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Keyboard navigation... (F6, F8, ...)
by Jon A. Cruz 28 Jan '06

28 Jan '06

We seem to have a bit of a problem now. It turns out that the reason F6 and F8 became 'broken', is that they are reserved by GTK for stock navigation when a splitter pane is involved in the UI. It turns out that F6 is used to switch between current panes, and F8 to switch to the splitter itself to allow for keyboard resizing. I don't think we can just arbitrarily remap those, since it's part of the accessibility project and was designed to coincide with the use of keys on other platforms/toolkits. So I think we're now faced with the decision to either not allow any GtkPaned widgets in our UI, or to give up F6 and F8. As a follow-up item, we probably need to do something I've been thinking of for a while and list out the different keys and how they're used on different platforms and in different applications. One thing tweaking things a bit for me is that on OS X, F9-F12 are used for basic OS-wide features, and other can be also (especially on laptops). http://guides.macrumors.com/Keyboard_shortcuts (the three links at the bottom of the page are quite helpful)

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Re: [Inkscape-tester] weird look of document properties dialog
by Ralf Stephan 27 Jan '06

27 Jan '06

> Please have a look at this screenshot of current Document Properties > dialog (latest SVN, seen the same last several weeks): > http://prokoudine.info/shots/inkscape/DocumentPropertiesDialog.png This is a duplicate of bug #1407428, and I have no idea about the cause. ralf

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need help with Windows command line
by bulia byak 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Devs, (and Bob especially,) Our efforts to make Inkscape's Windows port not output errors on the console have been way too successful. Now it never ouputs ANYTHING to the console, ever. Not even if I redirect it to file (> file). Now, however, I have a project that critically depends on querying SVG files with Inkscape using --query* command line options. Worst of all, this must run on Windows. So my question is, is there any simple fix I can do to make this work (I don't mind to run a custom version of Inkscape for this project)? Or, should I just add --query-output=file option which would make it write the output to a file, which I can then parse? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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bug with ink prefs
by bulia byak 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

When double clicking a tool button, the old prefs dialog shows up. It should of course show the new one (the old one must be removed from the codebase), and it must open the page of that tool automatically. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: transformation centers remembered
by bulia byak 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

On 1/26/06, Laszlo <khiraly123@...240...> wrote: > Is it possible to numarically add the position of the rotation center? Not yet. I think this should be a separate tab in the Transform dialog, with 9 buttons in the square grid (for setting it to object's corners, sides, and center) as well as x/y fields for setting it to any position. Also, more things that need to be added: - make center snap to grid/guides/objects and to other centers - make objects snap with their center to grid/guides/objects Volunteers welcome, especially with snapping! The API is very easy - the SPItem now has methods: getCenter, setCenter, isCenterSet and unsetCenter, pretty self-explanatory. -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Icon Preview
by Joshua A. Andler 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

I've honestly never checked the Icon Preview out before and decided to this morning. It appears to me that the dialog may be broken (or it may just be my not understanding it). Is it supposed to have the extra widgets that the swatches dialog has? I'm talking about the swatches selection list and that X button widgets. Also, it appears to be a blank dialog otherwise, but when you hover around it does button highlighting (and it looks like you click those buttons to get the preview). Am I missing something here? -Josh

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a rant
by bulia byak 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

Guys, Inkscape's openness and the ease of contributing to it are wonderful. However, I would like to remind you that if you commit a change, by this very act you suggest that at least one of the following is true: 1 You are a heavy user of the changed/added feature, and you are sure you yourself can discover and fix most related bugs soon, if not already. 2 You intend to be around for a reasonable amount of time after your commit, _watch_ for bug reports related to your change, and fix them _promptly_. If none of these are true, please REFRAIN FROM COMMITTING until you can make them true. Why rant about it now? Two of the recent regressions are so nasty that they forced me downgrade to 0.43 for my daily work, painful as it is. Not being able to use the latest CVS - oops, sorry, SVN - is so annoying that I just can't help speaking out. The people who caused these regressions are known with a reasonable level of certainty, and I asked them to fix the bugs (or at least look into them) numerous times. The bugs are: - export selection is broken (likely caused by Carl's changes in libnr) - F6 and F8 keys don't work (most certainly caused by Jon Cruz' swatches panel) I don't want to blame anyone, because these people may have some genuine reasons to be unable to fix these bugs. Or, it may be that the bugs are not caused by them at all. After all, I myself am too busy with work right now, so I can't even investigate these bugs in more detail, let alone fix them. However, I feel that this is still a good occasion to state what I have stated: DO NOT COMMIT if you will be unable to support your change at least for the length of one full release cycle, and especially if you can't be on guard for the first few weeks when most of the bugs are found. Thanks, -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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NEW: transformation centers remembered
by bulia byak 26 Jan '06

26 Jan '06

This feature is finally reimplemented correctly. Everyone please test heavily. I want to hear about any workflow or usability issues from all kinds of users. * The position of the center (axis) of rotation and skewing used by Selector is now remembered for all objects and is restored when you select those objects again (even after save and reload). When you move or scale an object, its rotation center is moved or scaled too, so its position relative to the object always remains the same. * Shift+click on the rotation center resets it back to the center of the object's box. * Consequently, dragging the transformation center is now an undoable action; you can press Ctrl+Z to undo the drag. Todo: - make use of this in keyboard transforms and Transform dialog; - make it work smartly for groups: if a group has center not set, return the center of the first object inside group with the center set -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Libre Graphics Meeting (France March 17-19)
by Bryce Harrington 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

Hi all, Several of us Inkscapers will be attending the Libre Graphics Meeting in Lyon, France March 17-19 2006, and we'd love it if more Inkscapers and OCALers (both developers and users) could attend. If we can get a quorum, we can have an Inkscape/OCAL meeting there during the conference. The conference itself will be free to attend. In addition to Inkscape and OCAL, GIMP, Scribus, Blender, Xara, Little CMS and other projects will be there. More info about the conference itself is available here: http://www.libregraphicsmeeting.org/ In addition, my dad and I are going to be touring around Europe (SE France, N Italy, Austria, S Germany), and would love to meet up with anyone in the area. Drop me a line if you're interested! Bryce

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Re: [Inkscape-user] Line markers
by bulia byak 25 Jan '06

25 Jan '06

On 1/24/06, Joshua A. Andler <joshua@...533...> wrote: > Isn't there a potential solution though? Yes. Not potential but the real compatible solution. It's in SVG 1.2 and just needs to be coded. Details in this bug: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=995815&group_id=93… While not yet implemented, can this information please be added to a FAQ, so that people don't have to reinvent workarounds? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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