Hello, I'm a 31 years old developer from Italy and I've been using Inkscape for years. I've just subscribed to this mailing list and.. yeah... I'm already here with a bug report :P
Recently I experienced a strange behaviour with KDE 4 preview system and svg/svgz files saved with the last version of inkscape (both stable and devel version) so I decided to contact you.
I hate duplicate/unclear bug reports so I would like to discuss this thing a bit with you before filing a bug to launchpad.
So, let's try to explain what I've found
System: Kubuntu 9.10 with KDE 4.3.2 Inkscape: devel version and 0.46 (See below) Reproducible: yes
These are the steps I did:
1) I drew a simple icon with inkscape (a circle and a polygon) 2) I save it as svg or svgz (get the file here [1]) 3) The preview on my kubuntu 9.10 looks crazy (get the preview here [2]) as if nodes position has been screwed
4) I open the svg file with Inkscape 0.46 5) I change the color of an element and save again 6) The preview still looks crazy
7) I open the file again with Inkscape 0.46 but this time I move the polygon around, then I place it in the old position and save 8) The preview looks perfect, as if nodes position has been restored (get the file and the preview here [3][4])
I can't really understand what's going on here but seems that KDE 4 has troubles when previewing svg/svgz files saved with inkscape > 0.46 This happens also using ksvgtopng to convert an svg file to a png
Could this possibly be related to bug 170049 [5] ?
If you need more experiments just ask :-)
Thank you
Claudio Canavese (CoD)
1: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/devel.svgz 2: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/devel.png 3: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/046.svgz 4: http://cod-web.net/inkscape/046.png 5: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/170049