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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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User Manual vs. Help
by Roger Sharp 30 Jun '15

30 Jun '15

I think a regular Web Help file that is searchable and has an Index and TOC (via a Help Authoring Tool, aka, HAT) would be more useful than the book-like Help available now. I don’t have a HAT available but I bet the web pages that make up the Inkscape Manual could be easily imported (if they are available legally). Tutorials would be great but short of that a searchable Help file would be great. sharpart

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translate
by Brynn 29 Jun '15

29 Jun '15

Hi Maren, Just to let you know I made that change in the FAQ re the Roadmap. I also made a couple of edits to #A.10. (animation). (Corrected some not quite correct info, removed the reference to the animation extension in the wiki (which really is outdated and hasn't been active for a while) and replaced with link to Snap.svg.) All best, brynn

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admin>pages on website
by Brynn 26 Jun '15

26 Jun '15

Hi Maren and/or Martin, I'm copying this to the list, since I've seen this happen for a long time, but it's always correctable. But tonight it's not always correctable, and starting to annoy me. When I go to admin > pages (not the shortcut from the django bar, but to Administration from the dropdown when I mouse over my username on the website, and then choosing Pages), when I first browse to the Pages page, I start to see the page as expected, with about half the Language columns and green dots, but before the page finishes loading, the page flashes once, they all disappear, and all I see is the...I think it's called "tree" on the left side of the page (where you can click a plus or minus sign to open or close a category or main menu item). Usually when that happens, I can just refresh the page, and all the languages and green dots show up. But tonight, I've had to refresh 5 or 6 times. Each time, as the page starts to load, I can see about half the columns, those on the right half of the page, then it goes away, and comes back blank - well only with the tree on the left. After the 6th refresh, it loaded all the columns. After a lot of testing, it sometimes takes 3 or 4 refreshes, and sometimes 5 or 6. Could this somehow be related to my service, on my end? I have not seen any issues like this on any other website. Or maybe Fastly? Or somehow, Django? Until now, as long as I could refresh once and fix, I'm ok. But more than 1 refresh to see the page seems....well, not right. I think, whatever this is, could be related to the problem I had with the green/red icons, earlier this afternoon. Once I refreshed the page, and it came back blank, then refreshed again, when the columns came back, that's when the icon stayed red. Maybe it's not always loading completely? Anyway, all I can do is report. I really have no clue what could be happening. thanks, brynn

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more prominent link to the wiki?
by Brynn 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Hi Friends, This might be just me, but I find myself needing to browse from the website to the wiki fairly often. Of course I have a Favorite/Bookmark for it. But I wonder if a link to the wiki should be easier to find on the website? Usually I open the Learn page, and use the link near the bottom of the page. Anyway, just a thought I wanted to share. And I wonder what others might think about it. Maybe that Learn page link is enough? All best, brynn

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public to-do or volunteers needed section on website
by Brynn 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Hi Friends, This may be something for LP, but I thought I would post here first, just to be sure. Someone mentioned recently putting up a page on the website (maybe Maren), listing all the work we need (or hope) to be done, not just on the website but for the project as a whole, and asking for volunteers. Kind of "help needed" board, or "volunteers wanted" or "jobs postings".... I suppose it would be a page under Contribute. It would list the jobs or tasks available, and also indicate the skills or experience that would be needed for it. Also who to contact, how to contact, etc. I suspect we have people in the community who might like to help, but who don't realize what is needed. Some examples: -- a webmaster or someone who knows about content management (or there might be a better way to say that, but just for example) -- other needs for website (Maren and Martin know more) -- a tutorial or guide to writing extensions -- a tutorial or guide to compiling on our 3 supported systems -- I'm sure some of you have other ideas, as well? -- maybe can't hurt to mention the need for translators here too (in addition to the other page) -- work needed related to https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape-web/+bug/1428463 -- etc. Should I make a feature request? Or just make page? All best, brynn

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Website editing / translation / development guide updated
by Maren Hachmann 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Hi everyone, this is just to let you know that guide for editing the website has been updated and rearranged, to include some more info that I hope will be helpful for editors, translators and prospective devs/designers. (one rarely realizes what is missing when one already knows how it works... ;)) Find it here: http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/WebSite Kind regards, Maren

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work to remove user info from wiki
by Brynn 22 Jun '15

22 Jun '15

Hi Maren, Thought I should start a new thread for this. As it turns out, all I had done was make a list of the links in the User Documentation section on the Main Page (and what I thought should happen to them). After that, I was going to start working through the User Documentation category. Before we launch into deciding what to do with each page, I wanted to be clear about a couple of things. When you cautioned against deleting pages, even when we know they are no longer needed, why is that? And 2nd - I noticed on some of these pages there is a note in a red box at the top of some of the pages (saying the info is outdated), that wasn't there when I first started. I guess that was you? So if you've already done a lot of this work, then we won't need to do a whole lot of discussion. Just make the list of things that need to be done. Right? All best, brynn

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"default" download MSI?
by Brynn 11 Jun '15

11 Jun '15

Hi Friends, I'm trying to help someone who is having trouble installing Inkscape. I still don't know exactly what they downloaded. But I notice that the big Inkscape Download icon on this page https://inkscape.org/en/download/windows/, actually downloads the MSI version or installer (I'm not sure what the right word is). I both avoid using the MSI file myself, and suggest others not to use it as well, simply because I don't know what it is or does, or how to use it. I would suggest it might be better to have the EXE attached to that icon, as the "default" download (because even brand new Windows users know how to use it). Or otherwise, give some kind of explanation for us "non-techy" types, how to use the MSI download. Maybe it was chosen because the 64-bit version doesn't have an EXE installer? And then they could both be the same? -- I'm not sure the rationalization. But I would also like to suggest that the 64-bit download attached to that big (gorgeous) icon should be the 7z version. (Or otherwise, tell us how to use the MSI.) I'm not sure if this is the intent, but by having the MSI attached to the big icons, *sort of* implies that is preferred by developers. If it is preferred for some reason, I would be curious why. Thanks for listening :-) brynn

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