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sp_selection_copy_impl fix
by Nicklas Lindgren 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Hi again, It appears that sp_selection_copy_impl does not respect the const-ness of its first parameter. I've made a patch for this. This fixes bug 1253235 (Moving multiple objects up/down a layer duplicates them). The patch can be found at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nili/inkscape/ . --Nicklas

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Build report #245
by Bryce Harrington 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

= Analysis Report for inkscape-20050806-0700 = Platform Unpack Config Build Install WRNS ERRS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ debian x86 0 0 0 0 6 0 == Errors == none == Warnings == interface.cpp:585: warning: `void sp_ui_menu_append(GtkMenu*, Inkscape::Verb**, display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: invalid access to non-static data member display/canvas-arena.cpp:91: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used display/sp-canvas.cpp:127: warning: invalid access to non-static data member ` display/sp-canvas.cpp:127: warning: (perhaps the `offsetof' macro was used libnrtype/Layout-TNG-Output.cpp:226: warning: enumeration value `

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Color related tool
by Joshua A. Andler 07 Aug '05

07 Aug '05

Here is an interesting tool I stumbled across called Color Schemer for dealing with color (obviously) that I think would be nifty for us to implement something similar within inkscape. Here are a couple screenshots in action: http://www.colorschemer.com/images/v3screenmain.png http://www.colorschemer.com/images/studioscreenharm.png http://www.colorschemer.com/images/studioscreenmixer.gif There is an online version too, which has the basic functionality and we can probably view source to get some ideas from. http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html My thought is that since we now have swatches, a "utility" like this would rock for knocking together good harmonious swatch sets with great ease. Just my .02 -Josh

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Key In: Shortcut references from Macromedia Fireworks
by Alan Horkan 06 Aug '05

06 Aug '05

Before my trial version of Macromedia Fireworks expired I exported HTML pages for the various keybinding sets it supported (with the unfortunately exception of Photoshop) and then today I hastily munged them together into one great big table for comparison purposes. (Kevin Wixon seems to have access to Illustrator so I'd appreciate any comments he might have.) The link is temporary and I may move it or the information contained within to somewhere else more suitable so if the information is of interest please save a copy. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/shortcuts/keys.html Essentially I think it could be quite useful to identify the basic keybindings the various applications have in common. I should warn that I think I see at least one error in the list and as these were all generated from Fireworks what it claims are the Illustrator keybindings may not be entirely accurate (I dont recally Illustrator having a menu item for "Insert Hotspot" for example). I'm amused to see differences even between Fireworks and Freehand. It might also be worth noting some of the items they do not give keybindings to so when we next try to find a suitable keybinding we will have some idea of which items are not really important enough to need keybindings. Here are some other menu references I have mentioned before but lost track of. will try and find time to put in the wiki this time but if anyone is willing to help (and even remind me occasionally to try and do it) I'd appreciate it. I think my notes are a little too messy to directly cut and paste into the Wiki. Top level menus only of various applications: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/menus.txt Adobe Illustrator 7.0 for Mac OS menus (keybindings not included): http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/illustrator-menus.txt Freehand MX keybindings: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~horkana/inkscape/freehand/FreeHandMX_keybindings.t… All this keybinding lark has gotten me side tracked from coming up with a proposal on the menu reorganistion, sorry about that. Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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Inkscape menu reorganistation, Illustrator related analysis.
by Alan Horkan 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Top level menus in Inkscape: File, Edit, View, Layer, Object, Path, Text, Effects, Help. Top level menus in Adobe Illustrator 10: File, Edit, Object, Type, Select, Filter, Effect, View, Window, Help. Text seems like nearly a better choice than Type (Illustrator came out of Adobes type business and Photoshop came later). Might want to consider changing Effects to Effect which fits in better with the usual naming conventions of top level menus. I should have noticed it before, I will file a request for this minor tweak. The effects menu is already full of functionality and I would be tempted to put in submenus soon and provide struture for plugin developers to work to but I might be getting ahead of myself here. (If I recally correctly the Filter menu is essentially the Photoshop filters embedded for use inside Illustrator.) Inkscape doesn't currently have Select menu. Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, the GNU Image Manipulation program, Fireworks all have it. (There are probably some intersting counter examples of applications that dont have it but I'll leave that to someone else). I think in the long term a Select menu is a good idea but initially it may look a little odd with only 4 or 5 items so maybe I should rush to change it just yet. The windows menu... There was a mailing list post earlier in the week which I read (with some difficulty). The message: Subject: Scribus+Inkscape UI discussion http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.graphics.inkscape.devel/10967 The article on the scribus user interface: http://www.le-radar.com/?articles/scribusUI I mention it because the author thought it might be good to have a standard "Windows" menu. I've asked the GIMP developers to change their consider changing their Dialogs menu to a Windows menu (there is a little more to it than mere relabelling but not a whole lot). Getting rid of the dialogs menu forced a big User Interface shake up, reintroducing a very similar Windows menu to Inkscape might be counterproductive in the short term. Those were the relatively easy things I've been pondering. The Object and Path menus are a little more difficult. I think they should probably be merged, Paths are essentially Objects. Some functionality such as "Inset" would be great if they worked on all objects, not just paths which is not a superficial change. Based on the Inset tool in Freehand a popup dialog with more flexible options might be appropriate. Some items will need to be moved submenus (probably the various Arrange and Transform options first) to allow this but it is more complicated than that. So that is what I'm thinking so far and I realise some of it might not be immediately practical but with a bit more time I think out a bit more coherent of a plan. Hopefully developers can identify some parts of inkscape they think may need to be expanded or consilidated so there is room for the interface to grow without becoming overwhelming. Too much caffeine, better go home and go for run if I'm ever going to get to sleep. (Which means I wont be responding to this message until tommorow.) Sincerely Alan Horkan Inkscape http://inkscape.org Abiword http://www.abisource.com Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/ Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/

