July 2015 - Inkscape Docs - Inkscape Mailman

Website Down
by Martin Owens 01 Aug '15

01 Aug '15

Dear inkscape devels, docs and users, OSUOUL had a major database error (they accidentally dropped all their databases from their master database). They're restoring currently from a backup from two weeks ago, so any changes to the website in the last two weeks will need to be recreated. We do have content backups (cms etc) which we do each night, so if you've written something recently and would like content from the backup let me know. We don't keep backups of user registrations or uploaded gallery items so those in the last two weeks are gone. Like last time I swapped the database to a read only sqlite db from April. So at least the website shows base pages, there's still some errors since I really didn't expect database fallback to be a huge part of what we had to deal with but it's something we may want to improve if we think osuosl's database is likely to have problems again in the future. Thanks for your attention. Best Regards, Martin Owens

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2 new pages for website, another 1 planned
by Brynn 23 Jul '15

23 Jul '15

Hi Friends, We have 2 new webpages for the website, should anyone have any comments or suggestions. Also, they are ready to be translated. 1 -- In the Contribute section: https://inkscape.org/en/contribute/to-do-list/ Community To-Do List. This is a list of jobs that are needed by all parts of the community. It's not about new features or bugs, but for jobs that definitely need to be done, to move the project forward. If anyone has any jobs like this, which they would like the wider community to know about, you're welcome to add them to the list. If you don't have edit permissions on the website, you could either request to have, or contact the website team to have your info listed. 2 -- In the Learn section: https://inkscape.org/en/learn/animation/ Animation. This is to help answer the many questions which are posted in forums and elsewhere, about animation and Inkscape. While I searched (and researched) quite diligently, and also had help from Maren, there may be some apps out there that I didn't find. Especially I feel like I might not have covered the Scripting and Markup section very well, since I have barely a general grasp of that area myself. So any comments or suggestions will be very welcome. Next I'll be working on a page for a curated list of Inkscape extensions ("curated" meaning that I'll attempt determine which versions of Inkscape each extension works on, which come with Inkscape/which need to be installed, and including current download and contact info for each, etc.). Eventually we hope to have them all on Add-ons page (https://inkscape.org/en/download/addons/) but for now, they will just be listed in a table, maybe something like the table on the To-Do List page. If anyone has any comments or suggestions about that, I will welcome them :-) All best, brynn

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publish Community To-Do List page
by Brynn 15 Jul '15

15 Jul '15

Hi Friends, I was waiting to publish the new To-Do List page, because it sounded like Maren and I were going to add more items to it, related to removing user-facing pages from the wiki. But that seems to be on hold, for some reason. So I wonder if it should be published, so that other people can already start using it, to get their own projects listed? Thanks, brynn

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cms contents for dev version
by Maren Hachmann 12 Jul '15

12 Jul '15

Hi Martin, now that the cms works again :) - thank you!, I see that after the refresh-cms and cleaning out orphaned plugins a few days ago, I had again duplicated plugins at the front page (but they vanished by themselves, don't know how... I did not delete them), and wrong templates used in many cms pages (which makes them empty, until I change the template) and a duplicate, flashing 'not live' at the top... Shield images and shield icons are missing, too. Do you happen to remember what you did to get rid of all that? As stated before, content_reformed contains outdated contents - Hackfest donation page is still in, Brynn's article is missing. Is this to be expected? Or is a cron script maybe not working correctly? Popup works great, thank you! Regards, Maren

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"Follow us on...." appears twice on some pages
by Brynn 10 Jul '15

10 Jul '15

Hi Friends, I first noticed this the other day and got sidetracked before I could mention it. It looks like, on all pages appears "Follow us on: Twitter icon Google icon", just above the search box. But recently there was something added to certain pages, "Follow us on: 4 icons" (Twitter, DeviantArt, Google+, Facebook). So far, I've seen the 4-icon version on the front page, near the bottom of the page, and the Community page, near the top. There may be other pages that I just haven't noticed yet. Oh, actually on the Community page it's "Join us on....icons" Is there some reason why we don't put the 4-icon version on every page (in place of the 2-icon version)? Just wondering :-) All best, brynn

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Updates
by Martin Owens 09 Jul '15

09 Jul '15

Hi Maren (and docs teams), The latest updates fix issues with the copyright, all contributors will be asked to agree to license their work as GPLv2+ and CC-BY-SA (dual) if not done so before; before they will be allowed to enter editor mode. The test suites all pass now. Breadcrumbs are fixed and much better tested. I'll await more tests that show breaks :-) resource app is now 89% covered, while the whole codebase overall is 68% (which is pretty good since it's all the points galleries touch other bits) Best Regards, Martin Owens

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] Window to Gif script
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 08 Jul '15

