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Inkscape 0.43
by Bryce Harrington 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hi all, Last month we talked a bit about accelerating our releases a bit. Since it's been a tad over a month since the 0.42 release, and feels like now would be a good point to begin the 0.43 release process. Based on prior releases I expect it may take several weeks to a month to go through this release process. I'd like to propose that we target Sept 1st as our feature freeze point. Does anyone feel strongly that we should wait longer than this? Bryce

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GNOME Summit in Boston sat oct 8 - mon oct 10
by Jon Phillips 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Are ther any Inkscape or OCAL hackers interested in participating and/or presenting at the GNOME Summit in Boston Sat. Oct. 8 - Mon. Oct 10? http://live.gnome.org/Boston2005 I don't think I can make this one, but it would be great if someone could go to this conf. and meet up with folks to discuss various endeavours. Trust me, this type of event is time well spent! If anyone would like help with an abstract, slides, or needs some encouragement, hit me up. Jon -- Jon Phillips San Francisco, CA USA PH 510.499.0894 jon@...235... http://www.rejon.org MSN, AIM, Yahoo Chat: kidproto Jabber Chat: rejon@...896... IRC: rejon@...897... Inkscape (http://inkscape.org) Open Clip Art Library (www.openclipart.org)

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Announcing librsvg 2.11.1 aka 'Brownish paper bag'
by Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

The librsvg team is happy to announce librsvg 2.11.1 librsvg is a SVG rendering library maintained by Dom Lachowicz and Caleb Moore and used among other places in the GNOME desktop. This release of librsvg contains a few critical fixes. It fixes the dpi API which mistakenly got broken in the 2.11.0 release. It also improves the pattern used to recognize svg files in the gdkpixbuf loader so that your desktop SVG files will once again work. More information on the librsvg homepage: http://librsvg.sf.net You can download librsvg from: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/librsvg/2.11/

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Requests/Suggestions from Artists.
by Dan Ostrowski 29 Aug '05

29 Aug '05

Hello all, A while back I emailed David Vignoni (Nuvola icon set fame) and told him about some new features in Inkscape. He emailed me back from aKadamy recently with this: > Hello Dan, > > I'm at aKademy and me (i'm the nuvola guy) and nuno pinheiro we are > working on a new full svg icon theme for kde. I'm still using > illustrator and he is using inkscape. Nuno is going to provide some > feedback since he's using inkscape really a lot and doing very nice > stuff with it. We hope oour feedback may help in some way your great > software. I guess he assumed I was on "the team" but I was just trying to spread the word about Inkscape. *shrug* Anyhow, Nuno emailed me too with this feedback: > Hi my name is Nuno Pinheiro, and i love inkscape :) ! > > Well one of the things we want to try to implement, is a color pallet, > to use it i have to make an text file that i recour every time i need > a specific colour, that i need in a specific point of an gradient. > so the feature i would really appreciate would be the collorpick on > the edit gradient layout. that is i think, a simple feature to add and > one that would have the most deep impact on the productivity side of > things. > > i have many more little features to ask but i will leave that to an > other time! > cheers I don't know if this is of any value to you, but Nuno will be helping David on the new KDE icon set, so he seems like a source of quality feedback. I've let them know that I passed their comments along, mentioned the swatches in 0.42, and let them know that hopefully someone more knowledgeable than myself would be contacting him. Hope this helps, Dan Ostrowski

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Inkscape still does not work on FC
by Artur Rataj 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

Hello! Static binary 42.0 did not work, the latest sources 42.2 compiled but did not work. *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x09557d60 *** As for now, I can use some old versions and read about the latest Inkscape features on your site ;) Cheers, Artur

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Clip Art Browser 0.39
by Greg Steffensen 28 Aug '05

28 Aug '05

I'm releasing version 0.39 of the clip art browser. Naturally, this is an almost-ready snapshot of the next major release, 0.4. Installation works the same as with past releases, although I don't think Jon's very cool Makefile will work. The two big missing features that will be added for 0.4 are making the "Import Clip Art" gui (it requires threading, and pygtk threading always drives me nuts), and some kind of progress bar during the retrieval of large result sets. For this version, a ton of code was revamped, and the result is a significantly more usable and more extensible product (I think). The interface, in particular, was violently redone. http://sharelinux.org/?q=node/1 You'll have to index your clip art using the indexClipart.py script before using it. Also, for now, I wouldn't reccomend using the ocal_net module with it, simply for performance... once I have a progress dialog, that will be more doable. There's a ton of changes in here, most of which were inspired by the recent thread about the project on this mailing list (in particular, Nathan's xml category-hierarchy idea proved useful). Also, this version is significantly more independent of Inkscape. I'll provide more documentation soon, but check out the config file; you can now have it open up images in arbitrary programs that you specify, all cleanly integrated into the UI. Feedback, as always, is very welcome. I'll try to have 0.4 out by, oh say... Wednesday :). Greg

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] CVS compile broken
by Ralf Stephan 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

Hello, First, an explanation. Recent fowlups with my commits not compiling (although they do here) happened because my process here is not fully automatized and single files were not committed. No excuse. Thanks to David, cvs compiles again. I owe you one. Will close the automation gap. Sincerely, ralf

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] Getting involved
by Bryce Harrington 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 07:59:53PM +0200, Ralf Stephan wrote: > Bryce, > SPViewWidget and SPView are now separate. Great! Thanks Ralf. Bryce

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glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer:
by bulia byak 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

We have at least 3 bugs in the tracker with this crash on startup (just search the tracker for "glibc"). Does anyone know what's going on? Is this fixed in 42.1? -- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org

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virtual functions in GObjects
by MenTaLguY 27 Aug '05

27 Aug '05

You can't use virtual functions in GObjects. At all. Introducing a virtual function to a class changes the resulting object layout in a way that is wholly incompatible with GObject. If you need something virtual-like before a class hierarchy has been transitioned away from GObject, you _must_ use the normal GObject mechanisms for that (i.e. adding an entry to the GObjectClass-ish vtable and then writing a (non-virtual) wrapper method that calls explicitly through that function pointer). -mental

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