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notification on gallery comments?
by Brynn 18 Oct '15

18 Oct '15

Hi Friends, It seems there is no notification when comments are posted to images in the gallery. (Just noticed a comment, posted 6 months ago, on one of my images.) I don't find any report for it in LP (either as bug or feature request). Is this worth making a feature request for? Or is it already in the plans, and coming down the pike? What about editing comments? Same? Thanks, brynn

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key/mouse ref comment/question
by Brynn 06 Sep '15

06 Sep '15

Hi Friends, I don't use key shortcuts much. But in trying to answer support questions, I often need to look things up (when people explain what they did by giving key shortcuts instead of words). I'm not sure if it's just me, but I find the Content section on the right side of the Key And Mouse Ref page is hard to use. It would be easier if it was not a long, wrapped list of links, with dots and | to separate them; but instead an outline type of format, that echoes the format of the shortcuts (on the left to middle of page).....like this (I hope the indents come through for everyone): Tools Dialogs Open Toggle visibility Within a dialog Controls bar Access Navigate Change values Canvas Zoom etc. Yes, I realize that would make that section much longer. But it would still be shorter than the whole page. And it would be so much easier to use. I can probably do the work myself -- assuming there's some kind of discussion and consensus about it. Does anyone else think this might be helpful? Thanks for comments. (Heck, I might even use more key shortcuts, if they were easier to look up :-) ) All best, brynn

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news item about new video tutorials?
by Brynn 02 Sep '15

02 Sep '15

Hi Friends, I was just wondering if it would be a good idea to have a news item about these proposed new video tutorials? I can't volunteer to write this one myself, because I feel like I don't have a very clear understanding about it. But maybe someone else does? Maybe it would be a way to possibly bring in more volunteers, besides keeping the community updated? Just a thought :-) All best, brynn

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a webpage not on https?
by Brynn 24 Aug '15

24 Aug '15

Hi Friends, I don't know exactly how to explain this, except in the simple language or understanding I have about this. Likely it's not a serious problem, or even a problem at all. But since there was a recent thread on the dev mailing list about SSL, I thought I should mention it, just in case. I used to get regular visits to my site, which were referred by inkscape.org. At some point, a year or 2 ago, when inkscape.org went to https, I stopped getting reports about those visits. I did a little research, and now I understand why my analytics apps can't report those visits anymore. It goes to the very nature of https. Anyway, yesterday I was surprised to see a visit from inkscape.org. The visit came from https://inkscape.org/pt/aprender/tutoriais/. And I see that it does say https. But there must be some explanation....because https is not supposed to be back-trace-able. Maybe this is just some kind of one-time glitch, and it's no problem. But I thought I should mention, just in case :-) All best, brynn

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Fwd: Website is Back up
by Maren Hachmann 02 Aug '15

02 Aug '15

Forwarded message from Martin Owens to the dev mailing list (sent about 10 hours ago): Dear All, The database came back online 7 minutes ago, and the website has been turned from read-only (sqlite) to inkscape_live (MySQL). All downloads and errors should be solved from now. Thank you to everyone for being patient and please contact the various user groups to let them know the process is done and things are back up. Best Regards, Martin Owens Website Administrator

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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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