08 Jul '15

Improved compatibility. Thanks to Maren!!! Here are the new script. All the best, Jabiertxo. El mié, 08-07-2015 a las 03:47 +0200, Maren Hachmann escribió: > Had to add -c to options, to get mouse cursor, too. > > Am 08.07.2015 um 03:42 schrieb Maren Hachmann: > > Hi Jabier, > > > > I wanted to try the script, but I had to change it so it works for > > me. I'm on Linux Mint 17.1 Xfce, based on Ubuntu 14.04; beep, > > byzanz installed. Maybe it's a version problem? > > > > As soon as I started the original script, I got a cross-like > > cursor. As soon as I clicked with that anywhere, I got > > > > ./recordToGif.sh: Zeile 29: Syntaxfehler beim unerwarteten Wort > > »<« ./recordToGif.sh: Zeile 29: `read X < <(awk -F: '/Absolute > > upper-left X/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO")' > > > > (translates to: syntax error on unexpected word "<" in line 28) > > > > Fortunately, I was able to debug with google's help :) > > > > byzanz also didn't like the parameters formatting --x=$X - but it > > is happy now with -x $X ... > > > > The attached script works on my setup (although it doesn't want to > > beep, so I threw that out...). Cool thing :) This will be so > > helpful when answering a user question :D > > > > Regards, Maren > > > > Am 07.07.2015 um 23:08 schrieb Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz: > > > Thanks Maren! > > > > > > El mar, 07-07-2015 a las 23:04 +0200, Maren Hachmann escribió: > > > > Thanks for sharing, Jabier! I've always wanted to ask you how > > > > you did that :) It's a very useful script. > > > > > > > > > > > > Am 07.07.2015 um 21:55 schrieb Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz: > > > > > Here are the script we speack at hackfest I use to record the > > > > > gifs on 0.92 release page: Need beep and byzanz-record > > > > > > > > > > use as : ./recordToGif.sh 60 /path/to/file.gif where 60 is 60 > > > > > seconds select the window to record... > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------ > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > > > #!/bin/bash > > > > > > > > > > # Delay before starting DELAY=3 > > > > > > > > > > # Sound notification to let one know when recording is about > > > > > to start (and ends) beep() { /usr/bin/beep } > > > > > > > > > > # Duration and output file if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then > > > > > D="--duration=$@" else echo Default recording duration 10s to > > > > > /tmp/recorded.gif D="--duration=10 /tmp/recorded.gif" fi > > > > > > > > > > XWININFO=$(xwininfo) read X < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left > > > > > X/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read Y < <(awk -F: '/Absolute > > > > > upper-left Y/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read W < <(awk -F: > > > > > '/Width/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read H < <(awk -F: > > > > > '/Height/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") > > > > > > > > > > echo Delaying $DELAY seconds. After that, byzanz will start > > > > > for (( i=$DELAY; i>0; --i )) ; do echo $i sleep 1 done echo > > > > > ":::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::" > > > > > beep byzanz-record --verbose --delay=0 --x=$X --y=$Y > > > > > --width=$W - -height=$H $D & read FULLDURATION FAKE > > > > > <<<$(IFS=";"; echo $D) read FAKE DURATION <<<$(IFS="="; echo > > > > > $FULLDURATION) for (( i=$DURATION; i>0; --i )) ; do if [ $i > > > > > -ne $DURATION ]; then echo $i Segundos fi sleep 1 done beep > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > ------ > > > > > > > > > > > ----------- > > > > > Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's > > > > > Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that > > > > > you need to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your > > > > > business. Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud > > > > > Today. https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs > > > > > mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------ > > > > > > > > > --------- > > > > Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud > > > > Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need > > > > to offload your IT needs and focus on growing your business. > > > > Configured For All Businesses. Start Your Cloud Today. > > > > https://www.gigenetcloud.com/ > > > > _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs > > > > mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net > > > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs > > >

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Window to Gif script
by Jabiertxo Arraiza Cenoz 07 Jul '15

07 Jul '15

Here are the script we speack at hackfest I use to record the gifs on 0.92 release page: Need beep and byzanz-record use as : ./recordToGif.sh 60 /path/to/file.gif where 60 is 60 seconds select the window to record... --------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash # Delay before starting DELAY=3 # Sound notification to let one know when recording is about to start (and ends) beep() { /usr/bin/beep } # Duration and output file if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then D="--duration=$@" else echo Default recording duration 10s to /tmp/recorded.gif D="--duration=10 /tmp/recorded.gif" fi XWININFO=$(xwininfo) read X < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left X/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read Y < <(awk -F: '/Absolute upper-left Y/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read W < <(awk -F: '/Width/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") read H < <(awk -F: '/Height/{print $2}' <<< "$XWININFO") echo Delaying $DELAY seconds. After that, byzanz will start for (( i=$DELAY; i>0; --i )) ; do echo $i sleep 1 done echo ":::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::" beep byzanz-record --verbose --delay=0 --x=$X --y=$Y --width=$W --height=$H $D & read FULLDURATION FAKE <<<$(IFS=";"; echo $D) read FAKE DURATION <<<$(IFS="="; echo $FULLDURATION) for (( i=$DURATION; i>0; --i )) ; do if [ $i -ne $DURATION ]; then echo $i Segundos fi sleep 1 done beep

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wording on Next Release page
by Brynn 05 Jul '15

05 Jul '15

Hi Friends, I was just browsing around the website, and happened to notice some wording on the Next Release page that seems odd to me, and that I don't understand. "It will also introduce some breaking change in how Inkscape handles the resolution of images (don't worry, we will also supply tools to ease the transition!)." I don't know what "breaking change" means, and I worry that it might be giving a negative impression of "breaking" as in "making it non-functional". I guess it's supposed to mean something like "unprecedented" or maybe "dramatic or extreme change". Or maybe it has a technical meaning that I've just never heard of? I tried to get some clues from both the Roadmap for 0.92 and Release Notes for 0.92, but neither makes any mention of dpi. Does anyone know what that means? Should we find a better way to phrase it? Should some of the things mentioned in the Roadmap or Release Notes be mentioned too? Thanks, brynn

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