Bryce Harrington wrote:

Tablet Bugs

Something drops tablet motion events on the floor while the button is held down. This occurs for some tools, but not with others. The bugs are quite annoying but weird. They don't affect all tablet users.

I want to double check, is this tablet specific, general, or possibly an XFree/X.org issue? I know that there are some issues with X, which is why I ask.

Screenshots

Scislac has taken this task on, and plans to have it done for the release.

Two screenshots are done currently, and one more is in the works. There will be a call for more screenshots on the Deviant Art site.

Damn XGL... VNC isn't working with it and it's what I'm logged into at home. It won't be nearly as in-depth as what I had at home but I will send an email to the list and post on da in about an hour or two.

Tutorials

Calligraphy is mostly done, and a few of the other updates to the other tutorials have been drafted but that stuff definitely needs more work. Should be possible to have them done by the end of April.

I made quite a bit of progress over the weekend with updating the tutorials. I also have the ability to generate the svgs & html again thanks to everyone's help... but of course it isn't that easy. It makes it through the build process but it has errors along the way and the output is VERY broken. An example of the errors I get would be:

(inkscape:22685): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_display_list_devices: assertion `GDK_IS_DISPLAY (display)' failed ** Message: error loading pixbuf at close

Windows "dialogs on top" Patch for GTK

!!! No owner has been identified for this task !!!

This is not exactly an Inkscape-specific problem, since the code changes wouldn't be to Inkscape, but it would be nice to have it finally fixed. This 0.44 release effort may be a good vehicle to tie it to, but we won't hold up the release if it doesn't get done. Scislac had contacted the author previously.

• Send a reminder email to the author to find status on this

I had contacted the author in the past, and most recently passed his contact info on to Bulia. I know that the last couple attempts I made to contact him were unsuccessful, so, hopefully Bulia has more luck. The dialogs on top patch will not be accepted by the GTK folk though in it's current state. The issue relates to dialog ownership and minimizing windows. Basically, since we have dialogs shared between multiple canvases, if you minimize a canvas it takes all dialogs with it. Tor didn't like that.

• Notify translators to complete translation work

I will notify them when I've committed all of my tutorial updates. That at least takes care of that aspect.

• PR / marketing efforts
  • Plan efforts
  • Draft press release
  • Finalize press release
  • Send out press release [rejon]

I will also do the typical PR on the deviantart front. (sorry no time to proof-read)

-Josh