Thinking back, I can't remember successfully sharing a document since the rewrite of inkboard. I have on occation been able to connect to google talk and chat with the embedded pedro client. Today I installed a local wildfire server to remove as many variables as possible. Now I can't even connect. Inkboard gives "login: no second SASL challenge offered by server." So my question is this. Who has gotten inkboard to work recently? And how did you do it?
Aaron Spike
The last time I was working on it, it was pretty much functional, with most errors / inconsistencies related to svg defs which were not shared properly.
I havent had a change to compile in a while, but ill run a quick test today and get back to you about any connections problems.
I havent been around or had the time to work on Inkboard for a while. but I should be able to get back into it within the next few weeks
(Promises to have 0.46 release worthy inkboard)
On 1/15/07, Dale Harvey wrote:
The last time I was working on it, it was pretty much functional, with most errors / inconsistencies related to svg defs which were not shared properly.
If we ship 0.45 with inkboard/Pedro available as compile-time option, could we at least please have its UI translatable?
Alexandre
If we ship 0.45 with inkboard/Pedro available as compile-time option, could we at least please have its UI translatable?
In all honesty the errors I mentioned made the whiteboard pretty much unusable. I think the best thing to do would be disable it this release and make certain that we (I) get it right for the next full release. The people that are interested can always stick with the development trunk, but we dont want to introduce people with a semi working feature.
As far as I recall most of the base work was done, it shouldnt be a huge effort to push it to release worthy, just certainly more than I have time to before .45 release (I believe we are in freeze anyway)
On Sun, Jan 14, 2007 at 10:02:44AM -0600, Aaron Spike wrote:
Thinking back, I can't remember successfully sharing a document since the rewrite of inkboard. I have on occation been able to connect to google talk and chat with the embedded pedro client. Today I installed a local wildfire server to remove as many variables as possible. Now I can't even connect. Inkboard gives "login: no second SASL challenge offered by server." So my question is this. Who has gotten inkboard to work recently? And how did you do it?
It really sounds to me like this could benefit greatly from having a test or associated with it. This is side functionality that doesn't get tested very often, so it is at high risk of changes in the main codebase break it. So it would be nice to have a test that (non-inkboard) developers could periodically run to verify they haven't caused a regression in it.
I'm thinking that a test like this would be handy:
inkboard-test -s http://my.jabber.server.org
0. Unconnected drawing operation - Perform a set of basic drawing operations - Check that the result is as expected
1. Account creation - Create two accounts inkboard-a-$random, inkboard-b-$random - Check that both accounts were correctly created
2. Connection - Connect accounts A and B - Verify server says they're connected
3. Communication - Send simple text message from A to B to verify connection - Send unicode text message - Send large number of small text messages very quickly - Send several large text fragments (0.1k, 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M)
4. Drawing - Send a few basic drawing elements from A; wait, then verify received correctly at B. - Make some simple modifications to drawing elements (color, position, stroke weight, etc.), wait, and verify they were correctly received by B. - Send more advanced drawing elements from A, then verify at B. - etc.
Just having the above would go a *long* way to helping stablize inkboard. Even if it were just stubbed out, it'd give us something to build on into the future. It'd also make it easier for other people to get involved in helping work on fixing bugs, since there'd be an easy procedure for finding and replicating them.
Bryce
Hmm, it seems to me like it might be better to have a mock Jabber client class which could do something like e.g. link two documents in the same Inkscape process.
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