Dear all,

please see the meeting notes below.

Best regards

Jonathan

Dev Meeting April 5, 2024 Present: Jonathan, Marc, Martin, MikeKov, PBS, René, Tav, Vaibhav

=== Important for all === - If you fix stuff for 1.4, target 1.4.x and auto-close the issue + forward-port tag. - Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/ If you need hardware for your Inkscape work, please ask.

=== Individual Developer summary ===

Jonathan helped with GSoC student and getting a student set up with the tools for the sfdesigner conversion and get their application sent in.

Device policy is submitted and vote has been successful. https://inkscape.org/*leadership-committee/

Martin: Fixed some issues on the bugfix accelerator program (about 9h this week). Tried to work around an issue where in one distribution ImageMagick doesn't have JPG support by adding a test for it, and also adding tool-specific shortcuts to the preferences interface.

Mike: Tried to adapt Look & Feel of master to GTK3, adjusting differences

PBS: Brought Spellcheck back. Is looking into GTK4 regressions, and working on speeding up the Font dropdown. Some discussion about how to implement this best in GTK4. For rendering, waiting on feedback on cross-platform support for OpenGL.

René: Tries to fix master CI for Windows. Helpful contributions by Max Gaukler. Next version for MacOS is in the works as well, xz fallout. Is checking the GSoC 2 patches for formal criteria. Marc suggested that the cutoff for the 2 patches is close to the decision date.

Tav: tries to come up with a solution for editing text in imported PDFs, as there are currently only manual kerns, no spaces.

Vaibhav: This week, I worked on fixing some regressions in the text and font dialog on master. Most of the regressions in the font tab are fixed, but I'm confused about the placement of the font size selector without breaking the symmetry of the dialog. Any inputs are appreciated. Link to the MR: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/-/merge_requests/6303