from artists around the globe. The art types are anything from poetry, fractals, vector, 3d, photography, etc (there are many categories with many more sub-categories). You can find out more by visiting the site at http://www.deviantart.com and their summary of what dA is at http://help.deviantart.com/117/ If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at scislacATgmailDOTcom or through dA. -Josh

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snapping update?
by bulia byak 02 May '06

02 May '06

One thing that we can't release without is workable snapping. Since more and more people start talking about releasing, I thought I'd ask for an update. Overall, it seems to me that this area, which was actively worked upon a few months ago, has been abandoned since and is now in some semi-working state. At the very least, the freeze-when-dragging-many-objects bug MUST be fixed. There are many other snapping bugs and RFEs, and there's probably some work that was left unfinished. Carl, is there any chance you will address the freeze bug in the near future? What about other bugs? Mathieu, I know you were working on some features that were conditional on Carl's work. Can you please give us an update of the current status? What is required to enable your features? Do you think you could help us with the bugs and general cleanup in absence of Carl? Of course, any insights on the situation, or better yet, help with coding will be much appreciated from anyone. Thanks! -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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path effect grammar
by Aaron Spike 02 May '06

02 May '06

I'm still rather hating the way I'm currently implementing attributes for storing live effects parameters. <path path-effect="sample" path-effect-param1="0.0" path-effect-param2="0.0" path-effect-param3="0.0" path-effect-param4="0.0" /> My problems with this are: 1) Anytime a new effect is implemented that uses n+1 parameters, another parameter attribute needs to be added in a few code places. 2) It is not possible to layer multiple effects. 3) It is not possible to order the effects that cannot be layered. 4) The meaning of the parameters is unknown in the SVG file. The structure used by SVG's style attribute deals with 1 and 4. The structure used by SVG's transform attribute deals with 2 and 3. We could combine them into something like: <path path-effect="sample1(param1:0.0;param2:loopy;) sample2(paramA:45;)" /> I of course don't know how to begin doing something like this in C++. I'd like to hear what you think would be more appropriate and how it would be implemented. Aaron Spike

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Inkscape 0.44 Status
by Bryce Harrington 02 May '06

02 May '06

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:36:42PM -0700, MenTaLguY wrote: > On Mon, 1 May 2006 16:28:52 -0400, "bulia byak" <buliabyak@...400...> wrote: > >> Brush size adjustment on zoom toggle for calligraphic pen > >> ========================================================= > >> MentalGuy is working on this and plans to have it to a finished point > >> for the release. > > > > Mental, is this what you described - some kind of visual pen width > > changer? Do you think it will be ready for this release? > > I think bryce was describing the absolute size toggle you've comitted. > > I would have liked to do the visual pen width adjustment for this release, I don't think I'll have time. Except perhaps for fixing any gross memory leaks that turn up, addressing the tablet bug takes priority over everything else (even the layer dialog), because I find it makes Inkscape nearly unusuable (I've become very adept at switching back and forth from the mouse, but...). > > -mental > Just to clarify, should I mark this Brush size feature as done, or as on hold? Bryce

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Underlined Text
by Joc 02 May '06

02 May '06

What about adding support for underlined text? Many kind of underline are possible, single line, double line, wavy line, etc. This could be extended to have the line above the text or in the middle of it (overstrike). The text flow could also be expanded to be able to write fractions, equations, etc. Joc

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finalizer logging
by MenTaLguY 01 May '06

01 May '06

I've just added another debugging category to the debug logging code, so now object finalization is reported in the log. Finalization is a special step taken before freeing those objects which the collector cannot automatically clean up (e.g. because they need to release non-collector-managed resources). Classes with finalizers include SPDocument and SPDesktop. Try it out with latest SVN: INKSCAPE_DEBUG_LOG=debug.xml INKSCAPE_DEBUG_FILTER=REFCOUNT,FINALIZERS src/inkscape Open some documents, close them, and before closing the last one, go to the "About Memory" dialog and click "recalculate" a few times to make sure that a garbage collection pass gets run. Then look at debug.xml. You can see not only when the finalization of an object happened, but also what debugging events (in this case refs/unrefs) happened during its finalizer. -mental

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WEBFORM Broken Wiki links on the german homepage
by Christian Corona 01 May '06

01 May '06

Message from Inkscape submission form Please note, that the submitter may not read this list. CC your answer to the submitter name: Christian Corona email: christian.corona@...240... submitted the following: Hi, I wanted to read about how to help the Inkscape project by doing translations, but all the links on the german version of the Inkscape homepage that point to wiki pages are broken. They\'re all in this format: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/?TranslationInformation While it should be: http://www.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/TranslationInformation You really should look into this, because right now all the links point to the wiki main page. I haven\'t checked this but the links might be broken on other translated versions, too. Also, I hereby would like to offer my help by doing translations english<->german, I am especially interested in translating the tutorials to german since they are really useful for learning how to use Inkscape. Cheers, Chris

