August 2017 - Inkscape Docs - Inkscape Mailman

new pm notification
by brynn 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Hi Friends, I've noticed the little envelope icon no longer flashes, when I have a new message. I've double-checked the Notification Settings. I have the email alert enabled. Does that disable the flashing icon? I looked through the Issues in the Inkscape-web gitlab account, but didn't see this. Should I make a new Issue report for this? Or is it not supposed to flash anymore? Thanks, brynn

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use StopForumSpam for gallery moderation?
by brynn 28 Aug '17

28 Aug '17

Hi Friends, I guess this is the only way to have a group discussion among moderators (other than setting a time to meet in chatroom) since I don't have diehumblex's email address yet. Other community members are welcome to respond, if you have comments or opinions, but otherwise, this is directed towards moderators. A resource (small text file with javascript) was recently flagged (by Maren) which she thought might have been testing to find out if the site could be hacked or traffic redirected. (She wasn't sure though). But being potentially so severe, I thought I would utilize SFS to look and see if the member had been previously reported as a spammer. Of course I could only look up the username, since I don't have access to email or IP address. But it made me wonder if we should consider using StopForumSpam, to report newly identified spammers? What do we think about potientially using SFS in gallery moderation? It would not necessarily require an interface, such as Inkscape Community has (where you just click a button, and SFS is accessed and searched for the selected member). We can simply look up member names "manually". But more importantly, I would like to report spammers there. Just our small contribution to the effort, you know. But to me, it's worth the extra effort. It would stop them from spamming other sites. Although admittedly, just reporting the member name won't do much. It would really only have a significant effect if moderator had the IP address and email address. Thanks for comments :-) All best, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] should this remain in the gallery?
by brynn 20 Aug '17

20 Aug '17

Thanks C R! Off topic PS - I received the plaque. Thanks again :-) brynn -----Original Message----- From: C R Sent: Friday, August 18, 2017 2:41 AM To: brynn Cc: Inkscape-Docs ; Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] should this remain in the gallery? My thought - If it mentions Inkscape, it's free advertising for the project. If it's spam, at least it's relevant spam. :D I vote to leave it up. imho we don't need to be ruthless unless there's some problem with too much of it. - It will make the project seem unfriendly to anything outside its own interests, and hostile to working with designers/developers who offer free editing with Inkscape as a benefit (I do this a lot with my own design work). They no-doubt post that pdf elsewhere with Inkscape compatibility listed as a benefit. I believe that's exactly the kind of thing we want. My 2p -C On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 5:17 AM, brynn <brynn@...78...> wrote: > Hi Friends, > There's a recent new upload to the gallery, which appears to be > instructions for using a website which helps people create their own logos, > for a price. I can't see that it has anything to do with Inkscape (except > in its PDF, it recommends using Inkscape to edit the logos). > > They could be considering the phrase in the CoC "made to be used with > Inkscape" wrongly. But I'm not sure. (copying to the devel list, re CoC) > > I'm just looking for some other opinions about this, whether it > should remain in the gallery at all, or remain under a different category. > Personally, I think it's spam. But since I tend to be rather ruthless about > spam, I thought I should ask for other opinions. > > Does anyone see any relationship to Inkscape here? > > Thanks, > brynn > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > Inkscape-devel mailing list > Inkscape-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-devel

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] Not as awesome as....?
by brynn 20 Aug '17

20 Aug '17

Thanks Gord. But unfortunately, when I click Release, it turns blue, and that's all. There's no edit button. I'm not so much a website developer, as someone who watches out for the contents. (Originally I created a lot of the contents, but only the simple pages. There's a lot of the site I just don't have access to, because I don't understand it.) All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Gord Caswell Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2017 4:57 AM To: brynn Cc: Inkscape-Docs ; Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] Not as awesome as....? On 20 August 2017 at 05:17, brynn <brynn@...78...> wrote: > > PS - I'd offer to delete them, except I don't appear to have access to those > pages. > Brynn, To edit the page, when you're on the page, click on "Release" in the header, then "Edit Release" Gord

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Not as awesome as....?
by brynn 20 Aug '17

20 Aug '17

Hi Friends, I happened to be looking through the Release Notes which now appear on the website, under each of the versions of Inkscape which are available for download. I noticed for some of the 0.48.x versions, under Known Issues, it says "Not as awesome as 0.91" For 0.48.3.1 it says "not as awesome as 0.49" which might be a clue these items were added around the time the decision was made to jump from 0.48 to 0.91. So apparently this was done on the wiki, and just made the transfer to the website recently. That doesn't sound especially professional to me. It sounds like a joke actually. Especially when there are no other known issues listed! (https://inkscape.org/en/release/0.48/?latest=1) If it's supposed to be some kind of motivation to upgrade, I think there probably is a more professional way to do it. I mean, it's not even a release note, since 0.91 was not made when 0.48.x was released. For goodness sakes! But I really think it should be removed. Or at the very least, re-worded. Is there some reason for that, which I haven't imagined yet? All best, brynn PS - I'd offer to delete them, except I don't appear to have access to those pages. Also, the about screen is not showing on the download pages for versions earlier than 0.48.5. Shall I make an Issue report? Or is someone currently working on it?

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should this remain in the gallery?
by brynn 18 Aug '17

18 Aug '17

Hi Friends, There's a recent new upload to the gallery, which appears to be instructions for using a website which helps people create their own logos, for a price. I can't see that it has anything to do with Inkscape (except in its PDF, it recommends using Inkscape to edit the logos). They could be considering the phrase in the CoC "made to be used with Inkscape" wrongly. But I'm not sure. (copying to the devel list, re CoC) I'm just looking for some other opinions about this, whether it should remain in the gallery at all, or remain under a different category. Personally, I think it's spam. But since I tend to be rather ruthless about spam, I thought I should ask for other opinions. Does anyone see any relationship to Inkscape here? Thanks, brynn

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CSS class extension
by Mois 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Hi, long-time Inkscape user here, looking to get into coding for it too. I created this really simple extension for setting CSS classes <https://github.com/monomon/inkscape-set-css-class> on elements. It has an option to clear inline styles of the elements, so that the css class would have an effect. It is useful when having numerous elements that repeat or have the same styles. First, select a correctly styled one, use "Merge styles into CSS". Then select the rest and use "Set CSS class" to apply the new style on them. I am aware of the extension posted on the forums that sets classes <http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=18483&p=69760#p69752>, but having to manually clear styles after is a bit of a pain, so not completely usable for my case... and it's not in a code repository, so no way to contribute. I read that in GSoC CSS handling will be improved, which is awesome! Hope someone finds this useful. Regards, Mois

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