On Jul 18, 2011, at 1:18 AM, Simon A. Eugster wrote:

Good morning,

I'm talking about this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/420202 I don't know the inkscape source code, but I do know some C/C++ (I'm a fellow developer of http://kdenlive.org and of soon-to-be released slowmoVideo[1]).

And I'm totally frustrated every time I see the above bug. For 2 years now. (What would a user do? Inkscape does not work -> use illustrator again.)

Please give me a rough estimate of how much time you think it would take me to fix this bug. 2 hours or 2 days?

I think it would take a bit of time to track down the chain of events and classes involved in setting of that state. The bulk of the effort would be taken up by that. Then once it was found there would be a smaller amount of time to figure out a good fix, then a little time to implement it.

So it comes down most likely to debugging skill. If you can catch some of us in the chat room, we can give you a hand getting started. My guess would have to be at a few days.

As to settings getting confused per-view, it has a good chance of being either a very simple thing or a very tricky thing. For the simple case, you are usually looking at things like misused globals, uninitialized values, etc. For the tricky case you might hit very subtle and complex problems that might stall you out. A rough guess would maybe place those chances at perhaps 80:20 with the simple case being the more likely to be hit.