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[Fwd: Invitation to Participate in Summer of Code 2006]
by Bryce Harrington 01 May '06

01 May '06

Hi All, I've gone ahead and indicated our interest in participating in this year's Google Summer of Code. Please begin imagining some good projects for us to offer for students to work on. :-) The more ideas, the better! Bryce ----- Forwarded message from Leslie Hawthorn <lhawthorn@...819...> ----- Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 12:43:36 -0700 From: Leslie Hawthorn <lhawthorn@...819...> To: bryce@...961... Reply-To: lhawthorn@...819... Subject: Invitation to Participate in Summer of Code 2006 Hello Bryce, *ahem* Sorry about that - we'd like to invite Inkscape to sign up! Google is launching the Summer of Code program again this year and we would like to invite Inkscape to sign up to participate. You can peruse our [1]Mentor FAQ and [2]Terms of Service on the [3]Summer of Code site for more information on this year's instance of the program. If you would like to participate in Summer of Code 2006, please email back with your [4]Google Account information and we will use this information to create the first administrator account on the SoC site for Inkscape and send you instructions for accessing and updating the site. We look forward to working with you again during this year's Summer of Code! Cheers, LH -- Leslie Hawthorn Open Source Program Coordinator Google Inc. References 1. http://code.google.com/soc/mentorfaq.html 2. http://code.google.com/soc/tos.html 3. http://code.google.com/soc/ 4. https://www.google.com/accounts/ManageAccount ----- End forwarded message -----

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Background Image and Drag to Install (was Re: [Inkscape-devel] new packaging for OS X)
by Ben Fowler 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

On 24/04/06, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote: > On 24 Apr 2006, at 13:59 , Ben Fowler wrote: > > On 24/04/06, jiho <jo.irisson@...400...> wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> [ snip ] > > > > Could I underline that this is more than eye-candy: It is best > > practice to have a background image, showing that > > the way to install the application is to drag it to the folder of > > your choice. It is also advisable to somehow indicate > > where the application now is, to wit that the user will have to open > > the Applications folder (perhaps with Cmd-Shift-A) > > to see where they put it. ... > > so you advise not to use the symlink to Apllications but rather to > make the user open Applications (or anything else) and put inkscape > there? Well, I didn't mean to go into quite such a detail, but if you did want an opinion from me, I would be a little against it. (Does anybody else do this?). Some people (most people) want to put apps in the System wide Applications folder, some people put apps in their ~/Applications folder - necessary if you do not have write permission to the System wide Applications folder, and some people plonk new apps onto their Desktop to try out, and then transfer to the proper place when they have checked them out. I wouldn't expect a naive user to understand dropping an icon from part of a disk image to another. The problem is making the instructions brief and multi-lingual. My guide is this page which has aged very well: http://www.g2meyer.com/usablehelp/dmggfx.html , > >> I'll be unavailable for the next two months so I won't be able to > >> produce Inkscape dev builds for the testing phase of the release, nor > >> will I be able to package 0.44. I guess people will be available to > >> do it. If this new packaging is ok to everybody and worth bothering, > >> I'll modify the wiki to explain how to do it and somebody (Michael? > >> Ted?) could take over the builds. > > > > I think that they key to this is that there should be one person > > nominated to produced 'blessed' builds. FWIW, I have had to make a > > few modifications to the methods on the wiki, and I > > doubt that many people are producing Mac builds. This does not matter > > provided that one person can produce official builds - interested > > parties can download and test those. > > I agree with you. I'll be happy to be the one to produce the > "blessed" builds ;-) I just cannot do this for a while and I just > need someone with a 10.4 machine to take over for two months (BTW, I > mixed up the names and wrote Ted instead of Ben earlier. Even if you > work on 10.3, do you have a 10.4 machine somewhere?). Sure, if you can give brief instructions, on how to produce stripped builds, how to smoke test and how to upload, I will do this, but it is possible that there are people here who could do a better job, and I won't be offended to be relieved of this duty, if necessary! Ben

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Google Summer of Code projects - update!
by Bryce Harrington 30 Apr '06

30 Apr '06

Hi all, I've cleaned up the list of ideas for summer of code projects, to elaborate on what the task is, why it's important, and how (in general) it should be done. I also took a stab at identifying mentors for many of them. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Googles_Summer_Of_Code Please take a look and make sure I haven't completely misrepresented the ideas (I had to make guesses about a lot of stuff). There's also a few ideas listed at the bottom that I didn't understand well enough to flesh out; feel free to write those up in more detail. Also, if you would be willing to be a mentor for one of the ideas with a TBD mentor, please feel free to add yourself to the idea. Bryce

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