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Effect submission
by unknown＠example.com 23 Sep '05

23 Sep '05

I received a mail form one Carsten Goetze the other day asking how to submit an effect for inclusion in the inkscape distribution. Every time I tried to reply my mail was rejected by the remote server. Carsten, if you read these lists, I'm sorry that I wasn't able to get back to you immediately. Please post your effect to the patch tracker <http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=93438&atid=604308> and send a mail the the mailing lists to encourage everyone to test your work. Aaron Spike

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menus.xml
by unknown＠example.com 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

So... we're releasing 0.43 with menus.xml, or has it been removed? -mental

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Re: OS X build for inkscape
by Bryce Harrington 22 Sep '05

22 Sep '05

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:40:15PM +0100, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > OS X build* for inkscape > > Bryce, > > someone once built inkscape for OS X, not so long ago. > If that person can provide build instructions, I may be able to make > regular builds, especially whilst inkscape is improving so fast. Great, thanks! Kees, can you point Jonathan towards the build instructions for OSX? Bryce

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Inkscape stats 9/15/05
by Bryce Harrington 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

We're now in feature freeze, and already past half-way towards achieving hard freeze. We've named our release wardens and I'm already hearing some discussions regarding sorting through packaging issues. We've got some work to do to get through the must-fix bugs, but given that we've had a short time since 0.42.2, I think even this will go smoothly. The number to check out this time is the number of feature requests. We dropped the total from 471 a couple months ago to under 450 now, or from a ratio of 62% to under 50%. Quite a jump! Where the project needs help right now is in closing bugs. We have our bug tracker quite well under control, but there are 258 open bugs, and it would be wonderful if we could cut that down significantly before the 0.43 release. If you can code, please check out if you can help close one or two, and help us really drive this number down. :-) Bryce Statistics Jun 1 Jul 1 Aug 1 Sep 1 Sep 15 ========== ====== ====== ====== ====== ====== Max Week's Rank on SourceForge: 38 35 3 23 43 Total SF Page Views 1,935,964 3,797,037 4,452,437 4,139,401 4,467,690 Total SF Downloads 254,647 283,789 378,712 448,994 474,659 Total Freshmeat URL Hits 19,149 19,809 21,261 22,422 22,766 Total Freshmeat Subscriptions 183 189 208 220 224 Lines of Code in src/: 374,180 376,319 389,945 404,800 544,033 Code lines 260,236 261,600 270,423 279,621 373,738 Comment line 67,136 67,724 70,478 73,904 108,863 Blank 53,443 53,651 55,698 57,937 73,408 Lines of Docs in doc/: 27,790 27,792 28,090 28,121 27,176 Lines of content in website: 42,490 42,700 44,483 44,732 45,246 Size of the Inkscape wiki: 26,729 28,525 34,890 34,847 34,847 Bugs open/total: 215/1223 196/1312 215/1445 250/1555 258/1591 Features open/total: 453/ 728 471/ 767 440/816 466/ 874 448/ 900 Patches open/total: 11/ 230 10/ 268 8/325 6/ 332 9/ 336 CVS Commits (as per inkscape-cvs) 12,040 12,372 12,915 13,423 13,936 Inkscape-devel membership: 179 188 200 217 217 Inkscape-announce membership: 202 217 236 274 278 Inkscape-user membership: 248 258 276 295 304 Inkscape-tester membership: 23 Num Translations: 33 33 33 33 33 Ave Translation Ratio: 47.8 48.6 54.6 54.9 50.2

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win98 crash on startup with 2.8 libs
by bulia byak 21 Sep '05

21 Sep '05

I spent half the night debugging this crash today - gdb no longer works, so I had to do this by scattering printfs in the code. I localized it to this: gtk_option_menu_set_menu(GTK_OPTION_MENU(us->menu), m); in spus_rebuild_menu() in unit-menu.cpp. It's called when the first units menu for the selector toolbar is created. Both pointers are valid. I know gtk_option_menu is deprecated, but it must not crash! We have lots of old code with gtk_option_menu and absolutely no resources to rewrite them all. If I comment that line out, it goes farther, but eventually still crashes somewhere. I have no energy left to figure out where. Now, there's also an error box with the same "pango error" as the one I fixed for 0.42.2. As I understand it, it's caused by the crash handler's attempt to write prefs on exit. The prefs file is read OK but writing it out is broken (again). However, this only happens after the gtk_option_menu crash. My conclusion: We have to roll back to 2.6. The gtk 2.8 seems to be really really broken on win98. I don't see how we can work around this. Opinions? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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Translating Xlink attributes?
by Colin Marquardt 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

