Steren,
This project looks awesome! I've only looked at the first few pages of the report, but it appears to offer a HUGE benefit to image management in Inkscape!
Congratulations to the team members! And Inkscape :)
I'm looking forward to this being merged into the (hopefully next) release!
JF
On 09-13-10 6:08 AM, Steren wrote:
Hi, The project of the students from Ecole Centrale Lyon has ended in June. Their report (written in english) is available on my page of the Inkscape Wiki http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/User:Steren.
The code is in a dedicated Inkscape branch https://code.launchpad.net/%7Ecentralelyon2010/inkscape/imagelinks2 on Launchpad. You will find:
* a use of relative links by default * a smart relinking tool for broken images * a first step in the image properties redesign.The first part of this page http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Image_properties_dialog_enhancements details what has been done and is dedicated to bug tracking for this branch. (Can we use launchpad bug tracking for a branch? If so, we should do it). You are welcomed to test it and report errors, keep in mind that it is non-finished work.
Once again, I think it was a great experience for the students to work on a project such as Inkscape. I hope they will see their effort being integrated into trunk one day, the same we were pleased to see the spray tool or the enhanced LPEs. Students involved are :
* François Petit <Francois.Petit@...2281... <mailto:Francois.Petit@...2281...>> * Baptiste Soyer <Baptiste.Soyer@...2281... <mailto:Baptiste.Soyer@...2281...>> * Mor Ngom <Mor.Ngom@...2281... <mailto:Mor.Ngom@...2281...>> * Rafik Boughida <Rafik.Boughida@...2281... <mailto:Rafik.Boughida@...2281...>> * Vincent Pais <Vincent.Pais@...2281... <mailto:Vincent.Pais@...2281...>> * Yoann Desgrande <Yoann.Desgrange@...2281... <mailto:Yoann.Desgrange@...2281...>>And I was their mentor. Unfortunately, I won't be able to be involved into this project in the future. Some of the students and Nicolas Dufour <nicoduf@...48... mailto:nicoduf@...48...> (JazzyNico) volunteered to continue the work. (thanks!)
I would advise to continue the work on the branch, and to merge when things start being usable. The code surely needs a review from an experienced dev. And some questions around usage of URL or IRI shoud be discussed (see the previous wiki page): Originally, file:// was before the path, after the students' work, path is written directly and no ASCII conversion is done. The W3C allow the use of IRI, but this change may interfere with Inkscape. I guess it shouldn't be too hard to transform the IRI into a URI. What do you think ?
Any feedback is welcomed. Feel free to test the branch. I hope these efforts will help Inkscape. Thanks for your support.
Cheers Steren