Release Issues Report 8: 0 stopper, 3 important
Let's get pre3 built, and hopefully that'll be the release once we have an About screen.
IMPORTANT
- [scislac] The About screen is not updated.
Status: Winner is MIA. Runners up have been contacted.
- [pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions.
Status: Peter needs to take a look and fix if easy. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1224751... Bryce and Kees looked at this: doesn't entirely look like a show-stopper.
- [ishmal, bulia] Win98 crash
Status: nothing obvious found. A debug build has been made: http://inkscape.org/win32/inkscape-exe-iodebug.zip No new clues, even with build.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:55:16PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
Let's get pre3 built, and hopefully that'll be the release once we have an About screen.
About screen secured. We're go for pre3. :) If Ted is busy, I'll see if I can follow the steps to create it later tonight.
On 7/21/05, Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> wrote:
About screen secured.
There are two problems with it:
1 I think the bubbles were made via clones, but now they are all unlinked, i.e. converted to groups with paths. This makes the file HUGE and thus slow to load. Can we please have the original with the clones remaining clones?
2 I think I'm not alone in not liking the font of 0.42, and in fact the font/color of Inkscape too. I want the program logo to remain traditional, and that includes the name of the program too, not only the mountain. If you don't mind I want to fix that (after I get a version with clones, see 1).
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:28:28PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
1 I think the bubbles were made via clones, but now they are all unlinked, i.e. converted to groups with paths. This makes the file HUGE and thus slow to load. Can we please have the original with the clones remaining clones?
Not sure about the clones, but this about is actually smaller in size than the 0.41 on (in bytes).
2 I think I'm not alone in not liking the font of 0.42, and in fact the font/color of Inkscape too. I want the program logo to remain traditional, and that includes the name of the program too, not only the mountain. If you don't mind I want to fix that (after I get a version with clones, see 1).
Yup, that was expected. Tweak away. :)
On 7/21/05, Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:28:28PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
1 I think the bubbles were made via clones, but now they are all unlinked, i.e. converted to groups with paths. This makes the file HUGE and thus slow to load. Can we please have the original with the clones remaining clones?
Not sure about the clones, but this about is actually smaller in size than the 0.41 on (in bytes).
Heh, 0.41 was truly insane, do not compare with it :) Up to 0.40 it was around 100 to 200K. This one is 400. I expect using the clones for bubbles will at least cut it in half.
On 7/21/05, Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> wrote:
About screen secured.
There are two problems with it:
1 I think the bubbles were made via clones, but now they are all unlinked, i.e. converted to groups with paths. This makes the file HUGE and thus slow to load. Can we please have the original with the clones remaining clones?
2 I think I'm not alone in not liking the font of 0.42, and in fact the font/color of Inkscape too. I want the program logo to remain traditional, and that includes the name of the program too, not only the mountain. If you don't mind I want to fix that (after I get a version with clones, see 1).
I have contacted him with your issues. I'll be surprised if he still has a version with the clones still linked though.
-Josh
Quoting "Joshua A. Andler" <joshua@...533...>:
I have contacted him with your issues. I'll be surprised if he still has a version with the clones still linked though.
If the only thing done after unlinking was applying affine transformations (or nothing at all), it shouldn't be overly hard to convert them back into clones programmatically.
All you need do is pick one of the bubbles as a model (ideally, one without any transformations) -- any group that has identical contents gets replaced with a <use> of the model bubble, with the transformation kept but adjusted relative to the transformation of the model bubble.
-mental
On 7/22/05, mental@...3... <mental@...3...> wrote:
If the only thing done after unlinking was applying affine transformations (or nothing at all), it shouldn't be overly hard to convert them back into clones programmatically.
Much simpler is to run the clone tiler again, as I think this is what was used here. You'll only need to restore the parameters.
On 7/21/05, Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> wrote:
[pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions.
Status: Peter needs to take a look and fix if easy. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1224751... Bryce and Kees looked at this: doesn't entirely look like a show-stopper.
I have just tested and I don't see any regressions. Rick Beton: are you sure you tested the latest build? Can you try again?
All styling-* tests work. I also tested a few others in text and paths, and found some more that are pass though you marked them as fail or partial. I updated the wiki page. We are now at 69/25/86 pass/partial/fail.
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:16:27PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 7/21/05, Kees Cook <inkscape@...62...> wrote:
[pjrm] Possible W3C test regressions.
Status: Peter needs to take a look and fix if easy. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1224751... Bryce and Kees looked at this: doesn't entirely look like a show-stopper.
I have just tested and I don't see any regressions. Rick Beton: are you sure you tested the latest build? Can you try again?
All styling-* tests work. I also tested a few others in text and paths, and found some more that are pass though you marked them as fail or partial. I updated the wiki page. We are now at 69/25/86 pass/partial/fail.
Carl showed me how he's been running the W3C suite for his cairo development. Essentially he renders all of the test cases to png, and then generates a visual diff and reviews it to see how well it does. the comparisons are done against his last "accepted" stable version. This way he can track as the compliance improves.
I got a copy of Gaze from Josh for Carl to use as a performance test on Cairo. Gaze is 10mb and pretty intensive to render. I was able to render it pretty well on my laptop, although zoming around took a noticeable time to render. On Cairo, however, it took quite some time to render (a few minutes I think), and the rendering was quite different than it was in inkscape. It's not clear if the differences are due to cairo or inkscape, but I think this will help work towards convergence.
In addition to the W3C test suite, I think we can also gain value from fishing out all the failed clipart from the OCAL tests, and start building a regression test set from them. Carl's also interested in this, and I bet others will as well.
Btw, librsvg has added an ability to switch out backends, and is now able to render using Cairo. Some of the guys here were playing with doing Cairo rendering for Gtk widgets.
Bryce
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