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My Menus.xml
by Joshua Blocher 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

These are my personnel adjustments to the menus. The main philosophy behind the adjustments is if menu item already has "face time" in the UI then its ok to bury the Item in a clearly labeled submenu. Not all of the adjusts fall in to this category. Some just felt right. Others didn't seem to really belong in the menu they were in. All menus are now under 15 items, except the Effects menu which I renamed to Scripts Joshua Blocher verbalshadow

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CVS branches
by Arpad Biro 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hi, Besides HEAD, is there any other CVS branch that we should commit (translations) to before 0.42.1? I only committed new translations to HEAD as usual -- but not sure if 0.42.1 will be based on that branch... Arpad Biro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [Inkscape-devel] New binary portability problem identified
by unknown＠example.com 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Mike, Thanks for that information. More that a few users have noticed this problem so I'm copying the list with this reply. Aaron mike@...869... wrote: > Ignore that for now, the warning is harmless and won't affect how Inkscape > operates. > > I agree it's a bit disconcerting for end users, as it looks like an error > even though it's really just a warning. If you run Inkscape from the menus > of course you won't see it. > > Probably we should develop a tool to fix binaries that trigger this. As an > alternative, replace the libpng on your system with the same copy from a > non-Debian system (or put it somewhere in the library path that'll take > precedence). > > thanks -mike > > Original Message: > ----------------- > From: Aaron and Sarah Spike spike@...749... > Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:17:12 -0500 > To: mike@...869... > Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] New binary portability problem identified > > > Some users also have problems with libpng: > https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1246201&group_i > d=93438 > Should I make that static? > > Aaron Spike > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > mail2web - Check your email from the web at > http://mail2web.com/ . > >

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0.42.1 and Ubuntu Feature Freeze
by Corey Burger 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

Hey All, As some of you already know, I am trying to get 0.42 in the next version of Ubuntu, due in October. Inkscape is a supported program, and thus there are strict dates for uploading, one of which we have already passed. Now, the Feature Freeze is rapidly approaching (Aug 11). and I hear of crashers in 0.42. I already know that several of you already use and promote Ubuntu. It would truly suck if 0.42.1 missed Breezy. Corey

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Vers 0.42 in Debian Unstable ?
by John Taber 05 Aug '05

05 Aug '05

I'm aware of the gcc issues but I thought it was mentioned that .42 was available in Debian unstable but I dont' see it there (latest 0.41-5). Any word? If it's not going to be there for a while, what is the best alternative, autopackage ?

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