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Gitlab access
by Gord Caswell 14 Jan '18

14 Jan '18

Hi Folks, It's fitting to receive an email a moment ago stating my request for access was denied, considering the discussion of turning off the access button. However, I'd like to request access via the mailing list now, and I'll gladly include commit SHAs. Here's my commits: 6795b8ce (via Launchpad) 572d1a9d Thanks. Gord --- >From the desk of: Gord Caswell

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how to update an Inkscape repository
by alvinpenner 13 Jan '18

13 Jan '18

about 6 months ago I created a fork of the inkscape code at: https://gitlab.com/alvinpenner/inkscape 1. now that is obsolete, and I would like to sync it with current Inkscape to bring it uptodate. Is there a button for this? 2. alternatively, I would like to delete the repository and start over. Can I delete it? 3. also, the original Fork button that I used appears to be gone, is it still possible to fork code? sorry about the numerous questions, but I just spent 2 hours searching for these things and cannot find them, the gitlab website seems to have been redesigned since I last used it. Alvin -- Sent from: http://inkscape.13.x6.nabble.com/Inkscape-Dev-f2781808.html

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Hackfests 2018
by Tavmjong Bah 11 Jan '18

11 Jan '18

Hi All, We will are planning two hackfests in the next few months. The first will be in Boston March 26th through 30th. This is our main hackfest for the year. It will take place at the RedHat office at 300 A Street (easily accessible by pubic transport). A formal vote by the Inkscape board to fund travel to this hackfest has not yet taken place but it is envisioned that travel support will be the same as for last years Paris hackfest. A second mini-hackfest is tentatively planned be held in conjunction with the LGM meeting in Seville, Spain April 26th through April 30th. Details are still to be worked out. Google may be providing some support for travel to LGM. They are interested in adding Variable Font support to Inkscape. The Inkscape board has discussed funding travel for Inkscape developers to this hackfest up to a limit of half that for the main hackfest. Details for the hackfests can be found on the Inkscape wiki at: Boston: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018 Seville: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM What we need from you: If you are interested in attending either hackfest, please add your name to the list of attendees on the wiki: Boston: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Attendees Seville: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Atten dees If you have topics you wish to discuss or work on at the hackfest, please add them to: Boston: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_Topics Seville: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Hackfest2018_LGM_Topic s Tav

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Inkscape is SVG
by Martin Owens 04 Jan '18

04 Jan '18

Hello Inkscape-makers, I found this ammusing, while searching for "CM350 brother inkscape" in google, google sometimes searches for synonymous terms. In this search is adds 'SVG' as a synonym for Inkscape. So google things Inkscape IS the same thing as SVG. That's a super cool position to be in, in an odd kind of way. Because it says that googles black box thinks that the pinnacle of SVG, the exemplar, the practical reference for the standard IS Inkscape. OK, back to work. :-) hope everyone had a good new year. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Inkscape Board Meeting
by Bryce Harrington 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Our monthly board meeting is scheduled for next Friday, Jan 5th, 10am Pacific time in #inkscape-devel. All members are welcome. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Board_Meetings Agenda: + Madras Printer's and Lithographers' Association + Boston Hackfest (March) + Merchandise sales + Board election process review [tedg] + DigitalOcean Infrastructure hosting [bryce] + Preliminary preparations for 0.93 [tav] + Other Business Bryce

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Vectors team meeting this Sat?
by brynn 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi Friends, Lazur recently posted a calendar showing meeting dates for the board and also for the Vectors team. It shows a Vectors meeting for this Saturday. But is there actually going to be a Vectors team meeting this Sat? All best, brynn

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Survey: Default beabiour on clones with path operations
by Jabier Arraiza 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Hi all: I just commit a branch [1] that convert shapes and optinaly clones to paths previously any of this path operations: Booleans, Stroke to paths, Object to paths, Combine and Break Apart. The cuestion is simple: ¿Whats is your prefered option about symbols? This is done in preference section and can be change by the user, but we are speaking about the default behabiour. A: Convert to path clones and apply the operation B: Retain clones in this operatios ignoring the operation Thank for take time to reply. [1] https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/159

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Trunk PPA working - Merry Christmas!
by Alex Valavanis 25 Dec '17

25 Dec '17

Hi All, Hope everyone's having a nice holiday. I've fixed the Trunk PPA uploads. The issue was that since we moved to git, there is no longer a universal sequence number for the commits... in other words, every time we merge a branch, the auto-numbering got screwed up. The solution (albeit a bit ugly) was to move to time-stamps in the version string, as recommended by the Launchpad documentation [1], rather than using a commit log number. The version strings for the built package now take the form: 1:0.92.0+devel+{time} This expands to something like: inkscape-trunk_1:0.92.0+devel+201712242340~ubuntu17.04.1 So it's a bit messy, but it's still a unique sequential ID. Best wishes, AV [1] https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/SourceBuilds/Recipes#Version_numbers_a…

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holiday graphics for website?
by brynn 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Hi Friends, I'm thinking about starting a tradition of making holiday graphics for the website. Like for example, today I spiffed up the logo for Inkscape Community with some lights (not twinkling, but maybe next year ;-p ). https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php I'm thinking of just something small and simple like that. Holly and berries, or something. We couldn't do exactly the same thing on the website, because the logo doesn't work the same way as IC. (plus it's pretty small) But there must be some ways to easily slip in some extra graphics into the website? Like maybe in the menu/navigation bar? (could they be red and green? or look like snow is piled on them?) Or the white space between the logo on the top-left and the search field on the right? I saw that cute Inkscape logo with a santa hat in the gallery (https://inkscape.org/en/~jiawhein/%E2%98%85inkscape-logo-christmas), and that's what got me started. But unfortunately, it has a solid white background, which I don't think could be used for the site. I requested either SVG or a transparent PNG, but no answer yet. I made some sort of straight lines of lights, one of which might fit in the white space at the top. But alone, they're hardly creative. Anyway, if someone could explain what those ways might be, where we could sneak in some cute graphics around holidays, I'll take the responsibility to put out a call for such graphics before each major holiday.....or maybe just 4 seasons? Or maybe holidays plus 4 seasons? (I still want to see more graphics on the site, in general. But that's a much bigger project which I can't take a leadership role right now. Well, not unless someone else wants to co-leader it?) Thanks for comments :-) All best, brynn

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GDL broken under Wayland
by Tavmjong Bah 21 Dec '17

21 Dec '17

Hi, It appears that GDL (Gnome Docking Library) is broken under Wayland. >From what I've figured out, the problem is that Wayland doesn't have the concept of global windowing position which means that GDL doesn't know how to do drag-n-drop.[1] The blue "pseudo" window used to indicate where the window is while dragging does not change position. GDL doesn't seem to be under active development so I can't see this being fixed upstream soon. (There were a handful of commits last year, mostly for translation updates.) The code and our interface to it are rather complicated and it would probably take someone a considerable amount of time to fix it. It might be time to rethink how we handle docked and floating dialogs. Any ideas? Tav [1] https://blog.gtk.org/2016/07/15/future-of-relative-window-positioni ng/

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