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.
- 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 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 :
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...>
(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