Hi, I think translating the Xlink attributes (shown in the link properties dialog of a linked object) is too specific. Anyone wanting to make sense of the attributes would have to know http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-xlink-20000703/ and the link in the TRANSLATORS comment anyway. Don't you agree that these strings should show up in non-interpreted English? If so, these strings should not be marked as translatable. Here is an example: #. TRANSLATORS: for info, see http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/CR-SVG-20000802/linking.html#AElementXLinkArcRole… #. For situations where the nature/role alone isn't enough, this offers an additional URI defining the purpose of the link. #: ../src/dialogs/object-attributes.cpp:42 msgid "Arcrole:" Cheers, Colin -- <jeff> so tell me, what will xemacs do for me? <Ueberluser> I don't know. It's an editor. Do you need an editor? <jeff> I guess not.. i just use VI

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Re: Using Inkscape
by Gavin Band 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

(Bulia Byak wrote that he had changed the minimum zoom size in CVS, so I could see my file - but I lost the email) Thanks - I will check it out. gav.

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Press
by unknown＠example.com 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

All this talk about website redesign and reorganization makes me wonder. On many commercial websites I see a "For the Press" section. Should inkscape have one of those? Also, since the question has come up multiple times can we attach licensing information to each screenshot on the website. I noticed the gamemap example does this. Would someone who knows how place a PD designation next to both of my screenshots? Aaron Spike

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SVG in the press
by Taraben, Adib 20 Sep '05

20 Sep '05

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2394080884.html

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Usage Notes
by Michael Wheeler 19 Sep '05

19 Sep '05

Hi all, When I have opportunities, I like to try out Inkscape for some of my freelance work and take notes. My freelance work is mostly doing artwork for those t-shirts you see in kiosks at the mall. Think "Coolest Grandpa in the World". A lot of tracing and finishing of scanned drawings. Anyway, I realized that I had a lot of notes from over several months and I thought I'd finally gather them together and send them to the list. I love the MMB panning and zooming, especially now that I can MMB pan even while I am in the middle of drawing a path with the pen tool. Is there any reason that Shift+MMB+drag couldn't serve the same function as LMB+drag with the zoom tool (zooming in on the area you've just dragged a box around)? I think it would really complete the middle mouse button as a document navigation tool. Shift+MMB+drag currently just pans the document, the same as regular MMB dragging. Dialogs pop-up to the front whenever I hover for more than a second over a toolbar button or menu. They appear to pop up simultaneously with the tooltips. This is under Win2k, It works correctly in Ubuntu. Is there any way that the HSL color picker could be fixed so that changing the value of one component would not affect the values of the other components? For instance, setting S to 0 often snaps H to 0 also. Other, less drastic value changes occasionally occur too. It is frustrating to pick out the exact hue I want, only to have it change when I start tinkering with the saturation or lightness. Align nodes is nice, but it would be more useful if there was an option to align to the center or average of the selected nodes. I love the node editing tool, especially now that i can drag curve segments and double click to add nodes! I use Illustrator at work and at home for freelance jobs and I must say that the path editing UI is one area where I find Inkscape to be head and shoulders above AI. The only problem is the speed. Forgive me for mentioning it (since I know everyone is aware of the slow rendering), but more than any other drawback this is the one that can turn using Inkscape from a pleasure into a headache. I've brought this up before, and people mentioned profiling, but it is a little bit over my head. I don't know if it is still worth doing, but some instructions are available at http://wiki.inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Profiling for those who would like to try (maybe this page should be linked to the TestingInkscape page?). Anyway, I hope these notes are helpful. -Mike

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