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Spanish Website Editor
by Jabier 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Hi All. Can we add privileges to a new Inkscape spanish website translator? His user in inkscape.org is: "RREDesigns" He is a amacing member of graficalibre spanish comunity. Thanks in advance.

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website unavailable
by brynn 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Hi Friends, Just in case it's not already known, the website is down. First noticed about an hour ago. All best, brynn

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"linked image not found" in gallery
by brynn 04 Jan '18

04 Jan '18

Hi Friends, I just noticed a string of....well, they seem to be sort of a placeholder in the gallery, since they are linked to the same page (3rd page of a search for "logo"). It's the same graphic which is used in Inkscape "linked image not found". https://inkscapecommunity.com/jd/ss/linf.png I guess it could mean that someone has uploaded a link to something, but deleted it. But then I would wonder why it's place is being represented in the gallery, instead of being completely deleted. Or does it have some other meaning in the gallery? Or should I report a new Issue in gitlab, as a bug? Or is it already reported.....? I searched (using "linked image") but didn't find. Oh! .....Well I was thinking maybe curating would cause it to be moved to a different directory. But I have not seen that happen when I've curated something. Maybe I just never noticed....? All best, brynn

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Re: [Inkscape-docs] [Inkscape-devel] holiday graphics for website?
by brynn 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

I like the idea about the seasonal motifs! (although we still have the 2 hemispheres to deal with) Had to look up "Google doodle style artwork" (I'm not a google user). How would we ever find out about these more or less obscure events (Kazakhstan Republic Day showed up in my search)? You could almost put one single person whose full time job is identifying them! I wonder how google decides who draws the graphics? Do they just take submissions? Like maybe we would put certain guidelines (so that we don't end up celebrating some rogue regime or something) and just allow people to submit them? Because they only "run" for a day, right? I suppose we could have them up for any amount of time we choose. brynn -----Original Message----- From: C R Sent: Friday, December 22, 2017 1:20 AM To: Brynn Cc: Martin Owens ; inkscape-docs ; Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-devel] [Inkscape-docs] holiday graphics for website? Maybe seasonal motifs would be better. Snow flakes and mittens and skis work nicely. Maybe hot chocolate, snowball fights and other winter activities for a secular holiday season. :) fall might see fallen leaves placed around, flowers for spring and summer. Would be kinda cool to do a Google doodle style artwork to celebrate specific holidays when they come up, which is in lusive rather than exclusive, but obviously that would take a lot more work. My 2p -C On 22 Dec 2017 5:30 am, "brynn" <brynn@...78...> wrote: The biggest consideration for things like this is the both western centric and perceivably christian/pagan centric traditions. That's why I said "holiday" and not "Christmas" or "Hanukah" or "Kwanza" or etc. Most all faiths and religions have some kind of winter celebration - something for every season. It's why I also added a suggestion about doing it for seasons, rather than holidays. Although then there's the problem with seasons, when it's winter in the northern hemisphere, it's summer in the southern. Usually when people decorate their website, they do it for wherever the website lives. Because really, it's impossible to please everyone. I think as long as it's something small, which does not appear to cram anything down anyone's throat, it should be ok. For example, even if there's a little decoration for spring, but it's autumn where some people live, I think it will still be seen as a nice graphic. But mostly, I think it would be sad if we have to say we can never decorate the website, because it's impossible to please everyone. /That/ would be sad! And also, I think we have to start somewhere, with getting more graphics throughout the site. Maybe it would be better not to have just 1 graphic? Maybe there could be a collection of graphics which represent all the major religions or faiths, and some kind of script serves them up at random? All best, brynn -----Original Message----- From: Martin Owens Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2017 4:22 PM To: brynn ; Inkscape-Docs Cc: Inkscape-Devel Subject: Re: [Inkscape-docs] holiday graphics for website? Hi Brynn, The poster originally emailed me directly and I asked them to post the image to the gallery and then post a message to the inkscape mailing list. Mostly just to see what people were thinking. I like the idea personally. But I see some challenges to it professionally. The biggest consideration for things like this is the both western centric and perceivably christian/pagan centric traditions. If images can be targeted, then it makes it easier to just show it for certain countries etc. If we don't mind being a bit blustering and ham fisted about it, then putting up a replacement image is just a matter of a small code update to the website. Although then you do have to look after the site later when you need it to come down. Best Regards, Martin Owens On Wed, 2017-12-20 at 14:19 -0700, brynn wrote: Hi Friends, I'm thinking about starting a tradition of making holiday graphics for the website. Like for example, today I spiffed up the logo for Inkscape Community with some lights (not twinkling, but maybe next year ;-p ). https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php I'm thinking of just something small and simple like that. Holly and berries, or something. We couldn't do exactly the same thing on the website, because the logo doesn't work the same way as IC. (plus it's pretty small) But there must be some ways to easily slip in some extra graphics into the website? Like maybe in the menu/navigation bar? (could they be red and green? or look like snow is piled on them?) Or the white space between the logo on the top-left and the search field on the right? I saw that cute Inkscape logo with a santa hat in the gallery (https://inkscape.org/en/~jiawhein/%E2%98%85inkscape-logo-christmas), and that's what got me started. But unfortunately, it has a solid white background, which I don't think could be used for the site. I requested either SVG or a transparent PNG, but no answer yet. I made some sort of straight lines of lights, one of which might fit in the white space at the top. But alone, they're hardly creative. Anyway, if someone could explain what those ways might be, where we could sneak in some cute graphics around holidays, I'll take the responsibility to put out a call for such graphics before each major holiday.....or maybe just 4 seasons? Or maybe holidays plus 4 seasons? (I still want to see more graphics on the site, in general. But that's a much bigger project which I can't take a leadership role right now. Well, not unless someone else wants to co-leader it?) Thanks for comments :-) All best, brynn ------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Inkscape-docs mailing list Inkscape-docs(a)lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-docs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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holiday graphics for website?
by brynn 22 Dec '17

