Hi,
My Mesh branch suffered from serious bit rot. This is good as it shows how fast Inkscape code is progressing. But it also required several days of work to get the mesh branch in sync... not so good. I have thus merged the branch with trunk so I won't have to go through this pain again. One major change I made was to create a separate Mesh tool. The editing mode for meshes is significantly different from that for linear and radial gradients that I think this makes the most sense.
By default, the Mesh tool is not shown. You can enable it at compile time by editing the file widgets/toolbox.cpp to define WITH_MESH. To actually see meshes, you must have compiled and linked to a version of Cairo greater to or equal to 1.11.4. Cairo version 12.0 would be preferred as 1.11.4 has bugs that cause frequent Inkscape crashes.
Note, meshes are to be considered experimental. The SVG working group has endorsed their inclusion in SVG2 but the exact syntax has not been fixed. Inkscape is the only program/browser/renderer that supports the proposed SVG mesh syntax. Also, the UI for meshes is rather primitive at the moment.
Please play with the meshes and give your feedback. Bug fixes and interface improvements will be greatly appreciated!
Tav
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
Hi,
My Mesh branch suffered from serious bit rot. This is good as it shows how fast Inkscape code is progressing. But it also required several days of work to get the mesh branch in sync... not so good. I have thus merged the branch with trunk so I won't have to go through this pain again. One major change I made was to create a separate Mesh tool. The editing mode for meshes is significantly different from that for linear and radial gradients that I think this makes the most sense.
What would be your recommendation regarding PPA builds? Enable or disable the feature?
Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 16:36 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
Hi,
My Mesh branch suffered from serious bit rot. This is good as it showshow fast Inkscape code is progressing. But it also required several days of work to get the mesh branch in sync... not so good. I have thus merged the branch with trunk so I won't have to go through this pain again. One major change I made was to create a separate Mesh tool. The editing mode for meshes is significantly different from that for linear and radial gradients that I think this makes the most sense.
What would be your recommendation regarding PPA builds? Enable or disable the feature?
I would leave it up to the PPA users... I shouldn't hurt as long as users realize that it is experimental. I don't suppose one can have two builds, one with it enabled (and named inkscape_experimental) and one not.
Tav
I can sort out the ppa build in the next couple of days if no one gets there first. The only issue is that builds with mesh enabled will not work nativity for any stable ubuntu release because cairo 12 only appears in ubuntu 12.10. We will either need to drop support for all stable versions of ubuntu or adopt the packaging of Cairo 12 in the ppa.
It would be possible to package two separate builds independently but it might get a bit messy. On May 23, 2012 7:49 PM, "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 16:36 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
Hi,
My Mesh branch suffered from serious bit rot. This is good asit shows
how fast Inkscape code is progressing. But it also required several
days
of work to get the mesh branch in sync... not so good. I have thus merged the branch with trunk so I won't have to go through this pain again. One major change I made was to create a separate Mesh tool. The editing mode for meshes is significantly different from that for linear and radial gradients that I think this makes the most sense.
What would be your recommendation regarding PPA builds? Enable or disable the feature?
I would leave it up to the PPA users... I shouldn't hurt as long as users realize that it is experimental. I don't suppose one can have two builds, one with it enabled (and named inkscape_experimental) and one not.
Tav
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Hey Alex,
Just to throw it out there, cairo 1.11+ introduces PDF saving issues. The introduction of 1.12.x to "stable" platforms is probably not something we want to push currently since it will affect other apps as well. If it would only break Inkscape, that's fine... but I recall a conversation with Bryce Harrington saying 1.12 also introduced a number of bugs with the open source graphics drivers too (not sure if those were fixed in the .2 release).
https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/985206
Cheers, Josh
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Alex Valavanis <valavanisalex@...400...> wrote:
I can sort out the ppa build in the next couple of days if no one gets there first. The only issue is that builds with mesh enabled will not work nativity for any stable ubuntu release because cairo 12 only appears in ubuntu 12.10. We will either need to drop support for all stable versions of ubuntu or adopt the packaging of Cairo 12 in the ppa.
It would be possible to package two separate builds independently but it might get a bit messy.
On May 23, 2012 7:49 PM, "Tavmjong Bah" <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
On Wed, 2012-05-23 at 16:36 +0400, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Tavmjong Bah <tavmjong@...8...> wrote:
Hi,
My Mesh branch suffered from serious bit rot. This is good as it shows how fast Inkscape code is progressing. But it also required several days of work to get the mesh branch in sync... not so good. I have thus merged the branch with trunk so I won't have to go through this pain again. One major change I made was to create a separate Mesh tool. The editing mode for meshes is significantly different from that for linear and radial gradients that I think this makes the most sense.
What would be your recommendation regarding PPA builds? Enable or disable the feature?
I would leave it up to the PPA users... I shouldn't hurt as long as users realize that it is experimental. I don't suppose one can have two builds, one with it enabled (and named inkscape_experimental) and one not.
Tav
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