I should have been more precise:

I am using Windows. Though the last Windows build is from the 3rd of February[1] and therefore doesn't contain your changes.

Setting up a development environment to compile it myself is (at least for now) not an option.

Sebastian

[1] http://download.tuxfamily.org/inkscape/

On 16 February 2016 at 09:10, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:

On Tue, 2016-02-16 at 07:12 +0100, Sebastian Zartner wrote:
> Hi Tav,
>
> do users that are not able to compile Inkscape also have the chance
> to try it out and provide feedback?

Have a look at the bottom of:

https://inkscape.org/en/download/

I've never tried these myself...

Tav

> Sebastian
>
> On 15 February 2016 at 11:23, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > The currently specified fallback for the 'arcs' line join is a
> > 'miter'
> > join. It has be noted that this is not a very good fallback. I've
> > implemented three different alternative fallback strategies in
> > trunk as
> > part of the 'Join Type' LPE in trunk. The SVG WG has agreed to
> > change
> > the fallback to one of these depending on user input. Here is your
> > chance to help influence the SVG 2 specification!
> >
> > For a quick introduction, see:
> >
> > http://tavmjong.free.fr/SVG/LINEJOIN_STUDY/#arcs
> >
> >
> > To test:
> >
> > 1. Create a path with a number of corner nodes.
> > 2. Open the LPE dialog (Path->Path Effects, CTRL-SHIFT-7)
> > 3. Click on the '+' button, select 'Join Type', and click the 'Add'
> > button.
> > 4. Increase the 'Line width' to some number (~20 to ~100)
> > 5. Select the various "Extrapolated arc" 'Join' types.
> > 6. Move the handles around and observe the line join shape.
> >
> > Note: There are a number of bugs, for example, setting the Miter
> > limit
> > doesn't always work. Also, if the radius of curvature of the path
> > is
> > very small you might get strange artifacts. For this exercise,
> > please
> > ignore these.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tav

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