22 Dec '17

Hi Friends, I'm thinking about starting a tradition of making holiday graphics for the website. Like for example, today I spiffed up the logo for Inkscape Community with some lights (not twinkling, but maybe next year ;-p ). https://forum.inkscapecommunity.com/index.php I'm thinking of just something small and simple like that. Holly and berries, or something. We couldn't do exactly the same thing on the website, because the logo doesn't work the same way as IC. (plus it's pretty small) But there must be some ways to easily slip in some extra graphics into the website? Like maybe in the menu/navigation bar? (could they be red and green? or look like snow is piled on them?) Or the white space between the logo on the top-left and the search field on the right? I saw that cute Inkscape logo with a santa hat in the gallery (https://inkscape.org/en/~jiawhein/%E2%98%85inkscape-logo-christmas), and that's what got me started. But unfortunately, it has a solid white background, which I don't think could be used for the site. I requested either SVG or a transparent PNG, but no answer yet. I made some sort of straight lines of lights, one of which might fit in the white space at the top. But alone, they're hardly creative. Anyway, if someone could explain what those ways might be, where we could sneak in some cute graphics around holidays, I'll take the responsibility to put out a call for such graphics before each major holiday.....or maybe just 4 seasons? Or maybe holidays plus 4 seasons? (I still want to see more graphics on the site, in general. But that's a much bigger project which I can't take a leadership role right now. Well, not unless someone else wants to co-leader it?) Thanks for comments :-) All best, brynn

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too many hidden images? (moderation)
by brynn 29 Nov '17

29 Nov '17

Hi Friends, Does everyone see the hidden images placeholders in the gallery? Or is it only moderators who see them? If it's only moderators who see it, it's not as big of a problem as I thought. But if everyone sees them, those who usually view the Last Updated page of the gallery have probably noticed, we have more hidden images than not, on the first page. This has 2 sources (aside from the spam itself) -- (1) not enough moderators, and (2) decided items are retained for a week. I can't remember the reason for this. But I can think of a couple of ways to improve the situation. Could we consider not retaining decided items so long? Maybe only 2 or 3 days? Maybe not at all? Or maybe could we only retain those approved items, and let deleted items go? As far as I understand, once an item is deleted, it's gone from the database and can't be recovered. So I'm not sure why we hold them on the moderation page. Would there be any problem posting a call for new moderators in forums? I think I will post another call for mods on the mailing list. But I'm not sure there would be any interested people from forums. I guess it can't hurt? Comments? Thanks for any comments :-) brynn

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volunteer moderators needed
by brynn 28 Nov '17

28 Nov '17

Hi Friends, If anyone is interested, we still need more moderators for the website gallery. It doesn't usually take very much time. I'd estimate no more than a half an hour per week. (Preferably spread out 5 or 10 minutes each for 3 or 4 days per week. But at this point, once a week would help.) And Martin has built us a wonderful system where the burden of deleting an image or removing member doesn't fall all on one person. Typically it takes 2 moderators to decide the fate of a reported image or member. If interested, please visit this page, (https://inkscape.org/en/*moderators) and click the button which I think says something like "Join this team." After that, I'll contact you with details to get you started. All best, brynn

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Adding extensions api docs
by Mois 14 Nov '17

14 Nov '17

Hey all, this is a continuation of a thread regarding extensions documentation in general, but I am starting a new thread due to the slightly different focus. I made changes that add the python sources to doxygen generation. This is already somewhat useful, because it is easy to see class methods with arguments at a glance. Also made a doxygen 'subpage' for the python extensions, linking to some common classes in the extensions directory. (note: some input on this list is welcome) Now, this is really nice, but has one downside - the Classes list and the Namespaces list contain python and c++ documentation all mixed up. Does anyone think it is a problem? In my opinion, there are enough tools at hand to find the necessary documentation - e.g. seach, the "Inkscape Source Code Documentation" subpage, the files list (which is separated because the extensions and core code are in different directories). I'd like to know whether any c++ devs would be irked by this. Otherwise, I'll just submit a pull request. It is also a possibility to create a new Doxyfile and output the extension docs in a separate directory. In a sense it 'feels right' for all documentation to be in one place, though. Any thoughts? Regards, Mois

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Extensions guide
by unknown＠example.com 07 Nov '17

07 Nov '17

Hi, I wrote an extension a few years ago, and just updated it this weekend. When reading through the docuemntation I saw that you're looking for someone to write/flesh out the extension guide. I'd like to give it a try. I have experience with with inkscape and python both, not so much with ruby and perl. I have not found any docs for simpletransform, simplestyle, and inkex so I read trough them. They are pretty easy to understand, but it would be nice if there were some deatails about them on the wiki, not just articles using them. matyilona

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member name isn't a link (gallery)
by brynn 05 Nov '17

05 Nov '17

Hi Friends, Just checking out this recent upload: https://inkscape.org/en/~jay.hale/%E2%98%85heel-horse+0 How does it happen that the....well sort of a byline....isn't a link, and is not the name of the member who uploaded it. Even when I find the member in the breadcrumbs/path (jay.hale) I don't see that name as a nickname or something. It's no big deal. I'm just curious :-) Same member has another image (flagged) and it's "by name" is a 3rd different name. I just don't see how that can be done? Must be some option that I've never used. Thanks, brynn

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